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Production in Tasmania scheduled for spring 2020.

WaZabi Films co-founders Anick Poirier and Lorne Price continue to assemble a prestige slate and on the eve of Venice and Toronto have boarded sales on zombie thriller Devil Inside to star Australian talents Rachael Taylor and Ryan Kwanten.

Jonathan auf der Heide will direct, while David Ngo produces, and Bryce Menzies (Hotel Mumbai) and Clement Dunn (Ghost Hunters) are the executive producers. Oscar-winning New South Wales-based prosthetics and effects aces Odd Studio, which has worked on Mad Max: Fury Road and Alien: Covenant among many others, has also come on board.

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Anthony Maras (centre) in Mumbai.

Anthony Maras has sat in on numerous screenings of his debut film Hotel Mumbai, including test screenings in Los Angeles, the world premiere in Toronto and the Adelaide Film Festival, and the responses have been uniform.

Some people say they want to go home and hug their children, some say it will take a while to process what they have seen, and some are moved to tears.

“It is an emotional experience,” the director, who co-wrote the thriller with John Collee, tells If. Asked how he feels as he awaits the 260-plus screen launch on Thursday, he says: “Relieved….and fingers’ crossed.”

It will be the widest ever release by Icon Film Distribution. “Exhibitor support has been amazing,” says Dendy Icon group head of marketing Scott Mota.

The Us distributor Bleecker Street, which acquired the rights in partnership with ShivHans Pictures after The Weinstein Co.

Morgan Griffin and Xavier Samuel

Shooting has commenced in Adelaide on suspense thriller Bad Blood, written and directed by David Pulbrook (Last Dance). As If has previously reported,.the feature will star Adelaide-raised Xavier Samuel (Fury, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) alongside Morgan Griffin (San Andreas, Unbroken). Just announced to be joining them is a supporting cast featuring all South Australian actors, including Tess Fowler (Raising the Bar, Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures), Rob Macpherson (Deadline Gallipoli, Danger 5), Elena Carapetis (One Eyed Girl, Burning Man, Look Both Ways) and Patrick Frost (the.Wolf Creek series, Deadline Gallipoli). Casting director Angela Heesom said, .We have been able to find the entire supporting cast out of South Australia which is incredibly exciting. This means, with the inclusion of South Australian lead, Xavier Samuel, it.s a very home grown picture for us all to be making and showcases the extraordinary talents of our local acting community.

Exclusive: Luke Shanahan’s feature debut, starring Mad Max: Fury Road’s Abbey Lee, follows a medical student who is haunted by visions of her identical twin’s violent abduction.

LevelK has sold Australian psychological thriller Rabbit to SquareOne Entertainment for Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.

Natja Noviani Rosner from LevelK negotiated the deal with Ingrid Pittana, head of acquisitions at SquareOne.

Pittana told Screen, “Rabbit is a smart and haunting, psychological thriller, which lingered with me for days after reading the script and is exactly what you want from a good thriller. We are elated to add this to our release slate and to commence a great relationship with LevelK.”

Luke Shanahan, making his feature directorial debut, will start shooting in May with a cast including Mad Max: Fury Road’s Abbey Lee.

The story follows 25-year old medical student Maude, who is haunted by visions of her identical twin’s violent abduction.

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Exclusive: Luke Shanahan’s psychological thriller will start shooting in May with a cast including Mad Max: Fury Road’s Abbey Lee.

LevelK has acquired world rights to Luke Shanahan’s forthcoming feature debut, psychological thriller Rabbit, which will start shooting in May in South Australia.

Abbey Lee (The Neon Demon, Mad Max: Fury Road) and Alex Russell (Chronicle, Unbroken) will star.

The psychological thriller tells the story of 25-year old medical student Maude, who is haunted by visions of her identical twin’s violent abduction. Convinced the twin is still alive, Maude follows clues to a caravan park where she discovers her fate is intrinsically linked to her sister’s, and encounters a secret society.

Writer-director Shanahan, who previously directed the shorts It Takes Two To Tango and The News, said: “The concept behind Rabbit was to introduce a horrific ‘event’ and explore a genetic link between identical twins and their ability to communicate telepathically. I was...

