Tag: creaturefeature
Fantasia 2024 Review: SCARED SHITLESS, A Creature Feature Worth Taking The Plunge
A friend of mine, an astute and well travelled film-lover, once told me their ‘big theory’ of audience engagement for most movies: The viewer will like the movie more if the main character is simply good at doing their job....
Fear The Gourd In Fantastic Creature Short EVIL NATURE
Heads up, creature feature fans, because director Darin Beckstead is brewing up a little something special with Evil Nature. Enlisting the help of the practical FX wizards behind James Gunn's Slither with VFX work by Walt Jones - he's only...
HOSTILE Trailer: An Apocalyptic Creature Feature with Soul
Xavier Gens' Full Time Films has premiered the first trailer for Mathieu Turi's apocalyptic monster movie, Hostile. The film stars Brittany Ashworth (The Crucifixion) as Juliette, a self-sufficient survivor who gets stranded in the wasteland and must survive the night...
SHALLOW WATER: Sandy Collora Returns with Creature Feature
Sandy Collora first made a name for himself when his fan film Batman: Dead End was released way back in 2003. Since then, Collora has worked mostly on his own, self-producing impressive independent genre fare including the sci-fi film Hunter...
THE MONSTER Interview: Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. on Their Practical Approach to Monsters
Creature designers and visual effects legends Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. have filled our collective conscience with some of the most indelible movie monsters ever. From the Graboids in Tremors to James Cameron's Alien queen, and more recently the aliens...
Lion Terrorizes Amsterdam In Full PREY Trailer! Now With Subtitles!
Amsterdamned, The Lift and Sint director Dick Maas returns to Dutch cinema screens this Halloween season with his latest piece of crowd pleasing fun Prey (Prooi). And what's next in a career that's seen the director terrorize his home town...
Netflix and Bong Joon-ho Team Up For Creature Feature OKJA
Big news for Korean film fans today as both Netflix and Plan B have confirmed their participation on Bong Joon-ho's Okja. The English-Korean monster feature has already lined up a very impressive cast, with Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano,...
BiFan 2015 Review: STUNG's Bite Quietly Fades Away
Benni Diez takes on the creature feature in his debut film Stung, which, while set in the US, was actually shot in Germany. With a few familiar faces in the supporting cast and generally strong production values, his film coasts...
Giant Ant Attack In IT CAME FROM THE DESERT Proof Of Concept Video
There are giant ants on the way to spread destruction in Marko Mäkilaakso's adaptation of classic video game It Came From The Desert. We first covered this one back in February when the project was initially announced but following a...
It Comes From Space To Suck Your Blood! Do You Dare Brave The Horrors Of INSECTULA?
It came from space! And it will suck your blood! Behold the terrors of Mike Peterson's Isectula in this exclusive trailer!Peterson and company are eschewing traditional distribution with this one and bringing the film straight to the audience with DVDs,...
STUNG: Giant Mutant Wasps Wreak Havoc In The International Trailer!
Audiences at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival best be watching the skies and keeping an ear open for any suspicious buzzing sounds because that's where Benni Diez's mutant wasp creature feature Stung will be making its debut and we've got...
Run For Your Life With The Trailer For Danish Teen Creature Feature DANNY'S DOOMSDAY
Global warming is bad stuff, kids. Not just a holiday inconvenience or the trigger for unusual weather patterns. Nope ... the ecosystem determines what sort of life thrives (or doesn't) on this planet. And if you mess with the ecosystem...
Blood Flows In Jonas Alexander Arnby's WHEN ANIMALS DREAM
Here's something unusual from Denmark: While details are still being kept somewhat out of the public eye Jonas Alexander Arnby's When Animals Dream presented footage in the in-progress section of the Nordic Film Market at the Gothenburg Film Festival and...
It's A Wrap On Creature Feature STUNG
Someone must have bought director Benni Diez and his Stung stars Matt O'Leary and Jessica Cook a big can of Raid to deal with the film's giant wasps because things have wrapped up. Which I supposed means O'Leary and Cook...
Review: FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY, Scary Monsters And Icky Gore
Ever since he released some impressive promo's and shorts, expectations have been high for a debut feature film by Richard Raaphorst. Now, several years later, it has arrived in the form of Frankenstein's Army. And similar to its own creation,...
BIG ASS SPIDER! Crawling To U.S. Theaters In October
Creature feature Big Ass Spider! will be crawling into select U.S. theaters on October 18. Directed by Mike Mendez, the horror-comedy -- with the emphasis firmly on comedy -- had its world premiere at SXSW earlier this year. I will...
Watch A Pair Of Clips From Irish Creature Feature GRABBERS
Irish creature feature Grabbers hits VOD platforms across the USA today and we've got a couple clips of alcohol averse monster goodness to pass your way.On Erin Island, an idyllic fishing village off the coast of Ireland, charming but somewhat...
Review: GRABBERS Scratches The Horror-Comedy Sweet Spot
Something has gone badly wrong on picturesque Erin Island. The boatload of missing fisherman should have given that away. Or, if not that, then the entire pod of pilot whales that washed up on shore dead and with great gash...
Giveaway: Win GRABBERS Poster and Digital Download!
Just in time to sate your summertime thirst for adult beverages and man-eating monsters, Irish horror-comedy movie Grabbers heads to select theaters in the U.S. on Friday, July 19, and will also be available to watch via various VOD platforms....
The GRABBERS Are Headed To US Shores! Grab A Pint And Watch The New Trailer!
Irish horror comedy Grabbers hits US shores on July 19th and local distributors IFC Midnight are doing things up right with an absolutely fantastic new poster - click the image in the gallery down below for a large version -...
