Fantastique Amsterdam
Darkness [+see also:
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This year’s guest of honour is American filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman, the founder of Trome Entertainment, and world-famous for his horror and "bad-taste" fantasy films. He will receive a lifetime achievement award for a career that includes genre classics like The Toxic Avenger, Troméo & Juliet and Terror Firmer. Past winners of this award are Paul Verhoeven, Wes Craven and Dario Argento.
The festival's closing film is Dreamcatcher, based on Stephen King’s best-seller, and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. This particular screening will be preceeded by a short film entitled Dernier Vol de L’Osiris (The Final Flight of the Osiris), one of nine short films that make up the ensemble, Animatrix - the prelude to Matrix Reloaded.
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