This years Tribeca film festival genre fare looks killer. Opening next week in NY, we have the following below.

Black Sheep (2006), 87 mins

“An entrepreneurial farm owner wants to revolutionize the industry with genetically ngineered sheep. But when environmental activists try to stop him, they accidentally unleash his baaaad experiment into the world. And this sheep likes blood. In a country where sheep outnumber humans, the last thing you should ever do is piss them off.”

This looks extremely good and I am dying to review it.

The Matrimony (2007), 90 mins

“In 1920’s Shanghai, wealthy Junchu loses his fiancée in a freak accident and is coerced by his mother into marrying Sansan, a near stranger. Soon afterward, Sansan’s body is inhabited by the devious ghost of Junchu’s dead lover, sending her on a downward spiral of madness and murder in this captivating gothic horror.”

Ghosts out for revenge in another Asian horror flick? Sounds a little familiar to me…

Mulberry Street (2006), 85 mins

“One sweltering summer day in Manhattan, the streets explode into chaos as a rat-borne virus breaks out. With every bite, city dwellers turn into bloodthirsty, rodent-like creatures that violently attack other residents. Seven recently evicted tenants fight through the night for survival, as the city quickly spirals out of control.”

Well, people attacking others after getting infected with something sounds incredibly familiar, but the rodent take on the events is oddly appealing to me.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), 86 mins

“When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer’s decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen. Brutal and engrossing, actual footage from these tapes mixed with interviews with FBI profilers and victims’ families begins to expose the many layers to this mystery.”

I am assuming this is not a documentary based on real torture tapes. With that said, this sounds f’ing awesome.

Rise: Blood Hunter (2007), 94 mins

“Reporter Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) awakens in a morgue and realizes she is no longer human. Trying to resist the thirst for blood, she vows to hunt down the sect responsible for her situation, and kill the vampire that changed her. Chock full of action, this slayer flick is sure to thrill.”

This is the one with Liu naked and Michael Chiklis beating up a normal looking Marilyn Manson. Worth seeing just based on my description of the events alone.

Unearthed (2007), 94 mins

“When an archeologist obsessed with the mysterious disappearance of an ancient Native American people uncovers a subterranean lair in the New Mexico desert, a blood-thirsty creature is unleashed on a small town. In the wake of the carnage, the people’s only hopes are a quick-thinking rogue sheriff and the ritual medicine of the lost tribe.”

Subterranean creatures? Sounds like THE DESCENT. But the trailer features enough gore to make this look good.

Movie descriptions taken from www.tribecafilmfestival.org

- Molly Celaschi