It's here in the Archives section that you will find the news of the last three months.
----- August 27, 2010 -----
** [REC] sequels: According to Variety, Paco Plaza's [REC] GENESIS and Jaume Balaguero's [REC] APOCALYPSE have been acquired by Le Pacte and Wild Side Films for French theatrical and DVD distribution. Does this mean a U.S. distro deal could quickly be in line? Scheduled for delivery in fall 2011 and fall 2012, respectively, the sequels were greenlit by Filmax Entertainment, one of Spain's leading production outfits, in May.
[REC] directors Paco Plaza and Jaume Balaguero will split directing responsibilities for the two films. Plaza will direct the first film, [REC] GENESIS, which will return to the origin of the original infection that caused humans to turn into zombies. The film is expected to be delivered in the autumn of 2011.
[REC] APOCALYPSE will be directed by Balaguero and will end the [REC] saga with the pandemic spreading to unknown proportions. Plaza will assist on the project, which is expected to be delivered in the autumn of 2012. (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** F5NAL DESTINATION: Tony Todd will make his return to the FINAL DESTINATION franchise in New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures' sequel, which begins lensing September 13 in Vancouver. The film comes to theaters on August 26, 2011. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** James Wan (SAW) is set to direct a film adaptation of the graphic novel NIGHTFALL for Platinum Studios and Aurora Productions. Scott O. Brown's comic follows a man sentenced to a prison run by vampires. Wan will also oversee the script's development. Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and William Stuart will produce. Wan's most recent film, INSIDIOUS, premieres at the Toronto Film Festival next month. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Eli Roth's THANKSGIVING: With MACHETE hitting theatres next week and HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN in post-production, talk has stirred again that another GRINDHOUSE faux trailer could be making the feature-length jump soon - Eli Roth's holiday-themed slasher flick THANKSGIVING.
Out doing press for THE LAST EXORCISM, Roth told Cinema Blend that "I've been working on the script with my co-writer, Jeff Rendell, who plays the pilgrim in the trailer. But Jeff has been working. I said that his deal is he has to work on the script while I'm promoting THE LAST EXORCISM, and as soon as I'm done in mid-September he's going to fly to California, we're going to sit down, and bang out the script."
Roth has previously talked about shooting the film back-to-back with the PG-13 action/sci-fi feature ENDANGERED SPECIES, telling MTV News last year " I want to do a huge budget movie, but tack on three weeks to the end of it and shoot Thanksgiving...I want to do an $80 million dollar movie, and then schedule three weeks at the end to quickly shoot a $5 million dollar movie."
A lot will likely depend on the success of MACHETE. If it hits, THANKSGIVING has a better chance of getting made. If it tanks, even its chances of becoming a direct-to-DVD release would seem slim. There's still no talk of doing the other two faux trailers - Rob Zombie's WEREWOLF WOMEN OF THE SS and Edgar Wright's DON'T. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** HOSTEL PART III: Brian Hallisay and Sarah Habel will be starring alongside Kip Pardue the upcoming sequel. Being directed by Scott Spiegel from a screenplay by producer Michael Weiss, the interesting turn is that the sequel will head to Vegas where a bachelor party goes horribly wrong. Could the groom have a price on his head? (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- August 26, 2010 -----
** HOSTEL PART III: Variety says Kip Pardue has snared the lead role. The actor has starred in THE RULES OF ATTRACTION. In the third film, Pardue plays a character who attends a friend's bachelor party in Las Vegas unaware that Elite Hunting is involved in the event. Scott Spiegel penned the script and will direct. His last released effort, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 2 TEXAS BLOOD MONEY, hit DVD in 1999. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** SCRE4M: USA Today is reporting on two cameos. According to the paper, Kristen Bell and TRUE BLOOD's Anna Paquin have roles in the sequel, still shooting in Michigan under the direction of Wes Craven. The sequel opens on April 15, 2011. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** HELLRAISER REVELATIONS: The Moviehole.net web site has released the following character breakdown and synopsis of what's to come in this sequel. Victor Garcia directs, Peta Wilson stars...
DR. ROSS CRAVEN Early 40s, handsome, a family man. His son disappeared two years ago and it has been a hard road back to family stability. He is a good man that has fought hard to keep his family together.
EMMA 18, daughter of Ross and Sarah. She is lovely and inquisitive and on the verge of her own womanhood.
STEVEN 20, son of Ross and Sarah. He is a seeker, a true misanthrope. After he graduated high school, he went on a backpacking trip with his friend Nico through Mexico, where he was presented with a choice to "experience a reality beyond current existence" and the puzzle box is presented and Pinhead becomes his master.
NICO 20, Steven's best friend and travelling partner. Once Nico realizes that the commitment to Pinhead is FOREVER, he attempts a daring switch plan to release himself from the puzzlebox.
ENGINEER Male with dark olive skin, cloudy eyes. He is creepy looking, a man that has lived on the streets for years. The Engineer is a man of mysterious origins, and it is this man that draws the curious souls into Pinhead's reality.
MALE CENOBITE Male 20-30s, British accent, Caucasian, very pale, tall and thin, the actor should be comfortable in full body makeup along with special effects contact lenses, face and head special effect makeup. Stunt background / experience a plus.
PSEUDO-PIN HEAD Tall and very thin, deathly pale, in his early 20s. Should be comfortable in full body makeup (head covering, etc.), and tight fitted black leather clothing. This pseudo pinhead is such a devoted servant of Pinhead, he mimics his appearance as closely as possible, and revels in the pain that leads to his pleasure. Stunt background / experience a plus.
FEMALE CENOBITE Tall and thin, this actor should have training in contemporary dance / ballet / mime / as well as be able to work within an environment of sensory deprivation (vision will be impaired within this character's mask). The actor cannot be claustrophobic in any way, as this character wears full body makeup, wears a mask that covers her entire head and face throughout the film. This character can only communicate though body language and movement. She is a haunting presence in the film and conveys all emotion through her body movement. This female cenobite is also a devoted slave to Pinhead.
STORY LINE: PINHEAD is back and in his chamber of soulless delights, he thought he had two willing participants in STEVEN and NICO. But Nico wants out and decides that a member of Steven's family will serve as proper barter. Terror ensues.
(thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
----- August 25, 2010 -----
** THE WALKING DEAD will premiere on Halloween night, Sunday, Oct. 31 at 10pm. Here's the trailer!
** HELLRAISER REVELATIONS: Directed by Victor Garcia from a screenplay by special effects artists Gary Tunnicliffe, the plot will follow two friends who unleash Pinhead (who becomes their master of pain). Apparently, one of the friends has a change of heart. He backs out on his oath hoping to swap himself out with one of his friend's family members. We learned exclusively that one of the kid's mother will be played by none other than the declicious Peta Wilson, best known as the "Nikita" in the 96 episodes of LA FEMME NIKITA. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** JUAN OF THE DEAD : Here's the trailer for what is probably the first Cuban zombie comedy!
----- August 24, 2010 -----
** George A. Romero update: Here's what the director of the classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING had to say about his future. "I have plans for two more Dead movies," says Romero. "Just like Survival they revolve around more characters from Diary. The next one I'd like to make will focus on the African-American guys who were like a band of looters. If Survival makes money, it'll happen. I want to shoot it noir style with maybe an abandoned building or factory as the setting. Something lit a specific way to cast these huge shadows. The next one after that would focus on the Texas girl who escaped from the mansion. She's got a story to tell I think."
In terms of the proposed 3D remake of Dario Argento's DEEP RED, Romero said with a laugh, "Sometimes I find out about projects I'm 'doing' the same way you guys do. Dario's son called me to ask if I was interested. I asked if I'd be working with Dario and Claudio said yeah. I told him that it sounded interesting but I'd want to speak with Dario first to see where we could go with it, man. By the time I got in touch with him, he told me he didn't know anything about it. So from there I told him, 'Well, that's it, man! I'm out!'" (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** PIRANHA 3D opened at the sixth spot at the box office to a rather disappointing $10 million. Still Dimension have announced a sequel!? Producer Mark Canton stated, "We are thrilled that audiences are not just loving PIRANHA 3D, but cheering for it. And it’s fantastic that so many critics are really getting the movie and recommending it. We can't wait to get to work on the sequel." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** HOSTEL PART III: The Scott Spiegel-directed threequel takes place in Vegas and, we were led to believe, was slated for direct-to-DVD like many of Sony Stage 6's productions but is now supposedly heading to the big screen. A teaser trailer is soon due. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** HELLRAISER REVELATIONS: Being directed by Victor Garcia from a screenplay by special effects artists Gary Tunnicliffe, the plot will follow two friends who unleash Pinhead (who becomes their master of pain). Apparently, one of the friends has a change of heart. He backs out on his oath hoping to swap himself out with one of his friend's family members. We also learned there will be a male and female cenobite escorting Pinhead around town, with a new "Pseudo-Pinhead" being introduced. Shooting begins this September in Los Angeles! (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** INFECTED: Christy Carlson Romano, Tom DeNucci and William Forsythe have all joined the zombie feature for Verdi-Corrente Productions says Variety. The story follows zombies who infect friends and family that are still human. Though they understand the seriousness of the unnatural acts they commit, they are unable to stop. Michael Madsen also stars. Glenn Ciano (INKUBUS) will direct. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Here's the trailer Korean slasher BEDEVILLED.
