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'ATROCIOUS'
Directed by Fernando Barreda Luna |
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37-hours of found footage from a film reel recovered by Spanish police, documenting the final five days of a family discovering the truth behind a dangerous urban legend who are found viciously murdered in their summer farm house in Sitges (Spain) on April 4th of 2010. 
Edwin Pagán - 8/4/2011
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'THE THING'
Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. |
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At an isolated research outpost in Antarctica, a scientific discovery full of possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. When a simple experiment frees it from its frozen prison, the shape-shifting creature has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being and the lead Paleontologist and her pilot must keep the "the thing" from killing them off one at a time.
Edwin Pagán - 7/16/2011
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'JUAN OF THE DEAD
Directed by Alejandro Brugués |
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50 years after the Cuban Revolution, a 40-year old slacker seizes upon a sudden zombie epidemic that has engulfed the Island and begins a work-for-hire extermination service along with a cache of his motly friends. Their motto: “We kill your beloved ones…at a reasonable price."
Edwin Pagán - 7/10/2011
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'PHASE 7'
Directed by Nicolás Goldbart |
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Inside a quarantined apartment building a man must protect his pregnant wife from his new neighbors.
Edwin Pagán - 6/30/2011
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'RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'
Directed by Rupert Wyatt |
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Set in present day San Francisco, experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy unlike any other on which rest the upended destinies of man and primate?
Edwin Pagán - 6/21/2011
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'EL PARAMO'
Directed by Jaime Osorio Marquez |
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Believing a Colombian military base has fallen to a terrorist attack, nine soldiers are sent to investigate. When they arrive, the men discover a shocking scene of carnage and only one survivor - a mute woman in chains. Is she a terrorist? A victim? Or something more sinister or supernatural?
Edwin Pagán - 6/14/2011
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'DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK'
Directed by Troy Nixey |
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A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Edwin Pagán - 6/9/2011
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'THE SKIN I INHABIT'
Directed by Pedro Amodóvar |
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Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.
Edwin Pagán - 5/9/2011
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'SLEEP TIGHT'
Directed by Juame Balagueró |
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Happiness eludes Cesar, a doorman in a Barcelona apartment building who delights in the unhappiness and anguish of others and knows all the intimate details of the residents lives. Clara is a happy-go-lucky young woman who's the perfect target. How far will he go to make her life miserable?
Edwin Pagán - 4/28/2011
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'SUCKER PUNCH'
Directed by Zack Snyder |
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A young girl is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.
Gary Deocampo - 3/26/2011
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'SUPER 8'
Directed by J.J Abrams |
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In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town.
Edwin Pagán - 3/11/2011
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'SUDOR FRIO'
Directed by Adrián García Bogliano |
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A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. A loyal friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside two brutal murderers expect them, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives stolen from the last military dictatorship in Argentina.
Edwin Pagán - 3/3/2011
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'MADISON COUNTY'
Directed by Eric England |
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A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. However, when they start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!
Edwin Pagán - 3/1/2011
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'HUSK'
Directed by Brett Simmons |
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When a murder of crows smash into the windshield causing their car to crash, the group of young friends, inside, are forced to abandon the vehicle. Stranded beside a desolate cornfield, they see a light on in a window and decide to go in search of help. They head into the fields but instead of finding sanctuary they discover something evil and unnatural lurking in the corn.
Edwin Pagán - 1/16/2011
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'THE RITE'
Directed by Mikael Håfström |
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A skeptical seminary student reluctantly attends an exorcism school at the Vatican, where he meets an unorthodox priest who introduces him to the darker side of his faith.
Edwin Pagán - 1/5/2011
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'SEASON OF THE WITCH'
Directed by Dominic Sena |
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A heroic Crusader and his closest friend return home after decades of fierce fighting, only to find their world destroyed by the Plague.
Edwin Pagán - 1/3/2011
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'CASE 39'
Directed by Christian Alvart |
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After a few years of floating in the ether, as well as a few false starts, Case 39 has finally received a concrete release date of October 1st from Paramount Advantage, a specialty film division of Paramount Pictures. The film stars Renée Zellweger, who makes a return to her old stomping grounds in the realm of horror. The film also co-stars Bradley Cooper and Ian McShane, and is directed by German horrormeister Christian Alvart (Antibodies / Pandorum).
