Sitges 2013 Bursting at the Seams with Horror: The Green Inferno, Machete Kills, Insidious Chapter 2, The Sacrament, Grand Piano, and MUCH More
Steve Barton
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Sitges 2013 kicks off 11 October, and if you’ll be there, just about every recently buzzed about horror film will be too so get some rest between now and then – you’ll need it!
From the Press Release:
A tidal wave of top notch fantastic cinema spattered with scares and, it goes without saying, a generous dose of hemoglobin will be stirring up the lineup at the Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, to be held in Spain from 11 to 20 October.
Besides the previously announced films, the Official Fantàstic Selection will be completed with some of this year’s most eagerly awaited productions. The Green Inferno, by Eli Roth, pays tribute to the cannibal horror classics; All Cheerleaders Die is a new twist on teen comedies with a gore spirit, and Afflicted proposes a new approach to vampire movies. Plus the Official Selection won’t be missing out on the movie with the flashiest cast from Robert Rodríguez, Machete Kills, or science fiction from the tireless Terry Gilliam in The Zero Theorem.
The Official Fantàstic Selection will be including The Green Inferno, the latest movie from director Eli Roth, a Sitges regular who, following the intense emotions in Hostel, takes us to Amazonia in his new film to discover a forgotten tribe that practices terrifying cannibalistic rituals. It’s the director’s personal, ultragore tribute to movies like Cannibal Holocaust by Ruggero Deodato and Cannibal Ferox by Umberto Lenzi, which still remain in the memory of the most radical genre fans. It’s undoubtedly a piece de resistance that already made a big impact on audiences at the recent Toronto festival.
Also arriving from Toronto are two other films that will pack a punch at this year’s festival:
All Cheerleaders Die by Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson, a teen horror comedy full of gore, zaniness, and transgressive ideas in genre, based on a previous short film by the same couple of directors. Lucky McKee is a Festival veteran, where he already successfully presented his previous works May and The Woman.
Afflicted had an extraordinary reception at the Canadian festival, where some moviegoers even suffered convulsions during the screening. Derek Lee and Clif Prowse’s film videographically tells the story of the vicissitudes of two friends traveling through Europe, until one of them contracts a strange disease after spending the night with a mysterious young woman. Afflicted is an intelligent and terrifying step further in vampire cinema, with touches of superhero movies and a serious, dark tone.
On the other hand, Sitges will be presenting the latest work from the creators of Amer, Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, entitled L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps, and that once again is a tribute to the aesthetics and sound of Italian giallo, forming a visual symphony that’s well worth enjoying.
In its Official Selection, Sitges 2013 will also be presenting eagerly-awaited films like Machete Kills, the latest from Robert Rodriguez with a star-studded cast (Danny Trejo, Sofia Vergara, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, Antonio Banderas, Lady Gaga…), as well as the latest big hit on American screens, Insidious Chapter 2, the most recent film by king of horror James Wan, and Terry Gilliam’s new incursion into science fiction with The Zero Theorem.
In addition, as special gifts for our numerous animated movie fans, beyond the section already dedicated to this genre, Sitges will be offering special screenings of two long-awaited films: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods, the new movie version of the Akira Toriyama’s legendary universe, plus the latest from Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises, highly acclaimed at the latest Venice Festival.
The Sitges 2013 closing film will be Ti West’s latest, The Sacrament, yet another big hit at the Venice and Toronto festivals. West, discovered in Sitges, where he had presented previous works like The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, is now confirmed as one of the great present-day genre directors with this story that revolves around two journalists’ research on a sinister messianic sect.
All of these films will join the others we’ve been announcing over the last few months at this new edition of the Festival, marked by the new manifestations of evil, as is the case with Only God Forgives, the new film from Nicolas Winding Refn; Jim Jarmusch’s most recent work, Only Lovers Left Alive, a unique story of eternal love between two vampires; a bizarre, surreal comedy from Roman Coppola, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III; The Congress, the spectacular Stanislaw Lem adaptation directed by Ari Folman; Real, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s return to fantastic cinema; and La danza de la realidad, the new work by multifaceted Alejandro Jodorowski.
List of Films Secció Oficial Fantàstic in Competition
Afflicted
009 RE:Cyborg 3D
A Field in England
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
All Cheerleaders Die
Big Bad Wolves
Blind Detective
Borgman
Byzantium
Cheap Thrills
Coherence
Dark Touch
Europa Report
Gallows Hill
Haunter
Hooked Up
Jodorowsky’s Dune
L’étrange Couleur des larmes de ton corps
La danza de la realidad
Lesson of the Evil
Magic Magic
Mala
Mindscape
Monsoon Shootout
Only God Forgives
Only Lovers Left Alive
Open Grave
Patrick
Possession (Sapi)
Raze
Real
Rigor Mortis
Space Pirate: Captain Harlock
The Congress
The Green Inferno
The Philosophers
The Returned
The Sacrament
The Station
Upstream Color
We Are What We Are
Wrong Cops
List of Films Secció Oficial Fantàstic Out of Competition
The Zero Theorem
Enemy
Insidious Chapter 2
Machete Kills
The Call
The World’s End
Wolf Creek 2
Opening Film
Grand Piano
Closing Film
The Sacrament
For additional information visit the official Sitges Film Festival website and “like” the Sitges Film Festival on Facebook.
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