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"You need to hurry. The sea is coming back faster than we expected." Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed an official US trailer for a sci-fi survival thriller called Survive, which gets a US release on VOD in January. It's made by a French filmmaker named Frédéric Jardin, who made the kick ass night club thriller Sleepless Night (2011), which we raved about and promoted years ago. This is his first feature film since then, as he's been directing TV series instead. A couple celebrates their son's birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits & brings up hungry creatures from the depths as they fight for their survival. The apocalyptic concept involves the oceans disappearing due to the polarity being reversed, and how the world is massively changed, following one family struggling to survive. Starring Andreas Pietschmann, Émilie Dequenne, Lisa Delamar, & Lucas Ebel. This is a...

Severin Launches New Seasonal Ghost Story Series On Shudder This December: "From boutique label Severin Films and renowned author, producer and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse comes new annual series The Haunted Season.

Created by Janisse and executive produced by Severin Films, new episodes of The Haunted Season will arrive on Shudder each December with chilling short form horror tales in the tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas. Future episodes will be announced each year as the holiday season approaches.

The first of these original commissioned productions comes from director Sean Hogan, called To Fire You Come at Last.

In 17th century England, near a rural village where unquiet spirits gather, a grieving Squire hires three local men to help carry his son’s coffin to a graveyard across the countryside. But as darkness descends upon their journey, disturbing secrets will be revealed. Violence will rise to the surface. And as...

The French creature feature Survive is making its way to North America, as Deadline reports that Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up the distribution rights and are planning to give the film a theatrical and VOD release sometime in January.

Directed by Frédéric Jardin and from a screenplay written by Matt Alexander (which is actually a shared pseudonym for Mathieu Oullion and Alexandre Coquelle), Survive follows Julia and her loving husband who celebrate their son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans. The family must race to safety before the water returns all while battling hungry creatures from the abyss that hunt for fresh flesh. That sounds like a set-up for a good time to me!

The film stars Emilie Dequenne...

Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to French survival thriller, Survive, starring Emilie Dequenne (Close), Andreas Pietschmann (Dark), Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, and Arben Bajraktaraj. Pic is getting a release in theaters and on VOD in January.

The pic, directed by Frédéric Jardin and written by Matt Alexander, follows Julia and her loving husband who celebrate their son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans. The family must race to safety before the water returns all while battling hungry creatures from the abyss that hunt for fresh flesh.

The movie is produced by Marc Stanimirovic, Marc-Etienne Schwartz with Ludovic Naar as executive producer.

“Survive is a gripping adventure with high production value and a strong emotional core...

Low-budget limitations work in this French thriller’s favour, in which Earth is turned upside down

At one point in this smart, low-budget French disaster movie/post-apocalyptic thriller, teenager Ben (Lucas Ebel) pees into an unplumbed toilet dumped in the wasteland. It’s a moment emblematic of Frédéric Jardin’s film; it makes little practical sense, but is packed with arresting images and proceeds with something close to the dream logic of Luc Besson’s debut The Last Battle, and the great comic-book artist Moebius.

Ben is on a Caribbean family cruise with his revoltingly-in-love parents, Julia (Émilie Dequenne) and Tom (Andreas Pietschmann), and his just-plain-revolting older sister, Cassie (Lisa Delamar). After nervy whales graze their yacht, satellites fall burning through the atmosphere and a cataclysm begins, they awake to find their boat stranded on top of a promontory in an infinite desert. Go-getter dad Tom, who likes solutions, quickly...

Stars: Andreas Pietschmann, Émilie Dequenne, Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, Olivier Ho Hio Hen, Arben Bajraktaraj | Written by Alexandre Coquelle, Mathieu Oullion | Directed by Frédéric Jardin

Opening with on-screen text, Survive sets up the terror to come by highlighting how the Earth has experienced five mass extinction events since it’s formation. The most ominous part appears in the next line, which reads “The sixth is just beginning.”

Director Frédéric Jardin (2011’s excellent Sleepless Night) then focuses on a yacht cruising the Caribbean sea. Inhabiting it is a family made up of German oceanographer Tom (Andreas Pietschmann). his French doctor wife Julia (Émilie Dequenne), and their teenage children Cassie (Lisa Delamar) and Ben (Lucas Ebel). Their celebrations for Ben’s 13th birthday are cut short by a violent storm, leading to a rough night which nearly capsizes the yacht.

When the family awaken, they are shocked to discover that they are in a post-apocalyptic desert landscape.

You don’t have to know nothing about science in order to enjoy Frédéric Jardin’s family-focused fantasy romp about the perils of magnetic pole reversal, but it helps.

Screened as part of Frightfest 2024, it follows doctor Julia (Émilie Dequenne), her husband Tom (Andreas Pietschmann) and their teenagers Cassie (Lisa Delamar) and Ben (Lucas Ebel), who are taking a boat trip to celebrate the latter’s 13th birthday. If you’re going to name your boat the Orca, like the one in Jaws, it could be said that you’re asking for trouble, but it’s not a shark that gets Julia into trouble in the water in the first sign that something is wrong. Later, when Cassie is video chatting with her boyfriend back home, a spectacular thunderstorm is taking place in the background. Whales progress past the boat in some number, away from their usual route – and then there are repeated.

"This is going to be really violent." Yes it definitely looks like it. Signature Entertainment in the UK has revealed an official English-language UK trailer for a sci-fi survival thriller called Survive. The film is from a French filmmaker named Frédéric Jardin, who made the kick ass night club thriller Sleepless Night (2011), which we raved about and promoted years ago. This is his first feature film since then, as he's been directing TV series instead. A couple celebrates their son's birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and brings up hungry creatures from the depths as they fight for their survival. The apocalyptic concept involves the oceans disappearing due to the polarity being reversed, and how the world is massively changed, following one family struggling to survive. Starring Andreas Pietschmann, Émilie Dequenne, Lisa Delamar, and Lucas Ebel. As much as I am usually...

The 25th edition of the Pigeon Shrine FrightFest promises to be an unforgettable celebration of horror cinema, taking place between 22 August to 26 August 2024.

It’s hard to comprehend just how many films will be on offer to see at this fantastic event, so we have broken down each of the screens into articles for you to digest. And we may have saved the best (this one) until last!

We have already detailed what will be on offer in Discovery Screen 1, Discovery Screen 2 and Discovery Screen 3 across the long weekend.

Now it’s time to read about the final list of films on offer, detailed below. Read on for the film programme for the Main Screen, at the Cineworld, Leicester Square.

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 – Main Screen Thursday, 22 August 2024

5:30 Pm – Opening Film: Broken Bird (World Premiere) Directed by Joanne Mitchell and starring Rebecca Calder, James Fleet, Jay Taylor, and Sacharissa Claxton,...