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‘The Sonata’ Strikes A Terrifying Note In New Trailer

Sonata: “A composition for an instrumental soloist, often with piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.” Director Andrew Desmond‘s new supernatural thriller The Sonata will strike a chord with viewers this January when it arrives in theaters. Today, we have the dark and beautiful trailer to share with you. Starring Freya Tingley, Rutger Hauer, Simon Abkarian, and James Faulkner, the film centers on a young virtuoso violinist Rose (Freya Tingley) who after being informed of the sudden death of her long lost composer father (Rutger Hauer), inherits an old mansion in which he used to live. There, she discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious music score marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles (Simon Abkarian), her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, little by little starts to unlock secrets concerning her father’s past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a somber plan imagined since the very day she was

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Dec 17, 2019
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Movie Reviews: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

Special guest coauthor: Chris Weatherspoon The 23rd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), the largest genre film fest in both its home of South Korea and of Asia as well, took place about a month earlier than its preceding editions (running June 27–July 7 this year) and delivered one of its strongest lineups in recent memory. BIFAN boasted horror, thriller, action, and other genre films of all stripes from around the world. Following are our thoughts on five of the fest’s offerings. Chris Weatherspoon: Irish horror-comedy Extra Ordinary is the feature debut for writing/directing team Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman. Comedian Maeve Higgins (Inside Amy Schumer) stars as Rose Dooley, a bumbling spinster who earns her living as a driving instructor; however, Rose is far from being an ordinary, lonely middle-aged woman, as the movie’s title notes. Rose has the ability to communicate with the dead and to exorcise ghosts, but a childhood incident has left her traumatized, and for

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Nov 4, 2019

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Horror Fuel

‘The Sonata’ Strikes A Terrifying Note In New Trailer

Sonata: “A composition for an instrumental soloist, often with piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.” Director Andrew Desmond‘s new supernatural thriller The Sonata will strike a chord with viewers this January when it arrives in theaters. Today, we have the dark and beautiful trailer to share with you. Starring Freya Tingley, Rutger Hauer, Simon Abkarian, and James Faulkner, the film centers on a young virtuoso violinist Rose (Freya Tingley) who after being informed of the sudden death of her long lost composer father (Rutger Hauer), inherits an old mansion in which he used to live. There, she discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious music score marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles (Simon Abkarian), her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, little by little starts to unlock secrets concerning her father’s past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a somber plan imagined since the very day she was

Continue reading →
Dec 17, 2019
Horror Fuel

Movie Reviews: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

Special guest coauthor: Chris Weatherspoon The 23rd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), the largest genre film fest in both its home of South Korea and of Asia as well, took place about a month earlier than its preceding editions (running June 27–July 7 this year) and delivered one of its strongest lineups in recent memory. BIFAN boasted horror, thriller, action, and other genre films of all stripes from around the world. Following are our thoughts on five of the fest’s offerings. Chris Weatherspoon: Irish horror-comedy Extra Ordinary is the feature debut for writing/directing team Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman. Comedian Maeve Higgins (Inside Amy Schumer) stars as Rose Dooley, a bumbling spinster who earns her living as a driving instructor; however, Rose is far from being an ordinary, lonely middle-aged woman, as the movie’s title notes. Rose has the ability to communicate with the dead and to exorcise ghosts, but a childhood incident has left her traumatized, and for

Continue reading →
Nov 4, 2019