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Halloween is nearly here so of course that means Lionsgate has a bevy of new horror titles locked and loaded to celebrate the season of spooky! Read on for details on the releases of The Sylvian Experiments, The Child's Eye, and Needle!

Fans of Japanese horror films will rejoice this October 11th as Lionsgate debuts a sick and strange new tale, The Sylvian Experiments, on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand. From the creators of The Ring and The Grudge, a neuroscientist begins experimenting on the human brain and her obsession turns deadly for her family.

After discovering a reel of 16mm film in the basement of a dilapidated hospital, a neuroscientist and her husband find themselves enthralled by the film's bizarre content. The film documents underground experiments on the human brain trying to unlock the Sylvian Fissure - an invisible reality believed to be achieved between life and death.

Reviews on it have been mixed, but surely it’s a must for Asian horror fans and all things Pang? The Pang Brothers horror The Child's Eye - the first ever Hong Kong film shot completely in digital 3D - is heading for the U.S on DVD, and we’ve just picked up on the artwork and release date. Eye stars Taiwanese idol Rainie Yang, with Shawn Yue, Elanne Kong, Gordon Lam and Jo Koo in an old-school horror story about a group of youngsters trapped in a run-down Bangkok hotel filled with terrifying secrets. Child’s Eye streets in the States on October 11. Synopsis: Stranded in Thailand by the political uprising and airport closure, Rainie and her friends were unable to return home. Reluctantly, they decide to stay in an aged and shabby hotel. Among them is Rainie’s almost-breakup boyfriend, Lok, Ling and her brother Rex and Ciwi with her beloved boyfriend,...

Rainie Yang and her pooch feel the terror in The Child's Eye.

The Child’s Eye, the fourth installment of the Hong Kong horror-thriller franchise The Eye that was launched by The Pang Brothers (Bangkok Dangerous) nearly a decade ago, is coming to DVD from Lionsgate on Oct. 11 for the list price of $26.98.

Just as they directed The Eye (2002), The Eye 2 (2004) and the bafflingly titled third film in the trilogy The Eye 10 (2005), The Pang Brothers (Oxide and Danny) are back behind the camera as the directors of 2010’s The Child’s Eye, which focuses on a group of friends who find themselves stranded in Thailand after unexpected airport closures. Unfortunately, they have no choice but to stay at the Chung Tai Hotel, an old, rundown and way-creepy building. As the group uncovers the history behind the hotel’s walls, they’re slowly drawn into its horrific past. And the more sinister,...

Two more terror tales with some Asian flavor are coming home via Lionsgate just in time for Halloween, The Child's Eye and The Sylvian Experiments, and we've got the early scoop on both for ya!

From the Press Release: Lionsgate presents the DVD, Digital Download and On Demand releases of The Child's Eye and The Sylvian Experiments, both available on October 11th.

The Child's Eye

The Pang Brothers, acclaimed directors of Bangkok Dangerous, the original The Eye, and The Messengers, return to the screen with the fourth installment of the original The Eye franchise as Lionsgate debuts The Child's Eye on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand this October. In the film, a series of supernatural events unfold for a group of travelers stranded at an airport in Bangkok. The Child's Eye DVD includes behind-the-scenes cast and crew interviews.

A group of friends find themselves stranded in Thailand after unexpected airport closures.

The MPAA just came back with ratings for several horror and thriller themed movies most notably Red State from Kevin Smith and The Howling Reborn. People who checked out the leaked trailer for The Howling Reborn compared it to The Twilight Saga. So was the werewolf action of this reboot watered down enough that it earned a PG-13 rating like the franchise that it evoked? Did Kevin Smith, who has had trouble with the MPAA in the past most famously for Clerks which originally earned an Nc-17 for language, run into trouble with the big bad old MPAA again? Here's the ratings the MPAA handed down on Boy Wonder, The Howling: Reborn, Red State and The Child's Eye. 

Boy Wonder

Boy Wonder, starring James Russo (Public Enemies) & in a potential breakout role - Caleb Steinmeyer, follows a young Brooklyn boy who witnessed the brutal murder of his mother and grows...

Lionsgate Home Entertainment issued an announcement about two imports making their U.S. DVD debut on October 11. The Child's Eye The Pang Brothers, acclaimed directors of Bangkok Dangerous, the original The Eye, and The Messengers, return to the screen with the fourth installment of the original The Eye franchise as Lionsgate debuts The Child's Eye on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand this October. In the film, a series of supernatural events unfold for a group of travelers stranded at an airport in Bangkok. The Child's Eye DVD includes behind-the-scenes cast and crew interviews. A group of friends find themselves stranded in Thailand after unexpected airport closures. The Chung Tai Hotel, an old rundown building, is the only place to reside. As they uncover the history...