----- August, 23, 2010 -----
** Lars von Trier's ANTICHRIST: One of my favorite movie of last year is coming home by way of the Criterion Collection on DVD and Blu-ray. Criterion Collection has announced Antichrist for a Blu-ray release on November 9. This disturbing psychological thriller premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and stars Willem Dafoe and Cannes best actress Charlotte Gainsbourg. The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack, and supplements include: audio commentary by von Trier and professor Murray Smith; video interviews with von Trier and actors Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg; a collection of video pieces delving into the production of Antichrist, including interviews with von Trier and key members of his filmmaking team as well as behind-the-scenes footage; Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, a documentary on the film's world premiere, plus press interviews with Dafoe and Gainsbourg; three theatrical trailers; and a booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie. (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** Darren Lynn Bousman's 11 11 11: Producer Wayne Rice and filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman (REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA) are teaming for 11 11 11, a horror-tinged take on the 11:11 spiritual movement. The theory/movement deals with the number's significance in people's lives, specifically its appearance alerting people that angels/guardians are trying to communicate with them. As November 11th 2011 is a Friday, the film's release date is already locked for that date.
The script, which Bousman is currently penning, takes the idea that Heaven at 11:11am on that date, the last of Heaven's eleven gates will open and something from another world will enter our earthly realm. Oddly enough it'll be here not for 11 minutes but 49 minutes. The tone is said to be akin to SIGNS and THE STRANGERS (atmospheric rather than gory), and desperately wants to avoid comparisons to Jim Carrey flop THE NUMBER 23 which dealt with similar wild numerology theories. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** HELLRAISER REVELATIONS: Doug Bradley, the actor - who has worn the skin, leather and pins through eight HELLRAISER films as Pinhead - has officially declined to reprise his role in the recently announced sequel. The ninth film in the series is a sequel which is based on a script by Gary Tunnicliffe, that will roll cameras next month with director Victor Garcia. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** WORLD WAR Z: The project is picking up steam finally. According to a Paramount document, execs love the new draft by Matt Carnahan. The film is listed as a "priority." Brad Pitt will star, as previously reported. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** HANSEL AND GRETEL is another film at Paramount. It's going to be directed by Tommy Wirkola, the man behind DEAD SNOW. The listing for this one has dropped the "Witch Hunters" subtitle (it was supposed to be Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters). We'll see if that holds. The document says casting talks have begun and production will begin later this year. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** BURIED: Here's the "last" poster for the upcoming film.
----- August 22, 2010 -----
** THE GAINESVILLE RIPPER: The movie world premiere is taking place in Gainesville Florida on Sunday Aug. 29th at 7:30 p.m. The Gator Cinemas will host what could be the city's first ever feature-film world premiere. The feature horror film, THE GAINESVILLE RIPPER, is based on the true story of serial killer Danny Rolling who terrorized Gainesville in the 90s.
Four years were spent working on the independent production which was budgeted at under $200,000 dollars. This film was shot in Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida. Local Gainesville TV personality Zachary Memos was cast as Danny Rolling. "Zach did an amazing, brilliant job who was only concerned with playing the role truthfully, the art of acting, and doing a professional job,” according to Writer/Director and GOREZONE's own Josh Townsend.
“THE GAINESVILLE RIPPER is a horror film that doesn't hesitate showing the violence Rolling inflicted, not only on his victims but the town as a whole,” says Townsend.
The premiere of The Gainesville Ripper hosted at the Gator Cinemas will be attended by the leading cast and Writer/Director Josh Townsend for a Q&A after the showing. We would like everyone to come out and support the local cast and crew that work really hard to make this film.
** John Carpenter's THE WARD: Here's the two first stills from the much anticipated theatrical return of John Carpenter.
** TROLL 2: On October 5, MGM/20th Century Fox will release Claudio Fragasso's infamous TROLL 2 as The 20th anniversary Nilbog edition on DVD and Blu-Ray. (thanks to DVDSleuth.blogspot.com)
** Darren Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN: Check out the trailer and the just released poster.
** THE WALKING DEAD: AMC releases five new images from the set of its upcoming original series, which depict new shots of walkers as well as the arrival of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) on horseback in Atlanta -- and the horrors he encounters there. THE WALKING DEAD is currently being filmed on location in Atlanta, GA, and will premiere on AMC this October. The adaptation to the Robert Kirkman comic is set among a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who are led by a police officer, Rick Grimes, in search of a safe place to live. The pilot episode was directed by Frank Darabont. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** DRACULA YEAR ZERO: Director Alex Proyas and actor Sam Worthington will be heading Down Under to shoot DRACULA YEAR ZERO, the big budget prequel that delves into the Dracula legend. Universal's managing director Mike Baard revealed shooting will take place in Australia at the Australian International Movie Convention, which is currently underway. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** DARK SOULS: A revengeful father embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
----- August 18, 2010 -----
** THE THING prequel to John Carpenter's 1980's classic horror/sci-fi film is being directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Joel Edgerton. The movie is set to be released on April 29th 2011. Here's the first look at the teaser poster. (thanks to GeekTyrant.com)
** James Wan's INSIDIOUS: Here's the very first image from the new film from the director of the original SAW. Wan has reunited with SAW co-writer Leigh Whannell on his new film which follows a young family who makes the terrifying discovery that the body of their comatose son has become a magnet for malevolent entities while his consciousness lies trapped in the dark and "insidious" realm known as The Further. (thanks to GeekTyrant.com)
** UNDERWORLD 4: Screen Gems has set the sequel to be released in January 20th 2012. The movie will obviously be in 3D, and Kate Beckinsale will return to the series, but she'll have a much smaller role in the film. Her character Seline will "pass the torch" to one of her two daughters. Len Wiseman will return to direct the fourth film, which will end up being his first 3D feature. The movie will continue to tell the on going story of the battle between vampires and werewolves. (thanks to GeekTyrant.com)
** Wes Craven's MY SOUL TO TAKE: In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the psychopath been reincarnated as one of the seven teens, or did he survive the night he was left for dead? Only one of the kids knows the answer. Here's the trailer for the upcoming film.
** DEXTER: Here's three videos from the much anticipated fifth season of DEXTER!
----- August 17, 2010 -----
** Brian De Palma's TOYER: After (a long) six years, Brian De Palma will finally be directing the diabolical Gardner McKay novel and stage play TOYER, which follows a "serial lunatic" whom doesn't murder or rape his beautiful female victims, he instead "toys" with them, torturing them psychologically, before putting them into a medically induced coma.
The film will be shooting in Venice, Italy, late this fall and into the early winter. That's a switch from the Gardner version, which is set in L.A., but should be far creepier: De Palma plans to set the mayhem against Venice's famous Carnevale di Venezia, for which elaborate masks disguising one's identity are traditionally worn on the street from St. Stephen's Day (the day after Christmas) until the start of the Venitian Carnival. It has all the elements of suspense that Brian does so well in films like BLOW OUT and CARRIE, producer Scott Steindorff says, adding, "And by that I mean, it's really frickin' scary: I read the script on a plane, and I was still terrified." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** 5NAL DESTINATION: Arlen Escarpeta, star of the 2009 FRIDAY THE 13TH remake, will cheat death in Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema's FINAL DESTINATION 5 (5NAL DESTINATION). "I think what they're going to do really, really well this time around, they're going to go back - the story, the plot, a lot of stuff is really going to matter," explained Escarpeta. "I think the last movie it was just death. It was death, death, death, which is fine because that's what people want to see. But this time we're going to give them a little bit of everything - good story, great director - it's going to be good." How long can he survive this time? He'll star alongside Miles Fisher is the Steven Quale directed sequel that opens with a suspension bridge disaster. The 3-D sequel arrives in theaters August 26, 2011. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED: From the early ’70s well into the ’90s the Philippines was a back-lot for a bevy of B-movie mavericks and cinema visionaries alike. The country was utilized for its inexpensive labour, exotic locations and distinct lack of rules. A large body of genre work emerged that somehow managed to capture the raw, chaotic energy of contemporary Filipino culture. These productions (a cavalcade of monster movies, jungle prison movies, blaxploitation and kung fu hybrids) were miraculously made at a time when the country’s political situation was repressive at best. From Mark Hartley, director of the Ozploitation doc, NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, comes MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! The doc is set to premiere at next month's TIFF. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- August 16, 2010 -----
** I SAW THE DEVIL: The Film Biz Asia web site has confirmed directly with the film's producers that the film was required to make seven cuts to the film, with the total run time of removed material adding up to somewhere between eighty and ninety seconds and not the seven minutes as "reported" before. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
** Wes Craven's MY SOUL TO TAKE: Here's the first poster for the upcoming film.
** BURIED: Here's the UK quad poster for the upcoming film.
** Thai horror THE SNOW WHITE: Two students stealthily dissect the dead body of a pregnant woman just to get the dead infant in her belly, to perform a dark magic charm. But the magic doesn't work, and soon they realise a terrible price is to be paid for their horrific act, as they're hunted by the vengefull ghost of the dead woman. While the ghost is threatening their lives, a kind-hearted nurse tries to stop the ghost to save them. (thanks to 24framespersecond.net)
----- August 12, 2010 -----
** I SAW THE DEVIL gets sliced by seven minutes: Director Kim Ji-woon made the cuts in order to obtain a release after censors had twice given it a restricted rating that would have kept it out of mainstream theatres and home video circuits and would have prevented it from being promoted and advertised. With the cuts now instituted distributor Showbox/Mediaplex has given it a largely unchanged wide release and only one day behind its originally planned outing. The new rating allows it into regular theatres, but it can only be watched by patrons over 18. The censor board is understood to have objected to scenes that showed a dead body being mutilated and to human body parts being eaten by humans and a dog.
