2017-05-10T08:13:50-07:00What Killed Mary Tsoni?
Greek actress Mary Tsoni, who starred in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated “Dogtooth,” died on Monday, according to reports in Greek outlets. She was 30.
According to Greek newspaper Espresso, the actress was found dead in her apartment after calling the police. A cause of death has not yet been reported.
Tsoni broke out in Lanthimos’ “Dogtooth,” which was nominated in 2011 for the best foreign-language Oscar and debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. It went on to also screen at the Toronto and Maryland Film Festivals. Tsoni won the best actress prize for the role at the Sarajevo Film Festival, along with her co-star Angeliki Papoulia.
Read the rest of this article at Variety.
Mary Tsoni also appeared in Evil: In the Time of Heroes.
Greek actress Mary Tsoni, who starred in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated “Dogtooth,” died on Monday, according to reports in Greek outlets. She was 30.
According to Greek newspaper Espresso, the actress was found dead in her apartment after calling the police. A cause of death has not yet been reported.
Tsoni broke out in Lanthimos’ “Dogtooth,” which was nominated in 2011 for the best foreign-language Oscar and debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. It went on to also screen at the Toronto and Maryland Film Festivals. Tsoni won the best actress prize for the role at the Sarajevo Film Festival, along with her co-star Angeliki Papoulia.
Read the rest of this article at Variety.
Mary Tsoni also appeared in Evil: In the Time of Heroes.
- 5/10/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
Thirty-year-old actress found dead in her apartment according to reports.
Greek actress Mary Tsoni, best known for her role in the Oscar-nominated film Dogtooth, has died according to The Greek Reporter.
They report that Tsoni, 30, was found dead in her flat in Athens on Monday. Her cause of death is not known.
According to reports she suffered from severe depression.
The actress was found by her close friend and fellow actress, Lewsha Camille Simboura, who wrote a post on social media detailing how she discovered Tsoni.
“Can’t believe I just found Mary Tsoni dead on the 5th floor. Rip. Sorry I didn’t come sooner. Maybe we could have saved you. I felt guilty, as I watched James perform CPR. I should have tried to help you with your sickness.”
Apart from playing the younger daughter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2009 film Dogtooth, Tsoni also starred in Evil and The Northern Street. Her final acting...
Greek actress Mary Tsoni, best known for her role in the Oscar-nominated film Dogtooth, has died according to The Greek Reporter.
They report that Tsoni, 30, was found dead in her flat in Athens on Monday. Her cause of death is not known.
According to reports she suffered from severe depression.
The actress was found by her close friend and fellow actress, Lewsha Camille Simboura, who wrote a post on social media detailing how she discovered Tsoni.
“Can’t believe I just found Mary Tsoni dead on the 5th floor. Rip. Sorry I didn’t come sooner. Maybe we could have saved you. I felt guilty, as I watched James perform CPR. I should have tried to help you with your sickness.”
Apart from playing the younger daughter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2009 film Dogtooth, Tsoni also starred in Evil and The Northern Street. Her final acting...
- 5/9/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Greek actress Mary Tsoni was found dead at her apartment in Athens on Monday, according to Greek Reporter. She was 30 years old. Tsoni was best known in the film world for playing the younger daughter in writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2009 film “Dogtooth.”
Tsoni’s cause of death has not yet been disclosed, but she reportedly suffered from severe depression. She was found by her close friend Lewsha Camille Simboura, also an actress, who wrote a social media post about finding Tsoni. “Sorry I didn’t come sooner. Maybe we could have saved you,” Simboura wrote in the post. “I felt guilty, as I watched James perform CPR. I should have tried to help you with your sickness.”
In addition to “Dogtooth,” which was nominated for the 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year,...
Tsoni’s cause of death has not yet been disclosed, but she reportedly suffered from severe depression. She was found by her close friend Lewsha Camille Simboura, also an actress, who wrote a social media post about finding Tsoni. “Sorry I didn’t come sooner. Maybe we could have saved you,” Simboura wrote in the post. “I felt guilty, as I watched James perform CPR. I should have tried to help you with your sickness.”
In addition to “Dogtooth,” which was nominated for the 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year,...
