Stars: Dean Sharp, Richard Harrington, Nia Roberts, Gwyneth Keyworth, Sule Rimi, Mike Butler, Bizz Raggett, Evan Heneghan, Jennifer Riddle, Luis Delgado, Everett Lauster, Kayla Orben, Carole-Anne Fooks, Hayden Hancock, Drew Marvick, J.J. McGrath, Joe Nurse, Heather Marshall | Directed by Ryan Andrews, Tony Mardon, James Edward Newton, Jeph Porter, Ryan Kruger, Matt Shaw, Christian Fescine, Mark Felix Stewart, Justin Wiggins, Drew Marvick, Jonathan Zaurin
Dean of the Dead Presents Holiday Horrors! is a seasonal horror-themed anthology that features stories from ten different directors, all wrapped up with an introduction from Dean of the Dead – a host akin to the likes of Tales From the Crypt‘s Cryptkeeper; and with visuals that look like they’ve jumped straight from the pages of the EC Comics of old… think Creepshow but on a much lower budget!
So what terrifying tales are in this one?
First up is Little Munchkin, directed by Ryan Andrews,...
Dean of the Dead Presents Holiday Horrors! is a seasonal horror-themed anthology that features stories from ten different directors, all wrapped up with an introduction from Dean of the Dead – a host akin to the likes of Tales From the Crypt‘s Cryptkeeper; and with visuals that look like they’ve jumped straight from the pages of the EC Comics of old… think Creepshow but on a much lower budget!
So what terrifying tales are in this one?
First up is Little Munchkin, directed by Ryan Andrews,...
- 3/5/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The Coven, sales agent on the ’Terrifier’ franchise, has closed a handful of key territory deals at EFM on the adaptation of Sitges supernatural short film The Painted and comedy horror remake Street Trash.
Sales have closed in Latin America (Gussi), Philippines (Pioneer), Mena (Falcon), Malaysia (Antenna), and Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar (Blue Lantern).
Sascha Sibley adapted The Painted (pictured) from his 2020 Sitges short selection of the same name. The story follows a family who discover they have inherited a curse and must do whatever they can to avoid becoming its latest victims.
Priscilla Smith’s sales and production...
Sales have closed in Latin America (Gussi), Philippines (Pioneer), Mena (Falcon), Malaysia (Antenna), and Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar (Blue Lantern).
Sascha Sibley adapted The Painted (pictured) from his 2020 Sitges short selection of the same name. The story follows a family who discover they have inherited a curse and must do whatever they can to avoid becoming its latest victims.
Priscilla Smith’s sales and production...
- 2/26/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Coven has closed a handful of sales at EFM on Sitges supernatural short film adaptation The Painted and comedy horror remake Street Trash.
Deals have closed in Latin America (Gussi), Philippines (Pioneer), Mena (Falcon), Malaysia (Antenna), and Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar (Blue Lantern).
Sascha Sibley adapted The Painted (pictured) from his 2020 Sitges short selection of the same name. The story follows a family who uncover a curse they have unknowingly inherited from their estranged cousin and must do whatever they can to avoid becoming its latest victims.
Priscilla Smith’s sales agency also showed buyers in Berlin footage from Street Trash,...
Deals have closed in Latin America (Gussi), Philippines (Pioneer), Mena (Falcon), Malaysia (Antenna), and Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar (Blue Lantern).
Sascha Sibley adapted The Painted (pictured) from his 2020 Sitges short selection of the same name. The story follows a family who uncover a curse they have unknowingly inherited from their estranged cousin and must do whatever they can to avoid becoming its latest victims.
Priscilla Smith’s sales agency also showed buyers in Berlin footage from Street Trash,...
- 2/26/2024
- ScreenDaily
Variety has broken the news that the 1987 cult classic horror comedy Street Trash (buy it Here) is getting a remake from Ryan Kruger, the director of the 2020 body horror film Fried Barry! Production is already underway on the remake, which moves the story from Brooklyn to South Africa, and Cineverse has acquired the North American distribution rights. They’re planning to release the film through the Screambox streaming service sometime in 2024.
The original Street Trash was directed by J. Michael Muro from a screenplay by Roy Frumkes. Thirteen years ago, Frumkes said he was working on the script for Street Trash 2… but that sequel never made it into production. Thankfully, Muro and Frumkes are both involved with the remake. They’re executive producing it alongside Bad Dragon and Vinegar Syndrome.