At the same time that the Hong Kong Film Festival is held (currently in full swing), Filmart (21 - 24 April) unveiled several titles that caught our eye and that we look forward to in the near future. Among the noteworthy items promoted at the event, the lineup at Emperor Motion Pictures includes four major films, "The Great Magician", "The Last Supper", "The Viral Factor" and "Diva". "The Great Magician" is now currently in production, starring Tony Leung and directed by Derek Yee, centering on a story of a magician who saves his country with his tricks and illusions. "The Last Supper" will be directed by Lu Chuan, who won the best director award of Asian Film Awards last year. He would pair up heavyweights stars Liu Ye, Chang Chen and Daniel Wu on this new historical drama. "The Viral Factor" will mark another collaboration between director Dante Lam and actor Nicholas Tse,...

         Here's the new poster for the upcoming Chinese horror film Child's Eye. This ghost story is directed by Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang and stars Rainie Yang, Shawn Yue, Ka Tung Lam, Elanne Kwong, 

Izz Xu and Rex Ho,  whoa at the name, that's for you to say! We're still awaiting the word on the U.S. release.

Synopsis: 

In Bangkok, six young people on vacation find themselves stranded at an airport due to a riot. A driver takes them to the Chung Tai Hotel, run by Chuen, where Rainie sees a female ghost and Ling finds a hovering hand trying to grab her.

While at dinner the three men disappear. Rainie leads the girls with the aid of Man-man and her ghost-seeing dog Little Huang as they try and find them in the hotel's underground passages where they encounter the female ghost and a strange monster which is actually a dog human hybrid.

Though very similar to the original one-sheet, the domestic artwork for the Pang brothers' latest entry into their Eye series, The Child's Eye 3D, has been tweaked a bit for us Yanks. Dig it!

The good news? It doesn't look as if anyone's farting to keep the spirits away in this one, though that cat is clearly suspect. But now it seems as if we get RPG's. Can heavy artillery keep the spooks away? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Synopsis

Stranded in Thailand by the political uprising and airport closure, Rainie and her friends were unable to return home. Reluctantly, they decide to stay in an aged and shabby hotel. Among them is Rainie’s almost-breakup boyfriend, Lok, Ling and her brother, Rex, and Ciwi with her beloved boyfriend, Hei. The moment they check into the hotel, they come across three weird children and a puppy that seems slightly odd.

The Pang Brothers' greatest successes - their international breakout with The Eye, their Cannes selection with Re-Cycle - have both come with star Angelica Lee in the lead so is it vain to hope that her third on-screen pairing with a Pang could restore them to their previous form?

The Pangs - twin brothers Danny and Oxide - have stumbled badly in recent years, seeming to favor quantity over quality with their standard output being one solo film each and a Brothers film almost every year. though their visual skills are still on display in fits and starts there's simply no denying that the quality of their scripts has been in steady decline and the international fan base built by The Eye has been steadily eroding. That said early work such as The Eye and the original Bangkok Dangerous still stand as potent pieces of work, making it difficult...

Straight off directing Child's Eye 3D, Oxide Pang is diving straight into yet another 3D project. Now in pre-production is the $4m budgeted Sleepwalker, which will star Sinje Lee, Charlie Young and Bi Chang Zhou. The film will follow the main character Yi, who has never imagined a revolving dream haunting her every night would eventually evolve into to a real-life nightmare. Shortly after a dream man enters her gloomy life, Yi, a sleepwalker, is set back again by a past broken relationship and becomes a suspected murderer of her ex-husband. The clearer her dream develops, the more real the accused crime appears to her. Did she really kill when sleepwalking? Pang co-directed both Bangkok Dangerous and The Eye.

Fresh off of Child's Eye 3D , Oxide Pang is moving forward on Sleepwalker , another 3D supernatural thriller. The story will thrust focus on two women, one tortured by bizarre dreams and another, a police woman working a murder case. Who wants take a guess that the two will be connected to one another? The other Pang brother, Danny, is at work on his own film, Fairy Tale Killer . Sleepwalker is set for completion in the second quarter of next year.

