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The Thing inspired many films after its 1982 release, with its iconic creature and themes of paranoia and distrust resonating with audiences. Films like Leviathan and Blood Glacier draw inspiration from The Thing, utilizing isolated settings and monsters that mimic and evolve. Harbinger Down and Life also pay homage to The Thing, blending sci-fi and horror elements to create suspenseful and gripping narratives.

Monster movies follow a similar formula, and after the iconic movie The Thing, directed by John Carpenter, premiered in 1982, many films were inspired by the story. The film is famously a movie inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos, which isn't uncommon within the horror genre. Starring Kurt Russell, The Thing follows a group of researchers in Antarctica who slowly turn against each other and are killed by the mysterious entity, "the Thing." Key features of the film include the thing's ability to imitate the physical appearance of...

Confirming Germany’s importance as a growth market, Netfix on Wednesday announced 17 new and returning shows and movies produced by some of the country’s leading producers, including docuseries “Kaulitz & Kaulitz,” about the Tokio Hotel popstar siblings, and sci-fi drama “Cassandra,” about an overzealous electronic household helper.

Netflix presented 17 feature films, series, documentaries and reality shows at a special event in Berlin.

“We have seen again and again how local stories can captivate viewers here and around the world,” said Katja Hofem, Netflix’s VP of content for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “We aim to continue this successful journey together with our partners, sharing a common goal of creating exceptional entertainment that moves and inspires people.”

Produced by Constantin Entertainment and premiering in June, “Kaulitz & Kaulitz” accompanies Tokio Hotel frontmen Bill and Tom Kaulitz, twin brothers from Magdeburg, Germany, on tour with their band and in their new home in Hollywood.

Sundance prize winner Sofia Alaoui, Yemeni-Scottish Oscar-nominee Sara Ishaq and Emmy-feted Egyptian cinematographer Muhammad Hamdy will be among filmmakers presenting projects at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event, unfolding in Qatar March 10-15.

The nine edition of the talent incubator aimed at Dfi grantee filmmakers will showcase 44 projects from 23 countries as it returns as a physical event for the first time since 2019.

Moroccan-French director Alaoui, who won Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision for her fantasy drama Animalia in January, attends with a new series which is in development.

Titled Let The Earth Burn, it revolves around a police academy graduate who is posted to a remote town in the Atlas Mountains despite coming top of her year.

Ishaq, who was Oscar-nominated for short film Karama Has No Walls, will present her second feature project The Station set against a women-only gas station in a gender-segregated village in war-torn Yemen.

This year’s edition takes place in-person March 10-15 and online March 19-21.

The Doha Film Institute (Dfi) has revealed the 44 projects that will participate in the ninth edition of its annual talent incubator Qumra which takes place in-person March 10-15 and online March 19-21.

The selected projects come from 23 different countries and comprise 14 feature narratives, 12 feature documentaries, seven series and 11 shorts.

Two feature debuts from Oscar-nominated filmmakers are among the participants. Motherhood from Meryam Joobeur, whose Ikhwène was nominated for best live-action short in 2020, and The Station from Sara Ishaq, whose Karma Has No Walls was nominated for best...

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Sri Lanka’s Vimukthi Jayasundara and Guatemala’s César Díaz, winners of the Cannes Golden Camera for “The Forsaken Land” (2005) and “Nuestras madres” (2019) respectively, are among the recipients of the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam‘s (IFFR) Hbf+Europe: Minority Co-production Support scheme for 2022.

Out of 25 applications, six projects by filmmakers from Argentina, Egypt, Guatemala, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Yemen have been awarded a contribution of €60,000 each through their European co-producers in Austria, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.

Jayasundara is supported for “Turtle’s Gaze on Spying Stars”, set on a mysterious resort where the protagonist must quarantine and reckon with his past on his return to Sri Lanka, while Díaz gets it for “Fidelidad”, a love triangle set on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala.

In “The Station” by Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq (Oscar nominee for 2012’s “Karama Has No Walls”), the war in Yemen...

“Freud,” Netflix’s upcoming mystery thriller from director by Marvin Kren, places a young Sigmund, before his establishment as a worldwide medical icon, in the middle of a brutal 19th century murder case in Vienna.

A Vienna native himself, Kren won numerous awards for his work in TV (“Four Blocks”) and film. In addition to directing and producing the series, he also co-wrote with Stefan Brunner (“Tatort”) and previous collaborator Benjamin Hessler (“4 Blocks”).

