Beloved child actor Corey Haim has passed away due to an apparent drug overdose. The star of genre films such as The Lost Boys and Silver Bullet will be greatly missed by horror fans all over the world.
Here’s a a handful of flicks Wildside Cinema is recommending to those making the trek to Austin, Texas this year for the 2010 SXSW film fest!
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Amer
Director: Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani
90 minutes
Synopsis
Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana’s life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin, where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her?
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Never Trust A Corpse
19th century justice has finally caught up to grave robbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes. With the specter of the guillotine looming over him, young Blake confides in visiting clergyman Father Duffy, recounting fifteen years of adventure in the resurrection trade. His tale leads from humble beginnings as a young boy stealing trinkets from corpses, to a partnership with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes as they hunt creatures unwilling to accept their place in the ground. The colorful and peculiar history of Grimes and Blake is one filled with adventure, horror, and vicious rivalries that threaten to put all involved in the very graves they’re trying to pilfer.
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Check out our review of I Sell The Dead! [HERE]
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When a brutal car accident takes place in the desolate back-country, the only onlooker is Clive, a lonely man who lives nearby in an isolated shack. As he approaches the scene, he sees the girl of his dreams, dead among the debris. Certain that she is “the one,” Clive will do whatever it takes to keep her by his side. When the victim’s sister and boyfriend arrive, they quickly become unwitting hostages.
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Great to see Sho again!
Ladies and gentlemen, there are some simple truths one must understand before one can truly learn to appreciate all that life has to offer. The first lesson is that you never pay for sex when you can get it for free, in front of your computer. The second is passable ninja cinema must contain black-clad, superhuman, supernatural ninja warriors. If your ninja cinema passes this test, you may hold your head up high!
Forget “originality,” ninja cinema must only tell the tale of some kind of ninja rivalry, preferably between two siblings within the same clan. You can also throw in a female love interest but it’s always best to leave her one-dimensional as nobody really cares about a love interest when watching ninja cinema. A breast, or two, is surely welcome but ultimately I want whizzing shuriken and the slicing and dicing of a mastered katana. Continue reading »
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s sophomore feature film 21 Grams, truly shows he is a new force in filmmaking. Between his direction and the fantastic performances by Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Benicio Del Toro, he pieced together a film that is visually and emotionally moving.
The story revolves around three characters who are strangers to each other, but their lives become entangled through a tragedy. Jack (Del Toro) is driving home one day to a party he’s throwing and accidentally runs over two kids and their father. Cristina (Watts) is the wife and mother of the victims and after talking to a nurse, decides to donate her husbands heart to save someone else’s life. Paul (Penn) is the recipient of the heart and decides to find who donated their heart to him. He falls in love with Cristina and they search for Jack so she can take revenge. Continue reading »
What’s up suckas! Liking the new Wildside Cinema? How could you not? It took a few days and some server/domain errors but we’ve finally got the new server and website up and running! There are still a few little bugs here and there but those will be addressed and fixed as time goes on so bear with us here.
Basically Wildside Cinema is under new management (lazy Brian now runs the site) so things will be run a bit differently here than they’ve been in the last 5 years. Instead of weekly or bi-weekly review updates, reviews will go up pretty much whenever the critics write them and Continue reading »
"Seriously disappointing"
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
Stage 6 Films / 2010
Directed by Troy Duffy
Written by Troy Duffy
Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly, Clifton Collins Jr., Julie Benz, Peter Fonda, Judd Nelson
Review by Brian Harris
The murder of a priest meant to draw the now legendary Boston vigilantes (The Saints) from hiding does just that and, unfortunately for the mob, it also brings down their wrath upon the streets. The Saints now have a renewed mission: find the priest’s murderer, evade the FBI’s new special agent on the case and try to keep from killing one another.
Many critics panned the first film and with good reason, it suffered from the usual first-time director/writer snafus, but it still ended up finding a home in the hearts of fans as a cult film; whether it deserves that label is still hotly debated. Despite flopping at the box office, it was pretty evident this would eventually get a sequel. Continue reading »
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A thousand years ago the God of Destruction, Enka, said that it’s child would destroy the world. To prevent this the Great Japanese Empire Paranormal Phenomena Bureau of Measures assigns one man, Ouka Midarezaki, to protecting the Earth from this threat. However, instead of fighting against some powerful being the bureau decides to gather all the beings of the Earth thought to be the child of Enka and have them live together as a family in hopes of teaching them through love of family that the Earth should not be Continue reading »