But Lee’s removal of such a large amount of material appears to suggest that he has eliminated whole scenes or substantially changed them, rather than just shortening them or offering a different camera angle. Devil features two of Korea’s biggest stars Choi Min-shik and Lee Byung-hun as a cop hunting the psychopath who killed his fiancee and cost some $6 million to make. Internationally it is sold by the appropriately named Fine Cut. (thanks to FimBiz.asia)
** The 2007 film SHROOMS is getting a sequel, says Variety. Vertigo Films is moving forward on SHROOMS 2 - the first entry was directed by Paddy Breathnach - as well as A NIGHT IN THE WOODS, a horror film by Richard Parry. Both pictures will be in 3D. No telling if Breathnach will return to direct SHROOMS 2. He also directed the Anchor Bay acquisition RED MIST. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** PIRANHA 3D: Take a look at some of the babes in the upcoming remake. (thanks to IGN.com)
** THE LAST EXORCISM: After a career spent helping the devout through prayer and trickery, Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) invites a film crew to document his final fraudulent days as an exorcist. Soon his faith is truly tested when a desperate plea from the father of a possessed girl (Ashley Bell) brings him face to face with the devil himself. (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
----- August 11, 2010 -----
** PIRANHA 3D: Check out this cool Thai poster for the upcoming remake. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** SCRE4M: While we continue to guess as to whether or not we'll see multiple Ghost Face masks in Wes Craven's now-filming sequel, Fun World director of Licensing/Product Development R.J. Torber caught up with The Examiner to talk about this heavy topic, among other. As for the additional masks, "They have them on set. We are in communication," he explains teasing, "Wes Craven does keep in touch. I don't want to get sliced and diced and be a victim of Ghost Face, but keep your eyes open. You may see them, you may not." SCRE4M arrives in theaters April 15, 2011 from Dimension Films. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** GRINDHOUSE: Vivendi Home Entertainment brings Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's complete Grindhouse to Blu-Ray on October 5 and we've got a look at the package art and special features.
PLANET TERROR
- Robert Rodriguez's 10-Minute Film School
- The Badass Babes of PLANET TERROR
- The Guys of Planet Terror
- Casting Rebel
- Sickos, Bullets, And Explosions: The Stunts of Planet Terror
- The Friend, The Doctor, and the Real Estate Agent
- PLANET TERROR Poster Gallery
DEATH PROOF
- Stunts On Wheels: The Legendary Drivers of Death Proof
- Quentin's Greatest Collaborator: Editor Sally Menke
- The Guys of Death Proof
- Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike
- Finding Quentin's Gals
- The Uncut Version of "Baby, It's You" performed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead
- Introducing Zoe Bell
- Double Dare Trailer
- Death Proof Extended Music
- Death Proof Poster Gallery
Blu-Ray exclusive bonus features:
- Robert Rodriguez's 10-Minute Cooking School
- The Makeup Effects of Planet Terror
- The Hot Rods of Death Proof
- From Texas to Tennessee: The Production Design of Death Proof
- Trailers
- Extended Werewolf Women of The SS Trailer
- View Extended Cut Of Werewolf Women of the SS Trailer with Commentary by Director Rob Zombie
- The Making Of Werewolf Women of the SS Trailer
- Extended Don't Trailer
- View Extended Cut Of Don't Trailer with Commentary by Director Edgar Wright
- The Making of Don't Trailer
- Don't Storyboard/Trailer Comparison
- View Don't Storyboard/Trailer Comparison with Commentary by Director Edgar Wright
- Don't Storyboards Still Gallery
- Don't Poster
- The Making of Thanksgiving Trailer
- New York Times Talk with Quention Tarantino and Lynn Hirschberg at Comic Con 2006 Featuring the Directors and Cast of Grindhouse
- Grindhouse Trailer Contest Winner Hobo With A Shotgun
(thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
----- August 10, 2010 -----
** I SAW THE DEVIL: Korean helmer Kim Jee-woon is rushing to recut horror pic ahead of its Thursday release date after local censors upheld its restricted rating for extreme violence. Under a law introduced in 2002, restricted films can't unspool in general theaters, be released on home video or advertised. They can only be shown in specially licensed adult theaters -- but, as yet, no such venues exist. In 2008, Korea's Constitutional Court ruled the rating was unconstitutional after a challenge from the local distributor of John Cameron Mitchell's SHORTBUS, which was also slapped with the restricted label. But the board is standing by the rating.
In the film, it objected to scenes showing a dead body being cut up and human parts being eaten by protags and a dog. "We will modify the duration of some of the scenes to respect KMRB's decision without losing the essence of the film," said Kim Hyun-woo, producer and CEO of production house Peppermint. Starring Choi Min-sik (OLDBOY) and Lee Byung-hun (A BITTERSWEET LIFE), $6 million pic is a revenge thriller about a cop hunting the psychopath who killed his fiancee. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE WALKING DEAD: AMC is aiming for a Friday, October 8 date to premiere their zombie series. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** SAW 3D will be the end: Betsy Russell, who plays Jigsaw's wife, Jill, in the SAW franchise told press that, even though Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have touted SAW 3D as the final Jigsaw game, an eighth film had already been conceived. Co-writer Patrick Melton wanted to clarify this. "To clarify, Betsy has the story half correct," he explains. "At one point, we had an idea for two more movies. But after VI opened, we decided to combine everything into one last film, which is SAW 3D. This one is the last shebang!" There you have it, straight from the writer's mouth! SAW 3D opens on October 2. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** JEKYLL & HYDE: It looks as if Warner Bros. Pictures' modern JEKYLL & HYDE adaptation won't be happening. Both Forest Whitaker and Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson were attached with Abel Ferrara (DRILLER KILLER) just about ready to get behind the camera -- only something went wrong. "He could be an awesome Ed Hyde. He's the real deal," Ferrara told The Guardian web site as he looks at a photo of 50 Cent. "But it's not gonna get made...Warner Brothers have put up about one fifth of what the film should cost and want about one third of what it's gonna make, and I'm supposed to kiss the feet of whoever made that deal." Ferrara continues, "They never made Jekyll & Hyde the way it was written. It's a guy and his creation. Having one actor play both parts is an abomination, a distortion of Stevenson's story. It's a masterpiece. I'm gonna make it one day." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** CHILD'S EYE 3D: Here's the upcoming sequel from the Pang Brothers. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
----- August 9, 2010 ------
** AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON remake: Fernley Phillips (THE NUMBER 23) is in talks to pen the script for a contemporary-set remake of 1981 horror/comedy classic reports The L.A. Times. The Weinstein Company bought the remake rights to the film back in June last year and will release the film through its Dimension Films label. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** SAW 3D: Both Lionsgate and the producers at Twisted Pictures have been pushing the idea that SAW 3D, arriving in theaters October 29, will be the end of the franchise (even though it's been publicly stated that 8 films were planned). Actress Besty Russell, who plays Jigsaw's wife, Jill, told the PopWrap web site that an eighth film has already been conceived. "Before we thought it was ending [with SAW 3D], the writers came up with an unbelievable idea [for SAW 8]," Betsy revealed. "It's an amazing story that I would love to see." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** BLACK SWAN: "It's very unique in tone. I think of it more as a psychological thriller, like ROSEMARY'S BABY in [terms of] genre, if I had to pick a genre" says Natalie Portman about the upcoming Darren Aronofsky movie in which she star. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Universal Pictures shifts Wes Craven's MY SOUL TO TAKE (formerly 24/7) yet again. It's set to open on October 29th against SAW 3D, and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 in its second week of release. Here's some new stills from the film. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Brad Anderson's VANISHING ON 7TH STREET, an apocalyptic thriller/horror about a group of people who must avoid darkness to stay alive. Here's the first poster. Starring Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo, and Thandie Newton, following a mysterious blackout, most of the population vanishes into thin air. As the remaining survivors converge in a small tavern to figure out what happened, the darkness returns to claim them one by one. Check out the official web site. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE remake: The trailer is now online. (thanks to Yahoo.com)
** MACHETE: Here's the very cool upcoming action figure from Neca.
** RESIDENT EVIL AFTERLIFE: Here's yet another poster for the upcoming 3D sequel.
----- August 5, 2010 ------
** DEAD SPACE the movie: Director D.J. Caruso (DISTURBIA) told MTV News that the film adaptation of the hit sci-fi/horror video game is still in the early stages. The game is set in the 26th century in deep space, where an engineer who responds to a distress signal from a mining ship finds the vessel infested with monstrous creatures called Necromorphs. The creatures are human corpses, reanimated by an alien virus.
"We don't have a writer for it yet, but... right before I left we were listening to different writers and taking different pitches. We have to decide on a couple once we get back what we're going to do. We've tried to crack the story a few different ways, so I know when we get back we're going to get into it and I feel like we'll have a screenplay in a few months" says Caruso.
They seem to have an idea of where to go, namely a prequel - "We've got a really good sort of storyline. It's almost a prequel, sort of, to where the game picks up... You have have the whole sort of brainwash-y/Scientology thing and ultimately the Necromorphs. It's interesting to try to get the major studios to understand that this isn't EVENT HORIZON." Said prequel will probably avoid trying to resemble the animated direct-to-DVD feature DEAD SPACE DOWNFALL which came out around the time of the first game. The game's sequel, DEAD SPACE 2, is scheduled to hit stores in January. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** RED STATE: Kyle Gallner (THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT), Melissa Leo, Dermot Mulroney, Michael Angarano and Steven Root could be joining the previously announced character actor Michael Parks. Kevin Smith's film follows a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Here's the DVD cover of VCI horror films scheduled for release in October.
