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Tiff '09: Go 'Under the Mountain' in Six Clips!

6 September 2009 11:22 AM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »

How can you not be excited to see Under The Mountain? Besides being directed by Jonathan King, the madman behind the classic Black Sheep, is stars the genre vet Sam Neill, who also toplines Lionsgate's forthcoming Daybreakers (also premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival). In addition to the previously released trailer, below you'll find six clips from the film, premiering this forthcoming weekend at Tiff. When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Aucklands ring of extinct volcanoes. Guided by the mysterious Mr Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them. »

Tiff '09: Trailer and Stills from 'Under the Mountain'

24 August 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »

Director Jonathan King returns once again to the Toronto International Film Festival with Under The Mountain. The director of the hilarious and fun Black Sheep takes this tale into a more serious tone. Starring Sam Neill (In the Mouth of Madness, Daybreakers, Omen 3, Event Horizon), we've got our hands on the first trailer for the film, along with 14 images! Check out all of the goodies inside. Teenage twins Rachel and Theo travel to Auckland to stay with relatives following the sudden death of their mother. Where there was once a psychic bond between them, now there is a rift as Theo, particularly, refuses to confront his grief. Rachel reaches out to him, but is rebuffed. »

PiFan 09 Review: Under The Mountain

22 July 2009 3:25 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Those bemoaning the somewhat overly-sanitary monopoly the folks at Walden currently hold on the world of child and tween oriented fantasy, take heart. Black Sheep director Jonathan King has arrived with his adaptation of popular New Zealand novel - adapted into a television series in 1982 - Under The Mountain and while his new effort is worlds away from his debut picture it definitely brings a fresh perspective to its chosen genre.

- Todd Brown

See full article at Slash Film »

Under the Mountain International Movie Trailer

13 July 2009 1:10 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

In 2006 New Zealand filmmaker Jonathan King wrote and directed a fun little horror/comedy called Black Sheep. King's been absent from the directorial chair for a while, but he's about to return with an adaptation of the Maurice Gee novel Under the Mountain. Starring Sam Neill and newcomers Tom Cameron and Sophie McBride, the film is about twins who encounter shape-shifting creatures who live under Aukland's extinct volcanos. Yahoo has debuted a trailer for the film, and a poster has appeared as well. See the goods, and a potentially spoilerish synopsis after the jump. The story has the air of some of the 1970s Disney live-action pictures like Escape From Witch Mountain, as the Matheson twins (Cameron and McBride) encounter an ancient alien war. The destructive Wilberforces, named for the house through which they're discovered, are actually manifestations of symbiotic alien slug-like creatures. Long ago they destroyed a world that »

- Russ Fischer

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Trailer for Jonathan King's Under The Mountain remake

13 July 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

The first trailer for Black Sheep director, Jonathan King's, adaptation of New Zealand's beloved kiwi fantasy adventure Under the Mountain has dropped and, for straight up kiddie fare, its not too bad. Even though it looks like it'll be more tolerable than the latest Race to Witch Mountain remake, it obviously won't hold a candle to the truly luminous City of Ember. It sort of looks like The Spiderwick Chronicles if you ask me.

Synopsis:

When teenage twins Rachel and Theo Matheson investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland's ring of extinct volcanoes. Guided by the mysterious Mr Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them.

Under the Mountain is having its world »

Trailer Arrives For Jonathan King’s Under The Mountain!

13 July 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Sam Neill should be brought in to introduce every trailer made from this point forward.

When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland’s ring of extinct volcanoes. Guided by the mysterious Mr Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them.

Under The Mountain is clearly much more family-friendly - not to mention much higher budget - than King’s previous film Black Sheep but that’s not to say it doesn’t look pretty damn good. If nothing else it puts a bit of an edge back into family oriented fantasy-adventure that has been entire lacking from the Walden Media films. Check the trailer below the break!

- Todd Brown

See full article at DreadCentral.com »

Under the Mountain One-Sheet Surfaces Over the Net

26 June 2009 3:43 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Jonathan King, director of the splattery good gore-fest Black Sheep (review here), has a new flick coming out soon called Under the Mountain that unfortunately has been given a pretty lame poster. Still, given how crazed his last film was, we're willing to give King the benefit of the doubt and not let the artwork that appears to have escaped from a certain other Mountain dissuade us!

