THE UNIVERSAL
Saturday October 17, 2015 9:41 a.m.
The film of the American Karyn Kusama started with an invitation to a reunion of old friends, marked by the accidental death of the son of one of them. Gradually the film becomes a powerful thriller served by good performances and an unexpected and shocking end.
The 48th edition of this festival which closed on Saturday in the small Catalan coastal town also recognized ‘The like’ Mexican Isaac Ezban a science fiction story starring eight characters locked in a bus station a rainy night and whose background the student movement of 1968.
The event presented a vast panorama of international production of horror and science fiction but also thriller or western, a genre almost disappeared in contemporary cinema and this year triumphed with ‘Bone Tomahawk’, the American S. Craig Zahler starring Kurt Russell , critics prize for a story four gunmen who have to face a group of cannibals.
The event this year broke records for ticket sales and strengthens its commitment to festival primarily for the public with its hordes of fans of fantasy films that take ten days the city to see the midnight sessions where the most extreme horror film projects or to participate in the ‘zombie walk’.
Sitges also He paid tribute to David Prowse, the bodybuilder and English actor unknown to the general public who played the villain Darth Vader, and two legendary makeup artists, Rick Baker and Tom Savini, creators and others Monsters Star Wars saga or zombies the films of George A. Romero.
The festival also hosted the American filmmaker Oliver Stone, director of such films as “Platoon” (1986), “JFK” (1991) and “Nixon” (1995) who gave his vision of the film and of the darkest episodes in US history in a lecture.
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