Windy Wilkin’s Death on the Border is a thought-provoking movie that forces you to contemplate one of the real dangers and problems of society: child trafficking. It’s common knowledge that scores of young girls and children are trafficked every year. These young girls are forced into prostitution or are sold to high-paying clients. Death on the Border isn’t entirely fictional but draws inspiration from real events. This makes Windy Wilkin’s film all the more haunting, realizing the ordeal all those women and girls had to go through. At the beginning of the film, Maddy (Shannon Elizabeth) is picked up by a child trafficker who is smuggling young girls over the border. The trafficker tried to force himself on Maddy, but she killed him with the gun she was hiding in her boots. Maddy freed the girls and asked one of them to drive until they were safe.
- 11/11/2023
- by Rishabh Shandilya
- Film Fugitives
This Tuesday, December 6, brings History of the Occult to Screambox, a trippy new horror movie shot in black and white. The release comes on the heels of Netflix’s Silver Screen Horror Edition of “Cabinet of Curiosities” episode “Graveyard Rats,” further proof that monochrome horror still packs a potent punch. Black and white movies evoke vintage classics, but they can instantly set a striking tone when employed in modern genre films.
This week’s streaming picks feature modern monochromatic horror movies that instantly transport you to another time and place, instilling an ominous mood in the process.
As always, here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
A Field in England – AMC+, Fandor, Freevee, Hulu, Roku Channel, Shudder, Tubi
Set in 17th-century England during the Civil War, Ben Wheatley’s trippy horror movie follows a trio of deserters. They flee...
This week’s streaming picks feature modern monochromatic horror movies that instantly transport you to another time and place, instilling an ominous mood in the process.
As always, here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
A Field in England – AMC+, Fandor, Freevee, Hulu, Roku Channel, Shudder, Tubi
Set in 17th-century England during the Civil War, Ben Wheatley’s trippy horror movie follows a trio of deserters. They flee...
- 12/5/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stars: Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz, Emily Sweet, Chris Galust, Kika Magalhães, Genti Kame, Klodian Hoxha | Written by Kathy Charles | Directed by Tate Steinsiek
The original Castle Freak was released in 1995 and directed by cult horror director Stuart Gordon who is best known for the highly entertaining Re-Animator and Dolls. Starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, Castle Freak was also well received and has since picked up a cult following. A following big enough for it to receive this 2020 remake.
Now I’m not as anti-remake as many filmgoers seem to be. The horror genre has plenty of them but it has plenty of good ones too. From The Thing to The Fly to Let Me In and Dawn of the Dead, I could carry on and name more but these prove enough that remakes can be great. Unfortunately Castle Freak is far from great.
The story covers the basic same plot points as a character,...
The original Castle Freak was released in 1995 and directed by cult horror director Stuart Gordon who is best known for the highly entertaining Re-Animator and Dolls. Starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, Castle Freak was also well received and has since picked up a cult following. A following big enough for it to receive this 2020 remake.
Now I’m not as anti-remake as many filmgoers seem to be. The horror genre has plenty of them but it has plenty of good ones too. From The Thing to The Fly to Let Me In and Dawn of the Dead, I could carry on and name more but these prove enough that remakes can be great. Unfortunately Castle Freak is far from great.
The story covers the basic same plot points as a character,...
- 12/15/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
The Chattanooga Film Festival is a must-attend event for genre fans every year and 2020 is no exception, with the initial lineup including Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's Synchronic and the world premiere of the new Castle Freak!
To learn more about the fest and purchase tickets, visit:
https://www.chattfilmfest.org/
Press Release: Chattanooga, Tn - The Chattanooga Film Festival (Cff) is hard at work solidifying its film and event programming for their 2020 installment and is excited to share the first small wave of titles and events. Taking place April 16 - 19 at Chattanooga’s Songbirds Guitar Museum, a gorgeous new venue that’s quickly established itself as one of the Scenic City’s premier entertainment destinations, Cff promises four days filled to the brim with films, special events and workshops.
Opening night will have attendees lined up for the profoundly moving sci-fi drama Synchronic, starring Jamie Dornan and Anthony Mackie.
To learn more about the fest and purchase tickets, visit:
https://www.chattfilmfest.org/
Press Release: Chattanooga, Tn - The Chattanooga Film Festival (Cff) is hard at work solidifying its film and event programming for their 2020 installment and is excited to share the first small wave of titles and events. Taking place April 16 - 19 at Chattanooga’s Songbirds Guitar Museum, a gorgeous new venue that’s quickly established itself as one of the Scenic City’s premier entertainment destinations, Cff promises four days filled to the brim with films, special events and workshops.
Opening night will have attendees lined up for the profoundly moving sci-fi drama Synchronic, starring Jamie Dornan and Anthony Mackie.
- 2/18/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Fangoria and Full Moon are producing a remake of the classic 1995 horror film Castle Freak. This movie is considered a cult classic that centered on a horrific creature lurking within the shadows of a castle.
The original film was produced Charles Band, who hired Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon to helm it. Band had a poster created for the film project that didn’t even have a script and told Gordon he could do whatever he wanted with it as long as it had a castle and a freak in the story.