Three Hong Kong films were selected for this year's Venice Film Festival. Teh 67th edition will welcome The Child's Eye, Red Earth and the most buzzed film which is also bound for Tiff in Legend of the Fist: the Return of Chen Zhen. Red Earth, a short film directed by Clara Law (an Australian co-production), was previously selected for this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival as one of four films for "Quattro Hong Kong," a section of films produced by the festival society as a sort of tribute to the city of Hong Kong. Red Earth is about a management consultant played by Daniel Wu who goes to Hong Kong to meet a girl briefly encountered before, he checks in a hotel to wait for her to show him an unforgettable view of sunset that she promised him. But he can no longer remember her face and strange things...

Making its debut at the Venice Film Festival is Danny and Oxide Pang's (The Eye) latest horror from Thailand, The Child's Eye In 3D. This sub-genre is so warn out that everything in the trailer looks so uninteresting. Stranded in Thailand by the political uprising and airport closure, Rainie and her friends were unable to return home. Reluctantly, they decide to stay in an aged and shabby hotel. Among them is Rainies almost-breakup boyfriend, Lok, Ling and her brother Rex and Ciwi with her beloved boyfriend, Hei. The moment they check into the hotelthey come across three weird children and a puppy that seems slightly odd. As strange and sinister things start to happen, they begin disappearing one after another.

It's been a long time coming, but we finally have our first look at the trailer for the fourth film in Danny and Oxide Pang's ghostly franchise entitled The Child's Eye - in 3D of course.

The good news? It doesn't look as if anyone's farting to keep the spirits away in this one. But now it seems as if we get RPG's. Can heavy artillery keep the spooks away? I guess we'll just have to wait and see. The Child's Eye is set to open (hee hee) in Hong Kong late summer. Dig on the official plot crunch below, and look for more soon.

Synopsis

Stranded in Thailand by the political uprising and airport closure, Rainie and her friends were unable to return home. Reluctantly, they decide to stay in an aged and shabby hotel. Among them is Rainie’s almost-breakup boyfriend, Lok, Ling and her brother, Rex,...

The Pang Brothers will be off to Venice soon to premiere their latest effort, the 3D entry into their Eye franchise, The Child's Eye 3D. The story doesn't really seem to matter with these any more but the basic gist is a bunch of pretty young things in a haunted old hotel building where scary - or supposedly scary - things happen. Mileage may vary per viewer on this but to these eyes the gas seems to be running out of the tank.

The full lineup for this year's Venice film festival has been announced – but there's a no show for the new Terrence Malick

The full programme for this year's Venice film festival has been announced and, as predicted, many film-makers whose films weren't quite ready for Cannes will debut on the Lido. Somewhere, a Hollywood-set drama from Sofia Coppola, is amongst the premieres, likewise Vincent Gallo's Brown Bunny sequel, Promises Written in Water, apparently a black-and-white tale of a girl with a terminal illness.

Julian Schnabel's Miral, which follows Hind Husseini's efforts to set up an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 partition of Palestine, also finds a home. However, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, which many had predicted would screen at the festival, is not on the list; nor that for the Toronto film festival, which directly follows Venice.

Other hotly tipped titles include Meek's Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt...

And the film I'm most looking forward to seeing (like I'm going to be there) is Vincent Gallo's Promises Written in Water. Someone send me a screener, asap! What else?

Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky.

Somewhere by Sofia Coppola.

13 Assassins by Takashi Miike.

Full list after the break.

In Competition

"Black Swan," Darren Aronofsky, U.S. (Opening Film)

"La Pecora Nera," Ascanio Celestini, Italy

"Somewhere," Sofia Coppola, U.S.

"Happy Few," Antony Cordier, France

"The Solitude of Prime Numbers," Saverio Costanzo, Italy, Germany, France

"Silent Souls," Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia

"Promises Written in Water," Vincent Gallo, U.S.

"Road To Nowhere," Monte Hellman, U.S.

"Balada Triste de Trompeta," Alex de la Iglesia, Spain, France

"Venus Noir," Abdellatif Kechiche, France

"Post Mortem," Pablo Larrain, Chile, Mexico, Germany

"Barney's Version," Richard J. Lewis, Canada, Italy

"We Believed," Mario Martone, Italy, France

"La Passione," Carlo Mazzacurati, Italy

"13 Assassins," Takashi Miike, Japan, U.

