WAKE UP And Catch The New North American Trailer For The RKSS-Directed Festival Fave!
Blue Fox Entertainment will release WAKE UP in the U.S. and Canada this Spring!
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Raven Banner And Sinister Cinema To Showcase TURBO KID In Canada Next Month!
RKSS’s award-winning forthcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy fare, Turbo Kid, has seen quite the electric journey from its inception as a shortfilm entry to a fully-fledged and dazzling epic. The reviews are in and the fallout is nothing short of upworthy, and with the film releasing soon in select territories to expand after next month, I’m fairly certain at this point that audiences won’t be disappointed. I haven’t been able to screen it myself, but I’m sure enough of the tone among folks who have, and suffice it to say I can’t wait to get my butt into a theater seat for this one thanks to North American distributor Epic Pictures Group. Simultaneously, Canadian distributor Raven Banner Releasing is granting a nationwide release throughout Canada on August 27 and 28 in select Cineplex outlets as part of Sinister Cinema’s monthly series. This ought to be interesting to attend there, aye? Anyway, I […]
Watch The Rad New Trailer For TURBO KID!
From its short film inception in 2011 to its subsequent development and production in the last four years, R.K.S.S. Collective directing trio Anouk Whissell, François Simard and Yoann-Karl Whissell have made sheer headway in the festival circuit with their new retro-powered sci-fi action epic, Turbo Kid. From Sundance and SXSW to Fantaspoa and Neuchatel, the new film sets a tone for a niche long keen on nostalgic tropes with dazzling special effects and much of them being delightfully practical between costume design and the visbly gory action sequences. There’s a certain genius to this kind of filmmaking though, and not a lot of filmmakers can do this as much as they may try. That said, Turbo Kid certainly lends itself the cult status it is being given by many who have seen it, including the charmed critics lucky to catch this one in earlier screenings, and when you have a majority […]
TURBO KID Powers Up In The Newest Teaser!
Just heading into the last leg of its current run at Sundance is the much-hyped BMX-charged fantasy thrill-ride from Canada-New Zealand film collective, R.K.S.S., Turbo Kid. A few clips have already made their way online but we now have an official teaser as of a few days ago, and it’s every bit of nostalgic fun you could probably imagine. SYNOPSIS: It’s 1997. In a ruined post-apocalyptic world, the orphaned Kid survives on his own through drought-ridden nuclear winter, traversing the Wasteland on his BMX, scavenging for scraps to trade for a scant supply of water. When his perpetually chipper, pink-haired new best friend Apple is kidnapped by a minion of evil overlord Zeus, the Kid summons the courage of his comic book hero and prepares to deliver turbocharged justice to Zeus, his buzzsaw-handed sidekick Skeletron, and their vicious masked army. Bolstered by a pitch-perfect synth score, and clever and cheeky […]
TURBO KID Gets A New Red-Band Clip
Falling short of its entry into the 2012 horror anthology, The ABC’s Of Death, didnt prove to be an impediment at all for the folks over at Montreal-based film group, Road Kill Super Star. Their gore-filled 2011 post-apocalyptic short, T Is For Turbo, certainly had its appeal enough for the company to move forward with a feature film production late last year now in the form of Turbo Kid with ABC’s Of Death producer Ant Timpson and Hobo With A Shotgun helmer Jason Eisener also producing. SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic parallel future of 1997, an orphaned teenager called The Kid (Munro Chambers) scavenges the Wasteland searching for relics from a better time – the 1980s. During one of his expeditions he meets Apple (Laurence Leboeuf), a mysterious girl with a rather large secret. As their relationship deepens, they accidentally run afoul of Zeus (Michael Ironside), the self-proclaimed leader of the […]