Robert Finster plays the cocaine-addicted outsider responsible for founding psychoanalysis, 2020 Berlin Shooting Star Ella Rumpf mysterious medium Fleur Salomé, and 2017 Berlin Best Actor winner Georg Friedrich (“Bright Nights”) has the role of inspector Alfred Kiss.

“Freud” is produced by Netflix, Austrian public broadcaster Orf, Bavaria Fiction and Satel Film with the support of Vienna’s Filmfonds Wien and Media. Screening at Berlinale Series from Feb. 24, “Freud” releases on Netflix worldwide and Orf in Austria on March...

Stanley Tucci, Catherine Deneuve dramas join competition; TV dramas and Oleg Sentsov doc set to get world premiere.

The Berlin International Film Festival has finalised its competition and Berlinale Special strands.

Joining the festival in Out Of Competition berths are Stanley Tucci-directed Final Portrait and Catherine Deneuve drama Sage Femme.

James Gray’s The Lost City Of Z will have its interntional premiere while documentary The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov will have its world premiere.

Among TV world premieres are Amazon’s Patriot and BBC One’s SS-gb.

In total, 18 of the 24 films selected for Competitionwill be competing for the Golden and the Silver Bears. 22 of the films will have their world premieres at the festival.

For the third time, Berlinale Special Series will present a selection of TV series in the official programme. Six German and international productions will have their world premieres at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele this year...

Stanley Tucci, Catherine Deneuve dramas join competition; TV dramas and Oleg Sentsov doc set to get world premiere.

The Berlin International Film Festival has finalised its competition and Berlinale Special strands.

Joining the competition are

18 of the 24 films selected for Competition will be competing for the Golden and the Silver Bears. 22 of the films will have their world premieres at the festival.

The Berlinale Special will present recent works by contemporary filmmakers, documentaries, and extraordinary formats, as well as brand new series from around the world.

Berlinale Special Galas will be held at the Friedrichstadt-Palast and Zoo Palast. Other Special premieres will take place at the Kino International. Moderated discussions will follow the screenings at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

For the third time, Berlinale Special Series will present a selection of TV series in the official programme. Six German and international productions will have their world premieres at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele this year. Audiences...

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Blood Glacier (2013)

Written by: Benjamin Hessler

Directed by: Marvin Kren

Cast: Gerhard Liebman (Janek), Edita Malovcic (Tanja), Brigitte Kren (Ministerin Bodicek), Hille Beseler (Birte), Peter Knaack (Falk), Santos (Tinnie), Felix Romer (Harald), Wolfgang Pampel (Bert Kakauer)

I don’t want to lead anyone astray on what this film is about. Just from reading the plot before I watched it, I gathered that it could be labeled as eco horror, which for the most part, I guess it is. Here we go though, putting labels on stuff, when all the old classic throwback horror from the 1950’s of mutated whatevers caused by radiation or some other ecological sin man created was just a scary movie. That’s how I prefer to look at it.

This is an Austrian film, and it takes place at a remote mountain research station in the Swiss Alps. There’s...

Just like that, Halloween is upon us. This year, you'll have an entire weekend to get into the ghoulish spirit of things. And among the festivities you have planned, you might want to add "ABCs Of Death 2" to your movie marathon of scare flicks, because the omnibus film, featuring 26 horror shorts, will likely have more than a few segments that will send a chill down your spine. And today, we have an exclusive preview of one of the highlights. "R For Roulette" comes from "Blood Glacier" director Marvin Kren, and it stands out in a few ways. Firstly, it's a period piece, and secondly it's in black-and-white. But perhaps most enticing is the premise, which sees a group of Germans in a basement playing Russian roulette, but as for the exact reason why? Well, we'll let you discover that for yourself, because the twist is pretty great, but in the scene below,...

Popular in the 1960s and early 1970s with more rare appearances in the 1980s, 1990s and the 2000s, the anthology-style horror film has made a solid resurgence in recent years with such portmanteau releases as The ABCs of Death films and the V/H/S series.

With Mexico Barbaro, Fear Paris and other projects in various stages of completion, the anthology horror film looks to continue to be an important part of the horror cinema landscape.

Some anthology films employ a framing or wraparound sequence in an attempt to connect the segments that make up the film while others dispense with this classic Amicus-style approach entirely and simply present a collection of short films connected by genre.

Either way, a horror anthology film is ultimately about the quality of its individual segments and this article will take you on a tour of the greatest horror anthology segments of all time.

