Between Slotherhouse arriving on Hulu, buddy comedy Shaky Shivers arriving on Screambox, and the theatrical release of Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, this week belongs to the horror comedy. Horror comedies also happen to make for perfect Halloween viewing, as they frequently offer tricks and treats in the form of laughs and scares. Naturally, this week’s streaming picks are dedicated to horror comedies, emphasizing lesser-seen titles.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein – Prime Video
This is the first of many movies in which the comedic pair encounter Universal Monsters, and it’s a delightful mashup all ages can enjoy. Here, Lon Chaney Jr.’s Larry Talbot tries to warn Chick (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur (Lou Costello) that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) has arrived in their town with nefarious plans to...
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein – Prime Video
This is the first of many movies in which the comedic pair encounter Universal Monsters, and it’s a delightful mashup all ages can enjoy. Here, Lon Chaney Jr.’s Larry Talbot tries to warn Chick (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur (Lou Costello) that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) has arrived in their town with nefarious plans to...
- 10/16/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Wednesday, October 11, 2023.
Paramount has dropped details for its next South Park exclusive event.
South Park: Joining the Panderverse is set to debut Friday, October 27, in the U.S. and Canada.
"Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves," reads the logline for the special.
"The adults in South Park are also wrestling with their own life decisions as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down."
South Park has been known to put a comedic spin on topical storylines in the past, and it looks to do so again with this next special.
It's also good to have the show back.
Check out the promo below.
Over in the world of Saturday Night Live, Pete Davidson returns to host the upcoming season premiere.
That much we've known for a while now.
Paramount has dropped details for its next South Park exclusive event.
South Park: Joining the Panderverse is set to debut Friday, October 27, in the U.S. and Canada.
"Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves," reads the logline for the special.
"The adults in South Park are also wrestling with their own life decisions as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down."
South Park has been known to put a comedic spin on topical storylines in the past, and it looks to do so again with this next special.
It's also good to have the show back.
Check out the promo below.
Over in the world of Saturday Night Live, Pete Davidson returns to host the upcoming season premiere.
That much we've known for a while now.
- 10/11/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
“The common mayfly has a life expectancy of just one day,” announced the voiceover in a memorable Vodafone advert from the early Noughties. “But is he miserable about it? Not one bit.” This insect’s life, repurposed as metaphor, has come to represent the flickering flame that is human existence. Life, getting shorter with every passing minute. It’s no surprise then that Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan used “mayflies” as the title of his 2020 novel about two friends working through a lifetime of memories as the light fades, a story that’s adapted this Christmas as a BBC One two-part special.
Martin Compston is Jimmy, a successful author returning to the Ayrshire of his youth at the behest of Tully (Tony Curran), his oldest friend who has incurable cancer. “I’m f***ed, Noodles,” he says, using Jimmy’s childhood nickname. “I’ve got four months and that’s the short of it.
Martin Compston is Jimmy, a successful author returning to the Ayrshire of his youth at the behest of Tully (Tony Curran), his oldest friend who has incurable cancer. “I’m f***ed, Noodles,” he says, using Jimmy’s childhood nickname. “I’ve got four months and that’s the short of it.
- 12/28/2022
- by Nick Hilton
- The Independent - TV
It seems only natural that filmmaker Ninian Doff recruited music supervisors Sophie Urquhart and producer-turned-supe Bobby Perman, aka S-Type, for his off-kilter feature debut “Get Duked!” (previously known as “Boyz in the Wood”), since it marries horror and satire.
Doff didn’t want a traditional horror sound; he sought a score and soundtrack that were reflective of his characters. And with S-Type’s background in hip-hop and electronica, and Urquhart’s diverse repertoire as a creative at the U.K.’s Tin Drum Music consultancy, they were the perfect pair to create that environment.
“Get Duked” (streaming on Amazon Prime) follows four teenagers — Dean (Rian Gordon), Duncan (Lewis Gribben), Ian (Samuel Bottomley) and the self-proclaimed rapper DJ “Beatroot” (Viraj Juneja) — as they arrive in the Scottish Highlands to complete a hike as part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme. They soon find themselves the target of hunters who cull teenagers,...