----- August 4, 2010 -----
** DYLAN DOG DEAD OF NIGHT: Here's the very first trailer!
** DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK remake: Here's the teaser trailer.
** Eli Roth on HOSTEL PART III: While Eli is listed as a producer on Sony Stage 6's sequel, he explains that he won't be involved... at all. "I'm not involved in any way," Roth recently said. "Any information that says I'm a producer on it is false. I think they're shooting in August, but Scott Spiegel is the one who can answer all questions on the film. I wish those guys the best of luck and hope they come back with a great film, but I have nothing to do with it." Scott Spiegel is directing the sequel from a screenplay by Michael Weiss that takes an interesting turn: it will head to Vegas where a bachelor party goes horribly wrong. The groom could have a price on his head. When asked if he has even more projects in the works outside of ENDANGERED SPECIES, THANKSGIVING and the FUNHOUSE remake, he proclaimed, "Of course. All will be revealed in due time." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- August, 3rd, 2010 -----
** Dario Argento's GIALLO: Arriving on DVD October 19 from Maya Home Entertainment is the long delayed Dario Argento thriller GIALLO, one of the most critically despised films of Argento's in years. Starring Adrien Brody, in Italy, an American woman fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it’s worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE TOXIC AVENGER 5 THE TOXIC TWINS: Troma Entertainment has signed Los Angeles writer Collyn McCoy to ink the 5th iteration of the iconic TOXIC AVENGER series of movies. McCoy came to the attention of Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of THE TOXIC AVENGER, by a chance meeting with Josh Olson, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE at director Joe Dante’s office. "Collyn's unique talent will do more than justice to Troma's 35-year, no-compromises legacy of shit-disturbing movies of the future!" said Kaufman. "His script will undoubtedly be 100% Grade-A Troma!" (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake: Warner Home Video (for their New Line label) has announced the DVD and Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy Combo release of the newly-remade ANOES on 10/5 (SRP $28.98 and $35.99). Extras on both will include the Freddy Krueger Reborn featurette, a deleted scene and an alternate opening and ending. The Blu-ray will add an interactive Maniacal Movie Mode viewing option. (thanks to TheDigitalBits.com)
** THE VISITOR from Code Red finally gets a release date: Code Red's long awaited special edition release of Giulio Paradisi's STRIDULUM (1979) aka THE VISITORhas finally been given a release date - November 2, 2010! (thanks to DVDSleuth.blogspot.com)
** US company VCI have announced a couple of cool horror films scheduled for release in October, and the most interesting are:
- THE DEMON (Percival Rubens, 1979)
- THE SWAMP OF THE RAVENS (El pantano de los cuervos, Manuel Caño 1974) Paired with I EAT YOUR SKIN.
- THE HEADLESS GHOST (Peter Graham Scott, 1959) Paired with HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM.
(thanks to DVDSleuth.blogspot.com)
** PIRANHA 3D: Here's the cool new UK quad poster. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** JULIA'S EYES: Here's the new trailer for the Guillem Morales directed / Guillermo Del Toro produced horror picture. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
** CAPTIFS (CAGED): Coming soon from the producers of the french zombie picture MUTANTS is Yann Gozlan's CAPTIFS, in which the fetching Zoe Felix falls prey to unsavory forces. Here's the second teaser. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
----- August 2nd, 2010 -----
** The Weinstein Co. is moving ahead with a slate of movies to be released by the independent company Harvey and Bob Weinstein formed after leaving Disney. They're tapping into the equity and borrowing power put in place when they got their financial affairs in order last month. "The company has been restructured in a healthy manner that works for all parties involved," a source with knowledge of the company said, "which provides the ability to not only release the current slate but also to do new production."
The goal for TWC is to have four to six wide releases a year and at least a half-dozen other limited releases, both in-house productions and acquisitions. The company's next wide release will be PIRANHA 3D opening Aug. 20 in more than 2,000 domestic theaters with a marketing campaign of about $30 million. Apparently, TWC has been able to book the number of 3D screens it needs.
That will mark the first movie in a renewal of the Dimension division run by Bob Weinstein. Other sequel titles being developed include HELLRAISER and CHILDREN OF THE CORN. Wide releases are planned for SCRE4M in April and then SPY KIDS 4 in August 2011, both now in production with budgets of about $40 million each. In active development for wide release are sequels to SCARY MOVIE and HALLOWEEN among others. (thanks to TheHollywoodReporter)
** HIGH MIDNIGHT: Vincent D’Onofrio, Elizabeth Hurley, William Baldwin, Thomas Kretschmann, Ted Raimi, Taylor Nichols, Emilio Rivera and Kevin Weisman will all star in the vampire western for director Mary Lambert (PET SEMATARY). (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** DVD Delirium Volume 4: The International Guide to Weird and Wonderful Films on DVD is back with a fourth book. Volume 4 perfectly complements the previous three volumes, covering a brand new selection of the world's greatest cult movies on DVD and Blu-ray. This edition of the ultimate guide to DVD and Blu-ray stands alone as an essential book for all film fanatics, and also features a comprehensive index covering this book, together with a full listing of all the films reviewed in DVD Delirium Volume 1 Redux, DVD Delirium Volume 2 and DVD Delirium Volume 3 as well, thus enabling readers to have instant access to almost 2500 DVD and Blu-ray reviews! DVD Delirium Volume 4 is exclusively available to pre-order direct from FAB Press right now, and it will be shipping during the week ending 20 August 2010. Get your copy at FabPress.
** DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK remake: At the San Diego Comic-Con, the remake of the 1973 TV movie surprised with a robust display of solid footage. The panel began with an atmospheric teaser trailer of sinister voices leading into quick cut scenes including a seriously creepy shot of multiple little arms and hands pulling at a vent grille. The ending with a girl exploring under her sheets and being attacked scored a major jump amongst the crowd.
Later on the film's opening sequence was shown with veteran Aussie actor Garry McDonald playing the owner of a rundown mansion who attacks his chambermaid in the basement with a hammer and chisel to her teeth. He then gets pulled into an ash pit, which seems to go down into the bowels of the Earth, by something very fast moving.
Producers Guillermo del Toro and Nick Nunziata along with director Troy Nixey were on hand to talk about the film, del Toro in good spirits joking "What the fuck was that? I shit my pants" after the trailer was shown and later cracking "If there are children in the audience it’s too late…Sesame Street, the word of the day is 'motherfucker'". He confirmed the film has scored an R-rating for 'pervasive scariness' and Miramax has supported them keeping that R-rating. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** SEASON OF THE WITCH: Dominic Sena's Gothic horror film has commenced some additional photography (they're calling it reshoots) for the beginning of September. In the film Nicolas Cage stars as a 14th century Crusader who returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE AMITYVILLE HORROR remake: MGM Home Entertainment has announced a September 14th release on Blu-ray. No specs or is available at this time. Directed by Andrew Douglas, and starring Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George, the 2005 version purported that the residents of a tree-lined home in a Long Island suburb were terrorized by a haunted house. The home had been inhabited previously by a disturbed young man who murdered his family. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- July 31, 2010 -----
** AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS: Guillermo del Toro is set to direct and James Cameron is negotiating to produce a 3D adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS. The atmospheric 1931 story follows explorers in Antarctica who uncover the remains of highly evolved creatures neither plant or animal. Investigating a gigantic mountain range, they come upon an abandoned ancient city. Their explorations underground causes something to stir from its slumber.
del Toro has been trying to develop the work for years and will now retool the script with co-writer Matthew Robbins. del Toro, Susan Montford and Don Murphy will produce. Pre-production will kick off shortly with filming to begin next Summer. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** BATTLE ROYALE: Arrow UK has anounced through a series of forums that a Blu-ray release of the original (non-3D) BATTLE ROYALE by Kinji Fukasaku will be forthcoming in October. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
** US company Severin Films will release Ted Hooker's 1971 horror film CRUCIBLE OF TERROR on October 26. Previously released by Image Entertainment in the US and Cinema Club in the UK, Severin Films promise a new transfer. (thanks to DVDSleuth.blogspot.com)
** SCRE4M: Director Wes Craven released the following behind-the-scenes pic from the sequel that'll give you your very first look at Ghostface! Who's the killer? The film is coming in theaters April 15, 2011. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** HATCHET 2: Director Adam Green promised that the sequel is 100% un-compromised. "I had complete creative control this time. You notice that my name is above the title now - that's not a 'status' thing. It's the fact that nobody said anything; I had no script notes, no cast notes, no anything. Everyone was involved, but I had final say. This movie is pure, 100% me, and that was something I couldn't pass up. Everything else I do is not really like that. So this was a good opportunity - the movie itself is exactly what I wanted it to be." Green also promises that we will be seeing a teaser trailer very soon, and that both 3 and 4 are still in the cards. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** SAW 3D: Check out yet another animated poster for the upcoming sequel. (thanks to UGO.com)
** RESIDENT EVIL sequels: Last year at the San Diego Comic-Con, director Paul W.S. Anderson said that a after directing RESIDENT EVIL AFTERLIFE a fifth one was a possibility. Here's what Anderson had to say at this year's convention. "We always take it one movie at a time. We put so much effort into them and it is a family affair. It is all about making the best possible movie now and then promoting well and getting it out there. Making sure it is seen in the right way. When the dust settles then you think about something else. For us, it is not a business, it is a passion. You don't want to start talking about the next baby until you make sure this one is okay."
