nightworld ( film )
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though far from perfect nightworld has plenty of suspense which should easily justify an hour and a half behind the sofa .
nightworld has its european premiere at horror channel frightfest, 6: 15pm, friday 25 august 2017 at the prince charles cinema, london .
nightworld review: a man mourning the death of his wife gets more than he bargained for when he takes a security job shrouded in secrecy .
valladares described the film as deliciously dark mix of [ video game ] remedy’s alan wake and dario argento’s suspiria .
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the chilean director patricio valladares, who was in charge of downhill, present at last year’s molins horror film festival feature films official selection, will return to the big screen with nightworld, una bulgarian production with robert englund –yes, you are reading it right, the one and only freddy krueguer - amongst its cast .
reviewed at cannes film festival (director’s fortnight), may 14, 2016. running time: 128 min. (original title: “poesía sin fin” )
like many of the best comedies and tragedies, this weimar - era silent film understands how each mode is often a hair' s breadth from the other .
overall, nightworld is far from perfect. the script could have easily benefited from a re - write, and its ending left a lot to be desired. but the film is just as suspenseful as it is frustrating, which should easily justify an hour and a half behind the sofa. the cliffhanger ending does leave things wide open for a much more expansive sequel, but this might be best left at one .
bloody reader mike magnano shared the image and noticed that the cast is listed in the background, which is double confirmed on the film’s imdb page. starring are sophie skelton, marcus vanco, jeff gum (exeter, the vault), lorina kamburova (nightworld, leatherface death race 4), nick loeb, rachel o’meara, debbie sherman, luke cousins, nathan cooper, and cristina serafini. we have confirmed the cast .
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despite the evidently minimal budget of nightworld, valladares displays some impressive visuals which excellently contribute to the disturbing atmosphere of the film. it’s painfully clear that the lions share of the budget has been saved for the narratives conclusion however. in a typical ghost story fashion, viewers shouldn’t expect to see much in the way of answers until the eleventh hour. but the conclusion does manage to deliver some legitimate scares, even if it does begin to resemble a cross between the exorcist and an episode of goosebumps .
a glorious feast for the senses, the latest film from chilean octogenarian and life - long maverick alejandro jodorowsky revisits his coming of age as an aspiring young poet in the bohemian santiago of the 40s and 50s .
“veteran auteur and master of the mexican bizarre, arturo ripstein – an influence on a generation of his country’s directors – plunges us into a mexico city of crime, prostitution and luchador wrestling. ” — film forum
german filmmaker christoph behl remarked to me, “you are evolving, and after the film, you are not the same person as you were before. ” do you perceive there to be a transformative aspect to the creative process ?
ghost stories are an incredibly mixed bag at the best of times. the infamous sub - genre has seemingly been the first port of call for every low budget horror film since the 1970’s. on one hand this makes ghostly thrillers difficult to get enthusiastic about. but on the other hand, it gives them a relatively large amount of flexibility with storytelling. now, fresh - faced film maker patricio valladares has crafted his own supernatural thriller, starring none other than robert englund (a nightmare on elm street) .
nightworld tells the story of a former lapd officer, named brett irlam, who starts a new job as the head of security in a mysterious apartment building in sofia. as brett continues to experience horrific nightmares of his late wife, he further investigates the bizarre history of the building to discover the terrifying truth within. while this appears to be a typically cliched plot, the film actually manages to build tension and suspense masterfully. the overall mystery surrounding the building, and what brett is guarding, raises many questions that easily maintain interest in the narrative. although that being said, the answers to these questions overall are far less interesting .
make no mistake: endless poetry is still very much a jodorowsky film, dotted with his trademark phantasmagorical conceits, which are like candified bursts of comic - book magic realism. yet more than any previous jodorowsky opus, it’s also a work of disciplined and touching emotional resonance. ” — owen glieberman, variety
“i believe that all people fear what awaits us after death, ” says chilean filmmaker patricio valadares. “i would like to live a life after death - - reincarnation in the future. ” the genre filmmaker who has built a reputation with 2014’s hidden in the woods (2014) and last year’s downhill, delves into the afterlife with nightworld (2017), whose tagline reads: “the afterlife is darker than you think. ”
having a bit of fun from set is johnathon schaech (quarantine, prom night), who shares the below shot of himself getting a makeup test done for the film, which follows a former medical student tormented by a dark figure from her past, who happens to be a half - human, half - zombie hell - bent on destroying her .
the film follows brett anderson (jason london), a former lapd officer and grieving widower who, haunted by encounters with death and loss, takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building. at first what seems a mundane assignment becomes more perilous as anderson discovers a malevolent force trapped in the bowels of the building that wants its freedom .
