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Tribeca Festival · 2011

Tribeca Festival 2011

Cinemania

Tribeca Film Festival says: "The fun, playful slate of this year’s Cinemania program represents a well-rounded spectrum of contemporary genre filmmaking, including science fiction, horror, exploitation, and fantasy."

Programme

8 films · 4 reviews

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Beyond The Black Rainbow

Review preview for Beyond The Black Rainbow

The rich and strange debut of Panos Cosmatos throbs with style and portent, which proves a winning combination even if it is somewhat light in the narrative department.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Sci-fi fable about a young woman imprisoned in an experimental laboratory facility and the mysterious scientist who is her captor.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2011; Director: Panos Cosmatos; Writer: Panos Cosmatos; Stars: Michael Rogers, Eva Allan, Scott Hylands, Marilyn Norry, Rondel Reynoldson, Ryley Zinger, Gerry South, Chris Gauthier, Geoffrey Conder, Roy Campsall, Richard Jollymore, Christian Sloan, Sara Stockstad)

Full review See: Panos Cosmatos talks about Beyond The Black Rainbow

International premiere

The Bleeding House

eet the Smiths — a family full of secrets who keep to themselves on a back road outside a small Midwestern town. In this visceral, tightly wound horror/thriller, their lives are shaken when a sweet-talking Texan arrives on their doorstep on a mission for retribution. Will he succeed in his goal to bleed them of their sins, or will the family’s haunted past prove to be even more deadly than he bargained for?

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Philip Gelatt; Writer: Philip Gelatt; Stars: Patrick Breen, Alexandra Chando, Betsy Aidem, Charlie Hewson, Richard Bekins, Nina Lisandrello, Court Young, Henderson Wade, Victoria Dalpe) , Official site

World premiere

Grave Encounters

The crew of ghost-hunting reality TV show Grave Encounters decides to shoot an episode inside an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a dark past. All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night to begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted — it is alive, and has no intention of ever letting them go.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: The Vicious Brothers; Writer: The Vicious Brothers; Stars: Sean Rogerson, Juan Riedinger, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray, Michele Cummins, Merwin Mondesir, Shawn Macdonald, Ben Wilkinson, Luis Javier, Arthur Corber, Bob Rathie) , Official site

World premiere

Neon Flesh (Carne de neón)

Young hustler Ricky was left to a life on the streets at the age of 12 when his hooker mother got sent to the can, but upon learning she’ll soon be released, Ricky enlists a couple of good-for-nothing buddies to help him open a whorehouse as a tribute to Mom.

(Country: Spain, Argentina, Sweden; Year: 2010; Director: Paco Cabezas; Writer: Paco Cabezas; Stars: Mario Casas, Vicente Romero, Macarena Gómez, Darío Grandinetti, Dámaso Conde, Ángela Molina, Blanca Suárez, Luciano Cáceres, Antonio de la Torre, Angela P. Martinez, Vanessa Oliveira, Juan Carlos Vellido)

North American Premiere

Rabies (Kalevet)

Review preview for Rabies

The script is knowing, loving and amusingly toys with the genre.

Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
As a psycho killer lurks in the woods, a group of nervous people might represent a bigger threat to each other.

(Country: Israel; Year: 2010; Director: Ahron Keshales, Navot Paposhaddo; Writer: Ahron Keshales, Navot Paposhaddo; Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Ania Bukstein, Ofer Shechter, Yael Grobglas, Ran Danker, Menashe Noy, Danny Geva, Henry David, Liat Har Lev, Efrat Boimold, Yaron Motola, Efrat Rayten) , Official site

Full review

North American Premiere

Saint (Sint)

Review preview for Saint

An unashamedly trashy treat.

David Graham · 4 out of 5
After being murdered, bishop St Niklas seeks revenge every 32 years by giving the parents and children a Christmas they will never forget.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Dick Maas; Writer: Dick Maas; Stars: Egbert Jan Weeber, Caro Lenssen, Huub Stapel, Cynthia Abma, Kees Boot, Madelief Blanken, Frederik Brom, Ben Ramakers, Joey van der Velden, Christopher Parren, Rob Andrist Plourde, Fred Goessens, Escha Tanihatu, Bert Luppes, Bob Schwarze) , Official site

Full review

North American Premiere

Troll Hunter (Trolljegeren, Trollhunter)

Review preview for Troll Hunter

In a filmic landscape littered with the lurching corpses of zombies and the emotional angst of vampires, it's refreshing to be presented with a mythology that is less familiar.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A group of student filmmakers get more than they bargained for when tangling with a man tasked with protecting Norway from giant trolls.

(Country: Norway; Year: 2010; Director: André Øvredal; Writer: André Øvredal; Stars: Otto Jespersen, Hans Morten Hansen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Mørck, Knut Nærum, Robert Stoltenberg, Glenn Erland Tosterud) , Official site

Full review

New York premiere

Underwater Love (Onna no kappa)

A spectacle of songs and sex that is at once zany and erotic, Underwater Love puts an unforgettable new spin on the Japanese tradition of softcore “pink” films. Asuka has an easy life with her doting fiancé—but everything’s about to change when she discovers her childhood friend has been reborn as a folkloric water sprite, and she decides to take him home….

(Country: Japan, Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Shinji Imaoka; Writer: Tom Mes, Shinji Imaoka, Fumio Moriya; Stars: Mutsuo Yoshioka, Emi Nishimura, Sawa Masaki, Hiroshi Satô, Yoshirô Umezawa, Ai Narita, Fumio Moriya, Yutaka Ônishi)

World premiere