So, Gordon ended up turning it into a loose horror film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Outsider and he cast Re-Animator stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton to star in it.
According to Bloody-Disgusting, the story for the new movie follows “recently-blinded Rebecca, her boyfriend John, and their friends as they travel to Albania to manage...
The original film was produced Charles Band, who hired Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon to helm it. Band had a poster created for the film project that didn’t even have a script and told Gordon he could do whatever he wanted with it as long as it had a castle and a freak in the story.
So, Gordon ended up turning it into a loose horror film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Outsider and he cast Re-Animator stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton to star in it.
According to Bloody-Disgusting, the story for the new movie follows “recently-blinded Rebecca, her boyfriend John, and their friends as they travel to Albania to manage...
- 7/1/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Last year, it was announced that makeup effects guru Tate Steinsiek will direct a reimagining of Castle Freak, and now the main cast has been revealed for Fangoria and Full Moon Features' new take on Stuart Gordon's 1995 horror film.
According to multiple outlets, including Bloody Disgusting, the Castle Freak reimagining will star Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz (The Vast of Night), Chris Galust (Give Me Liberty), Kika Magalhães (The Eyes of My Mother), Emily Sweet (Syn), Elisha Pratt (True Detective), and Omar Brunson.
A collaboration between Fangoria and Full Moon Features (who teamed up for 2018's Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich), the new Castle Freak is expected to start production in Albania in July. Steinsiek will direct from a screenplay by Kathy Charles, with legendary composer Fabio Frizzi contributing an original score for the film.
According to Bloody Disgusting, the new Castle Freak "follows recently-blinded Rebecca, her boyfriend John, and...
According to multiple outlets, including Bloody Disgusting, the Castle Freak reimagining will star Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz (The Vast of Night), Chris Galust (Give Me Liberty), Kika Magalhães (The Eyes of My Mother), Emily Sweet (Syn), Elisha Pratt (True Detective), and Omar Brunson.
A collaboration between Fangoria and Full Moon Features (who teamed up for 2018's Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich), the new Castle Freak is expected to start production in Albania in July. Steinsiek will direct from a screenplay by Kathy Charles, with legendary composer Fabio Frizzi contributing an original score for the film.
According to Bloody Disgusting, the new Castle Freak "follows recently-blinded Rebecca, her boyfriend John, and...
- 6/27/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In today’s film news roundup, Paramount puts Tyler Perry and Michael Bay on “I Am Yours,” sci-fi thriller “Lumina” gets distribution and Matthew Rauch and Zina Wilde join “Chase the Ace.”
Project Launched
Paramount Pictures is launching development on the thriller “I Am Yours” and has set the project up with Tyler Perry and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller.
The studio acquired the spec script from the writing team of Ryan Belenzon and Jeffrey Gelber. The logline is under wraps besides that it involves a stalking element in the vein of “Fatal Attraction.”
Perry, best known for the Madea movies, is in post-production on “Nobody’s Fool,” starring Tiffany Haddish and Tika Sumpter, with Paramount planning a Nov. 2 release. Platinum Dunes produced “A Quiet Place” for Paramount and “The First Purge,” which Universal opens July 4.
Belenzon and Gelbers wrote Roger Clemens biopic “The Rocket,...
Project Launched
Paramount Pictures is launching development on the thriller “I Am Yours” and has set the project up with Tyler Perry and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller.
The studio acquired the spec script from the writing team of Ryan Belenzon and Jeffrey Gelber. The logline is under wraps besides that it involves a stalking element in the vein of “Fatal Attraction.”
Perry, best known for the Madea movies, is in post-production on “Nobody’s Fool,” starring Tiffany Haddish and Tika Sumpter, with Paramount planning a Nov. 2 release. Platinum Dunes produced “A Quiet Place” for Paramount and “The First Purge,” which Universal opens July 4.
Belenzon and Gelbers wrote Roger Clemens biopic “The Rocket,...
- 6/14/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
As a new fan of purchasing and collecting vinyl records, it's nice to see so much variety, especially in the world of horror. The eerily wonderful score composed by Ariel Loh for 2016's The Eyes of My Mother has now found a home on two 180-gram colored vinyl records in a deluxe gatefold jacket with satin coating courtesy of Waxwork Records. Continue reading for details on the liner notes, a look at the artwork by Nikita Kaun, and more:
The Eyes of My Mother Deluxe Vinyl Score: "Waxwork Records is excited to present the deluxe double LP film score release of The Eyes Of My Mother. Written and directed by Nicolas Pesce, The Eyes Of My Mother is a 2016 black and white horror film that focuses on a young woman, Francisca (Kika Magalhães) that grows up on the family farm where she has previously witnessed the murder of her mother during her adolescence.
The Eyes of My Mother Deluxe Vinyl Score: "Waxwork Records is excited to present the deluxe double LP film score release of The Eyes Of My Mother. Written and directed by Nicolas Pesce, The Eyes Of My Mother is a 2016 black and white horror film that focuses on a young woman, Francisca (Kika Magalhães) that grows up on the family farm where she has previously witnessed the murder of her mother during her adolescence.
