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The revenant director alejandro gonzález iñárritu has begun filming his next project, and more news, j.j. abrams hires the first female screenwriter to pen a star trek movie, and new roles for jonathan majors, russell crowe, annette bening, and hugh grant..

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ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU HAS BEGUN FILMING HIS NEXT PROJECT

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Getting a feature film produced is difficult enough, even without the spectre of the COVID-19 pandemic looming over society for the past year or so. Just over five years ago at the 88th Academy Awards, Alejandro González Iñárritu  won the Oscar for Best Director  for  The Revenant  (Certified Fresh at 78%), which also won Best Cinematography and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, and this week, Iñárritu was finally able to  start filming his first feature film  in the five-plus years since. The project, called  Limbo , is now filming on location in Mexico City. Iñárritu also wrote the film, which doesn’t yet have an official synopsis, except that it “explores the political and social modernity of Mexico.” Iñárritu’s choice to film in Mexico City following his Hollywood success with  The Revenant  could also be compared to Alfonso Cuaron’s  Roma  (Certified Fresh at 95%), which was filmed in Mexico City following his own Hollywood success with  Gravity  (Certified Fresh at 95%). No casting announcements have been made yet for  Limbo .

1. J.J. ABRAMS HIRES FIRST FEMALE  STAR TREK  FEATURE SCREENWRITER

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It was  just last week  that producer J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production company hired award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to work on the new  Superman  reboot (featuring an actor of color as the lead, for a historic first). This week, Abrams moved forward with another “first” as Bad Robot  has hired screenwriter Kalinda Vasquez  to work on the next  Star Trek  feature film. This project should not be confused with the  Star Trek  that Quentin Tarantino was announced as partnering with Abrams and Bad Robot in 2017 (as that one appears to have cooled down in the years since). If Vasquez’s work on this project makes it to production, she will become the first woman ever to write a  Star Trek  feature film. In addition to serving as executive producer on shows like  Runaways ,  Star Trek: Discovery ,  Once Upon a Time , and  Fear the Walking Dead , Kalinda Vasquez has also written episodes of all of those shows, plus four episodes of  Prison Break  and seven episodes of  Nikita . It is not yet known if her  Star Trek  project will introduce a new cast or use one of the previous casts (like say,  the “Kelvin” crew  of Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zoe Saldana, etc.) Paramount Pictures does not currently have any  Star Trek  feature films on the studio’s release schedule.

2. ANNETTE BENING TO PORTRAY RECORD-BREAKING SWIMMER DIANA NYAD

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Diana Nyad is a record-breaking long distance swimmer whose accomplishments include swimming from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, swimming from Jamaica to Florida, and swimming around the island of Manhattan in under 8 hours. Nyad’s amazing life is now set to be adapted as the biopic Nyad , with four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening  attached to star. Nyad will mark the narrative feature film directorial debut of the team of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for their 2018 documentary Free Solo (Certified Fresh at 98%), which depicted a similar form of endurance sport (free solo mountain climbing). Nyad is being adapted from her autobiography Find a Way , with filming expected to start sometime this summer.

3. RUSSELL CROWE TO STAR AS ABSTRACT ARTIST MARK ROTHKO

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There have obviously been dozens of biopics about famous painters, but so far, we have relatively few to date about abstract painters ( Pollock , Certified Fresh at 80% starring Ed Harris, is a notable exception). That “field” will soon expand as the life of artist Mark Rothko is about to be portrayed by Russell Crowe  in Rothko . Mark Rothko is best known for his “color field” paintings of large fields of bright colors in squares or rectangles . Rothko will be directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson ( Fifty Shades of Grey , Nowhere Boy ). The Rothko cast will include Irish actress Aisling Fraciosi (as Rothko’s daughter), Jared Harris, Michael Stuhlbarg, and the director’s husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Pietro from Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron ). Adapted from the book The Legacy of Rothko by Lee Seldes, Rothko will focus on “the protracted legal dispute between Kate Rothko and the painter’s estate executors and the directors of his gallery, Marlborough Fine Art,” which you can read more about here .