Yesterday ABCs of Death 2 hit On Demand platforms like iTunes, Amazon, cable and all the other usual suspects. It's possibly the most insane movie of the year.  The sequel has segments directed by the minds behind movies like Cheap Thrills, Big Bad Wolves, Juan of the Dead, Cube, Inside, A Lonely Place to Die, Blood Glacier, Room 237 and Stage Fright, just to name a few. And they've all come together in this consistently entertaining madhouse where no two segments are the same, save for the fact that they somehow turn a letter of the alphabet into an absurd way for someone to kick the bucket. But as hilarious and twisted and disturbing as the movie is as a whole, we will certainly play favorites. Because there's one director in the bunch we just flat out...

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Some movie titles leave very little to the imagination. This kind of bluntness can be refreshingly clarifying when one is trying to decide what to watch. For instance, one only needs to hear the name Love Story to know that if you’re not into romances, you ought to stay away. Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Horror fans, rejoice--methinks there will be blood. And Texans. Hot Tub Time Machine? You get the picture. Such was my train of thought when I popped Blood Glacier into my DVD player, and goodness knows, the film did not disappoint. It is not trying to do anything obtuse or symbolic. It is not secretly warm and fuzzy. No, it is exactly what its title says it is--a movie about a glacier in that oozes blood. What is surprising, however, is how enjoyable the movie is. In fact, of all of the recent efforts by John Carpenter...

For the last week of August, there’s a bounty of horror and sci-fi Blu-rays and DVD’s arriving, which should satisfy the cravings of just about any genre fan. Not only does The Walking Dead Season 4 finally get its release (in grand fashion of course!), but there’s also an incredible DVD collection of The Twilight Zone series from the ‘80s coming our way from Image Entertainment and Scream Factory’s brand new Blu-ray of The Legend of Hell House to look forward to as well.

And as if that wasn’t enough, there are also a handful of indie horror titles getting released including Blood Glacier, Aftermath, Zombex, The Possession of Michael King and Jersey Shore Massacre and BrinkVision is also releasing a limited edition DVD of Sonno Profondo after the Giallo-esque film found much success on the festival circuit in 2013.

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Blood Glacier (Mpi Home Video,...

Sneak Peek footage from director Marvin Kren's 'eco-horror' feature "Blood Glacier", available on DVD from Anchor Bay, starring Gerhard Liebmann as a researcher "...faced with a strange liquid that poses a threat to anything living..." :

"...'Janek' (Liebmann) arrives in the Swiss Alps to investigate global warming. He's part of a larger group, but savors his time alone as he's a loner by nature. 

"One day the group discovers a glacier covered in a strange red liquid that has odd effects on the surrounding wildlife.

"Janek's group grows excited as they realize that the liquid is transforming the local wildlife into strange new genetic hybrids, but Janek himself is more wary of the liquid and the potential dangers it poses.

"His caution is soon proven to be warranted, as the group begins to fall prey to the hybrids created by the liquid. A new group soon appears to investigate the new discovery,...

Black Mountain Side is a frustrating experience. This Canadian horror film - which made its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival - has such a difficult time finding its own identity and groove, but I know its heart is in the right place. Also, it unfortunately comes in the wake of Blood Glacier, which posits a similar set-up (something ancient in the ice causes havoc) and brings more enthusiasm and ingenuity to the table than this film. Black Mountain Side is definitely one of those movies where the parts work better than the whole, and, it works when it's not taking its cues from John Carpenter's The Thing handbook.

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Sinister Cinema's final film of the current series, Marvin Kren's Blood Glacier, will roll out on screens across Canada this Thursday, June 19th. A presentation by Raven Banner Entertainment and Cineplex Entertainment Kren's latest horror film debuted at Midnight Madness at Tiff this past September. Scientists working in the Austrian Alps discover that a glacier is leaking a liquid that appears to be affecting local wildlife.It is simple to enter. First, go to Cineplex.com's Blood Glacier page and choose a Cineplex cinema near you that is screening the film. Second, e-mail us the answer to the skill testing question below and tell us what cinema you want to see Blood Glacier at. We will randomly draw five winners from all entrants. Winners will have a double...