- 5/9/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Impalement. Exploding heads. Crushed faces. Eviscerations. Geysers of gore. Yep, that's a whole lot to fit in less than two minutes, but it's all here! Get ready for an exclusive clip from Evil in the Time of Heroes!
From the Press Release
Guts and gore, brutality, blood, dark humor… and a serious helping of Billy Zane can all be found in excess in Evil In The Time Of Heroes, writer/director Yorgos Noussias’ outrageous zombie apocalypse action-horror extravaganza set in his native country Greece.
Greece’s first-ever foray into the gnashingly popular zombie apocalypse sub-genre, Evil In The Time Of Heroes is an epic Greek action-horror-comedy zombie film that requires little introduction. An ancient evil has transformed the population of modern-day Athens into flesh-hungry undead—just as it did nearly 3,000 years earlier.
A rag-tag group of four survivors—a taxi driver, a pair of hot-blooded soldiers, and a doctor—must shoot,...
From the Press Release
Guts and gore, brutality, blood, dark humor… and a serious helping of Billy Zane can all be found in excess in Evil In The Time Of Heroes, writer/director Yorgos Noussias’ outrageous zombie apocalypse action-horror extravaganza set in his native country Greece.
Greece’s first-ever foray into the gnashingly popular zombie apocalypse sub-genre, Evil In The Time Of Heroes is an epic Greek action-horror-comedy zombie film that requires little introduction. An ancient evil has transformed the population of modern-day Athens into flesh-hungry undead—just as it did nearly 3,000 years earlier.
A rag-tag group of four survivors—a taxi driver, a pair of hot-blooded soldiers, and a doctor—must shoot,...
- 3/20/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Billy Zane. Zombies. Heroes. Villainy. Flesh eating! Greece. Do we have you attention? Yes, those buzz words more than get our ghosts, and to have 'em all wrapped up into one movie has us grinning from ear to ear. Get ready for Evil in the Time of Heroes!
From the Press Release
Guts and gore, brutality, blood, dark humor… and a serious helping of Billy Zane can all be found in excess in Evil In The Time Of Heroes, writer/director Yorgos Noussias’ outrageous zombie apocalypse action-horror extravaganza set in his native country Greece.
Greece’s first-ever foray into the gnashingly popular zombie apocalypse sub-genre, Evil In The Time Of Heroes is an epic Greek action-horror-comedy zombie film that requires little introduction. An ancient evil has transformed the population of modern-day Athens into flesh-hungry undead—just as it did nearly 3,000 years earlier.
A rag-tag group of four survivors—a taxi driver,...
From the Press Release
Guts and gore, brutality, blood, dark humor… and a serious helping of Billy Zane can all be found in excess in Evil In The Time Of Heroes, writer/director Yorgos Noussias’ outrageous zombie apocalypse action-horror extravaganza set in his native country Greece.
Greece’s first-ever foray into the gnashingly popular zombie apocalypse sub-genre, Evil In The Time Of Heroes is an epic Greek action-horror-comedy zombie film that requires little introduction. An ancient evil has transformed the population of modern-day Athens into flesh-hungry undead—just as it did nearly 3,000 years earlier.
A rag-tag group of four survivors—a taxi driver,...
- 3/3/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Doppelgänger Releasing has acquired North American rights from FilmSharks International to the Greek zombie horror Evil: In The Time Of Heroes.
Bill Schopf from Doppelgänger parent company Music Box Films negotiated the deal at the weekend with Guido Rud of Argentina’s FilmSharks in Buenos Aires.
The deal includes all theatrical, VoD, television and home video rights. Doppelgänger Releasing plans to distribute towards the end of the year.
Yorgos Noussias directed the 2010 sci-fi horror Evil: In The Time Of Heroes about a zombie invasion. Dinos Avgoustidis stars and Billy Zane makes a cameo appearance.
Bill Schopf from Doppelgänger parent company Music Box Films negotiated the deal at the weekend with Guido Rud of Argentina’s FilmSharks in Buenos Aires.
The deal includes all theatrical, VoD, television and home video rights. Doppelgänger Releasing plans to distribute towards the end of the year.