The Street Trash remake follows a group of homeless misfits as they fight for survival when they discover a plot...
The original Street Trash was directed by J. Michael Muro from a screenplay by Roy Frumkes. Thirteen years ago, Frumkes said he was working on the script for Street Trash 2… but that sequel never made it into production. Thankfully, Muro and Frumkes are both involved with the remake. They’re executive producing it alongside Bad Dragon and Vinegar Syndrome.
The Street Trash remake follows a group of homeless misfits as they fight for survival when they discover a plot...
- 8/8/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Get ready for a full load of face-melting gory goodness when Cineverse/Bloody Disgusting/Screambox reboot the 1987 cult classic Street Trash alongside Vinegar Syndrome!
Production is currently underway in various locations around Cape Town, South Africa for the film that is shot entirely on 35mm. The news was first reported by Variety.
Cineverse plans to release the film as a Screambox Original in early 2024.
From director Ryan Kruger, whose first independent feature Fried Barry played dozens of film festivals worldwide, Street Trash follows a group of homeless misfits as they fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.
“Our reimagining of Street Trash takes place in Cape Town, South Africa where the growing divide between rich and poor has changed the world as we know it,” says Kruger. “I was a huge fan of the original Street Trash when I was a kid,...
Production is currently underway in various locations around Cape Town, South Africa for the film that is shot entirely on 35mm. The news was first reported by Variety.
Cineverse plans to release the film as a Screambox Original in early 2024.
From director Ryan Kruger, whose first independent feature Fried Barry played dozens of film festivals worldwide, Street Trash follows a group of homeless misfits as they fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.
“Our reimagining of Street Trash takes place in Cape Town, South Africa where the growing divide between rich and poor has changed the world as we know it,” says Kruger. “I was a huge fan of the original Street Trash when I was a kid,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Cineverse has acquired all North American rights to the reboot of the 1987 horror-comedy “Street Trash.” The reboot of the cult classic is helmed by “Fried Barry” director Ryan Kruger.
Over three decades after the slimy and grimy film’s debut, Kruger is moving this horror story out of Brooklyn and into a whole new continent with an even more potent message. “Our reimagining of Street Trash takes place in Cape Town, South Africa where the growing divide between rich and poor has changed the world as we know it,” said Kruger in a statement. “I was a huge fan of the original ‘Street Trash’ when I was a kid, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce a whole new generation to the melted gonzo goodness that made the original such a classic.”
Per the film’s official logline, “’Street Trash’ follows a group of homeless misfits as they...
Over three decades after the slimy and grimy film’s debut, Kruger is moving this horror story out of Brooklyn and into a whole new continent with an even more potent message. “Our reimagining of Street Trash takes place in Cape Town, South Africa where the growing divide between rich and poor has changed the world as we know it,” said Kruger in a statement. “I was a huge fan of the original ‘Street Trash’ when I was a kid, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce a whole new generation to the melted gonzo goodness that made the original such a classic.”
Per the film’s official logline, “’Street Trash’ follows a group of homeless misfits as they...
- 8/8/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
“the hard-r version of E.T.” – Den of Geek
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Fried Barry from Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release
Fried Barry on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-Ray on October 5, 2021. Check out the trailer:
Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of Fried Barry. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite horror movie of the year so far is (I’d say Army Of The Dead It’s so easy!)
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Written and directed by Ryan Kruger in his feature directorial debut,...
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Fried Barry from Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release
Fried Barry on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-Ray on October 5, 2021. Check out the trailer:
Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of Fried Barry. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite horror movie of the year so far is (I’d say Army Of The Dead It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
Written and directed by Ryan Kruger in his feature directorial debut,...
- 9/29/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hey everyone! I’ve been playing catch-up on a handful of indie horror movies over the last few weeks, and here are my thoughts on two films I recently had the opportunity to watch—Benny Loves You from Karl Holt and Ryan Kruger’s Fried Barry.
Benny Loves You: When I first read the initial premise of Benny Loves You—a man’s childhood toy becomes sentient and embarks on a killing spree—I knew I was absolutely all in for this wacky little movie, and it didn’t disappoint. Brimming with ambition, ingenuity, and heaps of slash-tastic fun, Benny Loves You feels exactly like the type of movie I would have made with my toys back as a horror youngin, but writer/director/star Karl Holt does a much better job than I ever could have dreamt up, resulting in a wickedly funny horror comedy that also has...