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The German language horror title Blood Glacier will release in Canadian theaters June 19th, 2014. The theatrical screening will be for one night only and the film will reach twenty-eight Canadian cities. This creature feature involves an environmental catastrophe, which creates a new type of blood-thirsty animal. The film stars Adina Vetter, Ariele Trettel and Brigitte Kren. Fans of indie horror can preview the theatrical launch of Blood Glacier here. For more on the story, several researchers are station in the Italian Alps. Here, they take samples of a local glacier. But, something is changing nature. A blood red smear appears in the ice and strange organisms are also found. These organisms need a host and they choose the research team to lay their eggs into. The results are terrifying! Both Sinister Cinema and Raven Banner Entertainment will distribute this title. These distributors have chosen Cineplex Entertainment to display their frozen terror onscreen.

This past Friday marked the VOD release of Rammbock director Marvin Kren's Blood Glacier (review), and on tap for you today is a brand new poster for the flick, which is covered in the red stuff.

Check it out, courtesy of our friends over on Badass Digest!

Kren's new film stars Michael Fuith, Edita Malovcic, and Brigitte Kren.

Synopsis

Janek is a technician on a climate observation station high up in the Alps. He is a loner; the regularly changing scientists who share the rocky idyll with him are just tolerated by him. Making things more difficult is the approaching visit of the environment minister, which brings rivalries at the station to the boil.

So everyone involved is grateful when their barren routine is interrupted by a strange discovery. A red liquid pours from a nearby glacier, melted free from the ice crust shrinking with climate change. This “glacier...

IFC Midnight sent over their new artwork for Blood Glacier and it’s pretty rocking so I thought I would send it your way for a quick look:

If you check you VOD menu you should find the flick all loaded up and ready to roll. If you need a little reminder, I’ve got you covered.

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Ever since seeing Rammbock: Berlin Undead – a romantic zombie flick with ten times more heart than Warm Bodies – I’ve been excitedly awaiting Marvin Kren’s creature feature follow-up Blood Glacier. Promoting itself as Austria’s answer to The Thing, Kren’s ability to scare and entertain seemed perfectly suited for silly practical effects and grotesque monster work, but before I could even enjoy an onslaught of vicious, hybrid animals, one simple decision turned what could have been a fun B-Movie into a schlocky, dismissible dud. What decision might that be? English. Language. Dubbing. Some people may complain about “multitasking,” reading subtitles and watching cinema at the time, but I must beg international markets to stop taking the “easy” way out for viewers. Would you rather have to read something, or suffer through flat, monotone voices that don’t even match moving lips? When a dog has the most genuine dialogue through a film,...

The film comes from director Marvin Kren who is best known for Rammbock Berlin Undead which we gave a 4.5 out of 5. While we did not enjoy Blood Glacier as much as Rammbock Berlin Undead its still worth the watch. Directed by Marvin Kren and stars Gerhard Liebmann Edita Malovcic Hille Beseler Peter Knaack Felix Romer Briggitte Kren Wolfgang Pampel Murathan Muslu Michael Fuith Adina Vetter and Coco Huemer.

Forget all those cute, snowflake-suffused Christmas cards. From Howard Hawks’ The Thing From Another World to the Coen brothers’ Fargo to this week’s somewhat self-explanatory horror movie Blood Glacier, it is an established movie law that terrible things occur in cold weather. And director Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais doesn’t seem in any hurry to break that rule with his debut thriller, Whitewash, which is currently available to buy on iTunes and arrives on VOD this coming Friday.

The film stars Thomas Haden Church (Sideways, Spider-Man 3) as a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator in rural Quebec who accidentally kills a man during a drunken nighttime joyride,...

It’s 2014, and global warming is true. (Suck it climate deniers!) Scientists were wrong about one thing though in that it’s happening a lot faster than they predicted. A small research team in the Austrian Alps discovers something alarming when they come across a a blood-red glacier high up in the mountains that seems to be affecting the local wildlife. Animals are blending together into hybrids, but even worse than the presence of creatures that could possibly explain the likes and legends of werewolves is the unfortunate realization that these new lifeforms are thirsty for blood. You know, like werewolves. A title like Blood Glacier comes with certain expectations. Blood and glaciers, obviously, but also horror, death and a self-awareness that chooses silliness over smarts. To that end this new Austrian film is a minor success, but while it manages to deliver on the above it suffers due to what it lacks — namely scares, engaging...

Cross-pollinate John Carpenter's The Thing with John Frankenheimer's Prophecy and you get the ambitious, better-than-i-ever-expected German eco-horror/nature-run-amok film Blood Glacier. The set-up is prime fodder for a SyFy original movie, but it transcends all of that nonsense with deft direction, good performances, a focused tone and a menagerie of beasties. Blood Glacier commits to its ideas and never wavers. If you're smiling through some of the madness that occurs, it's not because it's silly. It's because the movie is just crazy enough to work.

