2010 Film Previews

The festival’s programme is typically a work in progress right up to the opening ceremony (October 7th) so our film previews will evolve as and when the organizers confirm the entrants. Below we list the films as they are categorized by the festival and each will magically turn into a link to a dedicated preview page as and when (and if) we get around to throwing up our thoughts.

OPENING FILM

• LOS OJOS DE JULIA (Guillem Morales, Spain)

CLOSING FILM

• MOTHER’S DAY (Darren Lynn Bousman, USA)

OFFICIAL FANTÀSTIC SELECTION – IN COMPETITION

The official selection par excellence

• 13 ASSASSINS (Takashi Miike, Japan)
• 14 DAYS WITH VICTOR (Román Parrado, Spain)
• A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP (Zhang Yimou, China, Hong Kong)
• BEDEVILLED (Jang Cheol-soo, South Korea)
• BLACK DEATH (Christopher Smith, Germany)
• LA CASA MUDA (Gustavo Hernández, Uruguay)
• CONFESSIONS (Tetsuya Nakashima, Japan)
• DREAM HOME (Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong)
• FASE 7 (Nicolás Goldbart, Argentina)
• KABOOM (Gregg Araki, USA, France)
• KOSMOS (Reha Erdem, Turkey, Bulgaria)
• THE LAST EXORCISM (Daniel Stamm, USA)
• LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN (Andrew Lau, Hong Kong, China)
• MONSTERS (Gareth Edwards, UK)
• MY JOY (Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine, Germany)
• LES NUITS ROUGES DU BORREAU DE JADE (Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud, France)
• THE HOUSEMAID (Im Sang-soo, Korea)
• THE NEW DAUGHTER (Luis Berdejo, USA)
• THE PERFECT HOST (Nick Tomnay, USA)
• RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE (Jalmari Helander, Finland, Norway, France, Sweden)
• RUBBER (Quentin Dupieux, France)
• SECUESTRADOS (Miguel Ángel Vivas, Spain)
• SOMOS LO QUE HAY (Jorge Michel Grau, Mexico)
• WE ARE THE NIGHT

OFFICIAL FANTÀSTIC SELECTION PANORAMA – IN COMPETITION

In competition subsection with eagerly-awaited and controversial titles

• LES 7 JOURS DU TALION (Daniel Grou, Canada)
• A SERBIAN FILM (Srdjan Spasojevic, Serbia)
• ATROCIOUS (Fernando Barreda Luna, Mexico, Spain)
• L’AUTRE MONDE (Gilles Marchand, France, Belgium)
• CAPTIFS (Yann Gozlan, France)
• COLD FISH (Shion Sono, Japan)
• DIE TÜR (Anno Saul, Germany)
• HELLDRIVER (Yoshihiro Nishimura, Japan)
• INSIDIOUS (James Wan, USA)
• OUTRAGE (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
• RED HILL (Patrick Hughes, Australia)
• THE REEF (Andrew Traucki, Australia)
• STAKE LAND (Jim Mickle, USA)
• TAJOMARU (Hiroyuki Nakano, Japan)
• TUCKER & DALE vs EVIL (Eli Craig, Canada, USA)
• TWELVE (Joel Schumacher, USA)

