We just got done relaying a few international genre titles coming out of this year’s Fantastic Fest, and wouldn’t know it…we’re back to shed some shine another major intercontinental film gala. Of course, I’m talking about Spain’s heralded Sitges Film Festival 2010!
We just reeled in an official press release for the shindig, which includes a ton of genre titles to be seen during the 7th and 17th of October. Wanna see which flicks made the grade? Let’s run it…
In competition:
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 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)
In competition subsection with eagerly-awaited and controversial titles that reinforce the themes in the SITGES 43 OFS In Competition:
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)
OUTRAGE (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
RED HILL (Patrick Hughes, Australia)
THE REEF (Andrew Traucki, Australia)
STAKE LAND (Jim Mickle, USA)
TUCKER & DALE vs EVIL (Eli Craig, Canada, USA)
Out of competition specials:
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)
INSIDIOUS (James Wan, USA)
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)
ZEBRAMAN: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY (Takashi Miike, Japan)
GALAS The Festival will be screening titles, both national and international, 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)
THE NEW DAUGHTER (Luis Berdejo, USA)
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)
THE WARD (John Carpenter, USA)
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE OFFICIAL SITGES WEBSITE.
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