Thirst is coming to Melbourne!!!!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Asian Horror, Horror Films
I can’t believe it! I am freaking out, I can’t believe this slid under my usual keen vampiric like senses… Thirst is showing at the Melbourne International Film Festival! Apologies to those readers from far and abroad, I will explain. The festival runs at this time every year and has a ‘Night Shift’ program which has a small selection of horror films. Now i read the preview program a little while ago and there was no Thirst to be seen. However whilst browsing our local broadsheet online I discovered an article discussing the attraction of horror films, the usual bollocks, why do people like to be scared blah blah. Low and behold the festival’s organiser is talking about a blood sucking priest! So I scrambled to the MIFF site, snatched myself up tickets for a night showing of Thirst and found to my delight Moon was also showing, so threw in tickets for that for good measure!
For those who have been spending too much time in their coffin, Thirst is directed by Chan-wook Park the synopsis is as follows:
“A beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. Physical and psychological changes lead to his affair with a wife of his childhood friend who is repressed and tired of her mundane life. The one-time priest falls deeper in despair and depravity. As things turns for worse, he struggles to maintain whats left of his humanity.”
I dodged a silver bullet here folks, so what lessons have we learnt today?
1. Be ever vigilant when your local film festival is creeping up behind you.
2. Good things come to those who wait; even in Australia.
3. Focus (distribution company of Thirst) sends out cool promotional stuff for Comic Con (thanks to the First Showing Crew for sharing, and inflaming my Comic Con envy).
Have a look at the trailer below (thanks to Eco Samurai for the footage) and join me in a little dance of glee around whatever deity takes your fancy!
Ms Harker
Thirst Comic Con 09 Promo
Tags: Asian Horror, Comic Con 09, Horror, Horror Flms, Vampire
I have Comic Con envy…
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Creepy Pictures, Horror Films
The web is humming with sneak peaks, previews, panel details, trailers blah, blah, blah for this years International Comic Con in San Diego. I’ll admit it, I have a serious case of Comic Con envy, being stranded on this continent surrounded by deadly snakes, spiders, crocodiles and NO COMIC CON! The below picture (courtesy of Dread Central) from the upcoming Woody Harrleson chomp fest Zombieland just rubbed salt in my gaping envious wounds.
Ms Harker
Nom nom nom!
Tags: Comic Con 09, Horror, Horror Films
Triangle, horror on the high seas!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
At first I had Nicole Kidman (who would ever have thought I would mention Madame Botox on this blog!) flashbacks and was cringing for the waif like Melissa George, despite the fact she’s not a ginger, or eight feet friggin tall. But I was thinking holy crap not another Aussie starlet stuck out on a boat with psycho, with no Billy Zane (meow!) to ease my pain, Dead Calm anyone? However the lads at First Showing have revealed that this horror flick is more than just mere sea monkey’s going bad.
A crew of none too hard on the eye leisure cruisers, get caught in a storm, barely surviving they come upon a cruise liner, completely void of any crew or passengers. However that nasty feeling of de ja vu` comes creeping up on our ill fated, yet hot, adventurers and the proverbial starts to hit the rudder!
This film has promise, the trailer delivers some good scares especially the deck scene near the end, you know how I feel about piles of corpses in the sun…
Ms Harker
Tags: Add new tag, Horror, Horror Films
