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a global scale is as exciting to us
as producers as it was the first
time around,” say Timpson and
League.
Of the 26 new directors
recruited for the sequel, names
that will be instantly familiar to
horror fans include Julien Maury
and Alexandre Bustillo (
Inside
,
Livid
), Vincenzo Natali (
Cube
,
Splice
), and Canada’s ‘Twisted
Twins’ Jen and Sylvia Soska
(
American Mary
,
See No Evil 2
).
We won’t spoil the gruesome
surprises on offer in
ABCs of
Death 2
, but highlights include
Robert Morgan’s stop motion
animated
Deloused
,
which resembles a Tim
Burton film from Hell;
Robert Boocheck’s
tasty
Masticate
; Rodney Ascher’s
clever
Questionnaire
; and Chris
Nash’s stomach-churning
Zygote
.
And needless to say, the prize for
the most disturbing entry goes
to Julien Maury and Alexandre
Bustillo’s
Xylophone
, which sees
the pair reunite with their regular
scream queen Beatrice Dalle.
Collectively,
ABCs of Death 2
offers an altogether different
and more tonally consistent
experience to the previous film.
“The overall quality appears
higher and the variety of films is
even more diverse,” promises
Timpson and League.
You can learn your ABCs (of Death) all over again
when the sequel hits DVD and Blu-ray on December 17.
Writer-director MatthewA. Brown adds
a new twist to the familiar rape/revenge
theme in this stylish urban thriller. After
being sexually assaulted by a group of
men, Julia (Ashley C.Williams) learns of
a radical form of therapy being offered
by the mysterious Dr. Sgundud. She
joins a group of fellow rape victims
in their vendetta against the male of
the species, but is forbidden to target
her own aggressors. Having already
played one of the segments of
The Human
Centipede
, Ashley C.Williams is no stranger to extreme
horror, and delivers a mesmerising performance.
A newlywed couple. A house in the woods.
And something waiting in the dark. Paul
(HarryTreadaway, akaVictor Frankenstein
in
Penny Dreadful
) becomes increasingly
concerned when his new wife, Bea (Rose
Leslie, akaYgritte in
Game ofThrones
),
begins to exhibit strange behaviour following
a midnight sleepwalk in the forest. It soon
becomes apparent that she may no longer
be entirely human. A brilliant and bizarre
two-hander with echoes of
Invasion of the
Body Snatchers
and the body horror of
David Cronenberg,
Honeymoon
is a dark and
disturbing look at the loss of identity.
The dark side of Hollywood has always
provided fertile ground for filmmakers,
and directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis
Widmyer deliver a chilling and gory
take on selling your soul for a breakout
role. Following a most unconventional
audition, aspiring young actress
Sarah (Alex Essoe) lands a “gateway
role” in a new horror film from a
renowned but sinister producer. But
she quickly discovers that the price
of fame demands payment in blood.
Rosemary‘s Baby
meets
Mulholland
Drive
in this must-see shocker.