OFFICIAL FANTÀSTIC SELECTION PANORAMA – SPECIALS

Out-of-competition section dedicated to more fanatical, omnibus audiences

• 14 BLADES (Daniel Lee, Hong Kong, China, Singapore)
• AFTER LIFE (Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, USA)
• BESOURO (João Daniel Tikhomiroff, Brasil)
• BLACK LIGHTNING (Dmitriy Kiselev and Alexandr Voytinskiy, Russia)
• BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS (Teddy Chen, Hong Kong, China)
• LA DOPPIA ORA (Giuseppe Capotondi, Italy)
• FROZEN (Adam Green, USA)
• I SAW THE DEVIL (Ji-woon Kim, South Korea)
• JONAH HEX (Jimmy Hayward, USA)
• LA MEUTE (Franck Richard, France, Belgium)
• MONGA (Doze Niu, Taiwan)
• LA POSESIÓN DE EMMA EVANS (Manuel Carballo, Spain)
• PROWL (Patrik Syversen, USA)
• LA SOMBRA PROHIBIDA (José Luis Alemán, Spain)
• THE STORM WARRIORS (Pang Brothers, Hong Kong)
• SUCK (Rob Stefaniuk, Canada)
• THE WARD (John Carpenter, USA)
• ZEBRAMAN: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY (Takashi Miike, Japan)

OFFICIAL FANTÀSTIC SELECTION – GALAS

Titles that are on everyone’s lips, have picked up awards at other festivals and are anxiously awaited by the general public.

• AGNOSIA (Eugenio Mira, Spain)
• CARNE DE NEÓN (Paco Cabezas, Spain, Argentina, Sweden)
• DE MAYOR QUIERO SER SOLDADO (Christian Molina, Spain, France)
• EASY MONEY (Daniel Espinosa, Sweden)
• LET ME IN (Matt Reeves, USA, UK)
• NOTRE JOUR VIENDRA (Romain Gavras, France)
• SUPER (James Gunn, USA)
• UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, UK, Thailand, France, Germany, Spain)
• VANISHING ON 7TH STREET (Brad Anderson, USA)

ANIMA’T

• COLORFUL (Keiichi Hara, Japan)
• JACKBOOTS ON WHITEHALL (Edward & Rory McHenry, UK)
• MARS (Geoff Marslett, USA)
• SURVIVING LIFE (Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic)
• THE UGLY DUCKLING (Garri Bardin, Russia)
• WELCOME TO THE SPACE SHOW (Koji Masunari, Japan)

NOVES VISIONS – FICCIÓ SECTION

Exploration of new territories in narration, placing emphasis on both thematic and formal aspects of films that are a vision of the present as well as a disturbing premonition of times to come

• A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE (Adam Wingard, USA)
• CHATROOM (Hideo Nakata, UK)
• DISPONGO DE BARCOS (Juan Cavestany, Spain)
• EARTHLING (Clay Liford, USA)
• EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE (Christoffer Boe, Denmark)
• FINISTERRAE (Out of competition. Sergio Caballero, Spain)
• ISOLATION (Stephen T. Kay, EUA)
• LO MÁS IMPORTANTE DE LA VIDA ES NO HABER MUERTO (Olivier Pictet, Pablo Martín Torrado, Marc Recuenco. Spain, Switzerland)
• MIYOKO (Yoshifumi Tsubota, Japan)
• POSSESSED (Lee Yong-ju, South Corea)
• RED, WHITE & BLUE (Simon Rumley, UK)
• R U THERE (David Verbeek. Netherlands, Taiwan)
• SIMON WERNER A DISPARU… (Fabrice Gobert, France)
• SOUND OF NOISE (Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson. France, Sweden, Denmark)
• THE WILD HUNT (Alexandre Franchi, Canada)
• TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine, USA, UK)

NOVES VISIONS – DARK FICCIÓ SECTION

New this year, a selection of auteur films committed to explaining the darkest side of the human being and of other beings that aren’t so human, but from positions that are somewhat distant from conventional genre.

• 5150 RUE DES ORMES (Éric Tessier, Canada)
• DEFENDOR (Peter Stebbings, Canada)
• L.A. ZOMBIE (Bruce LaBruce. Germany, USA, France)
• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A PORNO GANG (Mladen Djordjevic, Serbian)
• STRAYED (Akan Satayev, Kazakhstan)

NOVES VISIONS – NO FICCIÓ SECTION

The spectator penetrates new fields in documentaries and their relationship with fiction and the genre´s continuous debate on reality.