- 1/17/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The unnerving story of a young woman damaged by a violent tragedy is restrained and elegant – until suddenly it’s not
This poised feature debut from Nicolas Pesce announces a director who blends arthouse with horror to unnerving, elegant effect. Shot in striking black and white with a camera that drifts, almost languidly, to reveal hints of nightmarish violence, there is a chilly beauty to the austere backwoods America backdrop. A child, home-schooled in dissection and the mysteries of anatomy by her mother, puts her skills into practice when a violent tragedy rends her life apart. Later, as a lonely young adult, Francisca (Kika Magalhães) sets about creating her own family unit by – literally – carving chunks off someone else’s. The film loses some of its cruel precision and restraint in a third act that goes all out for shock value. As a result, the picture ends up more conventional...
This poised feature debut from Nicolas Pesce announces a director who blends arthouse with horror to unnerving, elegant effect. Shot in striking black and white with a camera that drifts, almost languidly, to reveal hints of nightmarish violence, there is a chilly beauty to the austere backwoods America backdrop. A child, home-schooled in dissection and the mysteries of anatomy by her mother, puts her skills into practice when a violent tragedy rends her life apart. Later, as a lonely young adult, Francisca (Kika Magalhães) sets about creating her own family unit by – literally – carving chunks off someone else’s. The film loses some of its cruel precision and restraint in a third act that goes all out for shock value. As a result, the picture ends up more conventional...
- 3/26/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Disturbing, scary tale of an isolated girl who grows into a killer, filmed beautifully in black and white by a debut director who knows his way around a nightmare
The 27-year-old Nicolas Pesce makes a very accomplished debut with this macabre horror nightmare in which the killer is a woman – and that’s a gender issue rare enough in horror to deserve pointing out, and throws into perspective her resemblance to Ed Gein, Norman Bates or Dennis Nilsen. The film has some visual echoes of Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic. A young woman, Francisca (played by Kika Magalhaes, and by Olivia Bond as a little girl) has grown up effectively alone on a remote farm somewhere in the Us, having been raised – or possibly discovered and adopted in sinister circumstances hinted at in the final act – by a Portuguese woman (Diana Agostini) and an elderly man (Paul Nazak).
The...
The 27-year-old Nicolas Pesce makes a very accomplished debut with this macabre horror nightmare in which the killer is a woman – and that’s a gender issue rare enough in horror to deserve pointing out, and throws into perspective her resemblance to Ed Gein, Norman Bates or Dennis Nilsen. The film has some visual echoes of Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic. A young woman, Francisca (played by Kika Magalhaes, and by Olivia Bond as a little girl) has grown up effectively alone on a remote farm somewhere in the Us, having been raised – or possibly discovered and adopted in sinister circumstances hinted at in the final act – by a Portuguese woman (Diana Agostini) and an elderly man (Paul Nazak).
The...
- 3/23/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Daniel Goodwin
Opting to focus more on building a foreboding mood over an engaging narrative, debut film-maker Nicolas Pesce delivers an austere, redolent debut feature which slightly stirs and disturbs at times but, at a slender seventy six minutes, it is still often shockingly monotonous.
The story (broken down into chapters) focuses on a young girl called Francisca (Olivia Bond): a shy child who lives an isolated, tranquil existence on a remote Portuguese farm with her mother (Diana Agostini) and father (Paul Nazak). Until the day a tormented passer-by, posing as a salesman (Will Brill), enters their lives and adjusts the family dynamics. Teomm unravels with the air of an art-house torture porn b-movie/ graduate film, captured in mucky black and white for extra gothic gravitas, Pesce’s film fails to crack into its protagonist or excavate enough emotion to enrich the narrative. Pesce reduces his audience to the role of passive observers,...
Opting to focus more on building a foreboding mood over an engaging narrative, debut film-maker Nicolas Pesce delivers an austere, redolent debut feature which slightly stirs and disturbs at times but, at a slender seventy six minutes, it is still often shockingly monotonous.
The story (broken down into chapters) focuses on a young girl called Francisca (Olivia Bond): a shy child who lives an isolated, tranquil existence on a remote Portuguese farm with her mother (Diana Agostini) and father (Paul Nazak). Until the day a tormented passer-by, posing as a salesman (Will Brill), enters their lives and adjusts the family dynamics. Teomm unravels with the air of an art-house torture porn b-movie/ graduate film, captured in mucky black and white for extra gothic gravitas, Pesce’s film fails to crack into its protagonist or excavate enough emotion to enrich the narrative. Pesce reduces his audience to the role of passive observers,...
- 3/21/2017
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Early this year, Magnolia Home Entertainment set a March 7th home media release date for The Eyes of My Mother, and now full details for the Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD release have been revealed for one of the most buzzed-about horror films of 2016.
Special features for The Eyes of My Mother home media release include an interview with director Nicolas Pesce and a behind-the-scenes photo gallery. We have the official press release with full details below, and in case you missed it, check out Heather's review of The Eyes of My Mother, which she calls "a hauntingly provocative slice of gothic cinema."
