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So far, Peruvian horror movies have stuck to a formula: ghost and haunted house stories that use the found footage format. They're more about building atmosphere and doling out some jump scares. No director has gone in the opposite direction, the way of extreme horror, built on shock moments, gore, and brutality. That all changes with Perversos, from director Diego Mezarina. Taking its cue from backwoods horror films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or The Godfather of torture porn, the Hostel series, this one seems to follow the blueprint of having clueless young protagonists suffering horribly at the hands of maniacs. The synopsis goes as follows: Veronica and Yamila, two rich cousins and best friends, plan a beach getaway with their respective boyfriends, David and...

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Before he was polarizing audiences with horror films Cabin Fever and Hostel, film director and Hemlock Grove executive producer Eli Roth was a suburban teenager becoming obsessed with hip-hop.

'Off the Cuff' With Peter Travers: An Interview With Eli Roth

For the man who directed Snoop Dogg's "La La La" and co-wrote RZA's directorial debut The Man With the Iron Fists, the relationship between hip-hop and film runs deep. "The only people who know more about movies than directors are rappers," Roth tells Rolling Stone. "All Snoop...

Following previous announcements of their film lineup, the Fantasia International Film Festival has released their full lineup of movies to be shown at the 18th Annual festival, starting July 17.

New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.

Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.

View the whole press release of additional announcements below:

Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday

With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...

The relevant recommendation for Fox‘s new series, Gang Related, may begin and end with the knowledge that it is created/written by Chris Morgan. If the writing abilities that brought you the last five Fast & Furious films, Wanted, and 47 Ronin has left you impressed, you’re all set. Lock in to your new favorite show now.

If that fact alone doesn’t mean much to you, the show obligingly lays all its cards on the table in the first fifteen minutes of the pilot. You only have to invest that amount of time to know exactly what’s coming your way, I imagine for the entirety of the show’s run, but at least for the first few episodes. The show, and you have to give it some credit really, puts it out there and says, “Look, you’re in, or you’re out.”

In one of the quickest...

A Priest, A Rabbi and Your Mom Walk Into a Movie Theatre…

You might think that your Mom disapproves of all horror films on principle. At least that’s the stereotype: the wagging finger; the warning that horror films cause nightmares. But the truth is that this is merely a bit of parental judo, reverse psychology designed to push us to watching horror films, because nothing warns us and upholds the moral order like a horror film.

What are the elements of a horror film after all? There is a monster; there is a sense of danger (as critic Joe Bob Briggs puts it “Anyone can die at any time”); the deaths are usually gruesome; and there is usually a moral. If you think about it, fairy tales and horror films are not that far apart – they are even closer to one another in the fairy tales original Grimm-er forms,...

Directed by: Bradley Parker

Written by: Oren Peli, Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke

Featuring: Jesse McCartney, Olivia Dudley, Devin Kelley, Jonathan Sadowski, Dimitri Diatchenko

Lately, it's hard to walk into the horror section of your local movie store and spit without hitting a found-footage film; they were slowly increasing in number after The Blair Witch Project and hit epidemic proportions in the wake of the Paranormal Activity franchise. While some of them are decent (Cloverfield, Rec), others are abysmal attempts to hide a low budget with "edgy" Pov shots and cheap jump scares.

That said, I am a fan of the first Paranormal Activity film, and when I saw that its director was coming out with a new feature, Chernobyl Diaries, I was on board. The trailers actually looked pretty damned good and the premise was original enough: The ill-fated, radiation-soaked Chernobyl site is being opened to tourists for...

Def-con 4

1985 Canada 88min

Director: Paul Donovan, et al

Starring: Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Tim Choate, Kate Lynch, Kevin King, and Jeff Pustil

Hell Comes To Frogtown

1988 USA 86min

Director: Donald G. Jackson and R.J. Kizer

Starring: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, William Smith, Rory Calhoun, Cliff Bemis, Nicholas Worth, and Kristi Somers

Image Entertainment

Review by J Astro

Two cinematic blasts from Hollywood’s not-too-distant Cold War-inspired past are re-packaged together as a post-apocalyptic tag team on this two-for-one offering, which was made available by the folks at Image Entertainment just a few weeks ago (release date December 13, 2011). Each feature on this single-sided disc comes with its own title screen, scene selections, and a theatrical trailer. The DVD itself plays a few other vintage trailers (C.H.U.D., anyone?) before the main film selection menu. Otherwise, it’s all a pretty bare bones affair. But with mega-blockbusters like these,...

Certain Thursday mornings deviate from the norm, and such was the case last week when we hit the set of action/horror flick Raze to interview blood-spattered and dirt-smudged stars Zoe Bell and Rachel Nichols and director Josh C. Waller following a morning of scripted mayhem. Click through to watch an extensive video clip with the trio and for more info from the director of the film currently shooting in Los Angeles.