Holy Hell, am I e’er filled to the beastly brim with blood and turkey! Ok, it wasn’t blood; it was wine, which considering the flicks I review sometimes, should be a prerequisite. Before the buzz leaves my belfry, let’s get down to the horror biz!

Before we dig into the revoltin’ reviews, I want to share with you a music video by a band I really dig: Johnny Unheimlich! Here’s the creepy clip for their new single Tell The Worms to Wait! Check it out below, and head here for info on when their new CD will be available!

Now for those reviews tens of you are no doubt clamoring for!

One Eyed Girl

• Release Date: Available December 8th on DVD, Digital and Blu-ra

• Written By: Craig Behenna, Nick Matthews

• Directed By: Nick Matthews

• Starring: Steve Le Marquand, Sara West, Mark Leonard Winter, Tilda Cobham-Hervey

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A new trailer for One Eyed Girl has debuted. This film, from Adelaide, Australia, involves a psychiatrist and his run-in with a doomsday cult. Dark Sky Films will release this psychological thriller in December, through various home entertainment formats. And, the film stars Steve Le Marquand and Sara West. Fans of film can view the latest trailer for One Eyed Girl here. The world is coming to an end, says a cult leader. Travis (Mark Leonard Winter) is lured into the depths of this doomsday cult, after the death of one of his patients. His grief and the cult's delusion create a powder keg. And, government forces are set to light the gunpowder on fire. Few will survive this coming doom. The release for One Eyed Girl comes this way on December 8th, 2015. On this date, the film will be available on VOD, DVD and Bluray. Your indoctrination begins in just a few weeks.

Today is trailer day apparently, and we have one more to show you as Tuesday winds down. Up now is your first look at One Eyed Girl, the debut feature of director Nick Matthews, which is heading our way December 8th… Continue Reading →

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It has been a long time coming but two years after we first saw a teaser trailer for One Eyed Girl, Nick Matthews' thriller will finally be seen in outside the festival circuit in North America.

The project, co-written by Matthews and Craig Behenna, stars Mark Leonard Winter as Travis, a young psychiatrist dealing with the loss of one of his patients, when he comes across a support group that might just be the perfect fit to help him get over the loss. Travis moves himself to the group's compound in an effort to find himself and redemption and instead, finds himself in the middle of a cult led by Father Jay (Steve Le Marquand).

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Uncanny star Lucy Griffiths was kind enough to answer some questions for us, and the Q&A we conducted with her kicks off the round-up. Also: domestic acquisition news for Emelie, details for One Eyed Girl on Blu-ray / DVD, and Vault of the Macabre II video.

Uncanny: "Rlj Entertainment will be releasing Uncanny on November 3rd, 2015.

Mark Webber (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), David Clayton Rogers (Bloody Sunday), Lucy Griffiths (TV’s “True Blood”) and director Matthew Leutwyler are available for interviews on behalf of the film’s release.

For ten years, inventor David Kressen has lived in seclusion with his inventions, including Adam, a robot with incredible lifelike human qualities. When reporter Joy Andrews is given access to their unconventional facility, she is alternately repelled and attracted to the scientist and his creation. But as Adam exhibits an emergent behavior of anger and jealousy towards her, she finds...

Award-winning psychological thriller to release this December. Shock has just learned that first-time director Nick Matthews’ jet-black psychological horror film One Eyed Girl will hit Blu-ray and DVD on December 8th from Dark Sky Films. Horror fans who appreciate slow-burning, atmospheric, elegant and emotionally wrenching cinema, films along the lines of Magic, Magic, Angel Heart and…

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Australian films are poised to record their highest share of the national box-office for 14 years, which goes a long way towards regaining the faith of audiences after a long lean spell.

Through last Sunday, the feature films and docs released in 2015 plus holdovers had racked up $52.9 million. With Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man earning tidy sums and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball and Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill the Movie opening on Thursday, the total will soon surpass 2009.s $54.7 million.