Press Release: Los Angeles – With his directorial debut, Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes Of My Mother “claws into your subconscious and lingers there” (New York Magazine). One of the top horror movies of 2016, a favorite at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, and “Certified Fresh” by Rotten Tomatoes,...
Special features for The Eyes of My Mother home media release include an interview with director Nicolas Pesce and a behind-the-scenes photo gallery. We have the official press release with full details below, and in case you missed it, check out Heather's review of The Eyes of My Mother, which she calls "a hauntingly provocative slice of gothic cinema."
Press Release: Los Angeles – With his directorial debut, Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes Of My Mother “claws into your subconscious and lingers there” (New York Magazine). One of the top horror movies of 2016, a favorite at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, and “Certified Fresh” by Rotten Tomatoes,...
- 2/14/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
To call 2016 a good year for horror would be an understatement. It was a fantastic year with a little something for every genre taste. You didn’t have to venture very far to find something that was absolutely fantastic. With great television shows like Channel Zero: Candle Cove or The Exorcist, wonderful films like The Witch and Green Room, and music from labels like Waxwork Records and Death Waltz Recording, the horror genre was finely taken care of. Here are few of the standouts for me in 2016.
Twin Peaks Vinyl Soundtrack (Death Waltz Recording / Mondo): Every single year, Death Waltz comes out with a release that makes me absolutely overjoyed. David Lynch’s films are stunning genre works. The lurid imagery, the bold characters, and the music composition within his films give Lynch’s work a unique quality. The Twin Peaks soundtrack, lovingly released by Death Waltz, comes...
Twin Peaks Vinyl Soundtrack (Death Waltz Recording / Mondo): Every single year, Death Waltz comes out with a release that makes me absolutely overjoyed. David Lynch’s films are stunning genre works. The lurid imagery, the bold characters, and the music composition within his films give Lynch’s work a unique quality. The Twin Peaks soundtrack, lovingly released by Death Waltz, comes...
- 1/11/2017
- by Monte Yazzie
- DailyDead
If you haven't yet taken a trip to the farmhouse of frights (of both the physical and psychological variety) in Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother, then prepare to mark your calendar, because Magnolia Home Entertainment has set an early March Blu-ray release date for the renowned 2016 film.
Blu-ray.com reports that The Eyes of My Mother will be released on Blu-ray (and fans expect a DVD release as well) on March 7th. Special features and cover art have yet to be revealed, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details.
Synopsis: "In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's...
Blu-ray.com reports that The Eyes of My Mother will be released on Blu-ray (and fans expect a DVD release as well) on March 7th. Special features and cover art have yet to be revealed, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details.
Synopsis: "In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's...
- 1/4/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
This has easily been the hardest time I’ve ever had whittling down my favorite genre offerings for the year. I was fortunate to watch so many great movies throughout the course of the last 12 months (over 150—new and old!), and considering the quality of projects from both the studio and independent sides of the business was exceedingly high, I probably could have featured 20 films on this list, and still would have at least a dozen more I could recommend to fellow fans. 2016 was definitely one of the best recent years in horror and that’s pretty rad.
Beyond the realm of movies, horror also had a strong showing on TV, as it seems almost every single network these days has something of interest if you’re looking to immerse yourself in horror on the small screen. I was also fortunate enough to attend several amazing genre events in 2016, making...
Beyond the realm of movies, horror also had a strong showing on TV, as it seems almost every single network these days has something of interest if you’re looking to immerse yourself in horror on the small screen. I was also fortunate enough to attend several amazing genre events in 2016, making...
- 1/3/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
2016 has been an exceptional all-around year for horror and sci-fi films—from the indie realm, we’ve been gifted with an enormous amount of brilliant cinematic stories throughout the past 12 months, and we even saw studios step up their game with an almost unprecedented amount of quality releases.
And along with this wealth of top-notch entertainment, we also saw an incredible number of fantastic female characters over the course of 2016—some heroic, some villainous, but all endlessly engaging in their own right. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to celebrate some of my favorite female performers from this year who gave us complex, interesting, and wholly compelling reasons to keep falling in love with genre cinema all over again (and again).
Kika Magalhaes – The Eyes of My Mother
Nicolas’ Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother is easily one of the best horror films to be...
And along with this wealth of top-notch entertainment, we also saw an incredible number of fantastic female characters over the course of 2016—some heroic, some villainous, but all endlessly engaging in their own right. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to celebrate some of my favorite female performers from this year who gave us complex, interesting, and wholly compelling reasons to keep falling in love with genre cinema all over again (and again).
Kika Magalhaes – The Eyes of My Mother
Nicolas’ Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother is easily one of the best horror films to be...
- 12/22/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Daily Deaders, we are hosting a contest where two of our readers can win a DVD copy of The Unspoken courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment. Continue reading for rules and entry details. Also in today's Highlights: three clips and a featurette for The Eyes of My Mother and details on the third annual Scary Christmas Party.
Contest: Win The Unspoken on DVD:
Prize Details: (2) Winners will receive (1) DVD copy of The Unspoken.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Unspoken Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on December 12th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Press Release: "Beverly Hills, CA (October 31, 2016) – A sinister tale...
