The Raid (aka, The Raid: Redemption) opened last year's Midnight Madness program, ripping up Ryerson before punching, kicking, slashing, choking, gouging, elbow-striking, hacking and blasting its way through theaters all over North America and the world. Director Gareth Huw Evans and star Iko Uwais are following up with Berandal, the second in a proposed trilogy.
A figure wearing a faceless, iron mask, seemingly hammered directly into bone, handed me a slip of crumpled, bloody paper before falling to the ground convulsing, shrieking unspeakable things. I turned away, I am ashamed to admit, the paper still clutched in my hand. It was no more than a URL. As you will see, it leads to what is apparently a teaser for The Lords of Salem shot at a concert.
Risk madness and despair--watch with the gathered crowd and gasp as Rob Zombie ascends what appears to be a cherry-picker, probably an unholy one.
LORDS OF SALEM Mon., Sept. 10, 11:59pm: RYERSON Wed., Sept. 12, 5pm: CINEPLEX YONGE AND DUNDAS 6
Midnight Madness 2012 opens with Dredd 3D, the first 3D movie ever to play the program and the first of two this year!
Check out the official poster and this clip from San Diego Comic Con that Bloody Disgusting says "[puts] the slow motion madness on display." (More at Bloody Disgusting).
