SILK IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

The official website for SILK, the Taiwanese horror movie, is open for business. On the site is a poor quality copy of the promo reel that screened at Cannes in the market and you can view the whole site in English or Chinese.

I've never been quite sure why big movies love having official websites that are hard to navigate and full of a million useless bells and whistles, but if you dig around on the SILK site long enough you can find trailers and good looking artwork.

SILK is set to play Pusan and the Tokyo International Film Festival, and there's an interesting note in a Chinese-language movie magazine. SILK (and THE HOST, for that matter) both had negative comments made about their special effects when they were at Cannes. A big deal was made about the fact that THE HOST hadn't had time to finish its effects, and the same is true about SILK which is only now putting the final polish on its CGI. The lesson? Don't take your film to Cannes until it's 100% ready.

(Thanks to the sharp-eyed reader who sent this in)