Contest: Win The Unspoken on DVD:
Prize Details: (2) Winners will receive (1) DVD copy of The Unspoken.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Unspoken Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on December 12th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Press Release: "Beverly Hills, CA (October 31, 2016) – A sinister tale...
- 12/6/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Picture Grant Wood's famous painting American Gothic, the one with the stolid farmer and his missus. Now imagine that, were you able to slowly pan down and magically see what was going on just below the frame of this landmark 20th-century artwork, you were to spy a lithe girl sitting at their feet. She's slowly sawing away at the older couple's legs, cutting through sinew and bone, blood pooling around her on the ground. (You don't hear the elderly gent and his anxious-looking spouse screaming, as the young woman has already removed their tongues.
- 12/2/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Expressively shot and deliberately paced, The Eyes Of My Mother is a cunningly elegant film, given the dark and extremely gruesome acts committed by its heroine. Newcomer Kika Magalhaes stars as Francisca, a young woman deeply scarred by witnessing her mother’s murder when she was just a child. But the real surprise in this neatly wrapped box of horrors is the film’s emotional resonance, a quality that turns out to be inspired by director Nicolas Pesce’s own family history.
The Eyes Of My Mother premieres in select theaters throughout the United States and on demand on December 2, but The A.V. Club caught it at both the Toronto International Film Festival and at Fantastic Fest, where we said, “It’s a profoundly disturbing film, made even more so by how profoundly sad it is.” (Read The A.V. Club’s full-length review here.) We talked to ...
The Eyes Of My Mother premieres in select theaters throughout the United States and on demand on December 2, but The A.V. Club caught it at both the Toronto International Film Festival and at Fantastic Fest, where we said, “It’s a profoundly disturbing film, made even more so by how profoundly sad it is.” (Read The A.V. Club’s full-length review here.) We talked to ...
- 12/2/2016
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
Francisca's dance has an unsettling audience in one of three clips from Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother, coming out on VOD and in theaters on December 2nd via Magnet Releasing.
Synopsis: "In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form. Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting visual compositions evoke its protagonist's isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre-inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce's feature debut allows only an elliptical presence in Francisca's world,...
Synopsis: "In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form. Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting visual compositions evoke its protagonist's isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre-inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce's feature debut allows only an elliptical presence in Francisca's world,...
- 11/30/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Opening on December 2nd in Los Angeles and New York and on VOD is Nicolas Pesce’s haunting character study The Eyes of My Mother. Starring Kika Magalhaes as Francisca, the story follows a young woman living on a remote farm whose loneliness and search for love drives her to commit some depraved and horrifying acts.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Magalhaes about her star-making performance in The Eyes of My Mother, and heard more about her perceptions of Francisca, her experiences collaborating with Pesce on the project, and more.
I had a chance to talk to Nicolas at Fantastic Fest and he spoke very, very highly of you, and I must agree with his enthusiasm for your performance in this film. I'd love to hear what your first impressions were when you got this script and you saw Francisca as a character. She's such an...
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Magalhaes about her star-making performance in The Eyes of My Mother, and heard more about her perceptions of Francisca, her experiences collaborating with Pesce on the project, and more.
I had a chance to talk to Nicolas at Fantastic Fest and he spoke very, very highly of you, and I must agree with his enthusiasm for your performance in this film. I'd love to hear what your first impressions were when you got this script and you saw Francisca as a character. She's such an...
- 11/29/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The Eyes Of My Mother Magnet Releasing Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Nicolas Pesce Written by: Nicolas Pesce Cast: Kika Magalhaes, Will Brill, Flora Diaz, Paul Nazak, Clara Wong Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 11/17/16 Opens: December 2, 2016 First-time writer-director Nicolas Pesce can look forward at age twenty-six to fairly original contributions to fans of horror who, at the same time, have the necessary patience to sit through a lyricism that makes a serial killer almost likable. While you may compare parts of the plot to events in the “Saw” series, primarily the frequent use of chains to keep a psycho’s prey in place in the [ Read More ]
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- 11/28/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Ever watch a black and white movie and feel like you can see the color? Even though there’s no spectrum, there are so many tones in between the absence and consumption of color. The Eyes of My Mother does this so well because it feels very natural. The cinematography by Zach Kuperstein is simply stunning, and it’s the first thing I think anyone would tell you about the movie. Nicolas Pesce decided to shoot his debut in this format for what I saw as reflecting the cold tone of the story. So very cold. Make no mistake, this movie is bleak. Be ready.
Mother has had her daughter Francisca be comfortable with death from a young age. One day, a stranger strikes up a conversation with young Francisca on their farm, and his intentions aren’t good. Once grown, Francisca has to deal with the loss of both parents,...
Mother has had her daughter Francisca be comfortable with death from a young age. One day, a stranger strikes up a conversation with young Francisca on their farm, and his intentions aren’t good. Once grown, Francisca has to deal with the loss of both parents,...
- 11/27/2016
- by Mike Hassler
- Destroy the Brain
One of the most buzzed about indie horror movies of the second half of 2016 is Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of my Mother. Since making its debut at Sundance earlier this year, Pesce's movie has continued to stun audiences at festivals both across the Us and internationally and with a theatrical release on the horizon, a new marketing campaign is mounting steam.
