The line-up for the annual South by Southwest Festival was announced yesterday and what a list we’ve got to look forward too! Well actually you’d only be looking forward to it if you’re actually going to SXSW 2010… Which if you are you’re a bastard and I’m jealous of you. But let’s move on. Here’s a description of SXSW from it’s official website:
The SXSW Film Conference and Festival is a uniquely creative environment featuring the dynamic convergence of talent, smart audiences and industry heavyweights. A hotbed of discovery and interactivity, the event offers lucrative networking opportunities and immersion into the art and business of the rapidly evolving world of independent film.
The festival kicks off in Austin, Texas on March 12th and will last through to the 20th with most of these genre flicks being part of SXSW’s ‘MIDNIGHTERS’ category. Well that works. For a look at some of the non-genre flicks hitting SXSW 2010 you can head over to our papa site JoBlo.com but for all the juicy horror goodness just read away below! Just click on the film’s title for either our last story on the film, it’s official website or it’s IMDB page. You can head over to SXSW’s official website for a lot more info including news about panels and screenings. And don’t forget to spit some bullets below with what you think about these flicks! Any gems in here?
AMER (Belgium) – U.S. Premiere!
Directors: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Screenwriter: Bruno Forzani
Synopsis: Ana is confronted to Body and Desire at three key moments of her life.
Cast: Bianca Maria D’Amato, Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène-Guibbaud, Marie Bos, Harry Cleven
CANNIBAL GIRLS (Canada)
Director: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: Robert Sandler
Synopsis: They do EXACTLY what you think they do! Second City TV regulars Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star in Ivan Reitman’s Canuxploitation classic as a couple on a romantic holiday who settle into a quaint little bed-and-breakfast run by a trio of flesh-eating ladies who fancy them for tomorrow’s menu.
Cast: Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Ronald Ulrich, Randall Carpenter, Bonnie Neilson
COTTON (U.S.) – World Premiere!
Director: Daniel Stamm
Screenwriters: Andrew Gurland and Huck Botko
Synopsis: After a career spent helping the devout through prayer and trickery, Rev. Cotton Marcus invites a film crew to document his final fraudulent days as an exorcist. Soon his faith is truly tested when a desperate plea from the father of a possessed girl brings him face to face with the devil himself.
Cast: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Caleb Landry Jones
ENTER THE VOID
Director and Screenwriter: Gaspar Noé
Synopsis: Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar is caught in a police bust and shot and as he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister that he would never abandon her refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.
Cast: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn
HIGANJIMA (Japan/Korea) – North American Premiere!
Director: Tae-Kyun Kim
Screenwriter: Tetsuya Ôishi
Synopsis: Two years after losing contact, Akira discovers that his long-lost brother may be found on Higanjima Island. He may also find on Higanjima an army of blood-sucking vampires.
Cast: Koji Yamamoto, Hideo Ishiguro, Dai Watanabe, Asami Mizukawa
JIMMY TUPPER VS. THE GOATMAN OF BOWIE – World Premiere!
Director and Screenwriter: Andrew Bowser
Synopsis: Jimmy Tupper is no one, he’s nothing, until one night he sees something in the woods that can’t be real. It becomes his mission to prove its existence and find his purpose.
Cast: Andrew Bowser, Pedro Gonzalez, Chris Jones, Michael Eller, Tim Kuczka
THE LOVED ONES (Australia)
Director and Screenwriter: Sean Byrne
Synopsis: Brent, a 17-year-old student grieving after the recent loss of his father, politely declines an invitation to the school formal from Lola, the quietest girl in school. Devastated by the rejection, Lola and her overly protective father kidnap Brent and force him to endure a macabre Formal of their own creation…
Cast: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, Victoria Thaine, Jessica McNamee, Richard Wilson
MONSTERS (UK) – World Premiere!
Director and Screenwriter: Gareth Edwards
Synopsis: Six years after a NASA probe crashes, bringing alien life forms to Earth, a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
Cast: Scoot McNairym, Whitney Able (above)
OUTCAST – World Premiere!
Director: Colm McCarthy
Screenwriters: Colm McCarthy and Tom McCarthy
Synopsis: Mary and Fergal live their lives on the run, using an ancient form of magic to hide from a terrifying hunter.
Cast: James Nesbitt, Kate Dickie, Niall Bruton, Hannah Stanbridge
RED WHITE & BLUE (United Kingdom) – North American Premiere!
Director and Screenwriter: Simon Rumley
Synopsis: In Austin Texas, the lives of three young people “Erica, Franki and Nate” intertwine in a fateful, tragic way and head down a rocky and violent road to heart-rending oblivion.
Cast: Noah Taylor, Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter
TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL (Canada)
Director: Eli Craig.
Screenwriters: Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson
Synopsis: Two West Virginian hillbillies go on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin, but their peaceful trip goes horribly awry.
Cast: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss
WAKE – World Premiere!
Director and Screenwriter: Chad Feehan
Synopsis: Driving to a wedding in Los Angeles through the Mojave Desert, Paul and Adrienne pull off the highway and into Roy’s Motel and Café. This roadside artifact proves to be a strange and surreal place with an unsettling mix of travelers, who force our couple to discover the secret hidden between them and ultimately, the horrifying reality of their current situation.
Cast: Josh Stewart, Jamie-Lynn Sigler (above), Chris Browning, Angela Featherstone, Afemo Omilami, Trevor Morgan
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