i like to place the camera at different angles because i love todd mcfarlane’s comics. he is a master of narrative and storytelling in comic book form, and he’s an important reference for me, and so i will always try to shoot my movies with a lot angles. the space and location is also important in movies like nightworld, and the location to me is another character in the story - - more like a principal star in the flick. when you are creating a paranormal movie, you have a lot of elements in your hand, but location is the big one .
when i’d finished shooting downhill in chile, he invited me to work on the ghosts of garip (vlad’s legacy, 2016) in turkey, and after this he told me that he’d got the budget for shooting nightworld. our idea was to shoot the movie in a very contemplative and in an academy style, like an old italian horror movie. loris and barry keating, who is very talented, all worked on the writing of the final script, which i loved. so i feel that it’s sinister (2012) meets the ninth gate (1999) with the style of an old italian horror movie .
speaking with director martin zandvliet for land of mine (2016), he said :
what’s most important as a director is you should be present. it’s not just a script that you need to film. you need to always be ready to change things ...
would you agree, and does instinct play a part in this readiness? could we describe the process of filmmaking as learning to hone one' s instincts, so that you can eventually function on instinct ?
well, it has a long history. during my childhood i was a fan of comic books, the colour, the narrative and the violence was so much fun, and after that came movies. when i was 18 years old, i picked up a hi8 video camera and one weekend with a good friend shot a horror short film. i found that i really enjoyed shooting movies and afterward felt that this could be my profession. at this current time, i may love filmmaking more than i love comic books, although maybe it is possible to work with both forms of expression, but i just want to tell stories with a history .
both englund and jason london star in patricio valladares’ (hidden in the woods, the upcoming downhill) new supernatural horror drama, which was shot in bulgaria by an international crew .
penned by barry keating, loris curci and milan konjevic, “ when former lapd office, brett irlam takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in bulgaria’s capital, sofia, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. once he begins to delve deep into the building’s sinister history, and investigate it’s shadowy owners and past employees, brett soon uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building in basement that will do anything to be set free into our world. ”
producers are loris curci (11 / 11 / 11), magarditch halvadjian and silvester yordanov .
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the story centres on an a former us police officer who takes a job as security guard in an mysterious building with a sinister past in the bulgarian city of sofia .
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when former lapd officer brett anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in bulgaria' s capital, sofia, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and... see more »
when former lapd officer brett anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in bulgaria' s capital, sofia, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. once he begins to delve deeper into the building' s sinister history and investigate its shadowy owners and past employees, brett soon uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into our world .
brett adds a log book entry for 10 / 27 / 15 and then the camera pans to the monitors and they say 6 / 10 / 2016. see more »
... with my previous movie downhill, that screened at frightfest in 2016, a lot of people were bothered by the fact that i left things in the plot without explaining them .
ahead of the european premiere at horror channel frightfest, valadares discusses with popmatters the inevitable learning process that confronts the filmmaker, one weighed down by mystery and uncertainty. he also talks about the relationship between the filmmaker and genre, frustrations of the demand for explanation, and the transformative nature of the filmmaking process .
filmmakers have remarked to me that filmmaking is a constant learning curve. is it similar to putting together a jigsaw puzzle ?
well in my opinion, it is a different process for each filmmaker, but it’s true that you are constantly learning. it' s very strange when i now see my old movies because i see only all of the bad things. i’ll ask: “what was wrong with me? it looks so bad… it looks so stupid. ” but that' s normal and i never stop learning when shooting a movie. for example, my first movies didn’t have a full script, only 30 pages, and i’d rewrite the movie in the editing room. and we are a long way from making a good movie .
filmmaker alfonso gomez - rejon told me: “the medium and the mystery of the process is that i could wake up one day and not know where to put the camera. not that i know where to put the camera now, but you walk in with a certain sense. ” could we describe the filmmaking or creative process as a void of apprehension and uncertainty ?
yeah, this is very true and i feel these same vibes. i try to work with a storyboard and talk with my cinematographer about the ideas i have of where to put the camera, but shooting there are always different problems with the aesthetics etc. because you need to work continuously to adapt the space. maybe it' s different on big budget movies like in hollywood, but i don' t know, and so for me it’s a mystery too .
i agree with zandvliet. a director will be involved in all areas of the production of a movie, from script to marketing. making a movie for me is like having children. they need work every day before they are ready and an audience can watch them. i started making movies in chile with no budget, then with some money from the chilean government and so i know every area of work that goes into shooting a flick - - i was the cinematographer, cameraman, editor, producer, writer and director of my movies. it' s tiring, but fun, and this school helped me learn the process of filmmaking. after all of this i can now make real movies .