Pesce's debut, shot in stark black and white by Zach Kuperstein, stars relative newcomer Kika Magalhaes, in her first leading role, as Francisca, "a young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life."
The trailers suggest that Francisca's mother taught her to deal with death in an unorthodox manner and now the woman seems obsessed with death and may be willin [Continued ...]...
Pesce's debut, shot in stark black and white by Zach Kuperstein, stars relative newcomer Kika Magalhaes, in her first leading role, as Francisca, "a young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life."
The trailers suggest that Francisca's mother taught her to deal with death in an unorthodox manner and now the woman seems obsessed with death and may be willin [Continued ...]...
- 10/31/2016
- QuietEarth.us
Easily one of the more unforgettable films I’ve seen this year—genre or otherwise—is writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother, which follows a young woman named Francisca (Kika Magalhaes) as she copes with her loneliness through some rather depraved and heartbreaking ways.
The Eyes of My Mother recently played at the 2016 Fantastic Fest, and while at the festival, we had a chance to speak with the first-time feature filmmaker about his approach to his haunting character study, working with his incredible lead actress Magalhaes, and how he’s trying to bring back the feeling of the classic horror stories most of us grew up on, but with a bit of a modern twist.
Look for The Eyes of My Mother in December when it’s released by the fine folks over at Magnet Releasing.
I would love to hear about how the project came...
The Eyes of My Mother recently played at the 2016 Fantastic Fest, and while at the festival, we had a chance to speak with the first-time feature filmmaker about his approach to his haunting character study, working with his incredible lead actress Magalhaes, and how he’s trying to bring back the feeling of the classic horror stories most of us grew up on, but with a bit of a modern twist.
Look for The Eyes of My Mother in December when it’s released by the fine folks over at Magnet Releasing.
I would love to hear about how the project came...
- 9/26/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
“An extreme genre movie with the skin of an art film pulled tightly over its bones.” That’s how our film editor, A.A. Dowd, described Nicolas Pesce’s monochromatic gore thriller The Eyes Of My Mother when he watched it at this year’s Sundance. Now, you can dip into the movie’s bloody, moody world yourself, with a new trailer for the film releasing today.
Centered on Kika Magalhaes’ Francisca—a disturbed young woman raised to be perfectly comfortable cutting apart cow skulls and dipping her hands in viscera by her former-surgeon mother—the trailer mixes lush black-and-white photography with images of blood and death. The Eyes Of My Mother apparently caused loads of walkouts at this year’s festival. We’ll see if it finds an audience with a stronger stomach when it debuts in theaters and on demand on December 2.
Centered on Kika Magalhaes’ Francisca—a disturbed young woman raised to be perfectly comfortable cutting apart cow skulls and dipping her hands in viscera by her former-surgeon mother—the trailer mixes lush black-and-white photography with images of blood and death. The Eyes Of My Mother apparently caused loads of walkouts at this year’s festival. We’ll see if it finds an audience with a stronger stomach when it debuts in theaters and on demand on December 2.
- 9/22/2016
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
Like an intoxicating fever dream, writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother is unlike any film I’ve seen in quite some time, akin to a nightmare you just can’t quite shake off. Breathtakingly shot in black and white, Pesce’s unsettling character study is as heartbreaking as it is depraved, making for an experience that will stay with you long after its gut-wrenching finale.
The Eyes of My Mother starts off innocently enough, introducing a young Francisca (Olivia Bond) as she picks flowers and roams the remote farm she shares with her mother (Diana Agostini) and father (Paul Nazak). There’s a gentleness to Francisca’s world, where she picks flowers and observes nature, but there’s also a bluntness to it as well, as her mother is a former veterinarian who teaches her daughter some of her methods (including decapitating a cow), making for...
The Eyes of My Mother starts off innocently enough, introducing a young Francisca (Olivia Bond) as she picks flowers and roams the remote farm she shares with her mother (Diana Agostini) and father (Paul Nazak). There’s a gentleness to Francisca’s world, where she picks flowers and observes nature, but there’s also a bluntness to it as well, as her mother is a former veterinarian who teaches her daughter some of her methods (including decapitating a cow), making for...
- 8/2/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The beautiful thing about horror is its ever-shifting form. A heavy-metal gorevalanch like Deathgasm defines one extreme of the genre (raucous over-the-top fun), while A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (black-and-white, emotional arthouse) spans the opposite side of a wide-reaching spectrum. Horror can seep into any situation, like how first-time filmmaker Nicolas Pesce corrupts a child’s youth in his ever-haunting debut, The Eyes Of My Mother. Black and white? Check. Ominously forbidding and deeply disturbing? Oh yeah. Horror by way of arthouse exploration? You betcha. Hey, who said genre films can’t get experimental every now and then?
Pesce’s film follows the maturation of Francisca, a sweet country girl whose life is stricken by tragedy. At a young age (played by Olivia Bond), Francisca’s mother (Diana Agostini) was murdered as she sat in the room next-door. Her father (Paul Nazak) arrived home too late for a rescue,...