As for CASTLEVANIA, a project Anderson has been involved with for some time, he says he is not involved in that anymore. Here's a new poster for RESIDENT EVIL AFTERLIFE. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
----- July 29, 2010 -----
** Guillermo del Toro's PINOCCHIO: After deciding not to direct the two films on THE HOBBIT, de Toro recently completed producing the DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK remake and is hard at work developing both FRANKENSTEIN and AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS. He confirmed to IGN at the San Diego Comic-Con that his version of PINOCCHIO is quite active: "I will tell you what is a fact," said del Toro. "We are actively developing, in pre-production, a really strange [version of] Pinocchio -- stop-motion animated, by Gris Grimly, with music by [Australian musician] Nick Cave. It is a very beautiful version of Pinocchio as it was envisioned by Carlo Collodi." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Ken Russell's THE DEVILS: Warner Bros in Spain will release Ken Russell's THE DEVILS (1971) on July 28. According to online shops, the tech specs are:
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audio: English, Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish
Run Time: 111 min
(thanks to DVDSleuth.blogspot.com)
** CLOVERFIELD sequel: At the San Diego Comic-Con some news regarding the long-gestured sequel came out. While both producer J.J. Abrams and director Matt Reeves have been tight-lipped, Reeves opened up on this weekend while out promoting his much anticipated LET ME IN adaptation. "CLOVERFIELD 2 is on hold for now... it's not dead, it's dormant," says Reeves. "J.J. is very involved with SUPER 8 and I've been doing LET ME IN that so we have shelved it until we can get the team from the first back together." He also clarified that he would like to be the one back behind the camera. It's nice to hear him actually say they plan on doing it still, as opposed to abandoning the project completely. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE CABIN IN THE WOODS: Entertainment Weekly caught up with J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon at the San Diego Comic-Con where they both took turns talking about their upcoming projects. Whedon, who announced he would be directing THE AVENGERS movie, talked about the 3D transfer of THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, while Abrams was pretty tight-lipped on his Steven Spielberg collaboration SUPER 8.
After Abrams joked, "I tried to wedge my way into Cabin [in the Woods],", Whedon talked a bit about the 3D conversion and how they might make it the only horror film NOT in 3D. He explained to EW that the 3D thing came because MGM looked at the schedule and saw every horror movie was going to be in 3D for the next couple of years. While it still might happen, they're actually thinking of making Cabin the only horror movie that's NOT in 3D! He also stated that he thinks Drew Goddard (the director) film is in your face, as he studied John Carpenter, and made it almost a little old fashioned. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** LEGION sequel: Director Scott Stewart revealed there is sequel talk. "Ya. LEGION 2 had been talked about," Stewart said at the San Diego Comic-Con adding that it's "done really well on home video." Right now all the focus is on PRIEST, arriving in theaters May 13, 2011. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** CLOCK TOWER: Here's what screenwriter Todd Farmer (MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D) recently had to say about an early draft of the project. "I did 'Clock Tower' a dozen years ago," he said. "As you guys know, the business is a weird business....there came a time when [if] you fought for your screenplay you basically just got fired and replaced. So 'Clock Tower' was during that time when everyone was scared to fight and so I didn't fight. So my draft of 'Clock Tower' sucks because I wrote exactly what I was told to write and it's horrible. There have been seven writers since then and I don't know how good it is or anything. It's based on Scissorman. Scissorman is terrifying. The studio at the time didn't want Scissorman because they were afraid that he'd look silly to which my response was, 'Well, then why did you buy this because that's what the game is.' But I lost that battle."
He went on: "I think that they were afraid that [Scissorman] would look like Edward Scissorhands and it wouldn't, because that's not what the game was. I don't know where it's at now. I'm hopeful that someone will make it because it's a scary story but I hope they go back to the game and do that version. But I haven't heard anything." There are currently no new developments on this video game adaption. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE: During the San Diego Comic-Con, a special screening was held. Jonathan Levine and the beyond delicious Amber Heard were in attendance. And while there was no specific news regarding the film's domestic release - which has been delayed for years - it appears that a distribution announcement is forthcoming. One of the producers echoed that sentiment via their Twitter account over the weekend. It was originally dating Dimension Films. A release date was set some time ago, but the Weinsteins pulled it at the last minute. Since then, the film has been sitting in limbo. Overseas, it has been released theatrically and on DVD. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- July 28, 2010 -----
** MANIAC remake: Alexandre Aja (HIGH TENSION) is considering developing a remake of William Lustig's brutal 1980 film which his partner Greg Levasseur would direct. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** LET ME IN: Here's the red band trailer for the upcoming remake.
** On September 14, MGM is reaching into the vaults for two titles making their Blu-Ray debut. Philip Kaufman's '70s remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS will street that day along with RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** UNDERWORLD: The extremely hot Kate Beckinsale is in fact set to return as Selene in the next UNDERWORLD film. IGN caught up with franchise creator Len Wiseman who updated the status of UNDERWORLD 4, and the news of Beckinsale's return. "It's all being written and talked about and hopefully all comes together. So we're seeing how things happen. But we're all keeping our fingers crossed." When I asked Wiseman if Beckinsale would indeed be back, he replied, "Yes. That's the plan. We're both waiting to see what kind of story comes together. It's just getting the script to a certain place where we're both happy with it. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE FISHMEN & THEIR QUEEN: Mya Communication will release Sergio Martino's 1995 film sequel to ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN, and the release date is November 23. (thanks to DVDSleuth.blogspot.com)
** RED STATE: Michael Parks has signed on for Kevin Smith's horror film. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET: Elisabeth Shue has joined the cast of the PSYCHO-esque thriller HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET for FilmNation and A Bigger Boat says The Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a teenage girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who moves to a new town and learns that a double murder took place in the house across the street. Things get complicated when she befriends the massacre's sole surviving son (Max Thieriot). Shue will play the girl's mother. David Loucka wrote the script from a story by Jonathan Mostow while Mark Tonderai is directing. Filming kicks off next month in Ottawa. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** SAW 3D: San Diego Comic Con details. Eleven traps dominate the seventh and what is claimed to be the final film in the series. Sean Patrick Flannery's leading character gets more torture both physical and psychological than any of the previous film leads. Despite the legal wrangling that forced him back on the project, director Kevin Greutert put on a brave front while actor Tobin Bell and the producers spent time reflecting on the series as a whole.
A SAW panel though is all about the footage and the opening sequence was shown with two guys and a woman shackled together around a buzz saw in a department store window. The challenge is that both men broke the law for the woman whom they've both been seeing and so one of the three must die when the buzzsaw switches on in 60 seconds. Just before that we quickly see Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes) just after the events of the first film, crawling and then cauterising his leg stump on a steam pipe. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
----- July 27, 2010 -----
** LET ME IN: Here's the awesome trailer for the upcoming remake of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.
** MACHETE: A crazy, bloody and violent red band trailer is here! I seriously can't wait to see this one! (thanks to IGN.com)
** SAW 3D: At the San Diego Comic-Con, actor Tobin Bell and director Kevin Greutert received the Guinness World Record for the most succesful horror franchise. They talked about the next and supposedly final film. One interesting new element in this entry is that for the first time, we get to see bystanders react to a trap, as it is placed in a glass case in the middle of a park. Greutert said: "We had 400 extras and it started to rain. It was a difficult shoot, but it was so fun. It's just so different than the rest of SAW. We wanted to go way over the top and do something very exciting." Bell adds, "No trap has ever had spectators. The slightest change in dynamic, going outside, makes you go 'Wow!' - that's on a whole new level in a certain way, it certainly changes the perspective." Greutert reveals that there are quite a few exterior scenes in the film, as opposed to the previous entries which were all primary soundstages. SAW 3D now opens October 29th, putting it up against Wes Craven's MY SOUL TO TAKE instead of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (which original opening date of October 22nd). (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** HATCHET II: At the San Diego Comic-Con where Dark Sky Films revealed plans to unroll Adam Green's sequel in theaters completely unrated. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** LET ME IN: Here's a new poster for the upcoming remake. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** COLD PREY III: Here's the poster for the upcoming prequel.
** DRIVE ANGRY 3D: The teaser trailer is now here! (thanks to YouTube.com)
** 30 DAYS OF NIGHT DARK DAYS: The trailer is now here! (thanks to YouTube.com)
** COLD PREY III: The teaser trailer is now here for the upcoming prequel! (thanks to YouTube.com)
** South Korea's Lee Cheol-ha's DESERTED HOUSE: In 42 years, 6 people have disappeared! 8 people have died! There have been 11 murders! Everyone is afraid of the deserted house with the ghosts. It is prohibited to enter if you are alive. But three deserted home society members and three filming team members enter the deserted house. They break the taboo of deserted homes and enter the world of spirits. But they disappear one day... And there is only a video they left behind. Here's the poster and trailer just below. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
----- July 26, 2010 -----
** DEXTER Season 5: Here's the teaser trailer that payed at the San Diego Comic Con.
** LET ME IN: Here's a superb new poster for the upcoming remake. (thanks to MTV.com)
** SAW 3D: Here's the teaser trailer for the upcoming sequel.
** WORLD WAR Z: MTV just landed the beefiest scoop of the week. While chatting up WORLD WAR Z author Max Brooks at the booth for comic publisher Avatar Press, the writer confirmed to MTV News that the adaption of his novel about the zombie apocalypse is not only moving forward, but Brad Pitt is now officially attached to star in the film. The book is a sober telling of the aftermath of a war fought against a legion of humans who were inflicted with a virus, died and were reanimated into flesh-eating zombies. Additionally, Brooks revealed that Paramount has optioned the movie rights to two more of his projects: THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE and THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE RECORDED ATTACKS graphic novel. (thanks to Bloody-Digusting.com)
** SAW 3D: Here's a better look at the image posted here last week and USA Today scored a look at yet another two stills from Lionsgate's upcoming sequel, one of which features potential victim Jon Cor facing down a blade in a potential public execution! The second pic displays Hoffman and some bizarre car trap(?). "It's time to stop. We have told the story we wanted to tell, and this is going to be a great farewell," Twisted Pictures producer Oren Koules said. In theaters this October from SAW VI director Kevin Greutert, as a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw’s brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror. (thanks to Bloody-Digusting.com)
** THE POSSESSION OF EMMA EVANS: Here's a new poster for the upcoming Filmax film. (thanks to Bloody-Digusting.com)
** DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK remake: Following the tradition of the Mike Mignola posters for HELLBOY, HELLBOY II and PANS LABYRINTH, here's the first look at Troy Nixey's Comic Con exclusive give away poster for the DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK remake, his live action feature debut as a filmmaker, a movie starring Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, and a whole slew of vicious little monsters. The film arrives in theaters on January 21, 2011. (thanks to CHUD.com)