loris curci, the producer, whose story this is first told me about his idea maybe three years ago when he asked me if i could make a teaser poster for the project. we were working together on hidden in the woods, but he was still looking for investment from a production company at that time .
it’s a difficult question for me. i think that for many years filmmakers and artists established the genre, and then a lot of filmmakers have made movies because the genre has influenced their lives. influences in my childhood were music, such as metal, thrash and death metal with all their cover and poster art and lyrics. and of course, there are a lot of genre movies that i picked up on and which inspired and influenced me to try to make genre films .
speaking with british genre filmmaker christopher smith, he remarked :
i think horror has become utterly boring. that’s not to say that the horror genre is tiring to me, but everybody has got to pull their socks up a bit and start to dig a bit deeper. the stuff that is being churned out and that people are turning into blockbusters is mostly utter shit and it’s just about finding a way to move on from that .
what are your own feelings towards the horror genre ?
firstly, i' m a fan of christopher smith’s work. this question about horror and if it' s difficult to create something original today - - yes, i feel that' s true. there are a lot of talented people working in the movies, comics, and music, in this ‘media world’, and filmmakers need to take time with an idea. i like to shoot, edit and market my movies in a way that is different and original .
by the way, the big problem for me is that the audience likes to see these movies with very fast and simple stories. for example, with my previous movie downhill, that screened at frightfest in 2016, a lot of people were bothered by the fact that i left things in the plot without explaining them. but why do we have to explain everything? i love to watch experimental movies and imagine for myself those things that are not in the story .
of course, and i’ve made movies and i can say to you that i’m not the same person that i was before. you’re learning about the creative process, and taking away an experience that will help you to shoot a better movie, and you could be learning about a new culture. i’m a chilean director who shoots movies in the us, turkey, and bulgaria, and that informs you .
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alejandro jodorowsky' s' endless poetry' is the most accessible movie he has ever made, and it may also be the best. it' s felliniesque and moving .
adan jodorowsky, pamela flores, brontis jodorowsky, lenadro taub, alejandro jodorowsky, jeremias herskovits, julia avedano, bastian bodenhofer, carolyn carson, adonis. (spanish dialogue )
over the extraordinarily diverse course of his career, alejandro jodorowsky has been a director of plays, a writer of comic books, a poet and novelist, a “psychomagic” guru presiding over therapeutic salons, and — oh, yes — the creator of a psychedelic western splatter opera, “el topo, ” that in its scrappy - surreal midnight - cult way transformed the world of movies. jodorowsky’s life has been one long prodigious outpouring (and he didn’t even get to make his version of “dune” !). but now, well into his eighties, he has managed to reinvent himself in the most spectacular and unlikely way .
for alejandro, poetry is about more than staying up nights reading his idol federico garcía lorca. it’s about the lure of the unknown. at one point, he spurns the advances of his gay cousin, who’s in love with him, but where in the hands of a different filmmaker this might have been a conventional rebuff, jodorowsky gives us a lingering fleshy close - up of the two boys’ one and only experimental kiss. that shot speaks volumes about how alejandro, even though he’s not attracted, still longs to dare, to do the unprecedented, to go where he’s scared to go .
production: (chile - japan - france) a lepacte (in france) release of an operizor, satori films, le soleil production. (international sales: le pacte, paris .) produced by alejandro jodorowsky, moises cosio, abbas nokhasteh, takashi asai. executive producer, xavier guerrero yamamota .
crew: directed, written by alejandro jodorowsky. camera (color), christopher doyle; editor, maryline monthieux; production designer, alejandro jodorowsky; costume designer, pascale montandon - jodorowsky; music, adan jodorowsky; sound, sandy notarianni, guadalupe cassis .
with: adan jodorowsky, pamela flores, brontis jodorowsky, lenadro taub, alejandro jodorowsky, jeremias herskovits, julia avedano, bastian bodenhofer, carolyn carson, adonis. (spanish dialogue )
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the story is set in the capital of bulgaria, sofia, where a former los angeles police officer finds a job as head of security in an old apartment building and begins to witness strange and bizarre events. then he decides to take action on the matter to find out all the secrets hidden by the building .
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nightworld directed by patricio valladares , is the first feature film produced by open frames , a subsidiary of global group . robert englund and jason london star in this psychological thriller currently in postproduction . 
nightworld directed by patricio valladares, is the first feature film produced by open frames, a subsidiary of global group. robert englund and jason london star in this psychological thriller currently in postproduction.
nightworld directed by patricio valladares, is the first feature film produced by open frames, a subsidiary of global group. robert englund and jason london star in this psychological thriller currently in postproduction.