Two notable new releases go on the SOS chopping block today: first up is James Watkins’s follow-up to the truly vicious killer-kids flick Eden Lake, the Daneil Radcliffe vehicle The Woman In Black; after that, we assess the worth of the well-received found-footage / superhero origin story / teen-angst thriller Chronicle, which gets loosely broken into both non-spoiler and spoiler editions. Here’s another spoiler for you: we argue quite a bit about one of these.

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Spoon – :The Ghost Of You Lingers”

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Long after its world premiere last July at the Fantasia International film Festival here in Montreal sharply divided viewers, Robin Hardy’s long-in-the-works sorta-sequel to his famed cult classic The Wicker Man is finally making its way to theaters – nearly 40 years after the first film opened. Justine, Ricky and Simon offer their takes on the new flick, as well as taking a look back at the 1973 original.

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All music is taken from Paul Giovanni’s original soundtrack to The Wicker Man.

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We’ve been waiting a long time to do this one, folks – writer-director Lucky McKee is one of the most interesting horror filmmakers out there, and his latest, the very dark comedy / satire / feminist tract The Woman is currently making the rounds on VOD and in select theaters. We’ll be discussing McKee’s latest, along with his 2002 breakthrough debut, May.

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Music Playlist

Black Keys – “Tighten Up Instrumental”

Sean Spillane – “Patient Satellite”

The Breeders – “Do You Love Me Now?”

Sound On Sight contributor James Merolla joins Ricky D, Simon Howell and Justine Smith to discuss their favorite horror films of all time, the results of their five-week horror marathon / contest, and the specific properties of real-life killer birds.

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Music Playlist:

Bernard Herrmann – “Psycho Shower”

Goblin – “Deep Red Theme Song”

Wendy Carlos / Rachel Elkind – “The Shining Theme Song”

Charlie Clouser – “Saw Theme Song”

Way back in 1938, John W. Campbell Jr. wrote a novella entitled Who Goes There? – who’d have thunk it would have turned out to be the impetus for not one, but three feature films? (Not discussed today: Howard Hawks’ 1951 version, The Thing From Another Planet.) Ricky D, Simon Howell and Justine Smith along with special guest James Merolla review John Carpenter’s 1982 adaptation, The Thing and the recent remake/prequel (premake?) of the same name.

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Music Playlist:

Marco Beltrami – “Contamination”

Ennio Morricone – “The Thing Theme Song”

Marco Beltrami – “Finding Filling”

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We apologize for the terrible audio quality on this episode but promise to fix it by next week.

Season Two of AMC’s The Walking Dead has begun in earnest with the confusingly credited “What Lies Ahead,” and that means Ricky D, Kate Kulzick and Simon Howell are here to argue the merits of the show’s much-ballyhooed, slightly extended return, in which our estimable gang of post-apocalypse survivors finds themselves literally stuck in traffic. Of course, if that were the worst that happened, there wouldn’t be much of an episode to talk about. Can you say “zombie autopsy”?

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Music Playlist:

King Khan and BBQ – “Zombie”

Johnny Cash – ”

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The new season of AMC’s The Walking Dead starts up October 16th, which also means the retrn of Sound on Sight’s dedicated podcast! In anticipation of the new season, we take a look back at Season One, aseesss the six-part webseries currently being hosted on the AMC website, and discuss the recent controversies over the forthcoming season. Kate Kulzick, our new TV czar, replaces Al Kratina.

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Music Playlist:

Rory Erickson – “I Walk With A Zombie”

Wild Beasts – “Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues”

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In our second Fantasic Fest ‘cast, Rick, Justine and SImon talk up three of the more ballyhooed Japanese flicks kicking around the fest: Yoshimasa Ishibashi’s depressive technicolor dream Milorcrorze: A Love Story; A Boy and His Samurai, the new family-oriented flick from Yoshihiro Nakamura, who also brought us Fish Story and Golden Slumbers; and the “pink musical” Underwater Love, from director Shinji Imaoka and DP Christopher Doyle.