Benny Loves You: When I first read the initial premise of Benny Loves You—a man’s childhood toy becomes sentient and embarks on a killing spree—I knew I was absolutely all in for this wacky little movie, and it didn’t disappoint. Brimming with ambition, ingenuity, and heaps of slash-tastic fun, Benny Loves You feels exactly like the type of movie I would have made with my toys back as a horror youngin, but writer/director/star Karl Holt does a much better job than I ever could have dreamt up, resulting in a wickedly funny horror comedy that also has...
- 5/17/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
An extraterrestrial picks a junkie to inhabit in this seedy, inconsistently acted but often sharply comic urban tale
This gleefully lurid, picaresque journey through a few days in Cape Town for an alien inhabiting the body of a skeevy junkie named Barry (Gary Green) won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. But scattered among the gross-out scenes – involving violence or bodily fluids or both, the bouts of softcore shagging, and innumerable garish “trippy” bits where the protagonist and his acquaintances do drugs – there’s actually some reasonably sharply comic, surprisingly touching and straight-up well-acted moments.
Presumably, the key variables are the improvising performers that first-time director Ryan Kruger, fluffing up what was originally a short into feature length, collaborated with for each scene. Some, like Chanelle de Jager, who plays Barry’s longsuffering wife and is given to long profane rants in Afrikaans about Barry’s uselessness, have real...
This gleefully lurid, picaresque journey through a few days in Cape Town for an alien inhabiting the body of a skeevy junkie named Barry (Gary Green) won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. But scattered among the gross-out scenes – involving violence or bodily fluids or both, the bouts of softcore shagging, and innumerable garish “trippy” bits where the protagonist and his acquaintances do drugs – there’s actually some reasonably sharply comic, surprisingly touching and straight-up well-acted moments.
Presumably, the key variables are the improvising performers that first-time director Ryan Kruger, fluffing up what was originally a short into feature length, collaborated with for each scene. Some, like Chanelle de Jager, who plays Barry’s longsuffering wife and is given to long profane rants in Afrikaans about Barry’s uselessness, have real...
- 5/5/2021
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Chanelle De Jager, Gary Green, Bianka Hartenstein, Sean Cameron Michael, Jonathan Pienaar | Written and Directed by Ryan Kruger
I know of Ryan Kruger from some of his short film work things, such as 2014’s The Golden Rule and, of course, his 2017 short thing, Fried Barry. I was pleased as punch, you could say, when I heard about the feature length motion picture thing named, well… Fried Barry that would be hitting the screens in 2020. Kruger certainly has an eye for the absurd, but he is also able to adapt and write emotional view-points and tell stories with more than just skin. He can give some real flesh, muscle and blood to what he creates, so I was on board for this peculiar flick.
The first thing that hit me, right in the jaw, about Fried Barry is just how damned creative it is. I love when a weird oddball...
I know of Ryan Kruger from some of his short film work things, such as 2014’s The Golden Rule and, of course, his 2017 short thing, Fried Barry. I was pleased as punch, you could say, when I heard about the feature length motion picture thing named, well… Fried Barry that would be hitting the screens in 2020. Kruger certainly has an eye for the absurd, but he is also able to adapt and write emotional view-points and tell stories with more than just skin. He can give some real flesh, muscle and blood to what he creates, so I was on board for this peculiar flick.
The first thing that hit me, right in the jaw, about Fried Barry is just how damned creative it is. I love when a weird oddball...
- 5/3/2021
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
You can’t help but have high hopes for a film called Fried Barry so thankfully expectations have been massively exceeded. Writer/director Ryan Kruger extends his 2017 short of the same name into a phenomenal mind-f**k masterpiece that transcends nano-budget B movie trappings.
The script doesn’t let up as we’re swiftly introduced to Barry (brilliantly played by Gary Green), a perpetually frazzled, financially struggling, drug addled dad/scumbag, who looks like a hybrid of Lee Van Cleef, Julian Beck (Kane from Poltergeist 2) and Dieter Laser from The Human Centipede films.
After walking out on his wife and young son, Barry goes pub, gets tousled on heroin and is then either possessed by extra-terrestrials or has the type of frighteningly heightened hallucination that would suggest he’s been cajoled onto a toad licking frenzy by a psycho Shaman from Mars.
We’re then swiftly booted face first into Barry’s odyssey,...