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Happy Earth day everyone!!

I’m sure you’re all busy with all the Earth Day celebrations going on around the country (?) but I’m hoping you can take just a few minutes away from all the cookouts, parades and ball games to check out this special Earth Day gift sent along from our friends in mayhem over at IFC. Turns out they have a little “earth run amok” flick heading our way titled Blood Glacier and … Continue reading →

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Our deranged pals at IFC sent us an Earth Day present to share with you: An exclusive clip from their May 2nd release Blood Glacier, the creature feature directed by Marvin Kren. I just watched this one last night (review to come) and the clip we're featuring here is one of my favorites and I'll tell you why...the creepy sound of heavy breathing coming from the fox. It sounds eerie. Human. I enjoyed this film quite a bit. Check out the clip in the player here...

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Our deranged pals at IFC sent ShockTillYouDrop.com an Earth Day present to share with you: An exclusive clip from their May 2nd theatrical/VOD release Blood Glacier , the creature feature directed by Marvin Kren. In the film, working in a remote outpost of the German Alps, technician Janek and a cohort of scientists are stunned to discover a bleeding blood glacier parked high up in the mountain range. As the gory infected berg melts the blood attracts the local wildlife only to transform them into hellish hybrids and monstrous mutations. As this fusion of nightmarish creatures evolves in the life-giving mountain air, a second group including Janek.s ex-girlfriend advance towards the base in what will become a showdown of humans vs. nature upended into giant wood lice,...

The film which was originally called The Station had it's screening at the Toronto Film Festival this past year. The movie must have displayed something very special to it's viewers as IFC Midnight scooped it up and are now preparing for the flick's release under the title Blood Glacier. The trailer (see below) gives off a The Thing feel as the characters are shown at a remote location, a research station in the German Alps, with a deadly mystery…...

Yesterday, the trailer hit the net for an upcoming horror film called Blood Glacier, which is being released into select theaters and onto VOD outlets on May 2nd, courtesy of IFC. Heavily inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing, the film centers on a team of scientists who notice a strange, red liquid pouring down a glacier, with the 'blood' causing horrifying changes in the wildlife it comes into contact with.

You can check out the trailer below, but first we invite you to learn a little bit about the real-life location that quite clearly served as the inspiration for the film.

Located in East Antarctica, Blood Falls is the name given to a naturally-occurring plume of saltwater that perpetually flows from the Taylor Glacier, covering the ice in its path in a bloody-looking mess of red liquid. The strange phenomenon was discovered in 1911 by an Australian geologist, and it...

“A Slice of Horror Reminiscent of John Carpenter’s The Thing!”, screams the poster for Blood Glacier. No kidding! This looks good though and I really like the title (much better than the snooze original title The Station).

Blood Glacier opens in Select Theaters and Available on Video on Demand May 2nd

Four technicians and scientists at an alpine research station discover a glacier of blood high in the mountains. Testing the red liquid oozing from the ice, they discover a new alien organism with the astonishing capability of transforming the local wildlife into horrific hybrids and monster mutations. With the Minister of the Environment hiking to the station for an official visit, many frightening questions must be answered if the confrontational team are to survive and cope with the giant wood lice, the beetle-foxes, crossbred flying predators and much, much worse…

Here’s what the critics are saying:

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Nothing is more frustrating than seeing a trailer for a movie that piques my interest only to realize I had the opportunity to see it before. In the case of the ridiculously titled Blood Glacier, I could have seen it at last year's Toronto Film Festival when it had a much better title, The Station. Of course, there may be good reason it wasn't brought to my attention the same way films such as Oculus and Afflicted became the talk of last year's Tiff when it comes to horror... In his review at Twitch, Todd Brown says the film has all the ingredients for a great horror film but, "Saddled with unlikeable characters and ineffective creatures The Station is left with nothing, really, but the impressive views. And while I like looking at a mountain as much as the next guy that's not at all what I came here to do.

We’ve seen more than a few films that have been heavily inspired by John Carpenter’s The Thing — one was even also called The Thing! On the surface, the awesomely-titled Blood Glacier is very much in that vein, as it follows a scientific team in the snowy Alps as the small group contends with a […]

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Shine on, kids! The full schedule for the Stanley Film Festival, which runs at the iconic and historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Co, April 24-27, has been announced; and we have all the details you need right here. Dig it!

