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A Frankensteinian mashup of sci-fi and torture-porn horror tropes, . While there are vague pretensions toward seriousness in Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen’s screenplay and Jens Dahl’s direction, this thriller ends up discomfitingly most reminiscent of 1970s Wip (women in prison) and Nazisploitation grindhouse fare, as well as gamy mainstream serial-killer potboilers like “Kiss the Girls.” Well-made but more than a bit ick, it’s being released to stateside digital formats by Uncork’d Entertainment on Jan. 11.

Mia (Sara Hjort Ditlevsen) is an equestrian training for the Olympics. She seems more comfortable in the company of her horse than husband Thomas (Anders Heinrichsen), though the complexities of their relationship (including apparent separate sexual peccadilloes) never get more than hinted at. In any case, such nuances soon prove irrelevant when circumstances fatefully entangle his home and work life.

He’s employed as financial chief for a shadowy project by one Dr. Isabel Ruben...

Stars: Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Morten Holst, Signe Egholm Olsen, Eeva Putro, Jens Andersen, David Bateson | Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen | Directed by Jens Dahl

A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this…

Breeder gets off to a very strange start. We’re introduce to Mia as she’s rejected in bed by her husband, later heading out to the horse stable to masturbate whilst sitting on the spikes of a spur! This is definitely a marriage in decline. And it’s no wonder… Mia’s husband is part an parcel to the kidnapping of women,...

Stars: Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Morten Holst, Signe Egholm Olsen, Eeva Putro, Jens Andersen, David Bateson | Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen | Directed by Jens Dahl

A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this…

Breeder gets off to a very strange start. We’re introduce to Mia as she’s rejected in bed by her husband, later heading out to the horse stable to masturbate whilst sitting on the spikes of a spur! This is definitely a marriage in decline. And it’s no wonder… Mia’s husband is part an parcel to the kidnapping of women,...

For Princess Mary, a royal romance was in the cards.

Before she met Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the then 28-year-old Australian advertising executive named Mary Donaldson found herself exploring a local flea market.

When she came across a tarot card reader, she decided to give it a try. The fortune teller carefully placed the cards, whose origins date back to mid-15th century Europe, in the traditional pattern on her table, and began turning them over.

The soothsayer told Donaldson that she would leave the workplace where she’d recently been employed to meet a man from abroad.

Sony Online Entertainment LLC has announced that they will be released an all-new Dlc pack for DC Universe Online, titled “The Last Laugh.” The upcoming Dlc will be the fourth pack to be released for the hit online superhero game and will allow players to continue gaming in high-intensity multiplayer brawls when the pack arrives in June for download on the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms.

“We created this Dlc purely for the players that like to take the fight to each other in Dcuo’s amazing PvP combat,” said Jens Andersen, creative director on DC Universe Online. “Our community has continuously asked for more multiplayer action in Dcuo, and we wanted to deliver content that fully meets their expectations and pushes PvP to another level. The Last Laugh is the first Dlc that we’ve created that focuses almost entirely on player versus player battles, and it adds an exciting...

Film-maker, Ole Bornedal's (Nightwatch, Just Another Love Story) disturbing tale “begins in the sticks [where] the road only leads backwards and forwards” in “a snug haven for smug people”. A female narrator walks towards the camera introducing the lead characters in the small town Deliver Us From Evil is set.

All appears hunky-dory as we meet Bornedal's cast in Amelie style character intros, until we're told “Anna is an angel but her heart is too big – Anna is going to die soon”. The children's innocent questioning of their mother (“Is it Ok to hit evil people?”) is another subtle indication the mood will soon change.

After learning of Anna's imminent fate, Lars' (Jens Andersen) first appearance leaves us second-guessing how he might be involved as we watch him drunkenly driving a truck; miserably thinking about his now pregnant girlfriend, Scarlett (Pernille Vallentin). Our helpful narrator reaffirms he's unbalanced (“Tired of...

Sony Online Entertainment LLC has announced that the third downloadable content (Dlc) pack for DC Universe Online (Dcuo), The Battle for Earth, is now available for download on the PC and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. "Players have been battling hard in the war against Brainiac and it's thrilling to see the fight reach its most climactic moment in this Dlc Pack," said Jens Andersen, Dcuo Creative Director, Sony Online Entertainment. "The Battle for Earth introduces a great new story twist, the amazing new Earth Powers set and more incredible new adventures for both solo and group play. We can't wait for players to jump in and experience it all." The Battle for Earth thickens the Dcuo plot, offering players more action, battles, a ninth power set, and sets the stage for a new chapter featuring the future versions of two of the most legendary DC Universe figures ever. Dcuo's third...