Doff didn’t want a traditional horror sound; he sought a score and soundtrack that were reflective of his characters. And with S-Type’s background in hip-hop and electronica, and Urquhart’s diverse repertoire as a creative at the U.K.’s Tin Drum Music consultancy, they were the perfect pair to create that environment.
“Get Duked” (streaming on Amazon Prime) follows four teenagers — Dean (Rian Gordon), Duncan (Lewis Gribben), Ian (Samuel Bottomley) and the self-proclaimed rapper DJ “Beatroot” (Viraj Juneja) — as they arrive in the Scottish Highlands to complete a hike as part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme. They soon find themselves the target of hunters who cull teenagers,...
- 8/31/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film TV
The influential power of Danny Boyle’s drug-freakout cult classic “Trainspotting” is alive and well for a generation of filmmakers even 25 years later, and its legacy as an Add-addled dark comedy is most recently apparent in “Get Duked!” The feature directorial debut of music video and short filmmaker Ninian Doff, originally going by the vexing title of “Boyz in the Wood,” is a high-energy four-hander about a group of teens who set out into the Scottish Highlands on a camping competition trip. And its energy is perhaps too high, bouncing from one set piece to another so much that it becomes almost dizzying. But that’s fitting for a movie about a quartet of Generation Zers stuck in the wilderness and deprived of their smartphones. Still, Patient, slow cinema this is not.
“Get Duked!” gets off to an immediately overcaffeinated start, and pretty much maintains that level of energy, as...
“Get Duked!” gets off to an immediately overcaffeinated start, and pretty much maintains that level of energy, as...
- 8/28/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
A drunk and stoned group of young dudes don’t make for the stealthiest cat-burgling team, but they’re definitely fun to watch. In the new video for Run the Jewels’ “Out of Sight,” four friends traipse through a palatial estate, while dodging laser beams and trying not to trip over their own feet. They eventually find what they’re looking for: a set of golden gloves — just like the ones pictured on the RTJ4 album cover — and a case of glowing jewels that trigger a psychedelic experience when eaten.
- 8/28/2020
- by Samantha Hissong
- Rollingstone.com
After making its world premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield is ready to hit theaters. Searchlight Pictures is debuting the reimagining of the Charles Dickens’ classic starring Dev Patel in physical theaters (remember those?). To be more specific, the film will open in over 1,350 theaters across the U.S. and Canada with an expansion on September 4. David Copperfield is the first film Searchlight Pictures has released in theaters since Wendy in late February, a month before the pandemic caused box offices to shutter.
Emmy winners and Oscar nominees Iannucci and Simon Blackwell adapted the screenplay from The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery and told the story of the titular character as we see his glow...
Emmy winners and Oscar nominees Iannucci and Simon Blackwell adapted the screenplay from The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery and told the story of the titular character as we see his glow...
- 8/28/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film TV
Arriving on Amazon Prime this Friday, August 28th, is writer/director Ninian Doff’s genre-bending comedy Get Duked! The film follows four students who set out for a skills-building excursion in the Scottish Highlands, but the quartet get more than they bargained for when they realize they’re being hunted for sport, and must find a way to survive.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Doff about Get Duked!, and he discussed how his experiences working in the realm of music videos helped him while making this project, his experiences working with his stellar ensemble, the challenges of shooting in the Highlands in August, and more.
With your background, working in music videos served you extremely well for this. And I was wondering if you could go back to the beginning for the genesis of this film and discussed what inspired the story and your approach. And...
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Doff about Get Duked!, and he discussed how his experiences working in the realm of music videos helped him while making this project, his experiences working with his stellar ensemble, the challenges of shooting in the Highlands in August, and more.
With your background, working in music videos served you extremely well for this. And I was wondering if you could go back to the beginning for the genesis of this film and discussed what inspired the story and your approach. And...
- 8/27/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a real and very British phenomenon; a perplexing mix of activities to challenge, empower and mildly endanger teenagers which concludes by setting them loose in the countryside with a map, a compass and a pat on the back. Get Duked! wisely focuses on the weirdness of the expedition portion and exploits its eccentricities to delightful effect.