Pesce’s film follows the maturation of Francisca, a sweet country girl whose life is stricken by tragedy. At a young age (played by Olivia Bond), Francisca’s mother (Diana Agostini) was murdered as she sat in the room next-door. Her father (Paul Nazak) arrived home too late for a rescue,...
- 7/19/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Cherry Falls, starring the late Brittany Murphy, is getting the Blu-ray treatment courtesy of Scream Factory on March 29th! Also: a trailer for Darling, The Eyes of My Mother acquisition news, Nitehawk Cinema's programming schedule for March, Baskin release details, and Everlasting at the Nevermore Film Festival.
Cherry Falls: Press Release: "Lose your innocence…or lose your life. On March 29th, 2016, Scream Factory presents teen thriller Cherry Falls in its Blu-ray debut packed with new extras including audio commentary with Geoffrey Wright and interviews with writer/co-executive producer Ken Selden and producer Marshall Persinger.
A serial killer is stalking the peaceful town of Cherry Falls. At first, it seems that he is just targeting teenagers, but after the third killing, it becomes clear that all the victims have been virgins. When the town's students hear about this, they realize that there is only one way to protect themselves and...
Cherry Falls: Press Release: "Lose your innocence…or lose your life. On March 29th, 2016, Scream Factory presents teen thriller Cherry Falls in its Blu-ray debut packed with new extras including audio commentary with Geoffrey Wright and interviews with writer/co-executive producer Ken Selden and producer Marshall Persinger.
A serial killer is stalking the peaceful town of Cherry Falls. At first, it seems that he is just targeting teenagers, but after the third killing, it becomes clear that all the victims have been virgins. When the town's students hear about this, they realize that there is only one way to protect themselves and...
- 2/13/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired worldwide rights to Nicolas Pesce’s nightmarish debut “The Eyes of My Mother,” the company announced Friday. The film, which stars newcomer Kika Magalhaes, fuses classic horror ingredients with gothic black-and-white imagery. Magnet is planning a theatrical release later this year. “The Eyes of My Mother” stars Magalhaes as Francisca, a young woman who has been unfazed by death from an early age after her mother, a former surgeon, imbued her with a thorough understanding of the human anatomy. When tragedy shatters the family’s idyllic life in the countryside,...
- 2/12/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Plus: FilmBuff take world rights on Thank You For Playing; Arlcight sells Dog Eat Dog; Nancy Cartwright launches Spotted Cow
Magnolia’s genre arm made the The Eyes Of My Mother deal after Nicolas Pesce’s directorial debut premiered in Sundance. The film stars Kika Magalhaes as a sheltered young woman whose dark desires are awakened by a family tragedy. Magnolia International has added the title to its Efm sales slate after Magnolia brokered the deal with UTA Independent Film Group.
FilmBuff has picked up the documentary Thank You For Playing, which follows independent video game developer Ryan Green during the creation of his acclaimed game That Dragon, Cancer based on his youngest son’s battle with terminal cancer.The game was officially released in January. Thank You For Playing will be released in select theatres nationwide on March 18 followed by VOD platforms starting on March 29. The documentary was an official selection of Tribeca, Idfa, and the...
Magnolia’s genre arm made the The Eyes Of My Mother deal after Nicolas Pesce’s directorial debut premiered in Sundance. The film stars Kika Magalhaes as a sheltered young woman whose dark desires are awakened by a family tragedy. Magnolia International has added the title to its Efm sales slate after Magnolia brokered the deal with UTA Independent Film Group.
FilmBuff has picked up the documentary Thank You For Playing, which follows independent video game developer Ryan Green during the creation of his acclaimed game That Dragon, Cancer based on his youngest son’s battle with terminal cancer.The game was officially released in January. Thank You For Playing will be released in select theatres nationwide on March 18 followed by VOD platforms starting on March 29. The documentary was an official selection of Tribeca, Idfa, and the...
- 2/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Commonly known as a lieu that breeds new filmmaking talents, Nicholas Bell and I look back at the filmmakers who made the most noteworthy splash at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Here are our Top 10 New Voices countdown:
#10. Jim Cummings – Thunder Road (Short)
Producer on Patrick Wang’s The Grief of Others and Trey Edward Shults’s Krisha, Jim Cummings showed everyone who is the “boss” with the devilishly funny, conceptually sophisticated and fastidiously well executed short film. In one stroke, Cummings demonstrates a formal rigour, an impressionable, sumptuous pulse and fall-out-of-your-seat choreography. Winner of the top prize with the Short Film Grand Jury Prize, Thunder Road is a crowd pleaser and one heck of a lucky charm calling card. (El)
#9. Bernardo Britto – Jacqueline (Argentine)
On our radar two years back with his animated short (Yearbook), we were quite surprised by the form and the off the chart text...
