Tag: Fantasia Film Festival
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Nightmare Cinema Bought for 2019 Release
A couple of interesting links this week. The first arrived a few days ago from G. Brandon Hill, Executive Director of Acquisitions and Distribution at Good Deed Entertainment. It’s a link to an exclusive piece in Variety that includes the long-awaited details about Nightmare Cinema’s release. According to the article: Cranked Up Films has partnered…
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Fall Premieres:
Mexico, England, Canada, Spain, Austria …… a world of nightmares. Since premiering at The Fantasia International Film Festival in July, Nightmare Cinema has gone on to screen at some of the world’s most prestigious film festivals devoted to fantasy, science fiction, and horror. So far this month, NC has played on both sides of the Atlantic, first in a French…
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Tales from the Hood 2
Horror, History, Humor & Politics“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS. What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus weren’t writing about kings? All good art is political!” – Toni Morrison Morrison’s words are particularly relevant to the horror genre. After all, horror literature is all about powers beyond comprehension. It’s true…
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Nightmare Cinema: Fall Festivals & Events
These are busy times for the Nightmare Cinema team. This weekend, Mick Garris (the film’s producer and writer/director of “Dead”) and Sandra Becerril (writer of the Ryûhei Kitamura directed “Mashit”) are in Strasbourg for the film’s French premiere at FEFFS — Le Festival européen du film fantastique. The premiere will take place at a special…
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Nightmare Cinema Premieres at Fantasia
An enthusiastic crowd gathered well in advance of Nightmare Cinema’s premiere. By 9:00 last night, the line already stretched around the block, assuring a full house for a project that producer-director Mick Garris began dreaming up over a decade ago. Shortly before 10:00, Festival Programmer Tony Timpone took the stage to introduce directors Mick Garris,…