From the Press Release

The Stanley Film Festival (Sff), produced by the Denver Film Society and presented by NBC Universal's Chiller, announced today its Opening Night film and several special event highlights and experiences taking place at the four-day event (April 24-27, 2014).

The Stanley Film Festival celebrates the best in independent horror cinema at the hotel that inspired The Shining. The Festival will host a full slate of films, panels, competitions, and special events - all at the beautiful and historically haunted Stanley Hotel.

The Stanley Film Festival will open Thursday, April 24, with a Gala Presentation of an original documentary from EPiX, Doc of the Dead. Directed by Colorado...

Marvin Kren's creature feature Blood Glacier, formerly The Station, will slide into select cinemas and will also be available on VOD May 2nd, via IFC Midnight. There is a new trailer to share with you. In it you will find many of the practical effects it drew praise for from fans of classic creature features. Gore descends upon the Alps in this grisly tale of snowbound terror. Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), a prickly, lone-wolf technician, is part of a team of researchers investigating global warming at a remote weather station in the mountains. One day the group makes a seriously gruesome discovery: a giant glacier oozing what appears to be blood and, worse, transforming all in its wake into monstrous genetic hybrids. Soon Janek is at war...

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The Stanley Hotel launched its first annual Stanley Film Festival last year and put together an impressive group of horror films and guests. After initially announcing Doc of the Dead as their opening film, we now have the full programming list, which includes screenings of The Sacrament, Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead, and much more:

“The Stanley Film Festival (Sff) produced by the Denver Film Society (Dfs) and presented by Chiller, announced today its full line-up and schedule. As previously announced, Doc of the Dead will open Sff. The festival, taking place April 24-27, will close with the mockumentary from Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords), What We Do In The Shadows, about a house of vampires trying to get back in touch with modern society. Throughout the four-day celebration of the best in horror cinema, Sff will showcase a full slate of features, shorts, panels,...

It's been a few months since we've had anything to report about Rammbock director Marvin Kren's Blood Glacier (review), which hit UK DVD back in January. Now that it's at long last set for release here in the states, we've gotten our very own trailer, which shows clear inspirations from John Carpenters The Thing. Dig it!

Look for Blood Glacier in select theaters and on VOD platforms May 2nd.

Kren's new film stars Michael Fuith, Edita Malovcic, and Brigitte Kren.

Synopsis

Janek is a technician on a climate observation station high up in the Alps. He is a loner; the regularly changing scientists who share the rocky idyll with him are just tolerated by him. Making things more difficult is the approaching visit of the environment minister, which brings rivalries at the station to the boil.

So everyone involved is grateful when their barren routine is interrupted by a strange discovery.

Following The Station‘s screening at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, IFC Midnight acquired the movie and is bringing it to theaters in May under the title “Blood Glacier.”

“At a remote weather research station in the German Alps, three scientists and a technician monitor and study the climate and the ramifications of rapid weather changes on our world. On the eve of a visit by an important government minister, they discover that a rapidly retreating glacier has begun to leak a strange red liquid. The mysterious compound seems to be affecting local wildlife at a genetic level, and soon it will be up to reclusive technician Janek (Gerhard Liebmann) to defend the group from the biological monstrosities growing just beyond the walls of their tiny outpost.”

Directed by Marvin Kren, Blood Glacier stars Gerhard Liebmann, Edita Malovcic, Hille Beseler, Peter Knaack, Felix Römer, and Brigitte Kren. It...

IFC Films will release Blood Glacier in select theaters and VOD on May 2 2014. In the film scientists working in the Austrian Alps discover that a glacier is leaking a liquid that appears to be affecting local wildlife. The film comes from director Marvin Kren who is best known for Rammbock Berlin Undead which we gave a 4.5 out of 5. Lets hope that Kren can deliver another great horror film. The was film was released in Austria in 2013 under the title Blutgletscher the later The Station. Directed by Marvin Kren and stars Gerhard Liebmann Edita Malovcic Hille Beseler Peter Knaack Felix Romer Briggitte Kren Wolfgang Pampel Murathan Muslu Michael Fuith Adina Vetter and Coco Huemer.