The Afflecks will celebrate on the Lido together - both actor-turned-directors are featured in the Out of Competition line-up (see below) and will surely jet back to Tiff together with The Town and the Phoenix doc - though those chances are indeed slim. Speaking of Toronto, the Ooc also features Anurag Kashyap's That Girl in Yellow Boots and Andrucha Waddington's Lope (Tiff claims they have the World Premiere, but I think we might see a correction on that later on). Takashi Miike gets celebrated, so does Asian 3D films, and John Turturro feels at home with his first Italian language docu feature. Finally, the Golden Lion for his career will go to John Woo - who is presenting Reign of Assassin. Opening Night Tribute to Bruce Lee "The Return of Chen Zhen," Andrew Lau (China, Hong Kong) Opening Night Midnight Movie "Machete," Robert Rodriguez (U.S.)Closing Night: "The Tempest,...

The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of... festival season. Two days ago Toronto announced a big chunk of its line-up, and now the Venice Film Festival has unveiled its own. Joining Darren Aronofsky ballerina drama "Black Swan," announced earlier as the opening night film, are Sofia Coppola's Hollywood saga "Somewhere" (trailer); Takashi Miike's samurai tale "13 Assassins" (trailer); "Meek's Cutoff," Kelly Reichardt's new film, once again starring Michelle Williams; Vincent Gallo's long-awaited follow-up to "The Brown Bunny" "Promises Made In Water," reportedly a 16-millimeter black-and-white tale of a girl with a terminal illness; "Road to Nowhere," a thriller from Monte Hellman (!); and "Three," the latest from "Run, Lola, Run"'s Tom Tykwer, about how the two halves of a middle-aged couple fall in love with the same man.

Out of competition, the Affleck brothers will screen Ben's "The Town" and Casey's Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary,...

This morning the Venice Film Festival announced the line-up for their 2010 Festival which will run from September 1-11, and a lot of hot titles and directors are set to be on hand including the already announced festival opener Black Swan from Darren Aronofsky and closer, The Tempest from Julie Taymor. In competition, Aronofsky's feature is joined by titles from Sofia Coppola, Vincent Gallo, Julian Schnabel, Francois Ozon, Abdellatif Kechiche, Takashi Miike and Tom Tykwer. Also, making a midnight Lido appearance will be Robert Rodriguez with his grindhouse thriller Machete. One other notable title is the inclusion of the Casey Affleck-directed Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary I'm Still Here, which will be screening out of competition.

Unfortunately I won't be able to cover this one, but one of these years I would like to find a way to pull a triple play and cover Cannes, Venice and Toronto in the same year...

Rome -- Sofia Coppola's comedic drama "Somewhere" and "Road to Nowhere," a romantic thriller from veteran director Monte Hellman, were among the highlights of the main competition lineup for the 67th Venice Film Festival, which was released Thursday.

Other in-competition films include Vincent Gallo's "Promises Written in Water"; "Meek's Cutoff," a western from Kelly Reichardt; and Athina Racehel Tsangari's drama "Attenberg."

Artistic director Marco Mueller said that -- notwithstanding the presence of the 78-year-old Hellman -- the competition lineup was the youngest ever in the storied history of the festival, with the average age among the directors of the 22 in-competition films just 47.

"I think this is evidence of a new and dynamic kind of cinema that is being produced," Mueller told a standing-room-only crowd of reporters and industry players at Rome's Excelsior Hotel Thursday.

All told, the festival will include 79 world premieres, including the entire in-competition lineup for...

The Pang brothers, Oxide and Danny, who's previous genre efforts include horror trilogy 'The Eye' and the less than impressive 'The Messengers', are back with a new 3D installment in their 'Eye' horror franchise, 'Child's Eye'. And an early teaser poster has arrived online which you can check out below. 'Stranded in Thailand by the political uprising and airport closure, Rainie and her friends were unable to return home. Reluctantly, they decide to stay in an aged and shabby hotel. Among them is Rainie's almost-breakup boyfriend, Lok, Ling and her brother Rex and Ciwi with her beloved boyfriend, Hei. The moment they check into the hotel - they come across three weird children and a puppy that seems slightly odd. As strange and sinister things start to happen, they begin disappearing one after another.' 'Child's Eye' will arrive in theatres in Hong Kong later this Summer.

It's been a long time coming, but we finally have our first look at the teaser art for the fourth film in Danny and Oxide Pang's ghostly franchise entitled The Child's Eye - in 3D of course.

The image you see directly to your right first appeared over on 24 Frames Per Second. We'll work to get you a better look, but this will have to do for now. The Child's Eye is set to open (hee hee) in Hong Kong late summer. Dig on the official plot crunch below, and look for more soon.

