Jalmari Helander’s WWII action thriller “Sisu” has made good on its upbeat reception at Toronto Midnight Madness – Variety called it “outrageously entertaining” – winning the top award at this year…
Jalmari Helander’s WWII action thriller “Sisu” has made good on its upbeat reception at Toronto Midnight Madness – ” – winning the top award at this year’s Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia which is showing, like genre itself, clear signs of expansion.
The over 70,000 tickets sold at 2022’s Sitges were 10% up on 2019, and an all-time record. Sitges guests stood at 610, also the biggest figure ever, announced Mònica García Massagué, director of the Sitges Foundation. One of the other big winners at Sitges was “The House of the Devil’s” Ti West, with “Pearl,” a prequel to porn shoot slasher “X” which plays like a cross between “Psycho” and “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?,” In further awards, Michele Garza’s body horror thriller “Huesera,” a probing motherhood drama and arresting mix of LGTBQ passion and genre innovation, added to its Tribeca Fest double win by walking off with Sitges’ Blood Window award.
Already a Golden Leopard laureate at this year’s Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente, Tereza Nvotová’s “Nightsiren” – “a reflection on rural misogyny that braids realism with indigenous mythology,” said Guy Lodge – snagged the festival’s Méliès d’Argent Award for best fantastic genre feature film. Sitges’ prizes, highlights and industry spotlights served to underscore trends now playing out through genre cinema. Following, five takes: Reaping rave reviews at Sundance, Carlota Pereda’s “Piggy” went on to win the European genre fests’ Meliès d’Or Award for best feature at a Sitges ceremony on Thursday. The film is a “formidable debut drawing its terror from the same well of adolescent female insecurity as ‘Carrie,’ before going its own grisly way,” Guy Lodge wrote in a review.
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