4. MELISSA MCCARTHY TO PORTRAY MAJOR MARVEL VILLAIN IN THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER … SORT OF

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Some of the funniest surprises in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok (Certified Fresh at 93%) came early in the film when we first saw some Asgardian actors depicting the events of earlier Thor movies, including Matt Damon as Loki, Sam Neill as Odin, and Chris Hemsworth’s brother Luke Hemsworth as Thor. There has been a fair amount of new coverage of actors like Matt Damon returning to Australia for filming of the fourth movie, Thor: Love and Thunder (5/6/2022), but this week, we actually heard about someone new. Several photos have emerged online this week  of comedic actress Melissa McCarthy in costume on the sets in Australia as the villainous character Hela, as portrayed by Cate Blanchett in Thor: Ragnarok , with the other actors-playing-actors like Matt Damon also on set with McCarthy. In similar news, we also learned this week that the upcoming sports comedy sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy (7/6/2021) will also feature cameo appearances by some of Warner Bros’ other film properties, including Batman , Mad Max , and Casablanca .

5. THIS WEEK IN MUSICAL BIOPICS: BOB MARLEY, AND ROBBIE WILLIAMS (AS A MONKEY?) 

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Although both films are now a few years old, the box office successes of Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman (Certified Fresh at 89%) continue to have a ripple effect on other musical biopics getting produced. That includes musical biopic projects which have languished in development for years, or in some cases, decades. The life story of famed reggae musician Bob Marley is one such example. Paramount Pictures is finally getting closer to production with the news this week that the studio has hired director Reinaldo Marcus Green , who comes to the Bob Marley biopic even as he continues work on another biographical film, King Richard , about the father (played by Will Smith) of future tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams. In a sad coincidence, the movement on the Bob Marley biopic comes in the same week that saw  the passing of Marley’s musical partner Bunny Wailer at the age of 73. British pop star Robbie Williams is also getting a biopic  called Better Man to be directed by Michael Gracey ( The Greatest Showman ). In a bizarre revelation, this week, Deadline reported that the role of Robbie Williams will be portrayed by a “CGI monkey,” apparently, quite seriously.

6. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS MOVIE CASTS DETECT EVIL SPELL ON HUGH GRANT

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Actor Jeremy Irons has had a film career with many great heights, but one of his lowest lows may have come in 2000, when he starred as the evil villain in the first Dungeons & Dragons feature film (Rotten at 10%). One has to speculate that Hugh Grant is hoping for a better result with his decision this week to take the role of the main villain (called Forge Fletcher) in the new Dungeons & Dragons movie (5/27/2022). Sophia Lillis, who has recently starred as both Nancy Drew and Beverly in the IT movies, has also take a role as a character named Doric (neither of these names seem to point towards popular characters from existing D&D stories). This new Dungeons & Dragons reboot is being written and directed by the team of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who also collaborated on Game Night (Certified Fresh at 85%). It is not yet known if the Dungeons & Dragons movie will be set entirely in a fantasy world, or if some part of it might also depict “real world” players. Hugh Grant and Sophia Lillis are joining a cast which already includes  Regé-Jean Page (Bridgerton ), Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, and Justice Smith.

7. WRINKLE IN TIME STAR STORM REID MAY GET LOST IN SEARCHING 2

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Although it wasn’t a box office blockbuster, the independent social media mystery drama Searching (Certified Fresh at 92%) was still a surprise hit relative to its budget. Jon Cho and Michelle La starred as father and daughter in the first Searching , but apparently for the upcoming sequel, a new cast is being sought as the formula will be applied to a new family and setting. We don’t know specifically how different or similar the sequel’s premise will be, so we have relatively little to guess on, but we can report that 17 year old actress Storm Reid  is now in talks for a lead role in Searching 2 . Reid made her feature film debut in 12 Years a Slave , had the lead role in A Wrinkle in Time , and is also one of Zendaya’s co-stars in HBO’s Euphoria.