Yorgos Noussias directed the 2010 sci-fi horror Evil: In The Time Of Heroes about a zombie invasion. Dinos Avgoustidis stars and Billy Zane makes a cameo appearance.
- 6/10/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Year: 2010
Directors: Yorgos Noussias
Writers: Claudio Bolivar, Christos Houliaras
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Set just minutes after the ending of the first installment, ‘To Kako: Evil’; To Kako - Evil in the Time of Heroes is a Greek zombie movie directed by Yorgos Noussias, and it’s completely insane. It begins with a group of warriors in ancient Greece, sitting around a camp fire telling jokes (specifically Mrs. Wallace’s ‘Ketchup’ joke from Pulp Fiction – first of about a dozen Tarantino references) before being attacked by bloody zombies. Spin forward two thousand years and we’re in modern Athens and the same thing is going on. Our heroes from the first film are still fleeing the zombie hordes and seeking shelter at the cook’s house, along with a rag tag bunch of survivors including someone we had been led to believe had died in the first film.
Directors: Yorgos Noussias
Writers: Claudio Bolivar, Christos Houliaras
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Set just minutes after the ending of the first installment, ‘To Kako: Evil’; To Kako - Evil in the Time of Heroes is a Greek zombie movie directed by Yorgos Noussias, and it’s completely insane. It begins with a group of warriors in ancient Greece, sitting around a camp fire telling jokes (specifically Mrs. Wallace’s ‘Ketchup’ joke from Pulp Fiction – first of about a dozen Tarantino references) before being attacked by bloody zombies. Spin forward two thousand years and we’re in modern Athens and the same thing is going on. Our heroes from the first film are still fleeing the zombie hordes and seeking shelter at the cook’s house, along with a rag tag bunch of survivors including someone we had been led to believe had died in the first film.
- 11/5/2010
- QuietEarth.us
So, Greek zombie flick Evil In The Time Of Heroes. Where to start? It's ridiculous, frequently abandons any pretence of making logical sense, sticks two fingers up at audience expectations and includes Billy Zane, for no apparent reason. It's also one of the most purely entertaining genre films in years. That's a rather more subjective judgement than usual, given Heroes comes with some nasty flaws, but it's so consistently, hysterically audacious and stupidly excessive it's very difficult not to love it regardless.
Confusing, perhaps, but let's shorten it to Heroes as technically this is the sequel to the earlier Evil - no subtitle, little seen outside of Greece. (Though it's really not necessary to have seen the first to appreciate the second.) So to be fair to Heroes, it makes no bones about being a work of absolute fantasy where plot is practically superfluous, and once it's got the opening...
Confusing, perhaps, but let's shorten it to Heroes as technically this is the sequel to the earlier Evil - no subtitle, little seen outside of Greece. (Though it's really not necessary to have seen the first to appreciate the second.) So to be fair to Heroes, it makes no bones about being a work of absolute fantasy where plot is practically superfluous, and once it's got the opening...
- 11/3/2010
- Screen Anarchy
This past Halloween weekend FilmShaft was entrenched at the Grimm Up North Horror and Sci-Fi Festival in Manchester for three days of horror entertainment. It was a case of the good, the bad and the ugly. Isn’t it always?
The great thing about the programme was the variety. There was interpretations of horror from around the world. Although the Dancehouse has a certain faded and decayed opulence in an art deco kind of way, the sound wasn’t amazing and the screen wasn’t the best. But one images this is what it was like to watch a film in the days before the multiplex and Thx sound.
Below is a selection of what movies stood out and for various reasons.
The Reeds (dir: Nick Cohen, 2010)
Nick Cohen’s low budget British horror/ghost story, The Reeds, is an atmospheric and well shot film. The plot is a bit hard to keep track of,...
The great thing about the programme was the variety. There was interpretations of horror from around the world. Although the Dancehouse has a certain faded and decayed opulence in an art deco kind of way, the sound wasn’t amazing and the screen wasn’t the best. But one images this is what it was like to watch a film in the days before the multiplex and Thx sound.
Below is a selection of what movies stood out and for various reasons.