It might be a stretch but 2015 could come close to the all-time record of $63.4 million in 2001, the year of Moulin Rouge!, Lantana, The Man Who Sued God and Crocodile Dundee in La. After a strong start to the year from Mad Max: Fury Road, The Water Diviner, Paper Planes and That Sugar Film, Aussie films already have eclipsed 2014.s lowly $26.1 million (a market...

Australian films are poised to record their highest share of the national box-office for 10 years, which goes a long way towards regaining the faith of audiences after a long lean spell.

Through last Sunday, the feature films and docs released in 2015 plus holdovers had racked up $52.9 million. With Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man earning tidy sums and Stuart McDonald.s Oddball and Deane Taylor.s Blinky Bill the Movie opening on Thursday, the total will soon surpass 2009.s $54.7 million, the best result in the past 10 years. After a strong start to the year from Mad Max: Fury Road, The Water Diviner, Paper Planes and That Sugar Film, Aussie films already have eclipsed 2014.s lowly $26.1 million (a market share of 2.43 per cent) and 2013's $38.5 million. Despite some critical acclaim, Ruben Guthrie, Women He.s Undressed and Partisan did not resonate strongly and Manny Lewis tanked.

Abduction thriller voted to UK market by Melbourne’s 37º South Market.

Sales agents from across the world yesterday voted David Ngo and Rabbit as the producer and project at the Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market to attend the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.

Rabbit is a psychological thriller about a girl’s search for her abducted twin sister and it has actors Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Alex Russell (Chronicle) attached.

It is written by and will be the feature directorial debut of Luke Shanahan, who met Ngo in 2009 when both had films competing at Australian short film festival Tropfest.

“It’s in the style of Let The Right One In and Rosemary’s Baby,” said Ngo, whose first feature was director Nick Matthews’ One Eyed Girl, winner of best feature at last year’s Austin Film Festival.

The popularity of the projects Cargo and Achtung Road, also...

The third annual First Time Fest took place in New York City this past weekend; a film festival that celebrates first time filmmakers, whether they are first time directors, writers, cinematographers, editors, composers and producers. The festival holds a competition for filmmakers all over the world to submit their film and win theatrical distribution as well as international sales. The festival is also the only festival to boast that sixteen of its eighteen competition films have garnered theatrical distribution in an international audience, something no other festival can claim. With such a great track record, it’s no doubt that these films are sure to exceed expectations and are worthy of viewing. Here are the films and what awards they won.

The Intruder (Infiltrant) is a film from Holland directed by Shariff Korver and written by him as well as Rogier de Blok. The film follows a Dutch-Moroccan undercover police...

The Third Annual First Time Fest took place over the past weekend in New York City, from March 5th to March 9th. The festival, which celebrates first time filmmakers, had numerous panels that discussed topics such as financing films to getting the right marketing for the film to even talks from established filmmakers sharing their advice. The festival concluded with the honoring of Harvey Weinstein, as a tribute for “his support of first time filmmakers.”

A purely New York City centric film festival, the festival’s founders of Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward chose to show the films at the Core Club, the Village East Cinema, and the Wild Project, while the discussions and panels were featured at the B Bar and Grill. The festival allows for a five day competition among films that were completed by first time filmmakers for the chance to win international sales and theatrical distribution.

Richard Harris. first priority as the incoming head of Screen Australia.s newly formed business and audience department will be to rejuvenate if not reinvent the tainted Australian cinema brand.

.The fundamental core of the role is to strengthen the brand and look at it from the ground up,. Harris told If today. CEO of the South Australian Film Corporation for the past seven years, he will start in the new role in early March.

Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said, .Richard.s appointment is a fantastic coup for us . his depth of industry experience and relationships across television and film, both domestic and international, will be invaluable.

.His smart business acumen and ability to deliver strong creative and commercial success will be a great asset to our new business and audience department. It is a bonus to have his first-hand knowledge of working with government..

Mason has been acting head of that department,...

Writer and director Nick Matthews made his feature debut at this year's Austin Film Festival with One Eyed Girl, a riveting psychological thriller that takes place in South Australia but could just as easily occur anywhere. Co-written by co-star Craig Behenna (The Babadook), this film -- which just won the Aff 2014 jury prize in the "Dark Matters" category -- slowly reveals the layers of pain and guilt experienced by a psychiatrist and the unexpected rocky path to redemption and salvation.