The script doesn’t let up as we’re swiftly introduced to Barry (brilliantly played by Gary Green), a perpetually frazzled, financially struggling, drug addled dad/scumbag, who looks like a hybrid of Lee Van Cleef, Julian Beck (Kane from Poltergeist 2) and Dieter Laser from The Human Centipede films.
After walking out on his wife and young son, Barry goes pub, gets tousled on heroin and is then either possessed by extra-terrestrials or has the type of frighteningly heightened hallucination that would suggest he’s been cajoled onto a toad licking frenzy by a psycho Shaman from Mars.
We’re then swiftly booted face first into Barry’s odyssey,...
- 5/3/2021
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
An alien abduction leads to a deadly night in Cape Town in Ryan Kruger's feature directorial debut, Fried Barry, which has been acquired by Shudder and will be streamable in multiple countries beginning Thursday, May 6th:
Press Release: New York – March 23, 2021 – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired South African film Fried Barry for release in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, May 6. The feature directorial debut from award-winning music video director Ryan Kruger and starring newcomer Gary Green, the genre pushing, acid-washed, sci-fi horror has been praised by critics and embraced by fans around the world.
Fried Barry, a Ryan Kruger thing, follows the story of a drug-addled degenerate who, after yet another bender, gets abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as his alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town.
Press Release: New York – March 23, 2021 – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired South African film Fried Barry for release in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, May 6. The feature directorial debut from award-winning music video director Ryan Kruger and starring newcomer Gary Green, the genre pushing, acid-washed, sci-fi horror has been praised by critics and embraced by fans around the world.
Fried Barry, a Ryan Kruger thing, follows the story of a drug-addled degenerate who, after yet another bender, gets abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as his alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town.
- 3/23/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: AMC Networks’ genre streamer Shudder has picked up South African horror-thriller Fried Barry for domestic and a host of international territories.
The film is the feature debut from music video director Ryan Kruger and stars newcomer Gary Green as a drug-addled degenerate who takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. The film is an extension of Kruger’s 2017 short of the same name.
Shudder will debut the movie in North America, the UK and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand on May 6.
The pic had its world premiere at the 2020 Cinequest Film Festival and also screened at Sitges, Fantasia, Grimmfest and Fantaspoa. It is produced by James C. Williamson and Kruger and executive produced by Nicolai Fuglsig. Williams and Kruger combined on the screenplay. Also in the cast are Bianka Hartenstein, Sean Cameron Michael, Chanelle de Jager,...
The film is the feature debut from music video director Ryan Kruger and stars newcomer Gary Green as a drug-addled degenerate who takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. The film is an extension of Kruger’s 2017 short of the same name.
Shudder will debut the movie in North America, the UK and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand on May 6.
The pic had its world premiere at the 2020 Cinequest Film Festival and also screened at Sitges, Fantasia, Grimmfest and Fantaspoa. It is produced by James C. Williamson and Kruger and executive produced by Nicolai Fuglsig. Williams and Kruger combined on the screenplay. Also in the cast are Bianka Hartenstein, Sean Cameron Michael, Chanelle de Jager,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Fried Barry Photo: Courtesy of Fantasia
The story of an alien borrowing the body of an abusive man and taking it on a joyride through Cape Town, Fried Barry is one of those films that will burn itself into your brain, leaving an indelible impression. It’s been an equally wild experience for director Ryan Kruger, who still seems overwhelmed by the response it has been getting on the festival circuit. A few days before its scheduled screening as part of Grimmfest, we took the time to talk about his experiences, starting with the short with the same title which he made in 2017.
“It was just a standalone, experimental film,” he says. “I had no idea. And I had no plan to turn it into a feature. Where I was at the time, I was just frustrated as a filmmaker. Normally I shoot music videos, I'm known as an African music video director.
The story of an alien borrowing the body of an abusive man and taking it on a joyride through Cape Town, Fried Barry is one of those films that will burn itself into your brain, leaving an indelible impression. It’s been an equally wild experience for director Ryan Kruger, who still seems overwhelmed by the response it has been getting on the festival circuit. A few days before its scheduled screening as part of Grimmfest, we took the time to talk about his experiences, starting with the short with the same title which he made in 2017.
“It was just a standalone, experimental film,” he says. “I had no idea. And I had no plan to turn it into a feature. Where I was at the time, I was just frustrated as a filmmaker. Normally I shoot music videos, I'm known as an African music video director.
