PUSHER

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher made a big splash in the mid-90′s. Right in the middle of the Danish Dogma wave came this grimey, violent and realistic gangster movie. The film followed the drugdealer Frank’s increasingly desperate situation on the streets, clubs and dimly-lit backrooms of the seedy side of Copenhagen. In Luis Prieto’s British remake, the setting has moved from Copenhagen to London’s East End, and instead of Kim Bodnia, we see... Read More

EDDIE: THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL

A big, adorable sleepwalking cannibal and an artist of debatable moral standards (is there any other kind?) in a Fargoesque environment. A well-played, funny film with perfect comic timing. The world famous Danish artist Lars Olafssen is having the artist equivalent of writer’s block. He hasn’t painted a thing in ten years. So he goes to Canada hoping to paint while teaching at the local art school. But inspiration is nowhere to be seen and the canvases remain... Read More

CLAYMATION FROM THE BREAKFAST TABLE

His website reads “I make budget films on the breakfast table. Claymations, stopmotion animations and that sort of thing.” But the short stories animated by Lee Hardcastle wouldn’t be appropriate for any breakfast at all. Taking those cult movies we all love so dearly, Hardcastle creates parodies as shapely as clay can be made. Since 2010, his website has been filling up with these 60 second shorts including horror classics like Evil Dead and current LIFFF title... Read More

VAMPS

Most people get tired of living the single life after a few years. Imagine doing it for a few centuries, and not being able to look in a mirror even once. Goody (Alicia Silverstone) and Stacy (Krysten Ritter) are best friends and roomies. They’re also vampires, but they try not to let that get in the way of leading perfectly good, non-murderous lives. Meanwhile, their stem (or sire), played by the stunning Sigourney Weaver, is in town, stirring up trouble. That’s when... Read More

THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE

In 1993, a film reel with a colour version of Georges Méliès groundbreaking silent science fiction film A Trip to the Moon from 1902 was discovered. Previous versions of the film have been black and white and of poor quality. The bad condition of the reel signalled the beginning of an international project, with new technologically advanced methods, in a desperate attempt to save the content and recreate the film. After 12 years, by which time it had become history’s... Read More

THE AGGRESSION SCALE

A barely legal scream queen and her even younger new step brother are forced to defend themselves against the mobsters who killed their parents. Luckily for Lauren, Owen turns out to be way more fucked up than anyone realised and has all kinds of tricks up his sleeves (not to mention razorblades in his mouth). This is awesome. Like Home Alone without the childish slapstick and undertones of having-to-feel-sorry-for-Macaulay-Culkin-because-his-childhood-was-ruined-by-Michael-Jackson.... Read More

SUN DON’T SHINE

A young couple is lost on the Florida roads. The sun is scorching, the emotions confused. Aggression and passion put pressure on already tingling nerves. Crystal and Leo are on the run, pressed to get wherever, as long as its far away from where they are now. There is a gun in the glove compartment and something way worse in the trunk. In the sweltering heat their car breaks down. Jealousy, anxiety and dreams of another life boil over, while the picture of what has led them... Read More

MANBORG

Remember, it’s not about the killing. It’s about family! Evil Count Draculon is taking over the world with his demon army. A small group of rebels is still standing up to him, but they’re falling, one by one. After a devastating battle, one wounded is saved to a life as a cyborg. With a motley crew he takes the fight in true Mortal Kombat style – complete with weird special effects and the sound perfectly out of sync (and tune). Manborg is a tribute to old... Read More

JACK & DIANE

How do you mix a realistic coming-of-age drama with scary werewolves? That question has been impossible to answer until now, when lovely Juno Temple and just as talented Riley Keough (Elvis Presley’s granddaughter!) meet in a record store in New York City. Diane, a wonderfully Pippi Longstocking-like slacker who does whatever she pleases, and tomboy Jack go into the hot city night, filling it with kisses and sweaty dancing in clubs. But something is growing inside... Read More

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

There had been ghosts and witches, German expressionism and giant apes, mutated grasshoppers and mad scientists and mysterious murderers. And then, then came Night of the Living Dead! Even though the word zombie is never mentioned in the film, that was the moment when the undead awoke for real and invaded modern horror cinema. With a tiny budget and little equipment, George A. Romero created his feature debut, the result being equal parts his breakthrough, a middle finger... Read More