The dreadful behaviour of a trio of toilet-detonating mates – Duncan, Dean and DJ Beatroot – finds them ‘volunteered’ for the DofE scheme as a final chance to straighten up. Baffled by both the welcome video and the very concept of orienteering the boys reluctantly hit the Highlands-bound minibus armed with all their survival essentials: sick beats, jelly sweets and box-fresh trainers.
Making the journey alongside them, easily overlooked but better prepared, is homeschooled DofE enthusiast Ian (Samuel Bottomley) and his laminated checklists. New teacher Mr Carlyle (Jonathan Aris) provides maps,...
The dreadful behaviour of a trio of toilet-detonating mates – Duncan, Dean and DJ Beatroot – finds them ‘volunteered’ for the DofE scheme as a final chance to straighten up. Baffled by both the welcome video and the very concept of orienteering the boys reluctantly hit the Highlands-bound minibus armed with all their survival essentials: sick beats, jelly sweets and box-fresh trainers.
Making the journey alongside them, easily overlooked but better prepared, is homeschooled DofE enthusiast Ian (Samuel Bottomley) and his laminated checklists. New teacher Mr Carlyle (Jonathan Aris) provides maps,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Teamwork. Orienteering. Foraging. Three tasks that shouldn’t be too difficult to complete when bolstered by your best friends on a hiking trip en route to earning the Duke of Edinburgh Award. It’s going to be a challenge, but most who seek it do so with open eyes because of what the accolade means on their university applications. They want to be their best, will follow the map to the letter, and meet their chaperone at the midway campsite and coastal finish line with smiles on their faces. But as years passed, fewer teens actually still cared about a stuffy award forcing them to put their phones in their pockets and traverse the Scottish Highlands. It became a punishment teachers used to escape their troublemakers for a couple of days.
That’s exactly why Dean (Rian Gordon), Duncan (Lewis Gribben), and DJ (Viraj Juneja) find themselves in the middle of nowhere without reception.
That’s exactly why Dean (Rian Gordon), Duncan (Lewis Gribben), and DJ (Viraj Juneja) find themselves in the middle of nowhere without reception.
- 8/24/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Get Duked (Original title - Boyz in the Wood) is the story of a group of delinquent friends who after an incident at school must enter the Duke of Edinburgh Award. A program designed to take kids away from the bad elements of the city for a 4-day camping trip where they learn Teamwork, Foraging, and Orienteering. Our three friends consist of Dean Gibson (Rian Gordon)The cool guy of the group who ended up on the trip because of a small case of Arson. Duncan McDonald () the friend who tried to light his poop on fire … resulting in the school bathroom burning down. DJ Beatroot (Viraj Juneja) Future hip-hop star, in his own mind, who made a music video in front of the burning bathroom starring his best friends, Dean and Duncan. The last of the group is Ian Harris (Samuel Bottomley) A loner who actually volunteered for the...
- 8/24/2020
- by Rob Bayne
- Cinelinx
What surely would have made a good reality-tv series — three juvenile delinquents from the big city, plus an awkward kid with no friends, are dropped in the Scottish Highlands and left to find their way back to civilization — works even better as a dark comedy goof when a couple of lunatics start shooting at them from afar. The stakes are high, but so are half the characters in Ninian Doff’s irreverent survivalist satire, which makes this deranged camping trip — with its phallocentric hip-hop jams, improvised pyrotechnics and hallucinogenic rabbit droppings — all the more unforgettable.
As debut features go, “Get Duked!” — or “Boyz in the Wood,” as this future cult classic was called when it won an audience award at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival — serves as. Music-video director Doff’s as wicked as Ben Wheatley and as wacky as Guy Ritchie in the style department, bringing urban attitude to this totally unexpected setting.
As debut features go, “Get Duked!” — or “Boyz in the Wood,” as this future cult classic was called when it won an audience award at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival — serves as. Music-video director Doff’s as wicked as Ben Wheatley and as wacky as Guy Ritchie in the style department, bringing urban attitude to this totally unexpected setting.