- 10/8/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
My fok, Marelize! What a weird, wild, and wonderful road-trip through the psycho-delic-gorgiastic-extra-terror-restrial-killer-eidoscope of Fried Barry's human reconditioning. And if that motley and manic description doesn't pique your cinesense, then this film may not be to your tastes. It's an erratic fever dream through Barry's misadventures as a junky-turned-alien, and a brilliant first feature by director/writer Ryan Kruger. Executed with style and no small measure of audacity, it's unlike anything I've ever seen out of South Africa, and surely puts Kruger squarely amidst the country's new generation of riveting filmmakers. For all the credit due behind the camera, including to Haezer for his sublime music (if "music" is what you can call the panoply of aural sensations that accompany Barry's experiences), the film hangs on...
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- 9/7/2020
- Screen Anarchy
The Fantasia International Film Festival has been serving up fresh and often visionary new voices in sci-fi, horror and other genres for nearly a quarter of a century, and this year’s 24th edition was no different — except, of course, it was all different.
Fantasia, which under normal circumstances physically takes place in Montreal in mid-summer, went online in 2020 for an all-digital edition that kicked off on August 20 and concluded on September 2. The event was a mix of films that were either available on demand at any time throughout the fest (up until a maximum ticket capacity was reached) or were designated to stream “live,” as it were, on one or two certain dates at specific times (also with a maximum ticket capacity).
Although press from around the world was invited to cover the festival, the entire program was geoblocked to Canadian ticket buyers only — which means that as a...
Fantasia, which under normal circumstances physically takes place in Montreal in mid-summer, went online in 2020 for an all-digital edition that kicked off on August 20 and concluded on September 2. The event was a mix of films that were either available on demand at any time throughout the fest (up until a maximum ticket capacity was reached) or were designated to stream “live,” as it were, on one or two certain dates at specific times (also with a maximum ticket capacity).
Although press from around the world was invited to cover the festival, the entire program was geoblocked to Canadian ticket buyers only — which means that as a...
- 9/4/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
"That's why I like you, Barry," says the man in the pub when Barry is still Barry. "You don't talk much, but you're a good listener."
Listening might be the only thing Barry is good for. He's a shitty husband, an uncaring father, a terror to those who owe him money, an all-round nasty piece of work. But the creature who comes to inhabit Barry, to wear him like a spacesuit, well, it's something else entirely.
Loosely based on Ryan Kruger's 2017 short, which also starred Gary Green as the troubled title character, Fried Barry is an alien invasion film with a difference. Just one man is invaded - we don't know for what purpose - and the real focus is on the alienness of the Earth. The effect is somewhat like The Man Who Fell To Earth might have been had its hero landed in one of the scummier areas of.
Listening might be the only thing Barry is good for. He's a shitty husband, an uncaring father, a terror to those who owe him money, an all-round nasty piece of work. But the creature who comes to inhabit Barry, to wear him like a spacesuit, well, it's something else entirely.
Loosely based on Ryan Kruger's 2017 short, which also starred Gary Green as the troubled title character, Fried Barry is an alien invasion film with a difference. Just one man is invaded - we don't know for what purpose - and the real focus is on the alienness of the Earth. The effect is somewhat like The Man Who Fell To Earth might have been had its hero landed in one of the scummier areas of.
- 8/20/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The genre show goes on as Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival moves online for its 24th annual edition happening from August 20 to September 2, 2020. The best news for the host nation is that anyone in the country (all films save #Shakespearesshitstorm for the US will be geo-blocked to Canada) can experience the fun that only those able to travel to Montreal have in the past.
Each on-demand title will be available through their festival portal for $8 Cad and accessible during the course of the festival (with 30 hours to finish once you’ve pressed play). Attendance numbers will be capped similar to the capacity of the auditorium it would have screened at had an in-person event been possible and there will be select live screenings that must be watched during specified times as a communal experience.
Don’t think that the virtual nature of this installment will water down the product,...
Each on-demand title will be available through their festival portal for $8 Cad and accessible during the course of the festival (with 30 hours to finish once you’ve pressed play). Attendance numbers will be capped similar to the capacity of the auditorium it would have screened at had an in-person event been possible and there will be select live screenings that must be watched during specified times as a communal experience.
