Coralie Fargeat’s directorial debut, Revenge, comes at a pretty auspicious time. Calls for gender parity and the end of corporate abuse and sexual assault have all but encompassed many a conversation in entertainment in the past few years, and rightfully so given the reception of Fraget’s new film, for example.
For those in the know, it might have merely been a matter of time before festival goers would signal their approval with the warm reception of Coralie Fargeat’s directorial debut, Revenge. The pattern would repeat as so going into the new year and already with a keen and quick Shudder/AMC acquisition for eager fans apart from the U.S. where distributor Neon now lays its claim.
Debut director Coralie Fargeat announces her stunning arrival, painting a crimson canvas of hypnotic beauty and bloody retribution in this razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller.
Jen (fearlessly embodied by Matilda Lutz, Rings) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly––and viciously––intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge.
A white-knuckle tale of transgression and transformation, REVENGE gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while simultaneously delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre.
I’m almost upset that I watched the red band trailer if only for the fact that it brought more to the table than what I thought a trailer would. (This is me echoing sentiments from when I saw the official U.S. campaign for Mo’ Bros thriller, Headshot, prior to XYZ’s own Todd Brown assuring me that I needn’t worry. I dunno… force of habit I suppose, and I guess that speaks of how high I view the content; Sexy, powerful and pulsating from start to finish are how I describe this trailer and I invite you to sample the goods below ahead of its May select release.
Ferguson shares the stage with young son Ronny Ferguson, along with a cast that includes Ismalone himself, as well as Julaluck Ismalone who plays his on-screen wife. Also starring are Conan Stevens, Yothin Udomsanti, Guido Kessler, Jawed Elb, and Tim Man. Indican Pictures has the North American rights to the film which could release on October 14, 2014.
A new character trailer is online for director Jo Bum-Goo‘s upcoming noir revenge thriller, The Divine Move, starring Jung Woo-sung. Not enough can be said about the premise as it invokes something truly original from the world of Korean cinema — a vengeful one-man war against an entire Baduk-playing criminal underworld!
Actor Denzel Washington is getting some more screentime this week with a new trailer for the upcoming release of director Antoine Fuqua‘s new action thriller, The Equalizer, based on the hit TV series of the same name. The new trailer contains a little bit more footage revealing some extra goodies filmgoers can expect when it releases this Fall on September 26, including the arrival of a new song performed by hip-hop artist Eminem, accompanied with vocals by singer, Sia.
After airing a teaser for his newest revenge thriller, The Divine Move, director Jo Bum-Goo is ready to leave a larger impression for filmgoers with an official trailer below. The film, from a script by You Sung-yong centers on the seething underworld of Baduk gamblers, and one man’s vengeful mission to get even with the organization that wrongfully put him behind bars following the death of his brother.
Releasing on July 3, 2014 in South Korea, The Divine Move is produced by May Park and Hwang Keun-ha and stars Jung Woo-sung (Reign of Assassins), Lee Bum-Soo (The City Of Violence) and Ahn Sung-Ki (Arahan: Urban Martial Arts Action).
SYNOPSIS:
Professional go player Tae-suk loses his brother to infamous underground gambler Salsu after losing a high-stake game. He is framed for the murder of his own brother and is locked up in prison. After serving his 7-year sentence, he gets in touch with his brother’s former associate Kkongsu, hermit and blind master player Jesus, and skillful junkyard owner Moksu and begins formulating a plan to get back at Salsu and his men. Taesuk slowly penetrates into Salsu’s inner circle and his gambling joint, and eliminates Salsu’s men one by one.
Why Don’t You Play In Hell director Sono Sion is back in the fray this week ahead of the upcoming release of his latest beat-em-up gangster flick, Tokyo Tribe, based on manga author Santa Inoue’s 1993 publication and subsequent serial anime. Following the first promotional still released several days ago, we now get to see some of the brutal live-action chaos set to dazzle audiences in the form of a glorious new teaser with hip hop artist Young Dais leading in his big screen debut, along with Ryuta Sato, Nana Seino, Ryohei Suzuki, Shoko Nakagawa and Riki Takeuchi.
Tokyo Tribe releases in Japan on August 30.
SYNOPSIS:
Set sometime in the future, five years have passed since the Shibuya riots. There are now several tribes that exists in Tokyo. Boys makeup tribes and they occupy areas under their influence. Kai Deguchi is a member of the tribe Musashino Saru led by Tera.
One day, a member of Musashino Saru is killed by rival tribe Bukuro Wu-RONZ led by Mera. Kai and Mera are former best friends, but not anymore. Meanwhile, Tera, the leader of Musashino Saru and a moderate who forbids using violence, is killed by Mera from Bukuro Wu-RONZ.
Musashino Saru is now divided by two sides: one advocates following their slain leader’s non-violence idealogy and the other side who wants to use violence to exact revenge. A riot soon ensues among the tribes.
It’s not often certain titles get circulated that awaken people to the current state of action movies around the globe. Such is the case with the Republic of Kazakhstan which seems as good a place to start as any with a few films on the way from that region, including known screenwriter Talgad Zhanibekov‘s directorial debut, Joker.
H/T: City On Fire
It was back in 2012 at the height of recent feature successes like Machete and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse Double Feature that a trailer was introduced online for Atrocious helmer Fernando Barreda Luna‘s latest new shortfilm, Kiss Of Vengeance. Since then, the shortfilm completed its overall post-production before leaving an impression during last year’s film festival run as the central pitch to potentially help fund a feature-length film inspired by its concept-a gritty, seething and stylish Tex-Mex revenge opera about a young woman who walks the neverending path of blood to find the men who massacred her mother and father right before her eyes.
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