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In today's Horror Highlights, we have details on the fifth Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, a new clip and link to a featurette for Phoenix Forgotten, and two clips from Inner Demon.

Stranger With My Face International Film Festival: Press Release: "The 5th edition of Stranger With My Face International Film Festival will take place in Hobart from 4-7 May, with a line-up of feature films, a shorts program, a symposium, industry events and an art exhibition. Stranger With My Face focuses on women's perspectives in genre filmmaking with an emphasis on horror and related genres.

The 2017 program includes a retrospective of the celebrated New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston; the Tasmanian premiere of the all-female horror anthology Xx with one of the filmmakers, Roxanne Benjamin, in person; and a screening of Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs with its cinematographer, Sandi Sissel Asc.

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So has Halle Berry been struck with the Oscar curse, or just been making mostly bad choices? Ever since winning for "Monster's Ball" a decade ago, she did the franchise thing in "Die Another Day" and the 'X-Men' trilogy of films and between those, she lined up a string of stinkers including "Catwoman," "Gothika" and "Perfect Strangers." Her attempted return to Oscar a couple of years ago, "Frankie & Alice," barely got a release and while "Things We Lost In The Fire" was a brief return to something substantial, this spring she toplines the dreadful looking shark movie "Dark Tide." So a thriller that takes place in a call center? That's right up her alley these days it seems.

The actress has signed on to the former Joel Schumacher project (never a good sign) "The Hive" to be directed by "The Machinist" helmer Brad Anderson. Penned by Rich D'Ovidio ("Thir13en Ghosts,...

Ahead of the release of British cop thriller Blitz in UK cinemas, we caught up with film editor John Gilbert to discuss his work on the film and much, much more…

In the lengthy, frequently difficult collaborative process of movie making, the vital role of the film editor is sometimes overlooked. An "invisible art", as one New York Times writer once described it, it's the film editor's task to sculpt what can amount to dozens of hours' footage into a coherent narrative.

It was particularly fascinating, then, to get the chance to talk to seasoned film editor, John Gilbert, whose recent project, Blitz, is out in UK cinemas this week. We spoke to him about the process of editing this British cop thriller into its lean current form, directing pick-up shots, and working with Jason Statham, as well as his wider career to date, which includes the epic Fellowship Of...

Screen Australia and Spectrum Films released the first trailer for erotic drama “Sleeping Beauty.” The film stars Emily Browning (“Sucker Punch,” “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events”), Michael Dorman (“Daybreakers,” “Suburban Mayhem”), Mirrah Foulkes (“Animal Kingdom,” “Dying Breed”) and Rachael Blake (“Lantana,” “Perfect Strangers”). Here is the synopsis: “Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleep Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber, old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep.” “Sleeping Beauty” is directed and written by Julia Leigh (“The Hunter”). The film will be distributed by Transmission later this year in Australia. Check out the trailer and let us know what you think. Source: Pollen Digital on Vimeo...

A brand new TV spot and quad poster for Lionsgates “Daybreakers” have been released.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out.

However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

The film is directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig (Undead), also stars Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Perfect Strangers), Isabel Lucas (Transformers 2), Christopher Kirby, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo and will hit theaters on January 8th, 2010.

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Click below to take a look at this unusual Public Service Announcement (PSA) TV spot from the new vampire film.

Lionsgate has just unveiled new poster for the upcoming vampire thriller, “Daybreakers“.

In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher (Ethan Hawke) works with a covert band of vamps (Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan) on a way to save humankind.

The film is directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig (Undead), also stars Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Perfect Strangers), Isabel Lucas (Transformers 2), Christopher Kirby, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo and will hit theaters on January 8th, 2010.

If you haven’t seen “Daybreakers” trailer check it right now!

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The first festival of New Zealand cinema in Singapore in more than 20 years will be held in May under the auspices of the Singapore Film Society, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the New Zealand Film Commission. Running May 13-19 at Golden Village Cinemas, the festival will span 25 years of New Zealand films, opening with Gaylene Preston's Perfect Strangers, and also including international hit Whale Rider as well as Peter Jackson's earlier films Bad Taste and Braindead. New Zealand also is aiming to sign a formal coproduction treaty with Singapore, according to Robert Skinner, New Zealand's trade commissioner for Singapore. The coproduction plans are a direct result of government agency N.Z. Trade & Enterprise leading a delegation of Singaporean companies including the Media Development Authority of Singapore to New Zealand in August, Skinner said.

SYDNEY -- Los Angeles-based First Look Media has acquired North American rights to New Zealand thriller Perfect Strangers, following its premiere market screening Monday at the MIFED market in Milan, the New Zealand Film Commission said in a statement. Perfect Strangers, directed by Gaylene Preston, stars Sam Neill and Rachael Blake and tells the story of a woman who goes home with a handsome stranger only to realize that she's been kidnapped. The deal was negotiated by Peter Lawson of First Look and New Zealand Film Commission marketing head Kathleen Drumm.

SYDNEY -- 20th Century Fox has acquired Australian distribution rights for the New Zealand film Perfect Strangers, which is currently in postproduction and headlines Sam Neill. Tony Safford, Los Angeles-based senior vp acquisitions for Fox, negotiated and concluded the acquisition on behalf of 20th Century Fox Australia. The deal was announced Tuesday by Sunder Kimatrai, managing director for 20th Century Fox Film Distributors Australia, Franco Zeccola, chief executive for Intesa Corp., and Kathleen Drumm, sales director for the New Zealand Film Commission, which is handling worldwide sales on the feature.