The Reeds (dir: Nick Cohen, 2010)
Nick Cohen’s low budget British horror/ghost story, The Reeds, is an atmospheric and well shot film. The plot is a bit hard to keep track of,...
- 11/2/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Grimmupnorth 2010 is coming to Manchester for a second time this Halloween! Readers may remember last year’s coverage from the first Grimmfest last October ‘09. Well, we’re going back for more this year too. Festival director Simeon Halligan and his crew have spent all year finding some amazing new titles to screen at Manchester’s biggest horror film festival, including Evil: In The Time Of Heroes, which I missed at Eiff so am well up for seeing. There’s also the inventively named Canadian shocker, Dead Hooker In A Trunk, the Japanese genre mash-up Alien Vs Ninja, Thai thriller Slice, Zombie mock-u-mentary Reel Zombies and a horror doc featuring all kinds of industry insiders, The Splat Pack. There’s also a ton of activities and seminars for festival goers to participate in too. Personally I’m looking forward to the special screening for my favourite Argento film, Deep Red.
- 10/14/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The 2010 Toronto After Dark Film Festival has just announced their lineup of films for this year. The fest runs from August 13 – 20 and features the best horror, sci-fi, action and cult films from around the world. They have some truly awesome, strange and ridiculous films playing this year, so don’t miss it!
Here are our picks for some of your best bets playing at this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Fest.
For more details check out the full schedule here.
Alien vs. Ninja
Directed by Seiji Chiba, Yuji Shimomura
Have you ever wanted to see deadly ninjas go toe-to-toe with vicious aliens? If you answered yes, then this is the film for you. Think of Alien vs. Ninja as a Japanese take on Predator, minus the muscles and the budget, and instead of commandos you have sword-wielding ninjas. The title of the film is truth in advertising, by all...
Here are our picks for some of your best bets playing at this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Fest.
For more details check out the full schedule here.
Alien vs. Ninja
Directed by Seiji Chiba, Yuji Shimomura
Have you ever wanted to see deadly ninjas go toe-to-toe with vicious aliens? If you answered yes, then this is the film for you. Think of Alien vs. Ninja as a Japanese take on Predator, minus the muscles and the budget, and instead of commandos you have sword-wielding ninjas. The title of the film is truth in advertising, by all...
- 7/29/2010
- by Will
- DorkShelf.com
This year’s Fantasia is taking a while to get off the ground horror-wise, and it wasn’t until the second evening of the festival that we saw the first real horror related film of this year’s program, the documentary Herschell Gordon Lewis - The Godfather of Gore (review here).
The movie was thoroughly entertaining, containing tons of stories straight from Herschell, his collaborators, and high profile fans such as John Waters and Joe Bob Briggs. The screening was attended by the filmmaking team, Jimmy Maslon, Mike Vraney, and the always hilarious and informative Frank Henenlotter. The man himself, H.G. Lewis was also on hand to answer questions, and lead the Fantasia audience through a rollicking rendition of the 2000 Maniacs theme song! Yeeeeee-Haw!
Saturday was the first of many full-day movie watching sessions, and included the Greek zombie apocalypse flick Evil in the Time of Heroes, dysfunctional British family crime comedy Down Terrace,...
The movie was thoroughly entertaining, containing tons of stories straight from Herschell, his collaborators, and high profile fans such as John Waters and Joe Bob Briggs. The screening was attended by the filmmaking team, Jimmy Maslon, Mike Vraney, and the always hilarious and informative Frank Henenlotter. The man himself, H.G. Lewis was also on hand to answer questions, and lead the Fantasia audience through a rollicking rendition of the 2000 Maniacs theme song! Yeeeeee-Haw!
Saturday was the first of many full-day movie watching sessions, and included the Greek zombie apocalypse flick Evil in the Time of Heroes, dysfunctional British family crime comedy Down Terrace,...
- 7/11/2010
- by EvilAndy
- DreadCentral.com
Carl reviews Greek zombie horror Evil – In The Time Of Heroes. Is this the Greek Shaun Of The Dead? And why is Billy Zane in it?
When you read in the brochure for a film festival that there is a Greek zombie film in the line-up, it turns into a ‘must-see'. Then you read a little more and find out that Billy Zane makes a cameo in this fairly low budget flick as a time-travelling zombie-killing monk, it goes from 'must-see' to 'definitely cannot miss, even if zombies attack'.