With a May 2nd release looming, IFC has sent us the U.S. trailer for Blood Glacier from director Marvin Kren. I've been looking forward to this one! Check out the promo beyond this synopsis. You'll also find over 20 pics in our photo gallery... Working in a remote outpost of the German Alps, technician Janek and a cohort of scientists are stunned to discover a bleeding blood glacier parked high up in the mountain range. As the gory infected berg melts the blood attracts the local wildlife only to transform them into hellish hybrids and monstrous mutations. As this fusion of nightmarish creatures evolves in the life-giving mountain air, a second group including Janek’s ex-girlfriend advance towards the base in what will become a showdown of humans vs. nature upended into giant wood lice, beetle-foxes, crossbreed flying predators and much, much worse.Imagine every creature that makes you shiver...

Stars: Helgi Björnsson, Einar Dagbjartsson, Valur Freyr Einarsson, Björn Thors, Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir, Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir, Hallur Ingólfsson | Written by Jón Atli Jónasson | Directed by Reynir Lyngdal

If I tell you that Frost was released on DVD back on February 10th and only now am I getting round to putting fingers to keyboard, you may have some idea of where this review is headed. Oh, and did I mention this is another found-footage flick? You have been warned.

At a remote glacier drilling station on the outskirts of the arctic circle, two young researchers wake up to discover that their station base camp has been mysteriously abandoned with no sign of their team anywhere. As the arctic weather worsens and darkness descends the base is shaken by ear-splitting screams and flashing lights. Believing these to be signs of their missing colleagues the pair head out into the darkness frantically following...

Ever wondered what would happen if you crossed a wasp with a crow? No, I hadn’t either until Blood Glacier drifted onto my radar, but I’m glad I found out as this is one entertaining little movie. Pitched as a kind of spiritual successor to John Carpenter’s The Thing, the movie formally known as The Station doesn’t quite step into those very large shoes, but it more than holds its own in the horror film stakes.

There are some similarities to Carpenter’s movie, with Blood Glacier being set in a remote outpost of the German Alps, and scientists discovering something in the ice that induces all kinds of weird and wonderful mutations in the local wildlife, and inevitably the humans too, but it’s more of a second cousin than an heir, and an overseas one at that, with the dialogue being in German.

One...

Vienna-based sales agent EastWest Distribution has picked up six new titles including Rotterdam premiere Whispers Behind The Wall.

Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this week’s When East Meets West in Trieste, EastWest’s Sasha Wieser said that two of these titles will be screening in the festival programmes of Rotterdam and Berlin.

Polish-born Grzegorz Muskala’s dark psychological thriller Whispers Behind The Wall - a young law student falls for the charms of his enigmatic Berlin landlady with terrifying consequences - will have its international premiere in Rotterdam tomorrow in the Bright Future programme.

The feature debut is the first full in-house production of Sol Bondy’s Berlin-based One Two Films and Muskala’s graduation film from the German Film & Television Academy Berlin (dffb). It had its world premiere at the Filmfest Oldenburg last September and won the prize for Best Musical Score at the Kinofest Lünen in November.

Bondy was one...

Vienna-based sales agent EastWest Distribution has picked up six new titles including Rotterdam premiere Whispers Behind The Wall.

Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this week’s When East Meets West in Trieste, EastWest’s Sasha Wieser said that two of these titles will be screening in the festival programmes of Rotterdam and Berlin.

Polish-born Grzegorz Muskala’s dark psychological thriller Whispers Behind The Wall - a young law student falls for the charms of his enigmatic Berlin landlady with terrifying consequences - will have its international premiere in Rotterdam tomorrow in the Bright Future programme.

The feature debut is the first full in-house production of Sol Bondy’s Berlin-based One Two Films and Muskala’s graduation film from the German Film & Television Academy Berlin (dffb). It had its world premiere at the Filmfest Oldenburg last September and won the prize for Best Musical Score at the Kinofest Lünen in November.

Bondy was one...

Austrian director Marvin Kren (Rammbock) is currently filming his entry for the upcoming horror anthology The ABCs of Death 2, which makes it a good time to check out some of his early work. The Station is a German language horror movie reminiscent of John Carpenter's The Thing in both appearance and execution. However, it would be easy to overlook such a promising night in because, for reasons unknown, the title has been changed to Blood Glacier for its U.K. bow. Leading contender for worst title of the year, surely? A team of technicians and scientists at an alpine research station discover a glacier of blood (now I get it) high in the mountains. Testing the red liquid oozing from the ice, they discover a new alien organism with the capability of transforming the local wildlife into horrific hybrids. With the Minister of the Environment hiking to the station for an official visit,...