Synopsis

Stranded in Thailand by the political uprising and airport closure, Rainie and her friends were unable to return home. Reluctantly, they decide to stay in an aged and shabby hotel. Among them is Rainie’s almost-breakup boyfriend, Lok, Ling and her brother, Rex, and Ciwi with her beloved boyfriend, Hei. The moment they check into the hotel,...

Danny Pang ( The Eye ) has cast Ching Wan Lau for the tentatively-titled Fairy Tale Killer which is set to roll for Universe Films Distribution. The synopsis goes like this: Fairy Tales turn ugly, twisted and bloody. A fearless cop is appointed to investigate a series of puzzling murders which resemble Fairy Tales. Would there be a happy ending of the abnormality in real world? Danny recently wrapped The Child's Eye 3D with brother Oxide Pang.

Can't get enough of what the Pang brother brought to you in The Eye ? Well, more ocular carnage is on the way in The Child's Eye - Danny and Oxide Pang's latest entry which garnered headlines around these parts when the chiller went into production. While we await a trailer in anticipation of its 3D overseas debut this summer, here's an updated synopsis: Stranded in Thailand by the political uprising and airport closure, Rainie and her friends were unable to return home. Reluctantly, they decide to stay in an aged and shabby hotel. Among them is Rainie's almost-breakup boyfriend, Lok, Ling and her brother Rex and Ciwi with her beloved boyfriend, Hei. The moment they check into the hotel.they come across three weird children and a puppy that seems slightly odd. As strange and...

Those workaholic Pang brothers, Danny and Oxide have been keeping themselves busy over the last year. As well as putting their latest big budget blockbuster Storm Warriors 2 through post production and release, they’ve also been hard at work on another follow up film, this time to their hit “The Eye” horror series, titled The Child's Eye 3D. We’re very intrigued to see what those Pang boys have been up to in their 3D world, and signs are starting to appear that Child's Eye is nearing completion. A first piece of teaser art has turned up, a more detailed summary of the plot is out, and now some of the movies distributors are quoting June as the month for the release. Roll on summer!

Those workaholic Pang brothers, Danny and Oxide have been keeping themselves busy over the last year. As well as putting their latest big budget blockbuster Storm Warriors 2 through post production and release, they’ve also been hard at work on another follow up film to their hit “The Eye” horror series, titled The Child's Eye 3D. We’re very intrigued to see what those Pang boys have been up to in their 3D world, and signs are starting to appear that Child's Eye is nearing completion. A first piece of teaser art has turned up. A more detailed summary of the plot is out, and now, some of the movies distributors are quoting June as the month for the release in Asia. Heres hoping that date sticks, because an English subbed DVD release wont be too far behind!.

Update 3/23/2009: The Child's Eye in 3D will be the first Asian digital 3-D horror film! The Pang brothers (Danny and Oxide)—responsible for The Eye franchise that inspired that Jessica Alba remake you all remember so "fondly"—will begin shooting the film this June in Thailand under a $4.5 million budget. According to HollywoodReporter.com, The Child's Eye in 3D tells the story of six stranded Hong Kong travelers during the shutdown of the Bangkok airport in the November 2008 anti-government protest and their supernatural encounters after the disappearance of three in the group." Apparently there will also be some monsters involved. "The way to handle a monster is the same as creating...

Universe Films and Danny and Oxide Pang are prepping a $4.5 million 3-D sequel to The Eye . As we reported here , the next intallment will be entitled The Child's Eye . It tells the story of six stranded Hong Kong travelers during the shutdown of the Bangkok airport in the November 2008 anti-government protest and their supernatural encounters after the disappearance of three in the group. Shooting begins in June in Thailand. According to Variety , there will be a monster introduced in the film and the centerpiece "will be an underworld made up of paper replica houses, filled with paper dolls and paper cars - a city formed by all the paper-made facsimile of the real world burnt and offered to the deceased in the traditional Chinese ancestor worship ritual."...

Let's try and forget about that horrid American remake of The Eye (though that Being Blind is Lots of Fun song I made up still brings a smile to my face), shall we? Danny and Oxide Pang's original chiller is still very much the goods! Yes, the sequels suck, especially Part 3 but hey! The next one's gonna be in 3D. Joy.

Production Weekly reports this morning that the Pang Brother's are hot to get started on their third sequel, The Child's Eye, in 3D. The only other details to report about this new project is that Elanne Kwong & Rainie Young have been cast.

Hey, as long as people aren't farting to keep the ghosts away (Damn you Part 3) I'll be more than happy to give this one a chance! Keep it here for more!

- Uncle Creepy

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