Travis (Mark Leonard Winter) is a thirtysomething psychiatrist severely damaged by the death of former patient Rachel (Katy Cheel). Through a series of flashbacks, we learn that Travis' relationship with Rachel extended beyond and was impacted by her mental health. Travis' inability to connect to his patients and Rachel is compounded by the desensitization to the violence and corruption of the modern world, as well as a refusal to accept his own identity.

Writer-director Nick Matthews and writer Craig Behenna use One Eyed Girl as a way to observe different approaches to psychiatry, revealing the blurred and codependent line between "therapist" and "patient." No one in One Eyed Girl is sane or healthy, and while Jay seems to have found successful ways to build confidence in his congregation, he is probably no better equipped to help people than Travis.

Nick Matthews. psychological thriller One Eyed Girl has won the jury prize in the .Dark Matters. category at the Austin Film Festival in Texas.

Produce by David Ngo and written by Matthews and Craig Behenna, the South Australian-shot film tells of a psychiatrist, haunted by the death of a former patient, who stumbles upon a Doomsday cult and battles to save a teenage girl from its clutches

Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey (The Kettering Incident, 52 Tuesdays), Mark Leonard Winter (Healing, Van Diemen.s Land) and Steve Le Marquand (Rake, Vertical Limit), One Eyed Girl will be released in Australian cinemas on April 2, distributed by The Backlot Studios.

The Dark Matters award was introduced last year and was won by Madellaine Paxson.s Blood Punch.

Austin Film Festival screenplay and teleplay competition director, Matt Dy said, "Screenwriters Craig Behenna and Nick Matthews have written a script that, on the page, would very likely...

As it gets ready to have its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival in October, there is a new trailer for Nick Matthews' thriller One Eyed Girl. Would you risk your life to save your soul? One Eyed Girl is a dark thriller about Travis, a young psychiatrist haunted by the death of a patient. On the brink of a nervous breakdown, he meets a teenage girl named Grace, who invites him to a city church run by a charismatic leader, Father Jay.In search of answers, Travis is led deeper and deeper into the underworld of a doomsday cult where he's given one last chance for redemption. The film stars Marl Leonard Winter (Van Dieman's Land and Cop Hard) and Tilly Cobham-Hervey (52 Tuesdays). You will find the new...

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Wolf Creek star John Jarratt is directing his first feature, StalkHer, a gritty black comedy in which he co-stars with Kaarin Fairfax, on the Gold Coast.

Directing oneself can.t be easy but the degree of difficulty is even greater here because Jarratt.s character is tied to a chair for most of the film.

The screenplay is by Kris Maric, who is partnered with Craig Kocinski and Jarratt in production company Ozpix Entertainment.

Maric likens the plot to an Australian version of Misery meets Who.s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Jarratt.s character breaks into Fairfax.s house with evil intent and the tables are turned numerous times.

.It.s a cat-and-mouse game where you are not sure who is the cat and who is the mouse,. she tells If from the set at the Village Roadshow Studios. Shooting started last Friday.

The executive producer is former Roadshow and Disney executive Alan Finney,...

Typifying a growing buoyancy and sense of optimism about filmmaking in South Australia, producers Julie Byrne, Kristian Moliere and Jennifer Jones have formed Triptych Pictures.

The troika has just delivered its first factual entertainment series for the ABC, Jillaroo School, and shooting wraps today on its first feature, Touch.

Jillaroo School (6 x 30.) follows the journeys of the women who undergo a course to train as jillaroos under the tutelage of experienced horse master Bill Willoughby.

Writer-director Christopher Houghton.s Touch is a thriller about a mother and daughter who are on the run, hiding in a remote hills town, starring Leeanna Walsman, Matt Day, Greg Hatton and 12-year-old tyro Onor Nottle.

.It.s very hard to be a solo producer or even a duo,. Byrne tells If. .With three you have a critical mass and each brings different ideas. We are all drama-oriented and we want to get into TV series drama.

Tilda Cobham-Hervey was 16 when she auditioned for and won her first acting role, the lead in Sophie Hyde.s Adelaide-shot feature 52 Tuesdays, in 2011.