- 8/7/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film TV
"You won't get away with this!" Amazon Prime Video has released an official trailer for an indie highlands comedy titled Get Duked!, which won the Midnighters Audience Award at last year's SXSW Film Festival. Formerly known as Boyz in the Wood, it has been given a new title for its US release this month. Set deep in the Scottish Highlands, the film follows wild teenage friends out on a character-building camping trip. With plans to do nothing but get high in the woods, the boys must face a shadowy force hell-bent on extinguishing their futures. From writer-director Ninian Doff comes an anarchic satire of generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers and hallucinogenic rabbit droppings that pits the youth of tomorrow against the status quo of yesterday. Starring Samuel Bottomley, Rian Gordon, Lewis Gribben, Viraj Juneja, Kate Dickie, Kevin Guthrie, Jonathan Aris, Georgia Glen, Alice Lowe, Brian Pettifer, with James Cosmo and Eddie Izzard.
- 8/3/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Amazon Studios has launched the first red band trailer for the anarchic satire ‘Get Duked’.
Dean, Duncan and DJ Beatroot are teenage pals from Glasgow who embark on the character-building camping trip — based on a real-life program — known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award, where foraging, teamwork and orienteering are the order of the day.
Eager to cut loose and smoke weed in the Scottish Highlands, the trio finds themselves paired with straight-laced Ian, a fellow camper determined to play by the rules. After veering off-path into remote farmland that’s worlds away from their urban comfort zone, the boys find themselves hunted down by a shadowy force hell-bent on extinguishing their futures.
Written and directed by Ninian Doff — making his feature debut after a slew of award-winning music videos and short films – the film stars Samuel Bottomley, Rian Gordon, Lewis Gribben, Viraj Juneja, Kate Dickie, Kevin Guthrie, Jonathan Aris,...
Dean, Duncan and DJ Beatroot are teenage pals from Glasgow who embark on the character-building camping trip — based on a real-life program — known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award, where foraging, teamwork and orienteering are the order of the day.
Eager to cut loose and smoke weed in the Scottish Highlands, the trio finds themselves paired with straight-laced Ian, a fellow camper determined to play by the rules. After veering off-path into remote farmland that’s worlds away from their urban comfort zone, the boys find themselves hunted down by a shadowy force hell-bent on extinguishing their futures.
Written and directed by Ninian Doff — making his feature debut after a slew of award-winning music videos and short films – the film stars Samuel Bottomley, Rian Gordon, Lewis Gribben, Viraj Juneja, Kate Dickie, Kevin Guthrie, Jonathan Aris,...
- 8/3/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Formerly titled Boyz in the Wood, we have the trailer for Get Duked!, which will be making its way to Amazon Prime on August 28th:
Synopsis: "Dean, Duncan and DJ Beatroot are teenage pals from Glasgow who embark on the character-building camping trip — based on a real-life program — known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award, where foraging, teamwork and orienteering are the order of the day. Eager to cut loose and smoke weed in the Scottish Highlands, the trio finds themselves paired with straight-laced Ian, a fellow camper determined to play by the rules. After veering off-path into remote farmland that's worlds away from their urban comfort zone, the boys find themselves hunted down by a shadowy force hell-bent on extinguishing their futures. From writer-director Ninian Doff — making his feature debut after a slew of award-winning music videos and short films for artists including Run the Jewels, Miike Snow, Migos,...
Synopsis: "Dean, Duncan and DJ Beatroot are teenage pals from Glasgow who embark on the character-building camping trip — based on a real-life program — known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award, where foraging, teamwork and orienteering are the order of the day. Eager to cut loose and smoke weed in the Scottish Highlands, the trio finds themselves paired with straight-laced Ian, a fellow camper determined to play by the rules. After veering off-path into remote farmland that's worlds away from their urban comfort zone, the boys find themselves hunted down by a shadowy force hell-bent on extinguishing their futures. From writer-director Ninian Doff — making his feature debut after a slew of award-winning music videos and short films for artists including Run the Jewels, Miike Snow, Migos,...