Austrian director Marvin Kren (Rammbock) is currently filming his entry for upcoming horror anthology The ABCs of Death 2, which means it's a good time to check out some of his early work. The Station (known as Blood Glacier over here) is a German language horror movie reminiscent of John Carpenter's The Thing, heading to U.K. DVD on January 27, 2014. Marvin Kren broke into the international horror circuit in 2011 with his zombie feature Rammbock, and The Station looks like it could be another entertaining diversion for horror movie enthusiasts. Beautiful cinematography and a good use of special effects suggest that The Station could be worth a punt. Check out the trailer below. Synopsis: The gates of hell are made of ice in this tense horror thriller paying homage to The Thing and Assault on Precinct 13. Four technicians and scientists at an alpine research station discover a glacier of blood high in the mountains.

Programme includes David Mackenzie’s Starred Up and Ti West’s The Sacrament.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 22 - Feb 2) has added a programme of films focusing on “contemporary survival” to its thematic Signals section.

How to Survive… will feature 12 independent films from around the world range from Spanish survival horror La cueva (In Darkness We Fall) by Alfredo Montero to Jang Cheol-soo’s Korean spy thriller Secretly Greatly, and from Canadian internet found footage documentary Hoax_canular by Dominic Gagnon to Iranian apocalyptic visions in From Tehran to Heaven by Abolfazl Saffary.

It will also feature David Mackenzie’s British prison drama Starred Up, Us director Ti West’s found footage horror The Sacrament, and White Bear, an episode from Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror series that aired in the UK.

In the How to Survive… Clinics, experts will teach visitors forgotten survival skills. In a workshop by Rotterdam-based Wild Vleesch, visitors can learn...

Stars: Gerhard Liebmann, Edita Malovcic, Hille Beseler, Brigitte Kren, Peter Knaac | Written by Benjamin Hessler | Directed by Marvin Kren

[Nb: I originally saw this movie under its original title The Station at the Frightfest 2013 All-Nighter. Worried that my original review was clouded by my somnambulic state I thought I'd give the film another go in the comfort of my own living room. Turns out my thoughts hadn't changed one iota. So with that in mind her's a reposting of my review of what has now been retitled Blood Glacier]

Rammbock director Marvin Kren turns his hand to an ecological themed monster-movie that sees a group of technicians and scientists at an alpine research station discover a glacier of blood high in the mountains. Testing the red liquid oozing from the ice, they discover a new alien organism with the astonishing capability of transforming the local wildlife into horrific hybrids and monster mutations. With the Minister of the Environment hiking to the station for an official visit, many frightening questions must be answered if the bickering team are to survive and cope with the giant wood lice, the beetle-foxes, crossbred flying predators and much, much worse.

It’s hard to believe that Blood Glacier is actually Kren’s feature-film debut. 2010′s Rammbock was such a cause-celebre that it can be easy...

Berlinale Paula and Perspektive prizes confirmed.

Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm) is expanding its number of screening venues by setting up shop at the recently refurbished Zoo Palast [pictured] cinema complex.

Exhibitors will be able to choose from five exclusive screening facilities with state-of-the-art projection technology, ranging from Cinemas 3-5 (with seating for 159, 161 and 157, respectively) to Club A and B with seating for 36 and 39.

Two of the cinemas can project 3D DCPs and one of the Club cinemas has its own bar, while all of the venues are kitted out with comfortable armchairs and extra space between the rows.

The Efm will be organising a free bus shuttle service from outside of the Gropius Mirror Restaurant and the Marriott Hotel to the Zoo Palast, but an alternative would be take the U2 underground which stops right outside of the cinema.

The Zoo Palast cinemas replace the screening venues at the Cubix cinema near Alexanderplatz, which had also...

The new flick from Rammbock director Marvin Kren, Blood Glacier (aka The Station), will be hitting DVD across the pond on January 20, 2014, and right now we've got a a new clip for you to dig on that may just have you losing your lunch.

Kren's new film stars Michael Fuith, Edita Malovcic, and Brigitte Kren.

Synopsis

Janek is a technician on a climate observation station high up in the Alps. He is a loner; the regularly changing scientists who share the rocky idyll with him are just tolerated by him. Making things more difficult is the approaching visit of the environment minister, which brings rivalries at the station to the boil.

So everyone involved is grateful when their barren routine is interrupted by a strange discovery. A red liquid pours from a nearby glacier, melted free from the ice crust shrinking with climate change. This “glacier blood” turns out to be a very special juice,...