That was a big commitment, juggled with her year 11 and 12 studies as the film was shot on consecutive Tuesdays for 52 weeks.

At the end of last year Tilly shot her second film, playing the title character in One Eyed Girl, the directing debut of cinematographer Nick Matthews.

Both films will have their world premieres at the Adelaide Film Festival (October 10-20).. Both were funded by the Safc's FilmLab and the Aff Investment Fund supported 52 Tuesdays.

Now 19, the Adelaide-based Cobham-Hervey is understandably nervous as she waits to see how the films are received, particularly as she won.t see One Eyed Girl until the premiere.

In 52 Tuesdays she plays teen Billie, who struggles with the revelation that her mother (Del Herbert-Jane) plans to change gender. Billie goes to...

One Eyed Girl Trailer. Nick Matthews‘ One Eyed Girl (2013) teaser trailer stars Steve Le Marquand, Mark Leonard Winter, Craig Behenna, Elena Carapetis, and Tilda Cobham-Hervey. One Eyed Girl‘s plot synopsis: “Travis, is a thirty-something psychiatrist haunted by the death of a former patient. On the brink of a nervous breakdown he stumbles across [...]

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Here’s the first preview for One Eyed Girl, the debut feature film from cinematographer Nick Matthews (HBO’s Band of Brothers, Broken Hill). Shot in South Australia at the end of 2012 this indie film is still in post-production. One Eyed Girl is reportedly a dark thriller about a psychiatrist, Travis, who spirals out of control and falls into the clutches of a Doomsday Cult living on a farm in rural Australia. Haunted by the death of a former patient, on the brink of a nervous breakdown, a thirty-something psychiatrist stumbles across a group run by a charismatic leader, Father Jay. In search of answers, Travis...

While majestic might not be the best way to describe a doomsday cult thriller which, in part, seems to feature some shocking bloodshed, it's a great word to illustrate the first teaser for One Eyed Girl, the debut feature from cinematographer Nick Matthews.Featuring what looks to be another tense, fraught performance by Mark Leonard Winter - who is finally making his much-deserved debut here as leading man - One Eyed Girl is the story of a psychiatrist (Winter) who follows a mysterious teenage girl named Grace into a Doomsday cult.Check out the first teaser from the film below....

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Mark Leonard Winter is a chameleon. In every role he plays he looks starkly different, and has proven adept at both serious haunting drama (Van Diemen's Land) and ribald comedy (Cop Hard). His latest role in Australian thriller One Eyed Girl is no different, with this first still from the movie revealing he's playing a pretty intense dude.One Eyed Girl is a dark thriller about a psychiatrist (Winter) who follows a mysterious teenage girl named Grace into a Doomsday cult. The film is shooting now in Adelaide....

Hot on the heels of news that Mark Leonard Winter is leading the cast of One Eyed Girl, we hear that his fellow Van Diemen's Land cannibal buddy Oscar Redding is one of the lead cast in Galore, a drama which also begins shooting this week in Australia.This is great news for all us fans of Van Diemen's Land - not to mention the police and penis webseries Cop Hard, which Oscar wrote and co-directed. Great to see him getting his due up on the big screen again. Shot in the Australian capital, Canberra, Galore follows four teenagers whose lives are thrown together late one night ahead of the devastating bushfires of 2002. Oscar is obviously not playing one of the teenagers. Written and directed by Ryhs...

Fans of Van Diemen's Land, Balibo and Cop Hard rejoice! Larry Hard himself, Mark Leonard Winter, is returning to the big screen, this time in a well-deserved leading role, in the upcoming thriller One Eyed Girl. With filming starting this week in Adelaide, South Australia, One Eyed Girl is a dark thriller about a psychiatrist (Winter) who follows a mysterious teenage girl named Grace into a Doomsday cult.Written by Craig Behenna and Nick Matthews, and directed by Matthews, One Eyed Girl is the third Sa Film Lab project to take off - following in the footsteps of Shut Up Little Man and 52 Tuesdays. The Sa Film Lab is a low budget film initiative run by the South Australian Film Corporation that aims to support amazing...