** SAW 3D: Check out this cool new animated poster for the upcoming sequel.
** DRIVE ANGRY 3D: Summit Entertainment has released the first official stills from Patrick Lussier's film that feature the stunning Amber Heard. In theaters February 11, the story centers on a man (Nicolas Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com, HitFlix.com & JoBlo.com)
----- July 21, 2010 -----
** HALLOWEEN 3: Director Patrick Lussier and co-scripter Todd Farmer recently had this to say about the sequel they were supposed to do. "I think there's not many who don't know that we did HALLOWEEN 3 and we would still, Patrick and I both, would still very much love to doHALLOWEEN 3...We have written a first draft of that and so now it's in the capable hands of the Weinstein Company." The subject still seemed a little raw for Lussier, though. When I asked him about it, his answer was very short and very curt: "I know nothing about HALLOWEEN 3," he snapped. "My last involvement with the project was Christmas. My last conversation with the Weinsteins was at that time. Beyond that I know nothing. You know as much as I do." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** SAW 3D: Here's a cool teaser art for the upcoming sequel. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** David Hackl (SAW V) is attached to direct the bear thriller THE RED MACHINE. Jack Reher's script follows two estranged brothers on a camping trip who find themselves under attack by a relentless bear with no fear of humans. No producers are yet attached. Hackl remains attached to direct an adaptation of Vince Churchill's novel THE BUTCHER BRIDE also penned by Reher. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** ROAD KILL: Dean Francis’s Australian, supernatural horror will be dropping onto R1 DVD onSeptember 28th from Fangoria. Four young friends on a camping adventure are run off the road by an erratically driven road train - a massive three-trailer truck. With their own vehicle wrecked and the road train stopped, the friends march off to vent their anger at the driver. But the truck is empty. Suddenly, the silence is broken by the sound of gunshots. To escape, the friends commandeer the road train. What they discover inside the vehicle’s trailers proves more terrifying than anything out there on that lonely road. The next town is only three short hours away, but will they ever reach it? (thanks to 24framespersecond.net)
------ July 20, 2010 -----
** Criterion are going to release Nobuhiko Obayashi's HAUSU (HOUSE), and it looks like it'll be arriving just in time for Halloween on DVD and Blu-Ray! Look at this list of special features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Constructing a House, a new video piece featuring interviews with director Nobuhiko Obayashi, story scenarist and daughter of the director Chigumi Obayashi, and screenwriter Chiho Katsura
- Emotion, a 1966 experimental film by Obayashi
- New video appreciation by director Ti West
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by Chuck Stephens
(thanks to 24framespersecond.net)
** TETSUO THE BULLET MAN: IFC films have announced they've picked up the North American rights to the third and latest instalment in Shinya Tsukamoto’s cult Japanese, sci-fi, cyberpunk series, with a look to releasing it in the new year. (thanks to 24framespersecond.net)
** PAINTED SKIN sequel: Shooting has just started on the sequel to director Gordon Chen's fantasy horror story. The second instalment will be heavier on the action and adventure, rather than a love tale, and tells of when the couple's son grows up and makes a journey to the west to seek the source of eternal youth for his parents. During the trip, he conquers many difficulties which are given to him by some powerful demons. As we subtly eluded too earlier, Donnie Yen is set to return to the cast, as does Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun and Sun Li. The sequel is set for release next year. (thanks to 24framespersecond.net)
---- July 19, 2010 -----
** LET ME IN: Here's a new still from the upcoming remake of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** SAW 3D: Here's the first official still from the highly anticipated sequel. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Lionsgate Blu-ray releases: Arriving on October 5, horror fans can kick-start their Blu-ray Disc collections as Lionsgate releases fan favorites in 1080P High Definition Widescreen for the first time. OPEN WATER and OPEN WATER 2 ADRIFT hits shelves as a Blu-ray Disc double feature, along with 2001 MANIACS, directed by Tim Sullivan, HIGH TENSION and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE WOMAN IN BLACK: Daniel Radcliffe is confirmed to be starring in THE WOMAN IN BLACK for Hammer Films and Alliance Films. This adaptation of Susan Hill's gothic supernatural horror novel follows a young solicitor (Radcliffe) who takes up a short residence at Eel Marsh House, a desolate and secluded coastal mansion cut off at high tide from the nearby market town in rural England. Alone and sorting out the affairs of the elderly widow owner who recently died, the lawyer is spooked by unexplained noises and visions of a mysterious woman in black. The book has been adapted into a memorable stage play that has been done around the world for over two decades.
It also exists as a hard-to-find 1989 ITV low-budget TV movie which is in such demand that there's a minor black market in illegal copies of the short-lived DVD release. Much like 70's TV movie DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, the 'Woman' TV movie scores praise for its effective unsettling atmosphere created through premise, sound and suggestion. Jane Goldman adapted the script while James Watkins will direct. Colin Farrell and Michael Fassbender have previously been linked to the project. Plans to shoot the film in 3D have also been put on hold. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** FRIGHT NIGHT remake: Sandra Vergara has joined the cast of the remake at DreamWorks Pictures. Vergara will play the girlfriend and assistant to Peter Vincent (David Tennant). (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** BUBBA NOSFERATU: It has been 8 years since Don Coscarelli's BUBBA HOP-TEP came out. Ron Perlman was mentioned as a possible replacement for Bruce Campbell as Elvis, while Paul Giamatti became attached as Colonel Tom Parker. Giamatti remains as enthusiastic about the project as ever, telling MTV News that UBBA NOSFERATU will definitely get off the ground -- eventually.
"We've been trying to make that for two, three years, and we're going to get it done at some point," Giamatti told MTV about the status of "Nosferatu." "I'm going to f---ing break my spine in half if I have to to get that thing done." "We've been trying so hard and we've had so many near-misses," he continued. "It's almost come together like 15 freaking times and then it falls apart. At some point we're going to get that done because it's a great script. We'll get it done at some point."
The main problem is getting investors behind the project. "I think it's just the atmosphere of movies right now, smaller movies. Nobody has the balls to make a movie for under -- it's got to be a $40 million comedy or a $200 million AVATAR, and that's it," he said. "Those are the only things anybody wants to make right now. Nobody wants to do anything else. Everybody's terrified of doing anything else except that kind of thing. So that movie is deemed way too bizarre and outside the box right now. Which is stupid, because there's an audience for that movie, totally." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** PRIEST: Here's some nmew stills from the upcoming film. (thanks to SlashFilm.com)
----- July 15, 2010 -----
** GRINDHOUSE: As rumoured last week, the complete GRINDHOUSE is coming to Blu-ray on October 5th. Exact specs and supplements haven't been confirmed yet, but the suggested list price for the 2-disc Blu-ray set is only $19.97. (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** COLD PREY III: Premiering in Norway on October 15 is Mikkel Sandemose's FRIT VILT III, a prequel to the first two movies shot in Jotunheimen, Norway. The movie will focus more on the killer's childhood and youth. The second slasher is still looking for U.S. distribution. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE WALKING DEAD: AMC TV will be airing the first six episodes of their new live-action series adapted from the Robert Kirkman zombie comic that stars Jon Bernthal, Andrew Lincoln, Jeffrey DeMunn, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Steven Yeun, Michael Rooker, Chandler Riggs, Linds Edwards, Jim Coleman, and Emma Bell. THE WALKING DEAD tells the story of the weeks and months that follow a pandemic zombie apocalypse. County Sheriff Rick Grimes travels with his family and a small group of survivors, constantly in search of a safe and secure home. But the constant pressure of fighting off death on a daily basis takes a heavy toll, sending many to the lowest depths of human cruelty. As Rick struggles to keep his family alive, he will discover that the overwhelming fear of the survivors can be far more dangerous than the mindless walkers roaming the earth. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** PIRANHA 3D: Check out this rather interesting viral site.
** ALIEN ANTHOLOGY: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents one of the most successful and terrifying film franchises of all time when the ALIEN ANTHOLOGY debuts on Blu-ray for the first time ever from October 25 internationally and on October 26 in North America. All four ALIEN films have been reinvigorated for an intense Blu-ray high-definition viewing experience. The release also marks the debut of MU-TH-UR Mode, a fully interactive companion that takes the extensive materials in the ALIEN ANTHOLOGY and puts them in the user's hand -- connecting fans to special features on all six discs and instantly providing an index of all available ALIEN content, including over 60 hours of special features and over 12,000 images.
The ALIEN ANTHOLOGY is a truly unique home entertainment experience. For the first time ever, the studio has united the material from every home video release of the ALIEN saga including the 1991/1992 laserdisc releases, the 1999 "Legacy" release and 2003's groundbreaking ALIEN QUADRILOGY release into one complete Blu-ray collection. The set also includes two versions of each film and over four hours of previously unreleased exclusive material such as original screentests of Sigourney Weaver prior to filming the original ALIEN, unseen deleted scenes, thousands of still photographs from the Fox archives, the previously unseen original cut of "Wreckage and Rage: The Making of ALIEN(3)," and much, much more.
The ALIEN ANTHOLOGY will be available for a suggested retail price of $139.99 U.S. / $179.99 Canada.
