Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of “Satanists running amok in Europe” to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.
To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement. The result is a poignant, moving story that’s as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of what’s actually true, as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky.
Back in November, Total Film assembled at a secret location somewhere in London for a photoshoot to die for.
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright, the team behind Total Film’s Comedy of the Decade, Shaun of the Dead, hit the stage suited, booted and cracking so many jokes that the undead legions (lovely volunteers comprised of TF staff and friends) were breaking character and laughing so hard the photographer couldn’t get a shot.
Thankfully, the zombies held it together long enough to produce these great images, which feature in the Total Film End-Of-Decade Special Issue.
Concept Art Offers Peek at Tim Burton’s Twisted Mind
Recently released images from Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland adaptation reminded moviegoers that the quirky London-based director possesses one of the most extravagant visual vocabularies of any filmmaker now working.
Exorcist Remake?
William Peter Blatty, author of the original Exorcist novel and subsequent Oscar winning screenplay, has revealed that the big boss of the 1973 movie, William Friedkin, has agreed to direct a new version.
A secret government lab has been trying to create the ultimate killer using the DNA of infamous killers, but there’s one big problem: They’ve escaped! Bloody mayhem stretches across the United States as they go on the ultimate killing spree. Trying to stop the maniacal madness is Ringo, a hick warrior being trained by God, using only a shotgun and a bottle of whiskey. In his road trip to hell, he must first fight off his own demons, not to mention an army of Japanese ninjas! It all leads up to the ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN!
A secret government lab has been trying to create the ultimate killer using the DNA of infamous killers, but there’s one big problem: They’ve escaped! Bloody mayhem stretches across the United States as they go on the ultimate killing spree. Trying to stop the maniacal madness is Ringo, a hick warrior being trained by God, using only a shotgun and a bottle of whiskey. In his road trip to hell, he must first fight off his own demons, not to mention an army of Japanese ninjas! It all leads up to the ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN!
A secret government lab has been trying to create the ultimate killer using the DNA of infamous killers, but there’s one big problem: They’ve escaped! Bloody mayhem stretches across the United States as they go on the ultimate killing spree. Trying to stop the maniacal madness is Ringo, a hick warrior being trained by God, using only a shotgun and a bottle of whiskey. In his road trip to hell, he must first fight off his own demons, not to mention an army of Japanese ninjas! It all leads up to the ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN!
Tim Burton – The Good, The Bad And The Batman.
The prospect of slow-walking through the major exhibition celebrating the film career of director Tim Burton when it hits Melbourne next June should have every self-respecting cineaste foaming at the gills with anticipation. For there is plenty to celebrate.
Ramones biopic could have Fox Searchlight saying ‘Gabba Gabba Hey’.
The specialty division of Fox Searchlight is in negotiations to board a project about the life of the Ramones, based on a memoir titled “I Slept With Joey Ramone” by the musician’s brother — and, notably, featuring the band’s tunes.
A compelling new festival exploring the darker side of cinema, the inaugural horror and thriller film festival Hello Darkness – Survival of the Fittest is screening at ACMI Cinemas from October 26-31.
With a selection of sharp, well-crafted stories that show horror is more than gratuitous blood and gore, Hello Darkness aims to shed light on an often misunderstood genre.
Highlights of the program include the Australian premiere of The Descent: Part 2 and The Last House on the Left, the lush Swedish piece Let The Right One In and Sheitan, the 2006 French release that blends black humour with a genuine creepiness.