• LA BOCCA DEL LUPO (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
• CATFISH (Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, USA)
• COLONY (Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell, Ireland)
• FREAKONOMICS (Eugene Jarecki, Heidi Ewing, Morgan Spurlock, Rachel Grady, Seth Gordon and Alex Gibney. USA)
• INTO ETERNITY (Michael Madsen, Denmark)
• LIFE 2.0 (Jason Spingarn-Koff, USA)
• THE PEOPLE vs GEORGE LUCAS (Alexandre O. Philippe. UK, USA)
• VAMPIRES (Vincent Lannoo, Belgium)

NOVES VISIONS – DISCOVERY SECTION

The Festival makes it clear that it is constantly committed to works from production crews that are fans of what we know as “guerrilla cinema”, with leading filmmakers who pose daring formal and conceptual approaches from an absolute and accepted independence.

• 8TH WONDERLAND (Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach, France)
• FIN (Luis Sampieri, Spain)
• IN THE WOODS (Angelos Frantzis, Greece)
• INVISIBLE EYES (Olivier Cohen. UK, France)
• LA NIT QUE VA MORIR L’ELVIS (Oriol Ferrer, Spain)
• TONY (Gerard Johnson, UK)

CASA ASIA

• IP MAN 2. (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
• CLASH. (Le Thanh Son, Vietnam)
• DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF PHANTOM FLAME
• FIRE OF CONSCIENCE (Dante Lam, Hong Kong)
• GALLANTS (DA LUI TOI) (Derek Kwok & Clement Cheng, Hong Kong)
• GOLDEN SWALLOW (JIN YANZI) (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
• HIGANJIMA (Kim Tae-gyun, Japan, South Korea)
• ONG BAK 3 (Tony Jaa & Panna Rittikrai, Thailand)
• WOOCHI (Choi Dong-hoon, South Korea)

SEVEN CHANCES

• L’ENFER D’HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT. (Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, France)
• KANIKOSEN (Sabu, Japan)
• RAAVAN (Mani Ratnam, India)
• THE FAMOUS AND THE DEAD (Esmir Filho, Brasil, France)
• THE RED CHAPEL
• THE SECOND CIVIL WAR (joe Dante, USA)
• TRIPTICO ELEMENTAL DE ESPANA

SITGES CLASSICS

• DREAMS
• SEGUNDO DE CHOMON
• THE EXORCIST
• THE SHINING

SITGES CLASSICS – BRIGADOON SPECIAL SESSION

• LOS PERVERSOS ROSTROS DE VICTOR ISRAEL

SITGES CLASSICS – EL TEMPS AL CINEMA

• DONNIE DARKO (DIRECTORS CUT)
• SOMEWHERE IN TIME
• THE TIME MACHINE
• TRIANGLE

SITGES CLASSICS – ELS ALTRES FANTASTICS

• CRIA CUERVOS
• EL BOSQUE DEL LOBO
• LA CABINA
• MANICOMIO
• UNA VELA PARA EL DIABLO

SITGES CLASSICS – TRIBUTE TO PAUL NASCHY

• EL GRAN AMOR DEL CONDE DRACULA
• EL HOMBRE QUE VIOU LLORAR A FRANKENSTEIN

FOCUS 3D

• AMPHIBIOUS 3D (Brian Yuzna)
• HYBRID (Eric Valette, USA)
• THE SHOCK LABYRINTH: EXTREME (Takashi Shimizu, Japan)
• O APOSTOLO. (Fernando Cortizo, Spain)

MIDNIGHT EXTREME

• ALIEN Vs NINJA (Seiji Chiba, Japan)
• AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE (Elijah Drenner, USA)
• BLOOD RIVER (Adam Mason, USA)
• DAMNED BY DAWN (Brett Anstey, Australia)
• EVIL IN THE TIME OF HEROS (Yorgos Noussias, Greece)
• HATCHET II (Adam Green, USA)
• I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (Steven R Monroe, USA)
• MUTANT GIRL SQUAD (Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, & Tak Sakaguchi, Japan)
• NORWEGIAN NINJA (Thomas Cappelen Malling. Norway)
• PIG (Adam Mason, USA)
• PRIMAL (Josh Reed, Australia)
• SHARKTOPUS (Declan O’Brien, USA)
• SLICE (CHEUN) (Konkiat Komesiri, Thailand)
• THE DEAD (Howard J Ford & Jon Ford, UK)
• THE FINAL (Joey Stewart, USA)
• THE POSSESSION OF DAVID O’REILLY (Andrew Cull, UK)
• THE VIOLENT KIND (The Butchers Brothers, USA)

