Festivals - Gerardmer 2022: The shifted night

By Mulder, 13 january 2022

Crabs !  (United States)


Written and directed by Pierce M. Berolzheimer
Produced by Pierce Berolzheimer 
Starring Dylan Riley Snyder, Allie Jennings, Jessica Morris, Bryce Durfee, Chase Padgett, Robert Craighead
Music : Mike Trebilcock
Editing: Pierce Berolzheimer, L. Gustavo Cooper 
Production companies: Raven Banner
Distributed by Raven Banner (Canada)
Release date: August 26, 2021 (Frighfest)
Running time: 80 (minutes)
Synopsis: A horde of murderous crab monsters descend on a sleepy coastal town on New Year's Eve, and only a group of misfits can save the day.
Notes: Pierce M. Berolzheimer grew up watching horror movies with his father and taught himself to make small stop motion animation films. Along with his studies, he took directing classes and began working on film sets. In 2014, he co-produced the comedy-drama Sun Belt Express directed by Evan Buxbaum, and then the sci-fi film Diverge by James Morrison two years
later. Crabs! is his first feature film as writer and director.

Prisoners of the Ghostland (United States)


Directed by Song Sion
Produced by Michael Mendelsohn, Laura Rister, Ko Mori, Reza Sixo Safai, Nate Bolotin
Written by Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai
With Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Bill Moseley, Tak Sakaguchi, Yuzuka Nakaya
Music: Joe Trapanese
Director of photography : Sohei Tanikawa
Editor: Taylor Levy 
Production companies: Untitled Entertainment, Patriot Pictures, Union Patriot Capital Management, Eleven Arts, XYZ Films
Distributed by SND (France), XYZ Films (USA)
Release date : February 1, 2021 (Sundance)
Running time: 103 minutes
Synopsis : Hero, a notorious criminal, is sent to rescue a young woman who has been kidnapped and has disappeared into a supernatural universe. In this territory called Ghostland, they will try to break the curse that keeps them curse that keeps them captive of mysterious ghosts.
Notes : Born in 1961 in Aichi, Japan, Song Sion studied at Hosei University, where he began making 8mm films and writing poetry. He was internationally recognized in 2001 with Suicide Club, a shocking film about Japanese youth. His numerous films range from social drama to uncompromising and taboo films.

(Source: press kit)