The Cannes Film Festival has come and gone and it's a sleepy Todd from Twitch typing this installment of the fortnightly International Eye Candy. Yep, you guessed it – we've got a couple Cannes related findings this time out but the big stars are a pair of films – one Australian, one Belgian – that didn't make the cut at the big fest. What could they be? Read on!

We begin this world tour in Japan, land of many 'inspirations' for Quentin Tarantino. Anybody recall the silhouette sword fight in KILL BILL? That was a direct lift from a fantastic Japanese film called SAMURAI FICTION, by Hiroyuki Nakano. For a brief moment Nakano was pretty much the guy when it came to Japanese film with crossover appeal and then everything kind of fell apart when he tackled a big budget ninja film that failed horribly. Nakano retreated back to his career in still photography and has been largely absent from screens since, his last significant project a Sonny Chiba-starring remake of Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI shot to play on a high end pachinko machine.

But no more! Nakano is back with TAJOMARU, a big budget period action spectacle with Oguri Shun – probably the hottest young actor in Japan right now – playing the same character Toshiro Mifune played in Kurosawa's RASHOMON, though this is a different story. All of that to say there's a trailer and it looks pretty damn good.

Find the TAJOMARU trailer here

Jennifer Lynch has got herself one sexy snake lady in HISSS, her Bollywood produced take on the ancient Indian nagin legend. Yep, you read that right: Jennifer Lynch went and made herself a film in Bollywood, she brought legendary effects man Robert Kurtzman with her, and the results look absolutely fantastic. This trailer actually leaked a few weeks back before disappearing from the net under a storm of cease and desist letters but it's back now and in significantly higher resolution than before, too. Very tasty …

Check out the trailer for HISSS here

Yes, you should all know the routine on this one by now. It's VALHALLA RISING, the Viking epic from PUSHER director Nicolas Winding Refn. We've been tracking it and steering the way to trailers and clips for ages now (because Refn is the ass kickingest of ass kickers) and what we've got now is not a new trailer but two minutes of Mads Mikkelsen as One-Eye beating Vikings about the head and shoulders. Yes, please.

Indulge your Viking urges here

Though attention and anticipation for French survival horror VERTIGE – previously known as FERRATA or HIGH LANE in English – hasn't been running nearly as high as it has for Gallic horror offerings THE HORDE or THE PACK it is certainly looking to be one of the more solid genre offerings from the region this year. The film starts as a climbing adventure with a group of pretty young things exploring a mountain trail closed to the public for safety concerns. And I know what you're thinking: trails closed for safety reasons are prime locations for bad things to happen. Which they do, with cables snapping and bridges collapsing and boys in danger of losing their girlfriends to other, more manly boys. And just when the group thinks they're safely at the top of the mountain the realize that things are even worse up there on account of the crazy killer that lives up top with his assortment of bear traps and pointy things. And so the blood begins to flow. I caught a market screening of this one and it's pretty dead solid, very fun.

Find the VERTIGE trailer here

And now the first of the two big finds in this week's column, this one being the Belgian entry. Jaco Van Dormael's MR NOBODY stars Jared Leto and Sarah Polley in what has to be one of the most unique scifi concepts I've come across in ages. Rather than playing the 'decisions split the universe into parallel threads' line so common these days, Van Dormael flips the concept on his head and has Leto simply refuse to make decisions, thus allowing him to experience every possibility in every parallel world simultaneously. And then he plays it all as a dreamy love story. This one just looks gorgeous …

Pay a visit to MR NOBODY here

One of the big finds at this years Cannes – and one of very few films that critics seemed able to agree on – Greek offering DOGTOOTH took home both prizes and praise with its story of quite possibly the most dysfunctional family ever, the children kept locked secure in their walled compound, Daddy going so far as to bring in outsiders to service his son's sexual needs. The praise for this one was loud and pretty much unanimous and there is now an English subtitled trailer available.

Find the DOGTOOTH trailer here

Considerably more divisive – and no real surprise there – was Gaspar Noe's ENTER THE VOID. The latest from the controversial director of IRREVERSIBLE, VOID is a hypnotic reflection on life from the point of view of a dead drug dealer and while there isn't a full trailer yet – Noe is a notorious control freak and reluctant to release any materials whatsoever – there is a very brief teaser out there.

ENTER THE VOID here

Giant pig! It aint RAZORBACK, it's Korean creature feature CHAW and it just might be the giantest giant pig ever.

Find the CHAW teaser here

How's this for pedigree: Producers of PAN'S LABYRINTH and THE ORPHANAGE combine with the writer of [REC] to produce an Italian shocker about a secret society obsessed with capturing images of the soul at death. It's Stefano Bessoni's IMAGO MORTIS, a film we've covered here before but a new – and superior – Spanish trailer has just arrived on the scene.

Find the IMAGO MORTIS trailer here

Gotta love Timur Bekmambetov. With the NIGHT WATCH films having paved his way to Hollywood where he is seemingly two for two so far – as the director of WANTED and producer of 9 – the man hasn't forgotten where he came from. Bekmambetov continues to work in Russia and right now he's serving as producer on BLACK LIGHTNING, the directorial debut from one of his key support crew. It's a flying car adventure, one that we ran a very impressive – and very brief – first teaser for a while back. The second teaser has now arrived and while it's still very brief it shows off significantly more of both the flying car – a Volga – and the young man who discovers it and uses it to fight crime.

Get aboard BLACK LIGHTNING here

In the world of crime fiction Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy have been hailed as golden children in recent years, proving hugely popular around the globe as they are translated from Swedish into a variety of languages – the English version of the first volume (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) already available with the second due in July. And the film adaptations are looking to do the same, the first entry sweeping the globe to great success earlier this year and the second about to arrive. And, yes, the trailer for the second film – THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE – has just arrived and the reason for the success is plenty obvious: it just looks fantastic.

Find THE GIRLWHO PLAYED WITH FIRE here

Indonesia has long been a farm for low grade horror film, scores of scare flicks churned out every year on the cheap, barely any of them drawing any sort of notice outside of Indonesia's borders. But that's all about to change thanks to directorial duo The Mo Brothers. The pair first attracted attention with their stunning short film DARA – a film that aims to blend Eastern and Western horror styles – and that short proved so successful that they are now polishing up the feature length expansion MACABRE. Expect to hear a whole lot more about this one in coming months …

Find the first trailer for MACABRE here!

And, finally, we arrive at the Aussie film mentioned at the beginning of things, the Hugo Weaving-starring road flick LAST RIDE. It's a sort of slow motion road / crime drama with Weaving as a low level criminal on the run into the outback accompanied only by his young son. It's an atmospheric, beautifully shot bit of work and Weaving looks absolutely stellar in it. Though the tone is quite different I can't help but feel like it's some sort of cousin to John Hillcoat's THE PROPOSITION. Absolutely fantastic. We've run a pair of short teasers before but the full theatrical trailer has just arrived on the scene.

Find the LAST RIDE trailer here