It picks up where the first film Evil (To kako) left off, which, for most of the crowd at this showing, was potentially confusing. Roughly two people in the Cameo had seen the original, so for the rest of us, the little bit of back story we get is greatly appreciated.
One of the characters is shown to die somewhere in the first film,...
When you read in the brochure for a film festival that there is a Greek zombie film in the line-up, it turns into a ‘must-see'. Then you read a little more and find out that Billy Zane makes a cameo in this fairly low budget flick as a time-travelling zombie-killing monk, it goes from 'must-see' to 'definitely cannot miss, even if zombies attack'.
It picks up where the first film Evil (To kako) left off, which, for most of the crowd at this showing, was potentially confusing. Roughly two people in the Cameo had seen the original, so for the rest of us, the little bit of back story we get is greatly appreciated.
One of the characters is shown to die somewhere in the first film,...
- 6/27/2010
- Den of Geek
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Edinburgh International Film Festival this afternoon published their full line-up for 2010, and it’s looking good. Check out the website - www.edfilmfest.org.uk
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
- 6/1/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Year: 2009
Directors: Yorgos Noussias
Writers: Yorgos Noussias & Claudio Bolivar & Christos Houliaras & Petros Nousias
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Joseph Proimakis
Rating: 6 out of 10
[Editor's note: Special thanks to Joseph Proimakis of Movies for the Masses for the following review]
Starting off with an impressive opening sequence, Evil in the Time of Heroes will catch Greek speakers off guard by employing Ancient Greek dialogue, but then again, the film’s greatest catch, is the premise that the Evil that spread over modern day Athens three days ago (or 5 years ago, in the viewers’ timeline, when the original film wowed local audiences and critics alike) had its roots in ancient times and made its first appearance 2,800 years ago.
Hopes of well-tanned hunks prancing around in sandals, capes and underwear chopping undead heads off of undead bodies, are quickly put to rest, though, as the ancient-time version of the story proves to be an under-used subplot, that only comes to surface in time to remind you that there’s a better story there,...
Directors: Yorgos Noussias
Writers: Yorgos Noussias & Claudio Bolivar & Christos Houliaras & Petros Nousias
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Joseph Proimakis
Rating: 6 out of 10
[Editor's note: Special thanks to Joseph Proimakis of Movies for the Masses for the following review]
Starting off with an impressive opening sequence, Evil in the Time of Heroes will catch Greek speakers off guard by employing Ancient Greek dialogue, but then again, the film’s greatest catch, is the premise that the Evil that spread over modern day Athens three days ago (or 5 years ago, in the viewers’ timeline, when the original film wowed local audiences and critics alike) had its roots in ancient times and made its first appearance 2,800 years ago.
Hopes of well-tanned hunks prancing around in sandals, capes and underwear chopping undead heads off of undead bodies, are quickly put to rest, though, as the ancient-time version of the story proves to be an under-used subplot, that only comes to surface in time to remind you that there’s a better story there,...
- 9/30/2009
- QuietEarth.us
A few years back an ultra low budget little Greek film made its squishy entrance onto the circuit of international genre film festivals, turning more than a few heads with its devotion to splatter and ability to turn up the tension on a shoestring budget. That film - To Kako or Evil - managed to land itself a North American distribution deal and, though it left us with Athens swarmed by an unstoppable zombie horde, screenwriter and director Yorgos Noussias has found a novel way of continuing the story.
It’s a three step process. First, up the production values, a step undertaken with the help of the Red digital camera which is sure to get things looking better. Second, stunt casting. Even better, recognizable stunt casting, in this case Billy Zane in the lead as a wandering prophet. Third, a good head scratching “Huh?” sort of moment.
I’ve...
It’s a three step process. First, up the production values, a step undertaken with the help of the Red digital camera which is sure to get things looking better. Second, stunt casting. Even better, recognizable stunt casting, in this case Billy Zane in the lead as a wandering prophet. Third, a good head scratching “Huh?” sort of moment.
I’ve...
- 10/15/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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