- 8/3/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
After a career collaborating on music videos for Run the Jewels, Miike Snow, Migos, Mykki Blanco, and more, Ninian Doff has made his directorial debut with Get Duked!, formerly titled Boyz in the Wood. An Audience Award winner in the Midnights section at SXSW last year, the adventure features a camping trip in the Scottish Highlands that gets wild as a group of boys who get hunted down. The new U.S. trailer has now landed ahead of a late August release on Amazon Prime, which shows the anarchic spirit and hallucinogenic fun on display.
In our forthcoming review, Jared Mobarak was a fan, saying, “Writer/director Ninian Doff knows that his film Get Duked! can’t just be about dropping three flunkies down on a perilous hilltop since they’ll end up accidentally killing themselves after five minutes. He needs someone present who at least knows the definition of...
In our forthcoming review, Jared Mobarak was a fan, saying, “Writer/director Ninian Doff knows that his film Get Duked! can’t just be about dropping three flunkies down on a perilous hilltop since they’ll end up accidentally killing themselves after five minutes. He needs someone present who at least knows the definition of...
- 8/3/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Amazon Studios has acquired the worldwide rights to Ninian Doff’s debut feature Boyz In The Wood which stars Izzard, Kate Dickie, Georgie Glen, James Cosmo and a up-and-comers Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja, Rian Gordon and Lewis Gribben. The horror-comedy made its world premiere as the opening Midnight Movie at SXSW and received rave reviews before moving on to a noteworthy festival run.
Written and directed by Doff and produced by Tobey Maguire and Matthew Plouffe’s Material Pictures, Boyz In The Wood is set deep in the Scottish Highlands and gives an irreverent take on generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers, and hallucinogenic rabbit shites. The satirical story, which features a playlist of tone-appropriate rappers including Danny Brown, Vince Staples, Run The Jewels, and original music from Scottish producer S-Type, follows four city boys trying to escape a mysterious huntsman (Izzard). The Scottish Highlands’ police unit trails behind, failing spectacularly to provide assistance.
Written and directed by Doff and produced by Tobey Maguire and Matthew Plouffe’s Material Pictures, Boyz In The Wood is set deep in the Scottish Highlands and gives an irreverent take on generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers, and hallucinogenic rabbit shites. The satirical story, which features a playlist of tone-appropriate rappers including Danny Brown, Vince Staples, Run The Jewels, and original music from Scottish producer S-Type, follows four city boys trying to escape a mysterious huntsman (Izzard). The Scottish Highlands’ police unit trails behind, failing spectacularly to provide assistance.
- 12/17/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film TV
Facing expulsion, three city youths are offered an ultimatum: complete their Duke of Edinburgh Award in the Scottish Highlands and retain their places at school. While their teacher (Jonathan Aris) takes the minibus to the first night’s campsite, Dean (Rian Gordon), Duncan (Lewis Gribben) and DJ Beetroot (Viraj Juneja) are left to their own devices — or rather, to those of Ian (Samuel Bottomley), the only member of the troupe who actually volunteered to be there or who is prepared accordingly. Just miles into the journey however, the boys find themselves off piste and at the mercy of a pair of masked psychopaths — one of them disguised as the Duke of Edinburgh himself.
Part Slaughterhouse Rulez, part Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, Boyz in the Wood pits millennial snowflakes against the monsters of yesteryear in what might reasonably be described as this year’s Anna and the Apocalypse, another...
Part Slaughterhouse Rulez, part Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, Boyz in the Wood pits millennial snowflakes against the monsters of yesteryear in what might reasonably be described as this year’s Anna and the Apocalypse, another...
- 6/20/2019
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A group of youngsters stuck in the Scottish countryside become the hunted in Ninian Doff’s wacky mashup
Music video director Ninian Doff makes his feature debut with this cheerfully macabre folk horror-comedy set in the rural wilderness. Very often, comedy-horror is a tricky style with each of the two notional genres being alibis for the other’s absence: ie, neither funny nor scary. Not here, though. Boyz in the Wood isn’t perfect (there isn’t really a wood in it as such and the title is a bit strained), but there’s likable wackiness and weirdness, one or two sizable laughs and a very bizarre deus ex machina moment. Doff has mashed up bits of Trainspotting with The League of Gentlemen and some grisly imaginings of his own.
