5150 Elm's Way - Trailer for French horror

5150 ELM'S WAY is located at the end of a quiet street in a small town. When Yannick fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jack Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Ian. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.

Source: Quiet Earth

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LOOP_0152 - Trailer for Japanese Groundhog Day style film

Atsumi Nogami plays a girl named Kana who’s working through the night to finish a report due the next day. Suddenly there’s an earthquake followed by a strange flash of light and she notices time has somehow jumped backward from 4:01am to 1:52am. She discovers that she’s trapped in a time loop that keeps repeating itself. Can she find a way to escape this anomaly?

Source: Quiet Earth

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Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) - Trailer for new film by Kore-Eda Hirokazu

Apparantly this was one of the most critically acclaimed works at the Toronto, Tribeca, and San Francisco International Film Festivals.

Fifteen years ago, Junpei, the youngest son of the Yokoyama family died while rescuing a boy from drowning. On the anniversary of his death, the remaining siblings visit the quaint home of their parents with their families in tow. Over the course of a beautiful day, new relatives become acquainted telling stories and squabbling over sizzling tempura and an elegant graveside ritual is performed for Junpei. Recalling the delicate splendor of Yasujiro Ozu's TOKYO STORY, Kore-Eda shows complete mastery of his characters while revealing the complex dynamics of an ultimately loving family with humor and warmth.

Due out on 28th August.

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De Día O De Noche (By Day or By Night) - Trailer for Mexican sci-fi

This sounds like an interesting sci-fi film. The excellent Quiet Earth people did it again.

This trailer is about 8 minutes long so more of a short visit to the film where half the population live by day and half by night. Looks very nice. Let me know what you thought of it.

The story happens in the future and shows us how Mexico has changed: since everything is handled differently, we are very controlled and uniform, we are all equal and there is no physical contact or emotion. The government keeps the people repressed.

Furthermore, as a result of an enzyme located in the DNA, half the people left in cataleptic state to leave the sun, while the other half awake. (This is roughly translated). [So I'm guessing half the people live by day, and the other half by night.] However, emotions have not completely disappeared, only being anesthetized by the way of life to which they have been subjected by the authorities. Also,one of the characters Aurora meets a young man who works in the same place as her, but at night, and they fall in love.

De día o de noche trailer
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Hierro - Trailer

While travelling by ferry to the island of El Hierro, Maria (Elena Alaya) loses her young son Diego. Has he fallen overboard? Has he been abducted? Nobody knows. Diego simply vanishes. Six months later, Maria is fighting to overcome the pain of her loss, to pick up the pieces and continue with her life, when she receives an unexpected call. A child’s body has been discovered. She must return to El Hierro. On the island, in this strange and threatening landscape, surrounded by sinister, malevolent characters, Maria is forced to confront her worst nightmares. As she travels the terrible path that will lead to her son, Maria will make the most unbearable discovery of all - that some mysteries should never be revealed.

Exclusive Hierro trailer
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Source: Quiet Earth

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Les derniers jours du monde (This is the End) - Trailer for the end of the World French style

This French film seems like it could be set in the same world as the excellent Last Night (check out the review), but with added sauciness!

It stars Mathieu Amalric (Quantum of Solace) and directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu.

It's the last days on earth; a global apocalypse is about to destroy all mankind. As a final quest, a man (Robinson) sets on a journey from France to Spain, searching for the woman he once madly loved (Laetitia).

But as the world is turning upside down, Robinson’s odyssey takes an unexpected turn: most people - in the light of panic - have decided to simply enjoy their last days on the planet...In deserted castles and empty hotels, the few remaining survivors Robinson meets abandon themselves to some last moments of pleasure and lust.

Still, Robinson, though not refusing some temptations, is determined to reunite one last time with Laetitia, even if this means heading back to the high danger zone Paris...

What would you do if the world was to end tomorrow?

Les Derniers jours du monde trailer

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2033 - Trailer for Mexican sci-fi film

It is the year 2033 in Mexico City, now called Villaparaiso (Paradise City). A military government controls society, taking from it its religious faith and freedom of expression. The main characters are Pablo and a “hidden” priest, known as Father Miguel, who transforms his life. Pablo leaves his privileged life in order to aid the helpless and destroy this system which controls the people through an addictive drink called “Pactia.” In this way he fights alongside the “believers’ to bring down the regime. Along the way, he meets Lucía, who gives him a reason to live.

Source: Quiet Earth

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Запрещённая реальность (Forbidden Reality) - Russian Sci-Fi

Not sure what is going on in this trailer for Russian sci-fi film Запрещённая реальность (Forbidden Reality), but it looks very nice. Any Russian readers care to translate it in the comments?

Based on the novel by very popular sci-fi writer Vasiliy Golovachev, the film tells a story of an agent betrayed by his partner when transporting new psychic weapon. Believed to be dead, he escapes and takes new identity so he can live in peace far away. But later he is forced to return to Moscow to confront a secret organization, led by his former partner, that attempts to use the dangerous weapon in order to take control over the country. Now he is a key figure in the battle between forces of darkness and light.

