Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2015
11 films · 10 reviews
Everything here is just a rehash of other films.
(Country: China; Year: 2014; Director: Yang Lu; Writer: Yang Lu, Chen Shu, Chen Shu; Stars: Chen Chang, Shih-Chieh Chin, Zhu Dan, Dong-xue Li, Yuan Nie, Liu Shi Shi, Qianyuan Wang, Qing Ye, Lixin Zhao, Yi Wei Zhou, Yiwei Zhou, Dan Zhu)
UK premiere.
This film's attempt to contextualise a zombie threat as something more deeply political is clumsy at best.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Zach Lipovsky; Writer: Tim Carter; Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Meghan Ory, Virginia Madsen, Keegan Connor Tracy, Aleks Paunovic, Dennis Haysbert, Gary Jones, Carrie Genzel, Rob Riggle, Reese Alexander, Harley Morenstein, Julia Benson, Peter Benson, Darren Dolynski, Patrick Sabongui)
UK premiere.
There’s plenty of the pre-requisite tension, and the monsters are designed well and deployed with restraint.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Corin Hardy; Writer: Corin Hardy, Felipe Marino; Stars: Bojana Novakovic, Joseph Mawle, Michael Smiley, Michael McElhatton, Charlotte Williams)
UK premiere.
There isn’t anything particularly wrong with the direction, which is solid horror fare, but it’s trying to animate a cadaver of a script.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Bruce McDonald; Writer: Pascal Trottier; Stars: Robert Patrick, Rossif Sutherland, Luke Bilyk, Rachel Wilson, Peter DaCunha, Chloe Rose, Sydney Cross, Adelaide Humphreys, Joe Silvaggio, Karlo William, Nicholas Craig, Stephanie Fonceca, Aliyah Jhirad, Emir Hirad Mokhtarieh)
UK premiere.
There's a lot of great potential here. Roe and Andrews don't quite have what it takes to pull it together.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Bobby Roe; Writer: Zack Andrews; Stars: Brandy Schaefer, Zack Andrews, Bobby Roe, Mikey Roe, Jeff Larson)
UK premiere.
It doesn't so much feel old-fashioned as it does out of time.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Shane Abbess; Writer: Shane Abbess, Shane Abbess, Brian Cachia, Brian Cachia; Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth, Bren Foster, Luke Ford, Dwaine Stevenson, Louisa Mignone, Tess Haubrich, Harry Pavlidis, Kevin Copeland, Andy Rodoreda, Richard Huggett, Paul Winchester, Brendan Clearkin, Matt Minto)
UK premiere.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2015; Director: Károly Ujj Mészáros; Writer: Bálint Hegedûs, Károly Ujj Mészáros; Stars: Mónika Balsai, Szabolcs Bede Fazekas, David Sakurai, Zoltán Schmied, Antal Cserna, Piroska Molnár, Gábor Reviczky, Mariann Kocsis, Ági Gubik, Lehel Kovács, Zsuzsa Töreky, Vali Dániel, Mária Bókay, Gyözö Szabó, István Göz)
UK premiere.
Frustratingly, the film isn’t really concerned with its setting, and the large bulk of the plot is a time travel caper that’s solvable within a few minutes of it being revealed.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Justin Trefgarne; Writer: Justin Trefgarne; Stars: Elliot Cowan, Elodie Yung, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Bathurst, James Callis, Cosima Shaw, Molly Gaisford, Louis Trefgarne, Adam Sims, Harry Lloyd, Josef Altin, Simeon Willis, Lenora Crichlow, Jon Campling, Ross O'Hennessy)
World premiere.
What could have been turned into a gritty, gloomy film with a penchant for gore, instead retains the lighthearted feel of the manga.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Takashi Yamazaki; Writer: Hitoshi Iwaaki, Ryota Kosawa, Takashi Yamazaki; Stars: Shôta Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto, Kazuki Kitamura, Masahiro Higashide, Tadanobu Asano, Miko Yoki, Jun Kunimura, Hirofumi Arai, Pierre Taki, Sadao Abe, Satoshi Araki, Nao Ohmori, Kimiko Yo)
European premiere.
Overall, fans of the genre will probably enjoy the fight sequences but the story and characterisation do not stand up to closer inspection.
(Country: Chile, US; Year: 2014; Director: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza; Writer: Gina Aguad, Sanz Andrea, Diego Ayala, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Guillermo Prieto; Stars: Noah Segan, Marko Zaror, Loreto Aravena, José Luís Mósca, Smirnow Boris, Mauricio Diocares, Mauricio Raab Sanz, Pablo Raab Sanz, Otilio Castro, Nuñez Nelson)
UK premiere.
A preposterously gory exercise in nostalgia.
(Country: New Zealand, Canada; Year: 2015; Director: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell; Writer: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell; Stars: Munro Chambers, Michael Ironside, Romano Orzari, Laurence Leboeuf, Aaron Jeffery, Patrick Kerton, Edwin Wright, Marcello Bezina, Jean-François Ferland, Evan Manoukian, Maxime Lapointe)
UK premiere.
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