8. HELLO KITTY FINALLY GETTING HER BIG SHOT AT THE MEOW-VIES

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The Japanese design company Sanrio has had over 45 years of success with their popular Hello Kitty character, including in the United States, but for the most part, attempts to carry Hello Kitty over in formats like TV or the movies have not taken off outside of Japan. Back in October of 2019, we reported that New Line Cinema had acquired the film rights to  Hello Kitty , but we hadn’t heard much since then. This week, we finally got confirmation  that the studio is actively developing a Hello Kitty feature film that will combine live action and animation (like this week’s Tom and Jerry ). New Line Cinema has hired two directors for their Hello Kitty movie: Jennifer Coyle and Leo Matsuda. Coyle’s credits as director  include 23 episodes of DC Super Hero Girls and 13 episodes of Bob’s Burgers , while Matsuda’s credits are mostly as an animator or story artist on projects like The Simpsons Movie , Wreck-It Ralph , and Zootopia .

9. JONATHAN MAJORS TO STAR IN MILITARY DRAMA 892

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One of the shows that premiered right in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic when many people were hungry for something to binge was HBO’s spooky Lovecraft Country , starring Jonathan Majors. In the months since, Majors was able to translate that show’s success to a new gig at Marvel Studios as one of the company’s most prolific super villains , Kang the Conqueror, in the sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (TBA 2022). This week, Majors signed on for another project , which will be a drama called 892 about a marine war veteran who suffers from PTSD. In somewhat related news, following recent allegations , rapper-turned-actor T.I. will not be returning for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania after co-starring in the first two Ant-Man movies. It is unclear if this was always the plan, or if Marvel Studios is making the change based on the allegations against T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris. Likewise, we also don’t know if the other Ant-Man supporting characters played by Michael Peña and David Dastmalchian will be returning or not.

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The Revenant

December 25, 2015

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Leonardo DiCaprio gives an Oscar®-winning performance in Oscar®-winning Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s cinematic masterpiece. Inspired by true events and winner of three Oscars® (actor, cinematography and directing), "The Revenant" follows the story of legendary explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) on his quest for survival and justice. After a brutal bear attack, Glass is left for dead by a treacherous member of his hunting team (Tom Hardy). Against extraordinary odds, and enduring unimaginable grief, Glass battles a relentless winter in uncharted terrain. This epic adventure captures the extraordinary power of the human spirit in an immersive and visceral experience unlike anything before.

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Great film has the power to convey the unimaginable. We sit in the comfort of a darkened theater or our living room and watch protagonists suffer through physical and emotional pain that most of us can’t really comprehend. Too often, these endurance tests feel manipulative or, even worse, false. We’re smart enough to “see the strings” being pulled, and the actor and set never fades away into the character and condition. What’s remarkable about Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s “The Revenant” is how effectively it transports us to another time and place, while always maintaining its worth as a piece of visual art. You don’t just watch “The Revenant,” you experience it. You walk out of it exhausted, impressed with the overall quality of the filmmaking and a little more grateful for the creature comforts of your life.

Iñárritu and co-writer Mark L. Smith set their tone early, staging a breathtaking assault on a group of fur trappers by Native Americans, portrayed not just as “enemies” but a violent force of nature. While a few dozen men are preparing to pack up and move on to their next stop in the great American wilderness, a scene out of “ Apocalypse Now ” unfolds. Arrows pierce air and flesh as the few surviving men flee to a nearby boat. It turns out that the tribe is seeking a kidnapped daughter of its leader, and will kill anyone who gets in their way. At the same time, we learn that one of the trappers, Hugh Glass ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) has a half-Native American son named Hawk (Forrest Goodluck).