Chicago – Ole Bornedal’s “Deliver Us From Evil” is a superb B-movie that occasionally threatens to become something more substantial. It has the misfortune of being saddled with one of the most overused titles of recent years, though I am certain no one will be confusing it with Amy Berg’s brutal yet vital 2006 documentary on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Bornedal’s film is brutally dark yet also darkly humorous.

From the very first fade-in to the last droll frame, the picture is awash in the desaturated colors and harshly lensed grime that are commonplace in Danish cinema, which seems to perpetually exist beneath a dark cloud. An oddly inviting narrator sets up the action in deceptively peaceful western Jutland, while hinting at its more malicious undertones. There’s a memorable early moment when devoted mother Pernille (Lene Nystrøm) attempts to teach her children that there are no evil people,...

It's one of my favorite films of the past few years and Ole Bornedal's Deliver Us From Evil will be hitting Toronto cinema screens starting on October 8th. This is one nasty, gripping piece of work and I cannot recommend it highly enough for all of you Toronto locals.

Normal 0 false false false En-ca X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Montreal, Wednesday September 22nd, 2010 - After its Canadian Premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, its Quebec Premiere at the 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival, and a theatrical release in Montreal where it garnered raving reviews, Deliver Us From Evil (original Danish title Fri Os Fra Det Onde) will finally be screening in Toronto from October 8th at the Carlton Theatre with an English subtitled copy. The animated short film Land Of The Heads, provided by the Nfb, will be playing beforehand. 

Deliver Us From Evil

Lars and Johannes are brothers with very little in common.

A father returns to his old hometown with his young family. Events force him to face the small town's xenophobia Click here to read our french "Deliver Us From Evil" review, directed by Ole Bornedal, with Lasse Rimmer, Lene Nystrøm, Mogens Peterson, Jens Andersen, Bojan Navojec, Fanny Bornedal starring. A rock'n'roll vampire spoof about a down and out band, The Winners, who will do anything for a record deal. When their disgruntled manager tells them that they are getting .long in the tooth., he doesn't know that his words are truly prophetic. During a road trip, their humdrum image radically changes when Jennifer (Jessica Paré), the bass player, disappears one night with a hip vampire. She emerges with a sexually charged charisma that drives the audiences wild. Click here to...

It was one of my very favorite films last year and Ole Bornedal's nasty domestic thriller Deliver Us From Evil will begin its Canadian theatrical rollout September 7th! Read on for details!

Montreal, Tuesday August 17th, 2010 - After its Canadian Premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and its Quebec Premiere at the 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival, Deliver Us From Evil (French title DÉLIVREZ-nous Du Mal, original Danish title Fri Os Fra Det Onde) will finally start its Canadian tour of theatres in Montreal from September 7th at the Quartier Latin Theatre with a French subtitled copy and from September 10th at the AMC Forum Theatre with an English subtitled copy.

Lars and Johannes are brothers with very little in common. Johannes is a high-powered lawyer with a beautiful wife and two children; Lars is a truck driver and a drunken brute who beats his girlfriend. Having returned to his hometown in the country,...

[Yes, it is 'Straw Dogs with a nail gun', and yes you should see it at Fantasia!  Here is Todd's mighty positive take on the film from the archives to beat the bushes and get you fine folks excited again.]

It was supposed to be a return to a simpler life for Johannes and Pernille, a move away from the big city and back to the small town for the high powered lawyer and his young family.  It should be perfect: A home to shape and rebuild with their own hands, lots of space for the kids, a slower pace of life.  Perfect.  But life doesn't always work out as we plan and things move into a dark and violent place in this harrowing thriller from Ole Bornedal - a director who must now surely be ranked among the very best Europe has to offer.

The one obvious flaw in Johannes' plan to return home comes in the form of Lars - his drunken, lascivious brother who makes eyes at Johannes' wife Pernille all the while smacking his own pregnant girlfriend around.  And, yes, Lars is ultimately the cause of...

The Danger After Dark film festival will host a series of horror and action thrillers at this years event. Included in the line-up are Big Tits Zombie 3-D, The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, RoboGeisha and Ole Bornedal's Dutch language film Fri Os Fra Det Onde (Deliver Us From Evil). The festival begins July 9th and Deliver Us from Evil involves a deadly auto accident and one man's desperate attempt to cover up the crime by blaming another. Have a watch of the trailer for the film in what is surely to be one of the best at the film festival.

A description of the film here:

"Deliver Us from Evil opens on a deserted coastal road as the film's narrator, a garishly dressed young woman, quickly introduces us to the film's principal characters. They include Anna, the angelic wife of the town's unofficial mayor, Ingvar,...