Don’t think that the virtual nature of this installment will water down the product,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Barry (Gary Green) is a piece of work. He’s a deadbeat husband to Suz (Chanelle de Jager), deadbeat dad to their son, and all-around deadbeat to Cape Town on the whole considering he’s shooting heroin when he’s not roughing up people who owe him money because he’s been facilitating their habits too. As far as we can tell by the cursory introduction writer/director Ryan Kruger provides, Barry deserves every single insult Suz hurls his way when he strolls home well past the hour she expected. That his response is to accuse her of adultery (“the boy doesn’t look like me”) before leaving to drink at the neighborhood dive bar ensures he’ll never earn one iota of sympathy from us. It’s therefore good that he soon disappears.
If you’re wondering how that could be when the title of the film is literally Fried Barry,...
If you’re wondering how that could be when the title of the film is literally Fried Barry,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Stars: Chanelle De Jager, Gary Green, Bianka Hartenstein, Sean Cameron Michael, Jonathan Pienaar | Written and Directed by Ryan Kruger
I know of Ryan Kruger from some of his short film work things, such as 2014’s The Golden Rule and, of course, his 2017 short thing, Fried Barry. I was pleased as punch, you could say, when I heard about the feature length motion picture thing named, well… Fried Barry that would be hitting the screens in 2020. Kruger certainly has an eye for the absurd, but he is also able to adapt and write emotional view-points and tell stories with more than just skin. He can give some real flesh, muscle and blood to what he creates, so I was on board for this peculiar flick.
The first thing that hit me, right in the jaw, about Fried Barry is just how damned creative it is. I love when a weird oddball...
I know of Ryan Kruger from some of his short film work things, such as 2014’s The Golden Rule and, of course, his 2017 short thing, Fried Barry. I was pleased as punch, you could say, when I heard about the feature length motion picture thing named, well… Fried Barry that would be hitting the screens in 2020. Kruger certainly has an eye for the absurd, but he is also able to adapt and write emotional view-points and tell stories with more than just skin. He can give some real flesh, muscle and blood to what he creates, so I was on board for this peculiar flick.
The first thing that hit me, right in the jaw, about Fried Barry is just how damned creative it is. I love when a weird oddball...
- 8/14/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
More than 20 features and four world premieres selected for genre film festival.
UK genre film festival Grimmfest has revealed the line-up for its 2020 edition, which will take place online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scroll down for full line-up
The festival, which runs October 7 to 11, will open with the European premiere of US psychological thriller Alone, directed by John Hyams, in which a grieving widow is pursued through the wilderness by a relentless psychopath.
Grimmfest has also secured four world premieres for this year’s edition, which include US features The Special, from filmmaker B. Harrison Smith, and They Reach,...
UK genre film festival Grimmfest has revealed the line-up for its 2020 edition, which will take place online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scroll down for full line-up
The festival, which runs October 7 to 11, will open with the European premiere of US psychological thriller Alone, directed by John Hyams, in which a grieving widow is pursued through the wilderness by a relentless psychopath.
Grimmfest has also secured four world premieres for this year’s edition, which include US features The Special, from filmmaker B. Harrison Smith, and They Reach,...
- 8/14/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Around 20 horror features will be selected for the four-day virtual event in October.
UK genre film festival Grimmfest is moving online this year due to the Covid-19 crisis and has revealed the first raft of titles for its 2020 edition.
The festival usually takes place in Manchester over four days in October but will be hosted virtually this year from October 7-11, including premieres, shorts, Q&As and panels.
The programme will comprise around 20 features and two short film showcases, while horror writer-director Mick Garris will receive the festival’s lifetime achievement award.
Titles include the European premieres of Revenge Ride,...
UK genre film festival Grimmfest is moving online this year due to the Covid-19 crisis and has revealed the first raft of titles for its 2020 edition.
The festival usually takes place in Manchester over four days in October but will be hosted virtually this year from October 7-11, including premieres, shorts, Q&As and panels.
The programme will comprise around 20 features and two short film showcases, while horror writer-director Mick Garris will receive the festival’s lifetime achievement award.
Titles include the European premieres of Revenge Ride,...
- 7/13/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Around 20 horror features will be selected for the four-day virtual event in October.
UK genre film festival Grimmfest is moving online this year due to the Covid-19 crisis and has revealed the first raft of titles for its 2020 edition.
The festival usually takes place in Manchester over four days in October but will be hosted virtually this year from October 7-11, including premieres, shorts, Q&As and panels.