Edwin Pagán - 8/23/2010
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'THE LAST EXORCISM'
Directed by Daniel Stamm |
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Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic on the rural Louisiana farm. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy.
Edwin Pagán - 8/20/2010
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'BURIED'
Directed by Rodrigo Cortés |
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For many, there's nothing more terrifying than the feeling of being trapped in a confined space - claustrophobia. In his new film, BURIED, Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés feeds on that very fear and takes it up a few notches by combining it with the fear of being buried alive - taphophobia.
Edwin Pagán - 7/31/2010
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'LET ME IN'
Directed by Matt Reeves |
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Great films garner cult followings. Films with cult followings garner remakes. Remakes, however, seldom, if ever, live up to the cinematic potential and originality of the base material they mirror. And so it goes...
FLASHFORWARD to 2009 when word begins to spread online about a pending remake of the much-beloved Swedish Vampire film LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008) -- LET ME IN -- and the fanboy street explodes reacting adversely to the news and very much set against it (further aggravated by the fact that the director chosen for the remake is Matt Reeves, helmer of the sci-fi, thriller Cloverfield.
Edwin Pagán - 7/27/2010
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'SPLICE'
Directed by Guillem Morales |
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A pair of brilliant scientists Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) start conducting unauthorized genetic experiments and introduce human DNA into one of their creations. The result is Dren (Delphine Chaneac), an amazing strangely beautiful creature of uncommon intelligence and an array of unexpected physical developments. Then, when this seemingly perfect organism makes a final, shocking metamorphosis, it is mankind itself that is threatened.
Gary Deocampo - 6/4/2010
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'LOS OJOS DE JULIA'
Directed by Guillem Morales |
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A woman races against time to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister as she slowly loses her eyesight to a degenerative disease.
LATIN HORROR EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and one-sheet From Guillermo Del Toro's Latest Anointed.
Edwin Pagán - 5/19/2010
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'UNDER THE SCARES'
Directed by Steve Villeneuve |
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This documentary primarily aims at understanding the process involved in the making of an independent horror film and this odd industry. Many aspects are discussed by the numerous horror personalities interviewed: new video technologies and the impact it has on the marketplace; how inexperience often results in a loss of 90% of the funds invested; the need for discoverying a good story; the actor's point of view, among others.
Edwin Pagán - 5/10/2010
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'ATTACK OF THE 30 FOOT CHOLA'
Directed by Kieron Estrada |
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Based on Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman, one of the most memorable 1950s sci-fi b-movies of all time (and worst), Kieron's film keeps some of the old premise: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and mixes it with an ample dose of the new: the woman suffering the indignation of a womanizing husband this time around is not cast as a blue-blood aristocrat, but rather a brown-skinned CHOLA from El Barrio. NO, not the indigenous derby-hat-toting “Cholas” of Bolivia - but the East LA low-riding variety. Yes, like in Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca.
Edwin Pagán - 5/8/2010
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'THE RAVEN'
Directed by Ricardo de Montreuil |
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The filmmakers of THE RAVEN (shot on the RED in just one weekend for $5,000) seem to have forgone the film festival route altogether and chosen instead to release it directly on the Internet (a move which seems to be paying off in spades). The CGI effects are spot on and the production and action sequences are flawless. Could Montreuil be the next self-made maverick filmmaker ala Robert Rodríguez?
Edwin Pagán - 4/25/2010
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'LA CASA MUDA'
Directed by Gustavo Hernández |
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The story of La Casa Muda centers on a father and daughter team who settle into a dilapidated cottage to begin to make some much-needed repairs and soon find themselves with only one possible way out of their dire dilemma - directly through the unknown evil force that threatens their very existence.
Edwin Pagán - 4/22/2010
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'SUBHYSTERIA'
Directed by Leonard Zellg & Javier Perez-Karam |
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Sixteen people get stuck in a subway car in NYC for several days, without communication, hope, way to escape, and a fatal sensation that they are all going to die.
SubHysteria's premise is a simple one: tap into our primal fear of being trapped underground. And with 2,057 miles of track running under our feet in the second largest public transportation systems in the world, it was ripe for a filmmaker's imagination to be made into ground zero and the stuff of horror.
Edwin Pagán - 9/25/2009
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