Low on men and hunted, the expedition leader Andrew Henry ( Domhnall Gleeson ) orders that their crew return to its base, a fort in the middle of this snowy wilderness. John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) disagrees, and the seeds of dissent are planted. He doesn’t trust Henry, and he doesn’t like Glass. In the midst of these discussions, Glass is away from the crew one day when he’s brutally attacked by a bear—the sequence is, without hyperbole, one of the most stunning things I’ve seen on film in a long time, heart-racing and terrifying. Glass barely survives the attack. It seems highly unlikely that he’ll make it back to the base. With increasingly dangerous conditions and a tribe of killers on their heels, they agree to split up. Most of the men will go back first while Fitzgerald, Hawk and a young man named Bridger ( Will Poulter ) will get a sizable fee to stay with Glass until he dies, giving him as much comfort as possible in his final days and the burial he deserves.

Of course, Fitzgerald quickly tires of having to watch a man he doesn’t care about die. He kills Hawk in front of an immobile Glass and then basically buries Hugh alive. As Bridger and Fitzgerald head back, Glass essentially rises from the dead (the word revenant means “one that returns after death or a long absence”) and begins his quest for vengeance. With broken bones, no food, and miles to go, he pulls himself through snow and across mountains, seeking the man who killed his son. He is practically a ghost, a man who has come as close to death as one possibly can but is unwilling to go to the other side until justice is done.

The bulk of “The Revenant” consists of this torturous journey, as Glass regains his strength and gets closer to home through sheer force of will. Iñárritu’s Oscar-winning cinematographer for “ Birdman ,” Emmanuel Lubezki (who also took a trophy for “ Gravity ” the year before and could easily make it three in a row for this work) shoots “The Revenant” in a way that conveys both the harrowing conditions and the artistry of his vision. The sky seems to go on forever; the horizon is neverending. He works in a color palette provided by nature, and yet enhanced. The snow seems whiter, the sky bluer. Many of his shots, especially in times of great danger like the opening attack and the bear scene, are unbroken — placing us in the middle of the action.

At other times, Lubezki’s choices recall his work on “The Tree of Life,” especially in scenes in the second half when Glass’s journey gets more mystical. And that’s where the film falters a bit.  Iñárritu  doesn’t quite have a handle on those second-half scenes and the 156-minute running time begins to feel self-indulgent as the film loses focus. When it centers on the conditions and the tale of a man unwilling to die, it’s mesmerizing. I just think there’s a tighter version, especially in the mid-section, that would be even more effective.

About that man: So much has been made of this film being DiCaprio’s “Overdue Oscar” shot that I feel like his actual work here will be undervalued. Make no mistake. Should he win, it will not be some “Lifetime Achievement” win as we’ve seen in the past for actors who we all thought should have won for another film ( Paul Newman , Al Pacino , etc.). He’s completely committed in every terrifying moment, pushing himself further than he ever has before as an actor. Even just the physical demands of this protagonist would have been enough to break a lot of lesser actors, but it’s the way in which DiCaprio captures his internal fortitude that’s captivating—his body may be broken, but we believe he is unwilling to give up.

The minimal supporting cast is good, and it’s nice to see Gleeson continue to have an incredible 2015 (also in “ Brooklyn ,” “ Ex Machina ” and “ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens ”). Tom Hardy is less effective, often going a little too heavy on the tics (wide eyes, shot up-close), but I think that’s a fault of the direction and not one of our best actors. In the end, this is DiCaprio’s film through and through, and he nails every challenging beat, literally throwing himself into this character that demands more of him physically than any other before. 

What would you do for vengeance? What conditions could you surmount to get it? Or would you just give up? Our favorite films often drop questions like these into our lives, allowing us to appreciate the world a little differently than before we saw them. “The Revenant” has this power. It lingers. It hangs in the back of your mind like the best classic parables of man vs. nature. It will stay there for quite some time. 

