• New York City’s IFC Center (323 6th Avenue) is hosting a series of screenings of the top award-winners from this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. Included among the four features is Glenn McQuaid’s highly anticipated I SELL THE DEAD, which took the fest’s prize for Best Cinematography.
The film stars LOST’s Dominic Monaghan and NYC horror auteur Larry Fessenden (pictured; the latter won a Special Jury Mention for Best Performance and executive-produced DEAD under his Scareflix banner) as 18th-century graverobbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes, whom the law has caught up with. As he faces execution, Blake confesses to Father Duffy (Ron Perlman) about his 15 years of often grisly adventures in the “resurrection” trade. I SELL THE DEAD will screen Monday, March 30 at 8 p.m.; each film in the series will have select filmmakers and Slamdance programmers on hand for a post-show Q&A. See the trailer below and our early rave here and its official website here, and for more info on the screening and series, and to purchase tickets, go here or head over to the IFC Center’s site linked above.
• The Truly Indie company has writer/director Edward Anderson’s SHUTTLE set to open in theatrical bookings in several cities next month. The movie, in which two young women (Cameron Goodman and Peyton List) board a late-night airport shuttle and are taken on a trip into terror by its driver (THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN’s Tony Curran), opens in LA March 6, Boston (where it was filmed) and Seattle March 13 and Chicago, Denver and Minnesota March 20. You can watch the trailer below and read more about SHUTTLE in Fango #282, on sale next month.
• As part of its Film Comment Selects series, NYC’s Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting the violent South Korean thriller THE CHASER this Saturday, February 28 at 1:30 p.m. Directed by Na Hong-jin, the film stars Kim Yoon-suk as an ex-cop turned pimp trying to track down one of his girls, who has been abducted by a serial killer. This is the film’s second showing as part of Film Comment Selects, and word out of the first is that this is one of the most brutal, harrowing and exciting films of its kind in some time. It was also a box-office hit in its home country, and took prizes for Best Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay at last year’s Korean Film Awards. See the British trailer below and website here, and click on the Film Society link above for tickets and further info on the screening.
• SAM’S LAKE, the stalker-in-the-woods chiller we last reported on here, will have a pair of late-night screenings this weekend in Manhattan. Andrew Christopher Erin’s movie, in which Fay Masterson plays a young woman who brings a group of city friends to her remote vacation cabin, only for the group to get caught up in a murderous local legend, will play at 10:45 p.m. tonight and tomorrow (Saturday, Feb. 28) at the Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street). Yep, you can see a LAKE trailer too below, and look for a set-visit article on SAM’S LAKE, which hits DVD April 21 from Lionsgate, in Fango #283, on sale in April.
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