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The National Union of Italian Film Critics has revealed its picks for the Venice Critics’ Week section it organizes parallel to the Venice Film Festival. Seven debut features have been set this year in competition for the Audience Award. Each will also be eligible for the Lion of the Future Luigi De Laurentiis Award that’s handed out at the main prize ceremony and goes to a first film from across all sections. It comes with a $100K purse.

Opening the section out of competition this year is Indian fantasy pic Tumbbad from Eros International and directors Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad, while closing duties belong to Tunisian horror movie Dachra from Abdelhamid Bouchnak. Other highlights include Sudanese comedy A Kasha; Syrian war documentary Still Recording; Montenegro’s first entry You Have The Night; and experimental horror pic M, the debut by Finnish pop star Anna Eriksson that’s...

The Rome festival has also revealed its first raft of guests, including Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep.

The line-up for this year’s Alice In The City (Alice nella Citta) – the sidebar dedicated to younger generations at Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-23) – has been revealed.

Now in its 14th edition, the event will present a total of 42 titles across five programmes.

The Competition Young/Adult programme will screen films including Matt Ross’s Captain Fantastic, which premiered in Cannes, Taika Waitit’s Hunt For The Wilderpeople, New Zealand’s highest-grossing local film, and Travis Knight’s Kubo And The Two Strings. A 27-strong jury aged 14-18 will select a winner from the 12-strong line-up.

The Alice Panorama programme will feature ten titles including Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama [pictured], which recently played at Toronto International Film Festival, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Sundance premiere Swiss Army Man, with Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano, and [link=nm...

Brains splattered, eyes pulled from their sockets, guts spilled, bones shattered, screams silenced – and that’s just one scene. Blood, guts and gore add the shock factor to your favourite horror films, and without ‘shock,’ there would be no ‘horror.’

It has become a competition between directors – who can traumatise their audience the most? In time for Halloween this year, War Games, the latest addition to the array of blockbuster horrors to make you hide from the screen, is out on Blu-ray and DVD on October 3rd. Torturous and terrifying, this twisted horror story – inspired by true events, sees an innocent group of friends hunted down by psychopathic ex-soldiers, who turn their country break into a bloody nightmare.

Shocking audiences doesn’t come easy these days, with so much gore and guts packed into horror films, directors are pulling out all the stops to ensure you’re left utterly traumatised.

The War Games trailer from director Cosimo Alema has been around for several months now. Recently, this action thriller received a darker graphic, which can be seen left (Dread) and War Games was previously titled At the End of the Day.

This is an Italian shot horror feature, which features several weekend warriors escaping city life for a day to play paint/pellet ball. They meet up with some cannibalistic ex-soldiers and well, you know...Have a look at the trailer for the feature and take a glance at mysterious poster that tells you to "win, or die trying."

The synopsis for War Games:

"A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody manhunt where everyone is a target, and no one is safe" (Dread).

Director: Cosimo Alemà.

The War Games trailer from director Cosimo Alema has been around for several months now. Recently, this action thriller received a darker graphic, which can be seen left (Dread) and War Games was previously titled At the End of the Day. This is an Italian shot horror feature, which features several weekend warriors escaping city life for a day to play paint/pellet ball. They meet up with some cannibalistic ex-soldiers and well, you know...Have a look at the trailer for the feature and take a glance at mysterious poster that tells you to "win, or die trying."

The synopsis for War Games:

"A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody manhunt where everyone is a target, and no one is safe" (Dread).

Director: Cosimo Alemà.

War Games (formerly At the End of the Day) is the first feature from acclaimed music video director Cosimo Alemà. It's about a paint ball game gone horribly, and dangerously wrong and I think it looks pretty intense.

Synopsis:

A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody manhunt where everyone is a target, and no one is safe.

The movie stars Andrew Harwood Mills, Sam Cohan, Valene Kane, Neil Linpow, Daniel Vivian, Lutz Michael, Monika Mirga, Michael Schermi, Tom Stanley, and Stephanie Chapman-Baker.

Check out the promo trailer (via: Dread Central) after the break.

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Shall we play a game? No? Then screw you and your namby pamby paintball crap! I'm stocking up on real ammo and am gonna ventilate your skull Seal Team 6 style! Well okay, we're not going to do that, but it still feels good to remind you that Bin Laden is dead whenever we can.

What we're talking about here is the new flick from acclaimed music video director Cosimo Alemà, War Games (formerly At the End of the Day). The movie stars Andrew Harwood Mills, Sam Cohan, Valene Kane, Neil Linpow, Daniel Vivian, Lutz Michael, Monika Mirga, Michael Schermi, Tom Stanley, and Stephanie Chapman-Baker.

Check out the art, trailer, and more below.

Synopsis

A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody manhunt where everyone is a target,...

Whoa, deja vu, man... It looks like someone has already remade Paintball ! I'm kidding, of course, but there are similarities between that film and War Games , a new thriller we've just received the trailer for. The latter is an Italian production directed by Cosimo Alemà that tells of a paintball game that goes awry. It was formerly known at At the End of the Day . Sorry, this WarGames is not connected to the Matthew Broderick film, but it does look like it has a dash of Severance . We'll keep you updated when we hear of distribution news. A game of paintball turns deadly when three unhinged and deranged ex-soldiers play a twisted mind game of catch and release with their unsuspecting victims. This quickly leads to a bloody man hunt where everyone is a target, and...

Jason Voorhees proved paintball can be a dangerous sport in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives . Then Spain got in on the bloody fun with the aptly-titled Paintball . Italy is next in line with the paintball thriller At the End of the Day from director Cosimo Alemà. The film will be shot in English and tell of a game of paintball that goes awry when three ex-soldiers start killing the other players. The film will hit Italy sometime next year with other territories to follow.