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The Revenant (2015)

Rated R for strong frontier combat and violence including gory images, a sexual assault, language and brief nudity.

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Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new movie pitches Leonardo DiCaprio against nature, bears and Tom Hardy in a tale of revenge, retribution and primal violence

I t’s man versus bear. And bear wins. Or does it? Early reports of Alejandro González Iñárritu ’s intestine-straighteningly brutal and beautiful new western thriller The Revenant have understandably focused on one quite extraordinary scene. Nineteenth-century fur trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass, played by Leonardo DiCaprio , encounters some bear cubs in an eerily quiet forest and then hears the snuffly-wet sound of their parent behind him, a grownup grizzly who has gained a broadly correct impression of Glass’s overall intentions. The ensuing scene is one of horrifyingly primal violence, a brilliantly conceived CGI-reality cluster, during which I clenched into a whimperingly foetal ball so tight that afterwards I practically had to be rolled out of the cinema auditorium.

The immersion and immediacy of that confrontation reminded me of the moment in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World when moviegoers go to the sensory-enhanced “feelies” and watch a sex scene on a bearskin rug. They feel every bear hair. So could I, and I also felt every droplet of bear spittle, every serration of tooth, and I understood what it feels like when parts of your ribcage are exposed to fresh air and light rain.

Some have described it as a rape scene . It isn’t. But it’s about power, fear and rage, and this moment, quite as much as the human duplicity that follows, is the driving force for this film’s theme, commoner in the movies than real life: revenge, revenge against men and maybe a kind of revenge against nature. Screenwriter Mark L Smith has worked partly from the 2002 novel by Michael Punke , and partly from the real-life story that itself inspired the book: the adventures of Hugh Glass, a Wyoming mountain man who survived a bear-mauling and went on an incredible odyssey to track down the two men who abandoned him to die. This story fictionalises and intensifies his personal circumstances and payback motivation.

Glass has joined other civilian privateers engaged in a US military expedition led by Andrew Henry ( Domhnall Gleeson ) along the Missouri river to establish a lucrative fur-trapping base. Glass and the others are set upon by tribesmen-warriors in an electrifying and terrifying sequence, in which warning cries are silenced by the sibilant arrival of an arrow in the throat. Glass, an experienced tracker, guides the terrified survivors’ retreat across country, where he is mauled by the bear, and two men are detailed and promised extra pay to look after him: young Jim Bridger (Will Poulter) and John Fitzgerald, played by Tom Hardy with pop-eyed, truculent malevolence. Once left alone with their charge, they leave Glass to die in agony and figure on returning to base to pick up their extra pay with a fine tale about giving him a Christian burial. But they reckon without Glass’s fanatical will to survive.

Generally, immersive movies enclose, they put you inside, they dunk you down into what it is supposed to feel like. Iñárritu and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki do the opposite: they expose you to the elements. You are out in a piercingly painful cold, under an endless, pitiless sky. This is not an immersion that feels like a sensual surrender; it’s closer to having your skin peeled. The images that the movie conjures are ones of staggering, crystalline beauty: gasp-inducing landscapes and beautifully wrought closeups, such as the leaves in bulbous freezing mounds, and a tiny crescent moon, all unsentimentally rendered. But there is also something hallucinatory and unwholesome about these images, as if hunger and pain has brought Glass to the secularised state of a medieval saint tormented with visions. Poignantly, he mimes shooting distant moose with a tree branch instead of a rifle, and when he suddenly comes across a vast plain full of bison, it’s unclear for a second if he is imagining things. A ruined church looks like a miraculous example of cave painting.