After burning down their school toilet block during an ill-advised attempt to investigate whether human faeces is flammable, three teenagers...
Music video director Ninian Doff makes his feature debut with this cheerfully macabre folk horror-comedy set in the rural wilderness. Very often, comedy-horror is a tricky style with each of the two notional genres being alibis for the other’s absence: ie, neither funny nor scary. Not here, though. Boyz in the Wood isn’t perfect (there isn’t really a wood in it as such and the title is a bit strained), but there’s likable wackiness and weirdness, one or two sizable laughs and a very bizarre deus ex machina moment. Doff has mashed up bits of Trainspotting with The League of Gentlemen and some grisly imaginings of his own.
After burning down their school toilet block during an ill-advised attempt to investigate whether human faeces is flammable, three teenagers...
- 6/19/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Vertigo Releasing has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Orion Pictures’ horror reboot Child’s Play.
Mark Hamill stars as the voice of Chucky, along with Aubrey Plaza (Parks And Recreation), Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta) and Gabriel Bateman (Playmobil The Movie). Lars Klevberg directs from a script by Tyler Burton Smith.
Plaza stars as a single mother who buys her son Andy (Bateman) a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature. David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith produce under their KatzSmith banner, whose film adaptation of Stephen King’s It earned more than $700M worldwide. Aaron Schmidt and Chris Ferguson executive produced the project, which is set for UK release on June 21, 2019.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will open on June 19, 2019, with the European premiere of Ninian Doff’s comedy debut Boyz In The Wood. The film, which debuted at SXSW, follows four city boys trying to escape a mysterious huntsman,...
Mark Hamill stars as the voice of Chucky, along with Aubrey Plaza (Parks And Recreation), Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta) and Gabriel Bateman (Playmobil The Movie). Lars Klevberg directs from a script by Tyler Burton Smith.
Plaza stars as a single mother who buys her son Andy (Bateman) a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature. David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith produce under their KatzSmith banner, whose film adaptation of Stephen King’s It earned more than $700M worldwide. Aaron Schmidt and Chris Ferguson executive produced the project, which is set for UK release on June 21, 2019.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will open on June 19, 2019, with the European premiere of Ninian Doff’s comedy debut Boyz In The Wood. The film, which debuted at SXSW, follows four city boys trying to escape a mysterious huntsman,...
- 5/1/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film TV
Boyz In The Wood Photo: Courtesy of Eiff Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced it will open its 73rd edition with Boyz In The Wood, on 19 June.
The social satire, directed by first-time feature filmmaker Ninian Doff, stars Eddie Izzard who plays a mysterious Highland hunter who four city boys are trying to escape, as the police force trails behind.
The cast includes established stars Kate Dicke and James Cosmo, alongside newer names Rian Gordon, Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja and Lewis Gribben.
Music video director Doff, who also wrote the script for the film, was one of the first graduates of film group Skamm (Scottish Kids Are Making Movies), held at Edinburgh Filmhouse and run by Shiona Wood, to whom Doff dedicates the film to in the closing credits.
Doff said: “It's hard to put into words what a huge honour it is for me to have Boyz In The Wood...
The social satire, directed by first-time feature filmmaker Ninian Doff, stars Eddie Izzard who plays a mysterious Highland hunter who four city boys are trying to escape, as the police force trails behind.
The cast includes established stars Kate Dicke and James Cosmo, alongside newer names Rian Gordon, Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja and Lewis Gribben.
Music video director Doff, who also wrote the script for the film, was one of the first graduates of film group Skamm (Scottish Kids Are Making Movies), held at Edinburgh Filmhouse and run by Shiona Wood, to whom Doff dedicates the film to in the closing credits.
Doff said: “It's hard to put into words what a huge honour it is for me to have Boyz In The Wood...
- 5/1/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ninian Doff’s debut feature is set in the Highlands.