The programme will comprise around 20 features and two short film showcases, while horror writer-director Mick Garris will receive the festival’s lifetime achievement award.
Titles include the European premieres of Revenge Ride,...
UK genre film festival Grimmfest is moving online this year due to the Covid-19 crisis and has revealed the first raft of titles for its 2020 edition.
The festival usually takes place in Manchester over four days in October but will be hosted virtually this year from October 7-11, including premieres, shorts, Q&As and panels.
The programme will comprise around 20 features and two short film showcases, while horror writer-director Mick Garris will receive the festival’s lifetime achievement award.
Titles include the European premieres of Revenge Ride,...
- 7/13/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Described as "an absolute first in the history of South African cinema - and perhaps in humankind itself!", Ryan Kruger's Fried Barry will enjoy its Canadian premiere at the upcoming Fantasia 2020, which will be a "virtual event accessible to movie lovers across Canada." My colleague Andrew Mack wrote about the first wave of titles announced, which includes Fried Barry, described thusly by the festival: "An alien takes over the body of a middle-aged drug addict (Gary Green) and goes on a delirious joyride across Cape Town in Ryan Kruger's Fried Barry, an acid trip of a road movie. Winner of a RapidLion Award for Best South African Film, it's a tale that's alternately depraved and oddly sweet - featuring over 100 actors and some...
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- 7/6/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival, which is the largest genre event in South America, has locked a partnership with local streaming service Darkflix to allow it to host its 16th edition online, and free for local audiences.
The 2020 edition of the fest was originally scheduled to take place in May this year, but had to be postponed due to the pandemic. As the virus is far from being contained in Brazil (the country now has both the second-highest number of infections and deaths in the world), organizers have ultimately decided that a physical edition will not be possible this year, and instead will pivot online.
Running July 24 – August 2, Fantaspoa will see Darkflix host a number of Latin American premieres of new genre films, and will feature a total of 110 features and shorts from 35 countries. Each title will have a cap of 5,000 viewers and will be geo-blocked for viewers in Brazil.
The 2020 edition of the fest was originally scheduled to take place in May this year, but had to be postponed due to the pandemic. As the virus is far from being contained in Brazil (the country now has both the second-highest number of infections and deaths in the world), organizers have ultimately decided that a physical edition will not be possible this year, and instead will pivot online.
Running July 24 – August 2, Fantaspoa will see Darkflix host a number of Latin American premieres of new genre films, and will feature a total of 110 features and shorts from 35 countries. Each title will have a cap of 5,000 viewers and will be geo-blocked for viewers in Brazil.
- 6/17/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Fantasia’s upcoming virtual edition, which will run August 20 – September 2, will kick off with the first showing of Neil Marshall’s horror The Reckoning. Set in 1665 against the backdrop of the Great Plague, Charlotte Kirk leads the cast of the movie about the witch hunts that followed the crisis.
The fest has revealed a total of eight world premieres alongside films from the SXSW and Tribeca line-ups that have yet to screen for the public. Also debuting are: Chino Moya’s Undergods, Thomas Robert Lee’s The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw, Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, Mauro Iván Ojeda’s The Undertaker’s Home, and Anthony Scott Burns’s Come True. Scroll down for the full list.
Bad luck for international Fantasia fans, however, as the online screenings, which will run via Festival Scope and Shift72’s virtual screening platform, will only be accessible to those based in Canada.
Fantasia’s...
The fest has revealed a total of eight world premieres alongside films from the SXSW and Tribeca line-ups that have yet to screen for the public. Also debuting are: Chino Moya’s Undergods, Thomas Robert Lee’s The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw, Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, Mauro Iván Ojeda’s The Undertaker’s Home, and Anthony Scott Burns’s Come True. Scroll down for the full list.
Bad luck for international Fantasia fans, however, as the online screenings, which will run via Festival Scope and Shift72’s virtual screening platform, will only be accessible to those based in Canada.
Fantasia’s...
- 6/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Fried Barry is a feature film from Ryan Kruger. Developed from a short film which was released last year, Fried Barry follows a burnout drug user (Gary Green) - who finds himself abducted by aliens. The short film won awards. Now, the feature is complete and set to show across the world. Fried Barry also stars: Leon Clingman, Francois Coertze and Kelsey Egan. The film's first, international trailer and early stills are featured here. Director Kruger has talked about the central character Barry and actor Gary Green, in an interview. Kruger says of Gary Green: "I’ve worked with Gary in numerous projects over the years and he’s always excelled as a character actor because of his unique look...carrying an entire feature film as the lead actor was another challenge entirely (Hellnotes)." This is actor Green's first feature role. Kruger also mentions the challenges in filming his first...
