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  • AO – The Last Hunter

    AO – The Last Hunter

    Acclaimed French director Jacques Malaterre makes his feature film debut with AO – The Last Hunter, an epic prehistoric adventure about Neanderthal man’s fight for survival which is being released on DVD.

    The movie is set 30,000 years ago when the Neanderthals were a dying species and Homo Sapiens had started colonising the Earth and is an adaptation of Marc Klapczynski’s best selling novel ‘AO L’homme Ancient’.
    
    Simon Paul Sutton stars as AO, a desperate Neanderthal who lives in harmony with nature but who one day witnesses the shocking massacre of his wife and baby girl Nea and the rest of his clan.

    Anxious to find any surviving members of his family and in particular his twin brother from whom he was separated when he was just nine, he decides to leave Northern Europe where he had made his home and travel to his birthplace in the South.

    On his way he is rejected by groups of Homo Sapiens due to his ape- like features and colossal strength but meets the beautiful Aki (Aruna Shields) who has been imprisoned by her tribe.

    She is one of the few Homo Sapiens to accept and love him for what he is and they embark on a passionate relationship. However AO must first fight for his survival as he battles with terrifying animals from a lost world.

    He also has to face up to his biggest danger of all – the Hyena-Men who are a particularly vicious clan of Homo Sapiens that are determined to exterminate AO and his species.

  • The Tunnel Trailer

    The Tunnel Trailer

    In 2007 the New South Wales government suddenly and inexplicably abandoned a project to recycle water found in the disused train tunnels beneath Sydney,despite being in the midst of serious drought.

    Convinced of a government cover-up, journalist Natasha (Bel Deliá) and her team Peter Ferguson (Andy Rodoreda), Steve Miller (Steve Davies) and Jim Williams (Luke Arnaldo) descended into the subterranean labyrinth of the city, unaware that the hunt for a story had made them the hunted.

    Watch their harrowing ordeal, with unprecedented access to the recently declassified tapes shot in the claustrophobic subway tunnels, as well as a series of candid interviews slots with the survivors and CCTV. Feel the fear tear the crew apart as they negotiate the darkness against an unknown predator.

    The Tunnel has been described by Variety as “Taking a chapter from “The Blair Witch Project” and a page from 1973 cult item “Raw Meat” while HorrorAsylum called The Tunnel “Terrifying and effective”.

  • I Against I Trailer (EDIT – UK Trailer & Quad Poster Up!)

    I Against I Trailer (EDIT – UK Trailer & Quad Poster Up!)

    Two men have 12 hours to kill each other in this exciting game of cat and mouse, however a twisted force is manipulating this simple game and time is running out… I Against I is a gripping British thriller from Stray Dogs Films and is at selected cinemas from 10th August.

    Set in the nocturnal underworld in London, Tommy Carmichael, the head of a criminal family is viciously murdered. Distraught, his son Joseph wants answers and somebody needs to pay. Ian and Issac were both caught on CCTV separately leaving his office, both denying they are the assassin, they now have to un-wittingly kill each other. Locked in a nightmare of murder, betrayal and jealousy they fight for everything that is important to them – but when a sinister third party complicates matters an explosive end might be their only option.

    I against I takes its influence from the 80’s and 90’s films of Ridley Scott and Michael Mann. The producers are big fans of this visual dark noir style. It’s break neck fast pace coupled with the twists and turns maintain high intensity all the way through. With the story told in flashbacks, we learn the real stories behind the characters and their true motivation, changing our perception of them as the story un-folds. The result is a highoctane, edge of your seat thriller.

    EDIT – UK Trailer…?

    And here is the quad poster!

  • First Look at Hitchcock/Sawhney Collaboration

    First Look at Hitchcock/Sawhney Collaboration

    Ahead of the release of Nitin Sawhney’s brand new classical score for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “The Lodger” we have an exciting teaser clip from the score accompanied by scenes from the film.

    Sawhney’s output as a musician is astonishing. He has scored for and performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, and collaborated with and written for the likes of Paul McCartney, Sting and Brian Eno, but also Taio Cruz, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, and Ellie Goulding.

    Talking about the score Sawhney says, ““I always hoped to follow in the footsteps of the great Hitchcock composer, Bernard Hermann. He has been one of my major heroes and influences since I was a kid. What I find amusing is that, since I am scoring a silent Hitchcock film from 1927, Bernard Hermann will now posthumously follow in my footsteps instead! As a long serving judge for the Ivor Novello awards I was delighted to be scoring the one Hitchcock film that features Ivor Novello himself. A film that has all the earmarks of a genius director making his first foray into the world of suspense, this is a gift to score and I am enjoying the process more than I even imagined. I can’t wait to hear the London Symphony Orchestra play it.”

  • The Aggression Scale

    The Aggression Scale

    Ever wondered how different the classic John Hughes film Home Alone would have been had Kevin McAllister swapped his toy cars for a sawn off shotgun? Well, it’s with utter fanboy curiosity that we can announce the violent indie thriller The Aggression Scale – coming out on DVD and Blu-ray from Anchor Bay on 3rd September.

    Gone is the cutesy Christmas soundtrack! Out with the slapstick sticky bandits! Ain’t nobody receiving comedy irons to the face here! This ain’t no child’s play! This is a matter of survival as mini-Rambo himself Owen Rutledge takes on a posse of hit men, despatched to terrorize his family for an outstanding debt. Yet, all is not what it seems… It turns out Owen has a emotionally disturbed background in violent behaviour which he sure as heck isn’t about to give up on any time soon!

    From rising genre director Steven C. Miller, the man behind the highly anticipated reboot of the 1984 cult classic, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and starring Derek Mears (Predators; Friday The 13th) and reuniting ‘Twin Peaks’ stars Ray Wise (Mad Men; X-Men: First Class) and Dana Ashbrook (Crash; The Kill Point), The Aggression Scale asks the question: How far would you go if your life depended on it?