The European premiere of UK director Ninian Doff’s debut feature Boyz In The Wood will open the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) on June 19.
The film made its world premiere at SXSW in March.
Boyz In The Wood is set in the Scottish Highlands and is about four city boys who try to escape a mysterious huntsman. Newcomers Rian Gordon, Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja and Lewis Gribben play the four boys and the supporting cast includes Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo and Kevin Guthrie.
The film is produced...
The European premiere of UK director Ninian Doff’s debut feature Boyz In The Wood will open the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) on June 19.
The film made its world premiere at SXSW in March.
Boyz In The Wood is set in the Scottish Highlands and is about four city boys who try to escape a mysterious huntsman. Newcomers Rian Gordon, Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja and Lewis Gribben play the four boys and the supporting cast includes Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo and Kevin Guthrie.
The film is produced...
- 5/1/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Social satire “Boyz in the Wood,” starring Eddie Izzard, will open the 73rd edition of the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival on June 19.
Set in the Scottish Highlands, the film follows four city boys trying to escape a mysterious huntsman, played by Izzard, as the Highlands’ police force trails behind. Rian Gordon, Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja and Lewis Gribben lead the cast, which includes Kate Dickie, James Cosmo and Kevin Guthrie.
The film is the debut feature of music video director Ninian Doff, who also penned the script.
Doff said: “I’m from Edinburgh and for my debut film I really wanted to make a film that captured a very particular Scottish joy, madness and humor; and that was also modern, political and forward looking.”
Mark Adams, the festival’s artistic director, described the film as “vibrant, energetic and wonderfully raucous,” adding that it was “a blast from start to finish.
Set in the Scottish Highlands, the film follows four city boys trying to escape a mysterious huntsman, played by Izzard, as the Highlands’ police force trails behind. Rian Gordon, Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja and Lewis Gribben lead the cast, which includes Kate Dickie, James Cosmo and Kevin Guthrie.
The film is the debut feature of music video director Ninian Doff, who also penned the script.
Doff said: “I’m from Edinburgh and for my debut film I really wanted to make a film that captured a very particular Scottish joy, madness and humor; and that was also modern, political and forward looking.”
Mark Adams, the festival’s artistic director, described the film as “vibrant, energetic and wonderfully raucous,” adding that it was “a blast from start to finish.
- 5/1/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film TV
Boyz In The Wood builds off an old dramatic premise. Four contrasting and confused teenagers are removed from their normal lives and dropped into an arena of venture. From there, they must learn to communicate, and in doing so, bond over the truths about themselves they may never have uttered otherwise. It’s a rehashed model, perfectly suited for characters stuck in that cursed age where the question “who am I” gets only one, hasty answer.
But at no point does Boyz In The Wood feel like it has to dig its ideas out of the scraps of the other coming of age films we’ve already taken lessons from over the years: Moonrise Kingdom, Stand by Me, or especially Boyz n The Hood, which this film gets its name from but which has nowhere near the sense of adventure. Ninian Doff’s directorial debut bursts off the screen with eccentric energy and yet,...
But at no point does Boyz In The Wood feel like it has to dig its ideas out of the scraps of the other coming of age films we’ve already taken lessons from over the years: Moonrise Kingdom, Stand by Me, or especially Boyz n The Hood, which this film gets its name from but which has nowhere near the sense of adventure. Ninian Doff’s directorial debut bursts off the screen with eccentric energy and yet,...
- 3/9/2019
- by Luke Parker
- We Got This Covered
The SXSW Film Festival has added more to their already robust lineup including the world premieres of the forthcoming remake of Pet Sematary and the horror The Curse of La Llorona as well as a screening of the series finale of Comedy Central’s Broad City and the second of season of YouTube’s Cobra Kai. In addition, they have unveiled a massive slate of Midnighters, Festival Favorites, Shorts, Episodic Pilots and Virtual Cinema Projects. The 26th edition of the South by Southwest Conference and Festival runs March 8-17 in Austin.
The film fest will end with a horrific scream courtesy of Pet Sematary which is based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King. The horror stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow and is the second film iteration of the popular novel. The first was released in 1989 and was followed by a sequel in 1992.