The Revenant recalls Ford’s The Searchers and modifies its themes of tribal and sexual transgression and its cruel invocation of scalping; the warriors who attack at first are enraged at the kidnap of a Native American woman, Powaqa (Melaw Nakehk’o). At other times, Iñárritu appears to be inspired by Herzog’s Aguirre, Wrath of God , with the visions of imperial greed and the vast river in full flood – or maybe his documentary Grizzly Man , in which the grim-faced Herzog famously listened on his headphones to the sound of someone being mauled to death. There is arguably something of Altman in the wintry frontier terrain and certainly a Malickian weightlessness in some of Glass’s dreams of his wife. But what is so distinctive about this Iñárritu picture is its unitary control and its fluency: no matter how extended, the film’s tense story is under the director’s complete control and he unspools great meandering, bravura travelling shots to tell it: not dissimilar, in some ways, to his previous picture, Birdman . The movie is as thrilling and painful as a sheet of ice held to the skin.

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The Revenant (2015) is an American western thriller directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, written by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith, and produced by Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Mary Parent, James W. Skotchdopole, and Keith Redmon. The screenplay was adapted from Michael Punke's 2003 novel of the same name, and is based (partially) on the life of frontiersman Hugh Glass . The Revenant stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, with supporting actors Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, and Domhnall Gleeson.

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Inspired by true events, THE REVENANT is an immersive and visceral cinematic experience capturing one man’s epic adventure of survival and the extraordinary power of the human spirit. In an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald ( Tom Hardy ). Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live and find redemption. THE REVENANT is directed and co-written by renowned filmmaker, Academy Award winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman, Babel).

• Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass
• Tom Hardy as John Fitzgerald
• Will Poulter
• Domhnall Gleeson
• Kristoffer Joner
• Brad Carter

Production [ ]

Development of the film began on August 2001 when Akiva Goldsman purchased Punke's manuscript with the intent of producing the film. The film was originally set to be directed by Park Chan-wook with Samuel L. Jackson in mind to star, and later by John Hillcoat with Christian Bale in negotiations to star. Both directors left the project, and González Iñárritu signed on to direct in August 2011. In April 2014, after several delays in production due to other projects, González Iñárritu confirmed that he was beginning work on The Revenant and that DiCaprio would play the lead role. Principal photography began in October 2014. [1]

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The Revenant Movie Review - Caillou Pettis

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The Revenant

2009, Comedy/Horror, 1h 59m

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A dead soldier (David Anders) comes back to life and joins forces with his slacker buddy (Chris Wylde) to hunt down criminals and drain them of the blood he needs to prevent his body from decomposing.

Rating: R (Sexual Content|Pervasive Language|Graphic Nudity|Some Drug Use|Strong Bloody Violence)

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Original Language: English

Director: D. Kerry Prior

Producer: Jacques Thelemaque , D. Kerry Prior , Liam Finn

Writer: D. Kerry Prior

Release Date (Theaters): Aug 24, 2012  limited

Release Date (Streaming): Oct 6, 2016

Runtime: 1h 59m

Distributor: Paladin

Production Co: Putrefactory

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David Anders

Chris Wylde

Louise Griffiths

Silverlake Jake

Sophia Chang

Emiliano Torres

Jeff Rector

Col. Richards

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A wildly uneven movie that works for the most part, with some really well pulled gags and others which are just a big miss. Worth a shot.

I am so happy to have seen this! This was the best film I saw at Toronto After Dark. For all those out there that are sick to bloody death (heh) of romantic touchy-feely vampire movies (whose titles rhyme with "skylight"), this is the film for you. A guy who wakes up on the night of his funeral to find that he's some sort of articulate zombie and makes his way back to his best friend's house. From there the pair piece together thier situation and do thier best to keep Bart "alive". Chris Wylde and david Anders have such great onscreen chemistry and it's very easy to believe that they're old friends. The effects are great, the jokes land squarely and the premise itself is wonderful. My only complaint might be that it stops being a comedy at one point, becomes full-on horror and never really comes back from the dark side. The very ending is pretty funny though, and I really can't wait to see this again when it comes out in theatres. I really really hope it gets a theatrical release. This is sure to become a cult hit.

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