Skinny Puppy frontman and star of REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA and 2001 MANIACS: FIELD OF SCREAMS, Nivek Ogre wants you to meet “Mr. Brownstone.” The iconic cult industrial/electronic rock vocalist is on the road to unleashing COLLIDOSKOPE, the fourth album from his side project oHgr, later this year, and—in true cryptic Ogre fashion—has devised a series of diabolical mysteries for fans to decipher.
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The latest animated short from UK-based filmmaker (and Fango contributor) Ashley Thorpe, THE HAIRY HANDS (see Fango #293) looks set to have another “hit with a myth,” having been screened recently at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The vivid little flick—Thorpe’s fourth in a series of animations that aim to resurrect neglected aspects of British legend—looks set to follow in the footsteps of the award-winning SCAYRECROW and THE SCREAMING SKULL.
Magnolia Pictures’ Magnet Releasing arm keeps rolling along with the genre acquisitions, having just announced that it has picked up U.S. rights to RUBBER, one of the more unusual genre features in recent years, and released a couple of cranial-damage photos from it.
PREDATORS hits theaters July 9. Produced by PLANET TERROR’s Robert Rodriguez and directed by VACANCY’s Nimrod Atal, the film stars Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo and Derek Mears. Take a peek at this pair of international one-sheets.
If you’re a genre-lovin’ New Yorker, one of the most-anticipated events each year is the New York Asian Film Festival, which always showcases a number of intriguing genre flicks. This year’s edition, which runs June 25-July 8 and whose details were just announced, is no different.