Source: Twitch

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Chaw - Giant Pig Horror

Chaw - Trailer
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The Coffin - Trailer for Thai Horror

In Thailand, there is a legend that if you lie in a coffin for one night, then you can fool the grim reaper and escape bad luck. To prolong his girlfriend's life, Australia-raised Thai architect Chris overcomes his claustrophobia and participates in the mass coffin ritual. Diagnosed with terminal cancer one week before her wedding, Hong Kong nutritionist Sue (Karen Mok) also runs off to Thailand for the ritual in hopes of cheating death. Soon after the ritual, however, Chris and Sue realize there are consequences worse than death as they begin to encounter strange and terrifying paranormal experiences.

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Adrift - Trailer for Vincent Cassel's new film

Spending summer with her family, Filipa, a fourteen-year old girl, suffers through the rite of passage into adulthood while discovering love for the first time. A rite filled with anguish when she learns that her father, an author, is having an affair with a foreign woman who lives nearby. But this secret is to be only the first in a series, both enchanting and painful, which she discovers about her family and herself.

This trailer is in Portuguese with French subtitles but it looks good.

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Symbol - Weird trailer. Wait until you see what comes out of the walls

A definite teaser trailer for Hitoshi Matsumoto's (Big Man Japan) next film, Symbol. I haven't got a clue what it is about, but I want to know more.

It is due out on 12 September 2009. Have a watch and let me know your thoughts on it.

Symbol teaser

Source: Quiet Earth

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9 - Not the puppet film. This one is a Thai horror

No one can remember what they have done in a past life, but the one we hurt will never forgive….. At his mother’s insistence, Nat, a young architect unwillingly takes a journey to 9 different temples in order to cleanse his bad Karma. He is accompanied by Poon, his beauty columnist girlfriend and Sujitto, a young monk who is responsible for the chant to purify bad Karma. All three characters have different reasons for taking the trip, but later on they discover they have been thrown together for unforeseeable reasons. A karma committed by one person can relate to that of others. Horrifying acts done in their previous lives reveal themselves as the journey goes by. The more they try to cleanse Nat’s Karma by making merit, the closer they get to “THEM.”

Source: 24FPS

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Ichi - Trailer for female Zatoichi blind swordswoman film

Blind and beautiful travelling singer Ichi has been wandering the country searching for her teacher, a blind masseur who taught her the way of the sword when she was a child. She reluctantly gains a travelling companion when kind-hearted samurai Toma (Osawa Takao) tries to save her from a group of thugs, and ends up needing to being saved himself. After Ichi dispels the thugs with a flash of the sword hidden in her walking stick, the two roll into a village being terrorized by a gang led by the ruthless Banki (Nakamura Shido). Though Ichi isn't interested in fighting, she soon gets drawn into the lethal battle between good and evil.

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Life in One Day (Het leven uit een dag) - Trailer

This has a great story and reminds me of an old 2000AD Future Shock tale. It is based on a book by A. F. Th. van der Heijden.

In a world in which a human life lasts just one day and where every action is a one-off, a boy and a girl fall so in love that they cannot bear this existence where everything happens only once. In the belief that they can prolong their love they flee to hell.

Quiet Earth found the trailer and one of their readers gave this translation of the trailer.

You all know that in our life -which lasts one day- all mentionable events and feelings happen only one time.
So pay attention, because everything will be explained only once.
[ What's you're name?
Gini, and you? ]
Life and also love derives it's great intensity from this.
As in all important happenings in our life, also the act of love happens only once and can not be repeated.
[ The feeling I just had with you, I want to feel it again.
Benny what do you want?
To the world of repetition. To the place where we repeatedly can feel what we just felt.
But how do we get there? ]
For reasons of protecting the society the court hereby orders the suspect to death.
[[ Two loved ones ]]
[[ In a different world ]]
[[ Looking for each other ]]
I'm looking for my girlfriend.
Did you think you were the only one?
Maybe she has found someone else?
If he doesn't show up you must fall in love with someone else as fast as possible.
Is she here or is she not here?
It's useless to believe in everlasting love. Also here.
Do you really love me?
I think you are my true love.
We are meant for each other Gini. We will find each other no matter where.
[[ Life in one day ]]
[[ September third in Cinema's ]]

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Murderer - International Trailer

A Hong Kong-set mystery centered on a detective who has been framed for a series of gruesome murders.

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Cadaver - Trailer

I posted the eye catching poster for this Korean film yesterday and now the trailer is with us.

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Cadaver - Bit of a shocking poster for this Korean film

In a cold dark shaded anatomy class, 6 medical students perform their first dissection. They shiver with their first meeting of a deadly beautiful cadaver. They, still in fear, apply a scalpel on her body in turns. After the class, they start having same nightmares and get killed one by one having the same cut in the chest as the female cadaver had...

Source: STYD

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Vertige - Trailer for terror in the mountains

A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned, especially as they soon realize that they are not alone. The adventure turns into a nightmare.

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A Girl Cut in Two (La Fille coupée en deux) - International Trailer

A French TV weather girl is torn between a older man - a famous married author whom she loves but who won't leave his wife - and the semi-deranged young heir to an industrial fortune who loves her. In the end she gets married to the younger man, but he starts to become obsessed with her love for his rival.

Written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Starring Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel and François Berléand.

Due out on 11th July 2008
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