Synopsis

"When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland’s ring of extinct volcanoes.

Guided by the mysterious Mr. Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them."

Check out the one-sheet below courtesy of Twitch, and click it to see a still from the film. »

- Uncle Creepy

Poster for Jonathan King’s Under The Mountain

26 June 2009 2:08 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

To hold us over while we await the arrival for the trailer to the kiwi fantasy adventure film Under the Mountain from Jonathan King, the director who brought us the horror comedy Black Sheep, take a look at the new poster in our images gallery.

When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland’s ring of extinct volcanoes.

Guided by the mysterious Mr Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them.

The film will have its world premiere during the 13th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in July.

- Al Young

What a Lame 'Under the Mountain' Poster, First Still

26 June 2009 2:05 PM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »

I feel like I've entered the Twilight Zone as the first one sheet for Under The Mountain resembles incredibly lame posters like the one for Disney's Race to Witch Mountain. This ain't no Disney movie, or is it? In addition to the one sheet, you can also take a peak at the first official still, also quite disappointing. But alas, the film is directed by Jonathan King, who brought us the over-the-top gorefest Black Sheep, and stars one of my favorite actors, Sam Neill, who starred in such classics as In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, The Omen III, Jurassic Park, and the forthcoming Daybreakers. How can is be bad? »

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Yes We Cannes!

29 May 2009 3:42 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Attendance was down by 30 percent at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Not surprising, considering the recession still biting and Euro exchange rates keeping prices along the Croisette at ridiculously expensive levels. Yet the number of high-profile genre films in the Official Competition was a bonus for those more used to finding the most controversial entries up for distributor grabs in the Market section. While Park Chan-wook’s Thirst and Gaspar Noe’s Enter The Void certainly had their followers, with Terry Gilliam’s out-of-competition The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus a similar hot ticket, the two biggest stories were Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist.

Cinema saves the world in Tarantino’s disjointed, history-bending homage to war movies, which takes its misspelled name—but very little else—from Enzo Castellari’s 1978 Italian cult exploiter. Divided into chapters, each highlighting a movie style like Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Alan Jones)

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Dark Hollow Getting the Film Treatment

6 April 2009 2:06 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Horror author Brian Keene and British Fantasy Award winning writer Paul Finch are working together to create Dark Hollow, a supposed return to the classic horror/monster movie based on Brian Keene's best selling novel of the same name. Nifty!

Paul Campion will direct from a script by Paul Finch, with Elisabeth Pinto producing. Shane Rangi is attached to play the role of the evil satyr Hylinus, and New Zealand's Weta Workshop is attached to design and create the creature makeup. Shooting will take place in Kent, England, with Richard Bluck (Black Sheep, Lord of the Rings) attached as director of photography and shooting on 16mm film for a 35mm theatrical release.

Now if only someone could get to work on The Rising! Then I'd be tickled pink!

Synopsis

"After two miscarriages, writer Adam Shay's marriage is on the rocks. On a walk through local woods rumored to be haunted, »

- Uncle Creepy

First Official Still From 'Under the Mountain'

5 January 2009 11:56 AM, PST | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »

Although the image is pretty small, if you click over to Twitch Film you can check out the first official image from Jonathan King's (Black Sheep) latest horror entry, Under The Mountain, which stars Sam Neill (first image here), Sophie McBride, Tom Cameron, Leon Wadham and Oliver Driver. When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Aucklands ring of extinct volcanoes. Guided by the mysterious Mr Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them. »

First Shot From Jonathan King’s Under The Mountain!

5 January 2009 9:40 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

We’re big fans of Kiwi director Jonathan King in these parts, much smitten by his horror-comedy Black Sheep of a few years ago. And King has been a busy man lately, writing and directing a healthy budget adaptation of youth-fantasy novel Under The Mountain. Written in 1979 the novel has been made into a television series in the past but has never made it to the big screen until now. Things have been quiet since the film was first announced but with news that photography is now complete and the film in post production under the watchful eye of Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop, the first still has now arrived.

When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland’s ring of extinct volcanoes.

Guided by the mysterious Mr Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, »

- Todd Brown