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At the recently concluded Fantasia film festival in Montreal, one of the locally produced features on the schedule was Frankenstein Unlimited, an anthology inspired by the Mary Shelley classic. The movie has also been made available on DVD courtesy of Black Flag Pictures, the outfit operated by Montreal filmmaker Sv Bell, along with a number of other local genre flicks.

The 2009 edition of Montreal’s Fantasia Festival has announced their complete list of Audience Awards winners, a list that includes a whole lot of Twitch faves and more than a few films that will soon be screening here in Toronto as part of Toronto After Dark. Here’s the complete list.

Best Asian Film

Gold: Love Exposure (Japan) – Sion Sono

Silver: IP Man (Hong Kong) – Wilson Yip

Bronze: Thirst (South Korea) – Park Chan-wook

Best International Film

Gold: 8th Wonderland (France) – Nicolas Alberny, Jean Mach

Silver: Ex-aequo

Embodiment Of Evil (Brazil) – Jose Mojica Marins

Must Love Death (Germany) – Andreas Schaap

Bronze: Black (France) – Pierre Laffargue

Best Quebec Film

Gold: Sans Dessein – Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard

Silver: The Ante – Max Perrier

Bronze: Crawler – Sv Bell

Best Animated Film

Hells (Japan) – Yoshiki Yamakawa

Guru Prize for Most Energetic Film of the Festival

Gold: Yatterman (Japan) – Takashi Miike

Silver: IP Man (Hk) – Wilson Yip...

The 13th edition of Montreal’s Fantasia film festival wrapped up its frighteningly successful run this week, with movie highlights aplenty and 40 percent of the screenings selling out. Now the jury and the public have spoken on their favorites, and the fest has revealed their award winners in all categories. Check ’em out below!

Jury Prizes: Feature Films

Best Feature Film: Breathless (Yang Ik-june) Jury Special Prize: Love Exposure (Sion Sono) Best Male Performance: Yang Ik-Jun, Breathless Best Female Performance: Hikari Mitsushima, Love Exposure Best Director: David Russo, The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle Best Screenplay: Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach, 8th Wonderland Best Cinematography: Hideho Urata, The Clone Returns Home Technical Prize: IP Man Special Mention for Best Direction of Child Actors: Tom Shankland, The Children

Jury Prizes: First Features

Best First Feature: White Lightnin’ (Dominic Murphy) Special Mention: Debut performance of actress Eline Kuppins, Left Bank Jury Prizes:...

It's been almost 30 years since the last wave of possessed vehicle movies (Christine, The Car, etc.) came and went, so we're about due for the next wave. Hot on the heels of the trailer for the new killer car flick Hybrid, comes Crawler, a tale of a killer bulldozer. Doesn't grab you yet? How about a killer bulldozer with tentacles? See the trailer along with a fairly kick-ass poster after the cut.

The low-budget indie was directed by Sv Bell (Rise Of The Ghosts, She-demons Of The Black Sun) from a script co-written by Robbie Ribspreader (Doomed To Consume).

Synopsis: A construction crew is trying to solve a mystery about their bulldozer, which appears to have a mind of its own - and an insatiable hate for the human race. They are soon to discover that the heavy machinery is in fact a shape-shifting lifeform that mimics and inherits the characteristics of its surroundings.

A rampaging 50-ton killer bulldozer that sprouts tentacles, shoots lightning, and zombify people; and that's in addition to all the other horrible things a rampaging 50-ton killer bulldozer can do. The first trailer for Crawler has hit the web and I guarantee you this bulldozer will not leave you dozing.

I've been following the progress on Sv Bell's Killdozer-esque horror flick Crawler, having last reported on it back in October, and keeping my fingers crossed because the concept sounds really out there. Again, a possessed bulldozer terrorizing a construction site is nothing new, but a possessed bulldozer than can do the stuff you'll see it do in the trailer most certainly is.

The trailer just went live on the official Crawler website. Run, don't crawl your way over there to see it!

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Yes, I think it’s safe to say that we can file Sv Bell’s Crawler under the ‘guilty pleasure’ category of the ol’ filing system. Why? Well, this is not only a motorized-vehicles-run-wild film, though it certainly is at least partly that and I’m more than a little pleased to see the peculiarly 80’s sub-genre making a bit of a comeback with this picture and Eric Valette’s Hybrid. And it’s not just a Giant-motorized-vehicle-run-wild film, either. Nope. This, my friends, is a Giant-alien-motorized-vehicle-run-wild film! Because, you see, while the beast on that poster there may appear to be simply a monstrously large bulldozer, it is in fact a cleverly disguised alien creature with a lust for blood.

We ran a teaser for this a while back and now the full length trailer - much superior to the teaser in all facets - has arrived and we...

I have a warm place in my heart for B-Movies and Sv Bell is the king of B-Movies... or at least one of them. He is one of the first indie filmmakers I started following back in the day and he is continually cranking out films. His latest which has one of the coolest indie posters ever is called Crawlers. A construction crew is trying to solve a mystery about their bulldozer, which appears to have a mind of its own - and an insatiable hate for the human race. They are soon to discover that the heavy machinery is in fact a shape-shifting lifeform that mimics and inherits the characteristic...

This past April I first reported on a horror movie in the works called Crawler, a sort-of updating of the notorious 1970's TV movie Killdozer. Info was scarce at the time, but now we've got new info on the plot, awesome new promotional artwork, and a new teaser trailer. Not every rampaging bulldozer movie you see where the dozer has tentacles.

Yep, a bulldozer with tentacles! A tentacled bulldozer powered by an ancient evil a construction crew in a remote location accidentally unearthed. And according to an email from my informant Avery, who has spoken to the director Sv Bell, getting touched by those tentacles causes victims to suffer strange burns that eventually turn them into zombies. And the bulldozer is a living shapeshifting entity, too! The way things are shaping up, Crawler is definitely not going to be your father's Killdozer.

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Don’t let appearances fool you now. That hulking piece of machinery at the center of Montreal director Sv Bell’s Crawler may look like an industrial bulldozer but it’s not. Oh, no. And it’s not just the fifty tons of terror that the poster promises, either. No, any old bulldozer would fit that bill except, I suppose, for a very small one. This bulldozer? This one’s actually a shape shifting alien creature with a lust for blood. Expect loads of big, goofy carnage. And, as an added bonus, I’m fairly certain that’s Arrow In The Head cohort Deke Richards getting electrocuted in the teaser. Deke’s a good guy who deserves better from life than a hundred thousand volts of electricity but, hey, it makes for entertaining viewing. Check the teaser out in the Twitch Player below the break.