Disc One: ALIEN
1979 Theatrical Version
2003 Director's Cut with Ridley Scott Introduction
Audio commentaries:
Director Ridley Scott, writer Dan O'Bannon, executive producer Ronald Shusett, editor Terry Rawlings, and actors Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt
Ridley Scott (on theatrical cut only)
Final theatrical isolated score by Jerry Goldsmith
Composer's original isolated score by Jerry Goldsmith
Deleted and extended scenes
MU-TH-UR Mode interactive experience with Weyland-Yutani Datastream
Disc Two: ALIENS
1986 Theatrical Version
1991 Special Edition with James Cameron introduction
Audio commentary by director James Cameron, producer Gale Anne Hurd, alien effects creator Stan Winston, visual effects supervisors Robert Skotak and Dennis Skotak, miniature effects supervisor Pat McClung, and actors Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn and Christopher Henn
Final theatrical isolated score by James Horner
Composer's original isolated score by James Horner
Deleted and extended scenes
MU-TH-UR Mode interactive experience with Weyland-Yutani Datastream
Disc Three: ALIEN3
1992 Theatrical Version
2003 Special Edition (Restored Workprint Version)
Audio commentary by cinematographer Alex Thomson, B.S.C., editor Terry Rawlings, alien effects designers Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., visual effects producer Richard Edlund, A.S.C., and actors Paul McGann and Lance Henriksen
Final theatrical isolated score by Elliot Goldenthal
Deleted and extended scenes
MU-TH-UR Mode interactive experience with Weyland-Yutani Datastream
Disc Four: ALIEN RESSURECTION
1997 Theatrical Version
2003 Special Edition with Jean-Pierre Jeunet introduction
Audio commentary by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, editor Herve Schneid, A.C.E., alien effects creators Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., visual effects supervisor Pitof, conceptual artist Sylvain Despretz, and actors Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon and Leland Orser
Final theatrical isolated score by John Frizzell
Deleted and extended scenes
MU-TH-UR Mode Interactive Experience with Weyland-Yutani Datastream
Disc Five: Making the Anthology
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Star Beast: Developing the Story
The Visualists: Direction and Design
Truckers in Space: Casting
Fear of the Unknown: Shepperton Studios, 1978
The Darkest Reaches: Nostromo and Alien Planet
The Eighth Passenger: Creature Design
Future Tense: Editing and Music
Outward Bound: Visual Effects
A Nightmare Fulfilled: Reaction to the Film
Enhancement Pods
Superior Firepower: Making Aliens
57 Years Later: Continuing the Story
Building Better Worlds: From Concept to Construction
Preparing for Battle: Casting and Characterization
This Time It's War: Pinewood Studios, 1985
The Risk Always Lives: Weapons and Action
Bug Hunt: Creature Design
Beauty and the Bitch: Power Loader vs. Queen Alien
Two Orphans: Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn
The Final Countdown: Music, Editing and Sound
The Power of Real Tech: Visual Effects
Aliens Unleashed: Reaction to the Film
Enhancement Pods
Wreckage and Rage: Making Alien3
Development Hell: Concluding the Story
Tales of the Wooden Planet: Vincent Ward's Vision
Stasis Interrupted: David Fincher's Vision
Xeno-Erotic: H.R. Giger's Redesign
The Color of Blood: Pinewood Studios, 1991
Adaptive Organism: Creature Design
The Downward Spiral: Creative Differences
Where the Sun Burns Cold: Fox Studios, L.A. 1992
Optical Fury: Visual Effects
Requiem for a Scream: Music, Editing and Sound
Post-Mortem: Reaction to the Film
Enhancement Pods
One Step Beyond: Making Alien Resurrection
From the Ashes: Reviving the Story
French Twist: Direction and Design
Under the Skin: Casting and Characterization
Death from Below: Fox Studios, Los Angeles, 1996
In the Zone: The Basketball Scene
Unnatural Mutation: Creature Design
Genetic Composition: Music
Virtual Aliens: Computer Generated Imagery
A Matter of Scale: Miniature Photography
Critical Juncture: Reaction to the Film
Enhancement Pods
MU-TH-UR Mode Interactive Experience to Access and Control Enhancement Pods
Disc Six: The Anthology Archives
Alien
Pre-Production
First Draft Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon
Ridleygrams: Original Thumbnails and Notes
Storyboard Archive
The Art of Alien: Conceptual Art Portfolio
Sigourney Weaver Screen Tests with Select Director Commentary
Cast Portrait Gallery
Production
The Chestbuster: Multi-Angle Sequence with Commentary
Video Graphics Gallery
Production Image Galleries
Continuity Polaroids
The Sets of Alien
H.R. Giger's Workshop Gallery
Post-Production and Aftermath
Additional Deleted Scenes
Image & Poster Galleries
Experience in Terror
Special Collector's Edition LaserDisc Archive
The Alien Legacy
American Cinematheque: Ridley Scott Q&A
Trailers & TV Spots
Aliens
Pre-Production
Original Treatment by James Cameron
Pre-Visualizations: Multi-Angle Videomatics with Commentary
Storyboard Archive
The Art of Aliens: Image Galleries
Cast Portrait Gallery
Production
Production Image Galleries
Continuity Polaroids
Weapons and Vehicles
Stan Winston's Workshop
Colonial Marine Helmet Cameras
Video Graphics Gallery
Weyland-Yutani Inquest: Nostromo Dossiers
Post-Production and Aftermath
Deleted Scene: Burke Cocooned
Deleted Scene Montage
Image Galleries
Special Collector's Edition LaserDisc Archive
Main Title Exploration
Aliens: Ride at the Speed of Fright
Trailers & TV Spots
Alien3
Pre-Production
Storyboard Archive
The Art of Arceon
The Art of Fiorina
Production
Furnace Construction: Time-Lapse Sequence
EEV Bioscan: Multi-Angle Vignette with Commentary
Production Image Galleries
A.D.I.'s Workshop
Post-Production and Aftermath
Visual Effects Gallery
Special Shoot: Promotional Photo Archive
Alien3 Advance Featurette
The Making of Alien3 Promotional Featurette
Trailers & TV Spots
Alien Resurrection
Pre-Production
First Draft Screenplay by Joss Whedon
Test Footage: A.D.I. Creature Shop with Commentary
Test Footage: Costumes, Hair and Makeup
Pre-Visualizations: Multi-Angle Rehearsals
Storyboard Archive
The Marc Caro Portfolio: Character Designs
The Art of Resurrection: Image Galleries
Production
Production Image Galleries
A.D.I.'s Workshop
Post-Production and Aftermath
Visual Effects Gallery
Special Shoot: Promotional Photo Archive
HBO First Look: The Making of Alien Resurrection
Alien Resurrection Promotional Featurette
Trailers & TV Spots
Anthology
Two Versions of Alien Evolution
The Alien Saga
Patches and Logos Gallery
Aliens 3D Attraction Scripts and Gallery
Aliens in the Basement: The Bob Burns Collection
Parodies
Dark Horse Cover Gallery
Patches and Logos Gallery
MU-TH-UR Mode Interactive Experience
(thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- July 14, 2010 -----
** SUSPIRIA remake: Marco Morabito spoke to Italian press recently and addressed the remake of Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA, a project announced with director David Gordon Green. According to the producer, Argento himself has signed off on the rights to allow the picture to happen. And even though Green has been courted with many other film offers, it looks like shooting will begin in early 2011.
But for those following the progress of the redo, they know the start date is a fickle one as, in 2009, another producer, Luca Guadagnino, said shooting would take place this year. Green has YOUR HIGNESS hitting theaters later this year. And no, Marilyn Manson, says Morabito, is not going to appear in SUSPIRIA a if it ever happens. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** DEXTER: Peter Weller (ROBOCOP has joined the cast of the upcoming fifth season of Showtime’s DEXTER. Weller will be playing a troubled Miami Metro police officer caught up in an internal affairs investigation, and will appear in eight of the twelve episodes. He joins several other new cast members this season including Julia Stiles, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jonny Lee Miller and Shawn Hatosy. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE: On October 5th, 2010, as part of their Roger Corman's Cult Classics collection, Shout! Factory will release all three SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE films on DVD. (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** M. Night Shyamalan's DEVIL: The trailer is now online.
** Paul Naschy: Luis Rosales, of SciFi World, is producting THE MAN WHO SAW FRANKENSTEIN CRY, a Naschy doc directed by Angel Agudo. They scored Mick Garris to host the piece and roped in John Landis, Caroline Munro, Jorge Grau, Naschy family members, horror experts and many more for interviews to reflect on the man and his films. The Sitges Film Festival this October is the place to see the premiere of the documentary. Nasch died at the age of 75, after a fight with cancer, last December. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** PIRANHA 3D: Here's the english version of the ultra cool french poster posted days ago. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- July 12, 2010 -----
** MACHETE: Here's more characters posters. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE: Here's a new poster for the upcoming remake. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** SAW VII: The film has been renamed SAW 3D. The $17 million project will hit cinemas on October 22nd. The tagline is "The Trap that come alive". I loved the last one so I simply can't wait to see this "last" one. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** FROZEN: Anchor Bay Entertainment will release Adam Green's thriller on DVD and Blu-Ray September 28. The standard definition DVD release includes a feature-length audio commentary with the stars and filmmakers, four insightful behind-the-scenes featurettes, the theatrical trailer and deleted scenes. The Blu-ray adds all the DVD bonus features, plus an additional format-exclusive audio commentary with writer/director Adam Green, cinematographer Will Barratt and editor Ed Marx.