MIDNIGHT EXTREME – MONDO MACABRE

• HOUSE
• KWANSUKI DRACULA

SPECIAL SESSION

• HEROIS
• MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED (Mark Hartley, Australia)
• METROPOLIS
• THE MOVIE ORGY

SPECIAL SESSION SHORT FILMS

• CONDENADOS A LUCHAR
• DANCE WITH THE DEVIL
• DEJATE MORDER

OFFICIAL FANTASTIC IN COMPETITION SHORT FILMS

• AHONG
• ALL THE FLOWERS IN TIME
• ANIMAL CONTROL
• BRUTAL RELAX
• CAUCHEMAR, A L’AMOUR ET A LA FOLIE
• DEUS IRAE
• EL GRIFO
• FILE UNDER MISCELLANEOUS
• GET STUFFED
• HAND SOAP
• J’AI T’AIME
• JACK
• LA CULPA (THE GUILT)
• LA MIRADA CIRCULAR
• LA MORSURE
• MASKA
• MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
• NOT QUITE TARANTINO
• QUEDATE CONMIGO
• REJOVENIR
• SACRIFICE: A VAMPIRE TALE
• THE LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM
• THE LIFE OF A DOG
• THE UNITED MONSTER TALENT AGENCY
• TO MY MOTHER AND FATHER
• V.I.T.R.I.O.L
• VAL DEL OMAR FUERA DE SUS CASILLAS [NOOSFERA AURORA FASE 2]
• VICENTA
• YOU ARE SO UNDEAD

OFFICIAL FANTASTIC COMPETICIO PANORAMA SHORT FILMS

• ALICE JACOBS IS DEAD
• APOLLO 11, UN PAS EN FALS?
• EXHALE
• JUGANDO CON LA MUERTE
• LASTRAIN
• LOFT CIRCUS
• LOS ARBOLES
• OFF SEASON
• PLAY
• POKAYOKE
• RITES OF LOVE AND MATH
• STRIKE
• THE 3^RD LETTER
• THE FAMILIAR
• THE STORY OF MY LIFE

ANIMA’T SHORT FILMS

• A NEW LIFE! (UNE NOUVELLE VIE!)
• ANGRY MAN
• APOLLO
• BIRDBOY
• DANNY BOY
• FLY
• FOSSIL MEMORY (MÉMOIRE FOSSILE)
• JAULAS (CAGES)
• LAND OF THE HEADS (AU PAYS DES TETES)
• LE MALINCONICHE PENE DEL GROM
• LES BESSONES DEL CARRER DE PONENT
• LOVE PATATE
• MARTYRIS
• MONSTRE SACRE
• MUTANT LAND
• PERPETUUM MOBILE
• SCARY THERAPY
• STANLEY PICKLE
• STONES (KAMENE)
• THE ASTRONOMER’S SUN
• THE COW WHO WANTED TO BE A HAMBURGER
• THE LOST THING
• THE MOON BIRD
• THE ORIGIN OF CREATURES
• THE SILENCE BENEATH THE BARK (LE SILENCE SOUS L’ECORCE)
• THE SKELETON-WOMAN (LA FEMME-SQUELETTE)
• THE VILLAGE (TO HORIO)
• THERE ARE SPIRITS (CI SONO GLI SPIRITI)
• TORD AND TORD
• WHISTLELESS
• WHO IS BLEEDING?
• ZBIGNIEV’S CUPBOARD