Scripted by executive producer Louis Iacoviello and producer Kenny Gage (with additional producer credits going to Robert Beaucage, Andrew Pagana, Bill Ceresia, Zoë Bell and director Waller), the feature was in its sixth day of shooting when we caught up with the director and his cast, who, while taking a break from filming a particularly brutal hand-to-hand combat scene (Bell and Nichols were truly going for it), gave us the lowdown on the flick.

“We are shooting Raze...

There’s a rather large elephant in the room and this time, I’m not talking about anybody’s peen. What exactly are we watching here? Is this a heavily manipulated reality show or a completely scripted hoax?

Duncan Roy’s tell-all blog, where he outs his date with Derek on last week's show as being fake and works to channel himself into some pretentious mountain-dwelling gas-bagish approximation of Henry David Thoreau, throws all of that into question.

Reading it flooded me with questions. Who are we? Is there a God? Why does Mad Men keep winning Emmys? I mean sure, it’s good and all. But there are tons of better shows. Why do they get to hog the spotlight year after …

Sorry. What was I saying? Oh yeah.

I’ve deployed a highly sophisticated technique when it comes to writing these recaps. I sit down, watch the show,...

Instant Netflix

Welcome to our latest stab at a weekly DVD column, as we attempt again to find a novel or amusing way to repackage opinions expressed in earlier reviews. Because many of you have already seen these movies, and because the readers often value the Pajiba community's opinions as much as the critics, I encourage you all to weigh in with your own opinions in the comments, particularly of the Must See Titles on Netflix Instant.

And before we get into this week's regular DVD releases, we will start with those must-see titles that just hit Instant Netflix. The first is Harry Brown, which Prisco went apeshit for last year: "There's just one man, upset that his friend was murdered, taking out the trash. And goddamn is it fun to watch ... Michael Caine is simply awesome as Harry Brown. You never once doubt his character. There's more depth in...

With Los Angeles’ venerated Screamfest L.A. running this October 8-17 at the Mann’s 6 in Hollywood, CA, we thought it time to catch up with some of the filmmakers whose horrific entries will be screening at Rachel Belofsky’s tenth annual film festival of all things horrific.

Visit Screamfest online here for a full run-down of the films playing, as well as to purchase tickets. The highly anticipated Gierasch/Anderson Night of the Demons remake kicks off the fest this Friday.

Co-writer (with Guillaume Lemans) and director Yann Gozlan’s feature flick Caged (Captifs) is celebrating its Los Angeles premiere at Screamfest on Saturday, October 16 at 12pm. Filmmaker Gozlan sat down with Dread recently to discuss his French organ-trafficking film (which opens in selected cities in his homeland via distributor Bac Films today, October 6th). See a teaser trailer for Caged below.

Produced by Alain Benguigui and Thomas Verhaeghe and starring Zoe Felix,...

"Valentine's Day" saw its fair share of haters in Twitter-Wood last month, despite the enormous number of citizens who starred in the film. Eli Roth took a stand in defense of Taylor Swift's performance, though. I should mention his next half dozen tweets about the film were fairly sarcastic. This may affect the amount of sincerity you attribute to his words.

In other tweets, Emma Roberts posted her own little valentine to Olympic snowboarder and Gold Medalist Shaun White. I think she wants him to call her. You can decide for yourself after jump where you'll find Lee Unkrich's Oscar plans for the weekend, a picture of the Limp Bizkit mug Fred Durst drinks from while play video games and very fine homemade Snooki costume. It's all in Twitter-Wood for March 5th, 2010.

Twitter Pic of the Day:

@iamdiddy Me at the Mona Lisa!!!!!!!! Click here--->http://twitpic.com...

To mark the release of Overture Films' "Nothing like the Holidays" comedy, we've thrown together a list films we remember the leading cast members the most by. Have your own list? Add it for others see below. “Nothing Like the Holidays” stars Alfred Molina, Elizabeth Peña, John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Freddy Rodriguez, Jay Hernandez, Melonie Diaz, Vanessa Ferlito and Luis Guzman. Release is set for December 12. For those unfamiliar with the story, read below, otherwise, please feel free skip past to the list. What’s it about? If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that family time isn’t always a walk in the park. In Nothing Like the Holidays, two of today’s most talented actors, John Leguizamo (The Happening, The Take) and Freddy Rodriguez (“Six Feet Under,” Bobby), join Debra Messing (“Will & Grace,” “The Starter Wife”), Alfred Molina (The Da Vinci Code, Spider-Man 2...