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Music Playlist:

Josh Homme – “Stoned”

Dum Dum Girls – “Only In Dreams”

OK Go! – “White Knuckles”

Stereo Total – “I Love You, Ono”

Fantastic Fest is one of the biggest film festivals in the states. Held in Austin Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse, the event screens nothing but the best in genre films. We’ve been reporting from the festival since 2009, but for the first time on the Sound On Sight podcast, we’ve decided to dedicate a full show to the event and review two of the better films that screened this year. First is the unrelentingly grim and terrifying Snowtown, the directorial debut of Justin Kurzel. The second film we review is also a first time feature, by writer/director Michaël Roskam – Bullhead is a disturbingly visceral art-house drama and one the most original crime pics in recent memory. All this and more.

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Music Playlist:

The Black Keys – “Heavy Soul”

The Greenhornes – “Shame And Misery”

The Monks – “Oh! , How To Do Now”

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The line up for the Fantasia Film Festival had so many great films this year, that we are still playing catch-up, even a month after the festival has ended. On this episode of Sordid Cinema, Simon, Rick and Justine sit down and discuss three of the best Canadian genre films of the year, starting with Panos Cosmatos’s Beyond The Black Rainbow, moving on to The Corridor by director Evan Kelly and ending with You Are Here from director Daniel Cockburn.

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Wolf Parade – “Shine A Light”

Black Mountain – “Faculty Times”

Handsome Furs – “Sing! Captain”

OK Go – “White Knuckles ”

James Gunn began his career in filmmaking with Troma Entertainment, for whom he wrote and co-directed Tromeo and Juliet. After contributing to several other films for Troma, he wrote, produced and performed in his own superhero comedy, The Specials, directed by Craig Mazin. In 2010, Gunn returned to the world of non-comic-book-superheroes with Super. The film recently played at the Fantasia Film Festival and on that same week was released on DVD and BluRay; so we’ve taken this opportunity to finally review it, alongside Gunn’s directorial debut, the splattery horror-comedy Slither.

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Music:

Tyler Bates – “Aftermath and Resolution”

Shabazz Palaces – “Black Up”

Tsar – “Calling All Destroyers”

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Our sort-of Fantasia wrap-up continues. In this hour: Miguel Angel Vivas’s ultraviolent home-invasion thriller Kidnapped; Jim Mickle’s post-collapse vampire flick Stake Land, also out on DVD this week; and finally Trollhunter, the horror/comedy/mock-doc that’s been popular in Europe and on the fest circuit for some time. And, hey, bonus: we also have an interview with the writer and director of the John Landis-produced dark comedy Some Guy Who Kills People.

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Music

The Horrors- “Monica Gems”

Amor Fati – “WashedOut – Within and Without”

The Horrors – “Endless Blue”

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In Part One of our epic two-part sort-of wrap-up to the Fantasia Film Festival here in Montreal, we take on a motley crew of some of the most-discussed genre movies on display. First up: Mike Flanagan’s Absentia, a moody, microbudget thriller partially funded through Kickstarter; Troy Nixey’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, a remake of the 1973 TV Movie, brought to you in part by Guillermo del Toro; Ti West’s divisive chiller The Innkeepers; and lastly an interview with Sweden’s Philip Tegstedt on his psychological thriller Marianne.

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Music

The Horrors – “Changing The Rain”

The Horrors – “I Can See Through You”

The Horrors – “You And I”

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The Fantasia Film Festival continues here in Montreal, and this year there’s a sizeable number of promising American independent features to discuss. First up is Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, a Sundance prizewinner; then there’s Evan Glodell’s one-of-a-kind Bellflower, which we have paired up with a short interview with the industrious filmmaker; last but not least is The FP, a demented post-apocalyptic satire courtesy of the Trost brothers that’s just been picked up for distribution by Drafthouse Films. Trust us, folks: if you have any interest in independent film, this episode’s a big one.

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Playlist:

Why? – “These Few Presidents,” “Good Friday,” “Fatalist Palmistry”

Chromatics – “Running Up That Hill”

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The Fantasia Film Festival continues here in Montreal and with it came three exception British genre films. On this episode of the Sound On Sight podcast, we sit back and discuss Julian Gilbey’s A Lonely Place To Die, Attack The Block by writer/director Joe Cornish and the directorial debut by Carl Tibbetts titled Retreat.

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Music:

Wax Tailor – “Ungodly Fruit”

The Horrors – “Still Life”

Dizzee Rascal – “Fix Up, Look Sharp”

Joy Division – “A Lonely Place”

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