- 5/6/2020
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Stars: Eric Roberts, Toshi Toda, Adrian Bouchet, Natalie Robbie, Donna Cormack Thomson, Chris Fisher, Jonathan Pienaar, Margot Wood, Andrew Dennison, Meghan Oberholzer, Ryan Kruger | Written and Directed by Mark Atkins
Syfy and mockbuster producers The Asylum are back with yet another blockbuster movie cash-in with Monster Island, their take on Godzilla: King of the Monsters… only Without Godzilla to save the day! The plots are virtually identical: in this case a deep-sea drilling expedition gone wrong uncovers a monstrous giant starfish that wrecks havoc on humanity, an awakening that is followed by even more kaiju arising and terrorising Earth – forcing a team of scientists to find the legendary creature, the Living Mountain, and get it to battle the menace.
Oh and did I mention that not only is there a giant starfish but he spews lava/magma and is probably responsible for all the worlds volcanic disasters? And we also get fire-breathing monsters,...
Syfy and mockbuster producers The Asylum are back with yet another blockbuster movie cash-in with Monster Island, their take on Godzilla: King of the Monsters… only Without Godzilla to save the day! The plots are virtually identical: in this case a deep-sea drilling expedition gone wrong uncovers a monstrous giant starfish that wrecks havoc on humanity, an awakening that is followed by even more kaiju arising and terrorising Earth – forcing a team of scientists to find the legendary creature, the Living Mountain, and get it to battle the menace.
Oh and did I mention that not only is there a giant starfish but he spews lava/magma and is probably responsible for all the worlds volcanic disasters? And we also get fire-breathing monsters,...
- 7/1/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by one of the members of the cast. Director/writer: Christopher-Lee dos Santos Cast: Sean Cameron Michael, Suraya Santos, Brandon Auret, Jonathan Pienaar and Ryan Kruger. Broken Darkness is a post-apocalyptic title, from South Africa. Previously titled Last Broken Darkness, this film was shot by director Christopher-Lee dos Santos. Broken Darkness stars: Sean Cameron Michael ("Black Sails"), Brandon Auret (Elysium), Suraya Santos and Jonathan Pienaar. Much of the film takes place after a devastating meteorite strike; survivors must live below ground, or face the radiation and infection above. For the first hour, everything story-wise comes across well. Then, the tone shifts from a serious dramatic thriller to an overly sombre series of scenes. This shift, in tone, is a bit disconcerting. Also, somewhat reminiscent of Jeff Renfroe's The Colony (2013) and John Hillcoat's The Road (2009), Broken Darkness brings the.
- 9/6/2018
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
It’s lucky 13 for the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC. That is, their 13th annual fest is all set to run on Oct 8-16. That’s nine mind-blowing nights of experimental short films, live film performances and culture-shattering documentaries.
The fest kicks off on the 8th with a 16mm screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin that will be accompanied by a live soundtrack by DJ-son Bitter Herbs [Jason Flower]. The people’s revolution never sounded so funky! Then, the fest concludes on the 16th with the event “Uzos [Underwater Zombies from Outer Space]” and will feature performances by Ryan Beattie, Atomic Vaudeville, Slut Revolver, Wes Borg and more.
Smooshed between those two events will be the debut feature film by acclaimed ethnographic filmmaker Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where They May, which documents the amazing recreation of a bold escape made by slaves. Other feature length documentaries screening are: Teen Routines,...
The fest kicks off on the 8th with a 16mm screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin that will be accompanied by a live soundtrack by DJ-son Bitter Herbs [Jason Flower]. The people’s revolution never sounded so funky! Then, the fest concludes on the 16th with the event “Uzos [Underwater Zombies from Outer Space]” and will feature performances by Ryan Beattie, Atomic Vaudeville, Slut Revolver, Wes Borg and more.
Smooshed between those two events will be the debut feature film by acclaimed ethnographic filmmaker Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where They May, which documents the amazing recreation of a bold escape made by slaves. Other feature length documentaries screening are: Teen Routines,...
- 10/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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