• This Week In Trailers: The Man From Nowhere, The Horde, Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen, The Kid, The Amateur Monster Movie

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…

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  • IFC Launches New Genre Label, IFC Midnight

    For the past year IFC has bought up a lot of left-field, genre and oddball movies to distribute in the States. It started with Antichrist -- not such a weird buy, given the prestige status of Lars von Trier -- and then went to Valhalla Rising, Human Centipede (First Sequence) and Enter the Void, among…

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  • Trailer For Zombies And Mobsters Film The Horde

    Calidude, this one's for you. I may have been remiss in not sufficiently hyping The Horde's position on the Frightfest roster, but I can at least make it up to you by bringing you the trailer. Watch that embedded after the break but first, a little background. This cops, robbers and zombies film is the…

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  • First Look: The Horde

    I'll admit, I don't follow the foreign genre scene as much as I should, but hey, that's why we have Devindra Hardawar. When I came across this photo for the french zombie film The Horde, I began to dig deeper. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher's The Horde could probably be described as Zack Snyder's Dawn…

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