French filmmaker Paul Doucet shot this short with a RED ONE digital camera, which is the new hotness - Peter Jackson loves the RED, and District 9 was shot using one too. The RED brings a burnished quality to the look of this film, which perfectly suits the retro-futurist environment inside the bunker.

This short is a little bit Sarah Connor, a little bit Twilight Zone, and a whole lot of post-apocalyptic grimness. Perfect for your morning coffee break.

Human Centipede
It's been such a slow burn for this disgusting little film. All we've had to go on were the terrible pictures and synopsis about a mad scientist who kidnaps some poor souls to create his own Human Centipede by sewing their heads and bums together, but now the first clip is finally out, and it's just painfully horrible. Enjoy...?


Surprisingly, we've been hearing all sorts of mixed reviews from London and down at Fantastic Fest. Thanks, or no thanks, for pointing this out Slashfilm.

Hissss


I completely missed this trailer when it leaked out a few months ago, but just because it's a bit old doesn't mean you should miss out on the gorgeous Mallika Sherawat slithering around like a snake god. According to the site, this film centers around the Curse of the Cobra Goddess: "anytime man desecrates or violates the cobra, they are doomed to suffer the petrifying curse of the snake woman, of death and infertility." And it looks like the snake goddess is brought out of the jungle and into the city... uh oh.

Stake Land
Here are super quick behind the scenes looks at Stake Land, where the world has been overrun with vampires and a group of survivors try and make it across the US without any bite marks. This is from the director who did the rat-people film Mulberry Street, which actually scared me in a few places, so I'm excited to see what he does with vampires. The behind the scenes clips are from actress Danielle Harris, who you all may remember from Halloween 2, but for me she's always the awkward sister from Disney's Wish Upon A Star.

Behind The Scenes
"Stake Land"

shootin a scene:)

Trailer

My Bloody Wedding
Quiet Earth pointed our attention to this hit-and-miss comedy that has a lot of great ideas, but kind of misses the mark on execution. Still, the main character (who is getting married to a recently possessed demon bride complete with demon bridesmaids) has a robot pal. We're a lot more interested in the robot than the actual wedding...


I can haz too?

Shorts:
Bunker
Here is a ten minute film shot with a RED ONE camera by Paul Doucet. This French short takes place at the end of the world where one lone survivor spends her days in an bunker waiting for contact from the outside world.

Legacy
From the mind of Grzegorz Jonkajtys, who brought us the beautiful short The Ark, comes Legacy about an alien coming down to Earth a bit too late...

Legacy from grzegorz jonkajtys on Vimeo.

Not that all that equipment you're seeing in the top photo is for communication with the outside world, of course. The shelter in Ligatne, Latvia, has separate rooms for the KGB, and they include direct phone lines to Moscow but also rows and rows of gray electronic devices that allow you to listen in on conversations taking place anywhere in the shelter. So even once you were entombed in the ground, hiding from an uninhabitable world, you still would have been under the thumb of the surveillance state at all times.

Somehow that single vase with its drooping flowers is the saddest thing of all.

My favorite part: the huge, monstrous facility only had enough food and supplies to last three months, meaning after months of claustrophobic repression, you still would have had to venture out into an atomic wasteland. Images by AP.

Here's the general layout.

Computers in the mist . . .

That glowing artificial waterfall makes me think I'd be happy to let civilization grow here for a few hundred years while the wasteland outside slowly goes green again.

This is what the atomic bomb-proof bunker looked like before it became a subterranean data paradise. It actually appears very similar to NORAD, which I visited a few months ago.

The world's most super-designed data center [via Royal Pingdom]

(BTW, the trailer is very high-quality, so it may load slowly. If you're having trouble playing it, just hit "pause" and wait for the whole thing to load before restarting.) Here's the official synopsis:

November 9th 1989 - the last day of a divided Germany. As a bankrupt Soviet Empire retreats, Lieutenant NEVSKI (30) leads an ill-equipped team of reluctant Soviet conscripts and two East German civilians on an unofficial mission into a long sealed and forgotten bunker, deep under Berlin.

Bribed by SINDERMANN, a mysterious East German scientist, their aim is to blow up the bunker, destroying it's secrets before Berlin opens up to the West. As a fateful press conference takes place above ground, the East German, LISA MEYER, (28) a construction engineer cuts through the concrete that back in the 1960s was poured down to block access to the bunker where her father died.

Nevski's rag-bag team follow dim concrete tunnels finding an underground hospital, cobwebs and dust shrouding its Cold War secrets. Venturing into the eerie decaying wards and operating theatres, the team un-earth horrific evidence of human experimentation dating back to WWII.

Suffering their first casualties of the night, they realise the concrete blocking the entrance was not to keep intruders out, but to keep the results of failed experiments in - murderous, semi organic killing machines with weapons and gas masks moulded and growing as part of their armoured bodies.

As crowds gather at the wall, unification in sight, clandestine forces arrive from the West; heavily armed American commandos, also seeking the bunker's valuable secrets. Nevski's team find themselves not only struggling to escape the bunker's legacy of inhuman killers but also fighting in a darker, more unofficial Cold War battle for power and survival.

Sadly, the website mentions they're still seeking funding to finish this movie... so I hope it actually gets made. It sucks that all the movie money in Germany is going into crappy TV miniseries about the Moon making the Eiffel Tower collapse. [Cold Storage, via Nuendo]