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The film fest will end with a horrific scream courtesy of Pet Sematary which is based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King. The horror stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow and is the second film iteration of the popular novel. The first was released in 1989 and was followed by a sequel in 1992.
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- 2/6/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film TV
The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals has announced the remainder of its 2019 SXSW festival lineup, which will include Paramount Pictures’ “Pet Sematary” as its closing night film.
Michael Chaves’ “The Curse of La Llorona” has also been added to the lineup, as well as Helen Hunt’s “I See You,” Elisabeth Moss’ “Her Smell,” Alex Gibney’s “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” “Lupita Nyong’o’s “Little Monsters” and Olivia Colman’s “Them That Follow.”
In the Documentary Spotlight section, “I Am Richard Pryor” and “Salvage” have been added.
Also Read: Jordan Peele's 'Us' to Open 2019 SXSW Film Festival
“Pet Sematary” is directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer and is based on the horror novel by Stephen King. It follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife and their two young children to rural Maine, discovers a burial ground near their home.
Michael Chaves’ “The Curse of La Llorona” has also been added to the lineup, as well as Helen Hunt’s “I See You,” Elisabeth Moss’ “Her Smell,” Alex Gibney’s “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” “Lupita Nyong’o’s “Little Monsters” and Olivia Colman’s “Them That Follow.”
In the Documentary Spotlight section, “I Am Richard Pryor” and “Salvage” have been added.
Also Read: Jordan Peele's 'Us' to Open 2019 SXSW Film Festival
“Pet Sematary” is directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer and is based on the horror novel by Stephen King. It follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife and their two young children to rural Maine, discovers a burial ground near their home.
- 2/6/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
This year’s SXSW has finally rounded out the rest of its film festival program, including its popular Midnighters section, along with Festival Favorites, late-addition features and the closing night film for the 6th edition of the festival, running March 8 – 17 in Austin, Texas. This year’s program encompasses 131 feature films including 101 world premieres, 9 North American premieres, 3 U.S. premieres, and 64 films from first-time filmmakers.
In a nod to the festival’s affinity for genre films, this year’s event will close with the world premiere of Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer’s new version of “Pet Sematary.” Kolsch and Widmyer’s film is based on the beloved Stephen King novel of the same name, and stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow. Paramount Pictures will release the film on April 5.
In that same vein, the festival has also unveiled its list of Midnighters. Featuring 10 new world premieres, the slate includes dark comedies,...
In a nod to the festival’s affinity for genre films, this year’s event will close with the world premiere of Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer’s new version of “Pet Sematary.” Kolsch and Widmyer’s film is based on the beloved Stephen King novel of the same name, and stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow. Paramount Pictures will release the film on April 5.
In that same vein, the festival has also unveiled its list of Midnighters. Featuring 10 new world premieres, the slate includes dark comedies,...
- 2/6/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
As we seem to be in the middle of a disaster-movie revival (the Rock alone has topped neuvo variations on “Earthquake” and “The Towering Inferno”), it seems sensible enough that someone should blow the dust off 1977’s lesser-remembered 1976 “Two-Minute Warning,” in which a sniper terrorized an American football stadium. (The “disaster” part was really the panicked crowd stampede at the end.) Though actually what “Final Score” is most like, as the press materials duly note, is “‘Die Hard’ in a football stadium.”
If you think that sounds fun, you’d be right: Park your brain cells in the lobby, and this U.K. production about a terrorist attack on a London soccer stadium — with Dave Bautista as Bruce Willis plus 100 or so extra pounds of muscle — is an entertainingly over-the-top ride that doesn’t even try to be “credible.” It’s not quite daft or otherwise distinctive enough to be memorable.
If you think that sounds fun, you’d be right: Park your brain cells in the lobby, and this U.K. production about a terrorist attack on a London soccer stadium — with Dave Bautista as Bruce Willis plus 100 or so extra pounds of muscle — is an entertainingly over-the-top ride that doesn’t even try to be “credible.” It’s not quite daft or otherwise distinctive enough to be memorable.
- 9/10/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film TV
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