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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2012

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012

Night Moves

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8 films · 6 reviews

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Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal (Eddie)

A once successful Danish painter accepts a teaching post at a remote Art School in Canada. There he befriends the mute nephew of one of the school’s crucial benefactors, and rediscovers artistic inspiration in his strange new friend’s bloodthirsty nocturnal activities... Armed with the brilliant Thule Lindhardt’s cleverly endearing central performance, Director Boris Rodriguez deftly achieves a perfect balance of outrageously black humour and genuinely grisly horror, ensuring that Eddie earns its place as a hilariously disturbed cult classic.

(Country: Canada, Denmark; Year: 2011; Director: Boris Rodriguez)

Grabbers

Review preview for Grabbers

Grabbers is a thoroughly charming and welcome blend of terror and blarney.

Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
A small island community is terrorised by monsters from the sea.

(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Jon Wright; Writer: Kevin Lehane; Stars: Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey, Lalor Roddy, David Pearse, Bronagh Gallagher, Pascal Scott, Clelia Murphy, Louis Dempsey, Micheál O'Gruagain, Ned Dennehy, Stuart Graham, Killian Coyle, Michael Hough, Jonathan Ryan) , Official site

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Guinea Pigs (The Facility)

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For all the quality of the performances, it's the story that lets it down.

Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
A group of test subjects are given a new drug but things don't go quite to plan.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ian Clark; Writer: Ian Clark; Stars: Aneurin Barnard, Alex Reid, Oliver Coleman, Steve Evets, Nia Roberts, Amit Shah, Skye Lourie)

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Jackpot (Arme Riddere, Jo Nesbo's Jackpot)

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The only thing Martens takes seriously is his humour - and it pays off handsomely.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A man tells a detective how he came to be in a Lotto trouble.

(Country: Norway; Year: 2011; Director: Magnus Martens; Writer: Magnus Martens, based on a story by Jo Nesbø; Stars: Kyrre Hellum, Henrik Mestad, Marie Blokhus, Mads Ousdal, Andreas Cappelen, Arthur Berning, Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Jan Grønli, Fridtjov Såheim, Peter Andersson, Eirik Daleng) , Trailer

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Lovely Molly

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When it becomes a horror movie it is a good one, but when it is not a horror movie it is a great one.

Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
Alone in the house she grew up in, Molly uses a camera to try and capture the thing she thinks is stalking her.

(Country: USA; Year: 2011; Director: Eduardo Sánchez; Writer: Eduardo Sánchez, Jamie Nash; Stars: Alexandra Holden, Johnny Lewis, Gretchen Lodge, Ken Arnold, Lauren Lakis, Todd Ryan Jones, Tara Garwood, Daniel Ross, Gray Ellis, Katie Foster, Mark Redfield, Field Blauvelt, Brandon Thane Wilson, Dan Franko, Shane Tunney)

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Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie)

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Supported by only the most rudimentary of plot structures that is crumbling from the outset and a Funny or Die backbone of comic acting talent who really should have stayed on higher ground.

Amber Wilkinson · 1.5 out of 5
After two guys are given a billion dollars to make a movie, their Hollywood dreams run off course and they decide to rehabilitate a run-down shopping mall in an attempt to make the money back.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim; Writer: Tim Heidecker, Jonathan Krisel, Doug Lussenhop, Jon Mugar, Eric Wareheim; Stars: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Robert Loggia, William Atherton, Jeff Goldblum) , Official site

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V/H/S

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The movie hits some nasty sweet spots but also falls foul of numerous genre cliches, both old and new.

Neil Mitchell · 2.5 out of 5
A horror anthology based around the theft of an old video tape.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence; Writer: Simon Barrett, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence; Stars: Joe Swanberg, Calvin Reeder, Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil)

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Wrong

Dolph searches for his lost dog, but through encounters with a nympho pizza-delivery girl, a jogging neighbor seeking the absolute and a mysterious righter of wrongs, he may eventually lose his mind... and his identity.

(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Writer: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, William Fichtner.)