Surveillance - Featurette - A Terrible Terrible Crime

Director Jennifer Lynch talks about her latest film. Check out the review.

Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch

Cast: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James

Release: 26th June 2009

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Hisss - Second trailer for the snake woman film

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Hisss - There is finally an official trailer for Snake Woman horror film

Hisss follows a ruthless American who, fascinated by the ancient folklore of the Nagin, travels to India to find out the truth. In the jungles of India he captures the mate of the nagin for the magical powers of its Nagmani, a mythical gem embedded in its hood. The Nagin transforms into a femme fatale and comes to the modern world to track down her lover. She wreaks revenge on those who stand in the way of their reunion and also on her mate’s captors. Her desperate search and subsequent quest for revenge results in a breakneck chase with a trail of bodies and narrow escapes.

HISSS was written & directed by Jennifer Lynch (BOXING HELENA, SURVEILLANCE), and stars seductive Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat.

This looks pretty cool from the trailer, but be warned there is lots of blood, violence, sexy ladies, mud, transforming snake monsters and fast cuts. In fact you see the snake creature quite a few times so spoiler warning ahoy.

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Hisss - Trailer for Jenny Lynch's snake woman horror film is out

Hisss is directed by Jennifer Lynch (Surveillance) and is due to debut at the Cannes Film Festival. I posted some photos a while back for this, but now a trailer has hit the web.

It stars Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat as the Snake Lady and Jeff Doucette. The FX is by Robert Kurtzman (FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, ARMY OF DARKNESS).

HISSS is a modern day retelling of the ancient tale of the ichhadahari nagin (snake woman) and follows a ruthless American, fascinated by the ancient folklore of the mythical creature, who travels to the jungles of India to discover the truth. He finds and captures the nagin’s mate for the magical powers of its nagmani, a mythical gem embedded in its hood. The nagin then transforms into a gorgeous femme fatale and follows him back into the modern world to track down her lover and wreak revenge on his captors and all who stand in the way of their reunion.

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Hisss - Photo of Bollywood Snake Lady in Jennifer Lynch's new film

Director Jennifer Lynch (BOXING HELENA, SURVEILLANCE), seductive Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat (MURDER), F/X master Robert Kurtzman (FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, ARMY OF DARKNESS), the film’s villainous American star Jeff Doucette (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), producer Govind Menon and co-producer Will Keenan are going to be at Los Angeles for FANGORIA’S WEEKEND OF HORRORS event next week at the LA Convention Center on Saturday, April 18th.

HISSS is a modern day retelling of the ancient tale of the ichhadahari nagin (snake woman) and follows a ruthless American, fascinated by the ancient folklore of the mythical creature, who travels to the jungles of India to discover the truth. He finds and captures the nagin’s mate for the magical powers of its nagmani, a mythical gem embedded in its hood. The nagin then transforms into a gorgeous femme fatale and follows him back into the modern world to track down her lover and wreak revenge on his captors and all who stand in the way of their reunion.

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Surveillance - International Trailer

I posted a review for Jennifer Lynch's film, Surveillance, a while back. Now we have another trailer for it and it's looking very good. It's out in June.

Two FBI agents, Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman), arrive at a local police station in the Santa Fe desert to investigate a series of murders. They interrogate three Witness|eyewitnesses: Police officer Jack Bennet, the meth-addict Bobby, and Stephanie, an eight-year-old girl, whose family was murdered by two figures dressed in jumpsuits and latex masks.

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Two federal officers have a string of murders to solve and three sets of stories to decipher. With Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond. Directed by Jennifer Lynch.

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Surveillance, 2008 - Review and Trailer for film by Jennifer Lynch (That's David Lynch's daughter don't you know)

Director: Jennifer Lynch
Starring: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Michael Ironside, Pell James, Ryan Simpkins
Running Time: 98 minutes
Score: 7 / 10

This review by Bob Doto over on Quiet Earth. I'm a big fan of all things Lynchian so here is a bit more on his daughter's latest.

Two FBI agents come to town to investigate a handful of gruesome murders by some eerily masked villains, and interview three recent witnesses to their most recent blood fest. Each person has a vastly different version of the story to tell.

Every five minutes while watching Surveillance, my appreciation of the film shifted. My first thought after having seen roughly 15-20 super low-budget shorts over the course of a weekend, was “Oh. This is a ‘real movie’ with a budget.” Then I thought “But, it’s kind of got a low-budget feel to it. I like that.” Then I’m thinking to myself “Why is Bill Pullman acting like he’s got to go to the bathroom all the time?” Then I was like, “This movie is soooooo dramatic.” After which I thought, “Why are they making it so obvious that I’m not supposed to see certain key clues in the story? That’s annoying.” Then of course, “God. Did you have to show me all that violence in such detail?” And finally as the ending started to unfold, “Ooooooh. Now I get it. You got me. Now I like it.” What a frickin’ rollercoaster.

What’s amazing about writer/director Jennifer Chambers Lynch (Boxing Helena, daughter of David and Peggy Lynch) and writer Kent Harper is not that they convinced me to loath every single character in their film (including that practically mute and supposed to be likable pig-tailed wunderkind), but that I actually stayed around to see what became of their fates. Frankly, when you’ve seen as many films as I have at this year’s NYHFF, you just don’t get off that easy. If your story revolves around the lives of absolutely despicable and heinous beat cops, a heartless lying junky and her equally stellar boyfriend, and a family of oblivious yuppies you’ve got to give me something besides beautiful Southwestern desert to keep me from bailing.

How did they do it?

Well, A. I’m a sucker for the way this film is shot: nice and wide, naturalistic, scenically understated. B. The characters were so awful to one another that I almost couldn’t leave without seeing if what I was in fact seeing was true. C. Bill Pullman’s twitchy mouth. Weird! And D. I just wasn’t sure if what I was watching was an example of dramatic genius or totally ignorant as to what makes character relations believable. I THINK it leans closer to dramatic genius, but it is held back by its overt occultation of information.

And what, may you ask, is “overt occultation of information?” That is the annoyance of a movie that doesn’t show you what the little girl in the interrogation room drew with crayons when everyone else in the film sees it and practically craps their pants. It’s also when the same little girl whispers into someone’s ear something really profound, but you don’t get to hear it because we’re obeying the laws of third-person semi-omniscience (but only when it’s convenient). It’s a ten-cent trick suitable only for the worst of television drama.

So, what’s to think about this film? I can’t give it more than seven, because it exemplifies the worst of manipulative dramatic cinema, but I can give it a solid seven because the film is rather stunning to watch and the story will definitely catch you off guard.

How do you like the sound of that? Will you see it when it eventually gets released?

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