#10. Jim Cummings – Thunder Road (Short)
Producer on Patrick Wang’s The Grief of Others and Trey Edward Shults’s Krisha, Jim Cummings showed everyone who is the “boss” with the devilishly funny, conceptually sophisticated and fastidiously well executed short film. In one stroke, Cummings demonstrates a formal rigour, an impressionable, sumptuous pulse and fall-out-of-your-seat choreography. Winner of the top prize with the Short Film Grand Jury Prize, Thunder Road is a crowd pleaser and one heck of a lucky charm calling card. (El)
#9. Bernardo Britto – Jacqueline (Argentine)
On our radar two years back with his animated short (Yearbook), we were quite surprised by the form and the off the chart text...
- 2/4/2016
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
Here is where I go off-book for my final Sundance review. The film is Nicolas Pesce‘s frightening The Eyes of My Mother, and I am not its target audience. This was not a pleasant experience for me. In fact, it took a lot to stay in the theater for the full 77-minute running time.
The plot concerns young Francisca (Olivia Bond), who watches her mother murdered at the hands of a psychopath and then becomes complicit with her father (Paul Nazak) in enacting a painful, tortuous amount of vengeance on the man responsible. Francisca, years later (Kika Magalhaes), has lost her father but still has the man, chained in the barn, and literally eating from the palm of her hand. Solitude serves as the fuel for Francisca’s own fractured psychosis, the film revealing itself to be an extended nightmare filmed in beautiful, disconcerting black-and-white by Zach Kuperstein. Magalhaes...
The plot concerns young Francisca (Olivia Bond), who watches her mother murdered at the hands of a psychopath and then becomes complicit with her father (Paul Nazak) in enacting a painful, tortuous amount of vengeance on the man responsible. Francisca, years later (Kika Magalhaes), has lost her father but still has the man, chained in the barn, and literally eating from the palm of her hand. Solitude serves as the fuel for Francisca’s own fractured psychosis, the film revealing itself to be an extended nightmare filmed in beautiful, disconcerting black-and-white by Zach Kuperstein. Magalhaes...
- 2/1/2016
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
And Soon the Darkness: Pesce’s Debut a Superbly Stylized Nightmare
If Portugal were the portal to some Lynchian netherworld of dreams deferred, it would look something like Nicolas Pesce’s sumptuously grotesque directorial debut, The Eyes of My Mother. A striking palette of black and white cinematography from Zach Kuperstein recalls the scarred, destitute lives from the ruins of Arturo Ripstein’s filmography, a macabre yet uncharacteristically sound portrait of psychological unraveling. We all know the kind of potent degeneration to be fashioned on isolated farmhouses where dysfunctional children are paired with musings of surgical practices, as seen in films from Haneke or even last year’s Goodnight Mommy. Pesce, who previously directed multiple music videos, as well as assistant editor on Josh Mond’s James White (2015), debuts a spectacularly gruesome calling card which may deconstruct the notion of the physical lens through which living beings observe the world,...
If Portugal were the portal to some Lynchian netherworld of dreams deferred, it would look something like Nicolas Pesce’s sumptuously grotesque directorial debut, The Eyes of My Mother. A striking palette of black and white cinematography from Zach Kuperstein recalls the scarred, destitute lives from the ruins of Arturo Ripstein’s filmography, a macabre yet uncharacteristically sound portrait of psychological unraveling. We all know the kind of potent degeneration to be fashioned on isolated farmhouses where dysfunctional children are paired with musings of surgical practices, as seen in films from Haneke or even last year’s Goodnight Mommy. Pesce, who previously directed multiple music videos, as well as assistant editor on Josh Mond’s James White (2015), debuts a spectacularly gruesome calling card which may deconstruct the notion of the physical lens through which living beings observe the world,...
- 1/23/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Welcome Home
Director: Angelina Nikonova
Writer(s): Angelina Nikonova, Olga Dykhovichnaya, Karren Karagulian
Producer: Daniela Albin
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Kika Magalhaes, Paulina Simkin, Austin Kennedy
Despite not being noticed by distributors, helmer Angelina Nikonova and for that matter, actress-writer Olga Dykhovichnaya rocked cinephilia foundations with the heavily traveled Twilight Portrait. For her sophomore feature, Nikonova creatively pairs off with Dykhovichnaya again, but this time is working with what could be considered some comedy noir elements on the not so fun joys of immigration and working in the English-language instead of Russian.
Gist: et in NYC, this is about a group of immigrants who have become hostage to their life choices.
Release Date: Having filmed midway last year, this should be ready and searching for a festival fit.
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Director: Angelina Nikonova
Writer(s): Angelina Nikonova, Olga Dykhovichnaya, Karren Karagulian
Producer: Daniela Albin
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Kika Magalhaes, Paulina Simkin, Austin Kennedy
Despite not being noticed by distributors, helmer Angelina Nikonova and for that matter, actress-writer Olga Dykhovichnaya rocked cinephilia foundations with the heavily traveled Twilight Portrait. For her sophomore feature, Nikonova creatively pairs off with Dykhovichnaya again, but this time is working with what could be considered some comedy noir elements on the not so fun joys of immigration and working in the English-language instead of Russian.
Gist: et in NYC, this is about a group of immigrants who have become hostage to their life choices.
Release Date: Having filmed midway last year, this should be ready and searching for a festival fit.
More Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2014 Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #91. Tim Burton’s Big EyesTop 200 Most Anticipated...
- 2/21/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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