Starring Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore and Emma Bell, Frozen charts the nightmare of three snowboarders when they get stranded on a ski chairlift taking them to the last run of the day. When the ski patrol switches off the night lights, the threesome realize with growing panic and dread that they've been left behind, dangling high off the ground with no way down. With the resort closed until the following weekend, and frostbite and hypothermia already setting in, the trio is forced to take desperate measures to escape off the mountain before they freeze to death. Once they make their move, they discover with horror that they have much more to fear than just the frigid cold. As they combat the unrelenting forces of nature and other unexpected obstacles, they start to question if their will to survive is strong enough to overcome the worst ways to die. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** Mya Communications: Here's some DVD covers of their upcoming releases for September 2010.
** I SAW THE DEVIL: The trailer mentioned last week and now available here embedded. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
----- July 9, 2010 -----
** MACHETE: Here's two new character poster for the upcoming film. (thanks to CHUD.com & JoBlo.com)
** Kim Ji-Woon’s I SAW THE DEVIL: The full trailer is now online for the highly anticipated South Korean horror film.
** 30 DAYS OF NIGHT DARK DAYS: Directed by Ben Ketai, the sequel is hitting DVD and a Blu-ray + DVD combo pack on October 5th. It’s been almost a year since the Alaskan town of Barrow’s population was decimated by vampires during its annual month-long sunset. Riddled with grief over the death of her husband, bound by nightmares and void of all emotions beyond hate and sorrow, Stella has spent the past months traveling the world, trying to convince others that vampires exist. Met with skepticism and laughter, Stella is ready to throw in the towel when a group of lost souls offers an incredible opportunity: the chance to exact revenge upon Lilith, the vampire queen responsible for the assault on Stella’s sleepy Alaskan town. With nothing remaining to live for, and nothing left to fear, Stella joins their mission and ventures into the uncharted underbelly of Los Angeles where she pushes herself to the most extreme limits to stop the evil from striking again.
Both the DVD and Blu-ray + DVD combo pack contain special features that include a filmmaker commentary and The Gritty Realism of Dark Days, a new featurette that provides an all access behind-the-scenes exploration of the production design, make-up effects and cinematography used to create the gory war on the vampires. The Blu-ray + DVD combo pack is also enhanced with an exclusive Blu-ray interactive featurette, Graphic Inspirations: From Comic to Film, which compares and contrasts the visuals of the graphic novel with the imagery from the film, with discussion by director Ben Ketai. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** VERBO: From the producers of THE ORPHANAGE and PAN'S LABYRINTH. Here's the trailer. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
----- July 8, 2010 -----
** SAW VII 3D: Canadian distributor Maple Pictures posted a brief interview with SAW VII 3D star Sean Patrick Flanery who talks a bit about the way 3-D is utilized in the seventh film, while also revealing there is in fact another twist. Lionsgate/Maple Pictures begin Jigsaw's latest game on October 22.
Actor Sean Patrick Flanery has revealed what fans can expect from the horror franchise's first foray into 3D. "Three-dimensional blood and gore - yeah!" the actor laughed. "I'm excited to see that, I think it'll be neat. It's not shot in 3D so that you can, per se, see blood coming directly at you." He went on: "It's in 3D for the texture and the depth, for the architecture, to get a sense that you're in the scene but there's no 'we want to see blood coming at the lens' it's nothing like that. But I think we made a good movie."
He added: "I haven't seen the final product yet but the script was really cool, it really is." In the seventh movie we see a deadly battle rage over the Jigsaw Killer's brutal legacy, while a group of survivors gather to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, played by Flanery. The actor hinted fans should expect yet another unexpected twist. "There is, I can't really reveal it, but there is," he laughed. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** LET ME IN: Composer Michael Giacchino (UP, STAR TREK remake, THE INCREDIBLES) will provide the score for the upcoming remake of acclaimed Swedish thriller LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** THE DIVIDE: Director Xavier Gens follows his $99 Million grossing HITMAN with THE DIVIDE - a high concept post-apocalyptic thriller that opens with pandemonium and a chaotic sprint towards the basement of a New York apartment building, just moments before the city outside is decimated…
When a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a converted fallout shelter designed by their paranoid superintendent Mickey. With just three connecting rooms it’s barely big enough, but with stockpiles of food and water, the group are at least safe from the horrors outside, and they settle in and attempt to fathom the catastrophe that has ended the lives of so many of their loved ones.
But suddenly men in HAZMAT suits storm their shelter and open fire. The strangers join forces in a desperate bid to take on this enemy, with no-one understanding what these HAZMATS are looking for, and what drives them to be so merciless.
With fatalities on both sides and the remaining HAZMATS temporarily pushed back and locked out, the worst is yet to come for the group. Cabin fever sets in as the perception of the shelter shifts from safe-haven to claustrophobic rat-trap. Fear of radiation-poisoning and dwindling supplies play on their minds, while the young, beautiful Eva has more immediate worries… Her fiancé Sam is weaker than the other males, who are slowly starting to regress into ruthless, violent, predators.
As tension mounts their sanctuary becomes a living hell, and with Sam powerless to protect Eva, she must rely on her wits to save herself from becoming the mercy of the pack in a thrilling final act.
With twists and turns throughout, and no way of knowing who will make it out alive, THE DIVIDE is an action packed psychological thriller that combines ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 with LORD OF THE FLIES. To survive the end of the world, you first must survive each other..." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- July 7, 2010 -----
** NIGHTMARE: Code Red's most troubled production will finally hit the streets soon. In their official blog, they explain why it's not out yet and what to expect in terms of picture quality, supplements etc. "In any event, the long wait is finally over. NIGHTMARE is coming to DVD in 2010 in its best possible presentation." The release date has yet to be determined. (thanks to DVDSleuth.blogspot.com)
** THE EVIL DEAD Blu-ray: Easily one of the most requested titles for Blu-ray from Anchor Bay Entertainment’s unparalleled library of horror films, Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult classic THE EVIL DEAD will officially make its high definition debut on August 31st with THE EVIL DEAD Blu-ray. For the release, two all-new 1080p anamorphic transfers in 1.85 and the original director-composed 1.33 aspect ratio, have been prepared and personally supervised by director/writer Raimi, presented in high-resolution Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio, as well as a brand new commentary track with Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce Campbell! In addition, many of the bonus features, released on previous DVD editions, will once again be available on a special, limited edition DVD included with the Blu-ray™. SRP is a very collectible $29.99 and pre-book is August 4th.
THE EVIL DEAD (Disc 1) contains an all-NEW audio commentary with Writer/Director Sam Raimi, Producer Robert Tapert and Star Bruce Campbell. A standard DVD (Disc 2) contains the following bonus features, many returning for the first time in years, and available only for a limited time.
Special Features:
All-NEW audio commentary with writer/director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce Campbell
One By One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead featurette
The Evil Dead: Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor featurette
The Ladies Of The Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell featurette
Book of The Dead: The Other Pages featurette
Discovering The Evil Dead featurette
Unconventional featurette
At The Drive-In featurette
(thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** SAW VII 3D: Director Kevin Greutert posted some behind-the-scenes stills from the upcoming sequel. The director had to say that, "The movie is a sledgehammer of SAWishness, with more traps, more craziness, and more die-mensions than we've ever tried before, and I can’t wait for everyone to see it.
** DEATH BELL 2: The trailer is now online for the South Korean horror sequel.
** Yann Gozlan's CAPTIFS (CAGED): Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them... Here's the trailer for the upcoming French horror film. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
----- July 6, 2010 -----
** HOSTEL PART 3: A third film in the series is in the works. Michael Weiss penned the script which is set in Las Vegas where a bachelor party goes horribly wrong. The setting and tone sounds notably different from the first two which used European locales as a big element of their production. At present the title will go direct-to-DVD and writer/director Eli Roth will only be involved as producer, Scott Spiegel is taking over the director's chair. There is "some speculation" it may go theatrical. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** GRINDHOUSE: Edgar Wright revealed via his Twitter account that he's sitting down this week to record an audio commentary for DON'T, the faux trailer sandwiched between PLANET TERROR and DEATHPROOF during the theatrical run. "Some of you will know what that means is finally happening," Wright says following his announcement. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** SCRE4M: Ehren Kruger (SCREAM 3) had been brought onboard for some rewrites of Kevin Williamson's script and claims that Williamson himself is 'out of the picture' which calls into question the fate of further sequels. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Rogue Pictures has moved up the release date of the M. Night Shyamalan-produced THE NIGHT CHRONICLES DEVIL from February 11th next year to September 17th this year. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Joe Lynch's THE KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM: Shooting is expected to begin soon on the dark metal horror pic. Here's the official synopsis. After being dumped by his sexy girlfriend Beth, Joe reluctantly decides to join Eric and his LARPing friends in the woods rather than stay behind and feel sorry for his newly single status. There he meets hot, ass-kicking, intimidating LARPer Gwen, and finds himself plunged into a surreal adventure wilder than he ever imagined when a make-believe wizard casts an all-too-real spell from an ancient book. That spell releases an actual demon with a taste for human blood -- and souls -- that starts systematically decimating the players in this suddenly deadly "game." Will our guys become the heroes they have been pretending to be before time runs out? (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Synapse Films is releasing a DVD of Barbara Bell and Anna Lorentzon's highly controversial documentary GRAPHIC SEXUAL HORROR on August 23, 2010. The subject of the film is Brent PD Scott, creator of a U.S. based bondage and S&M site called INSEX.COM. By the time the site was shut down by the Department of Homeland Security, it had accumulated 35,000 members who paid $60 a month for access. After premiering at Slamdance in 2009, the film played a number of festivals including Hot Docs, Fantasia, and CineKink. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
----- July 5, 2010 -----
** LET ME IN official synopsis: Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from KICK ASS) stars as Abby, a secretive 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee from THE ROAD). Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbour. Owen can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl is really a savage vampire. Here's the new poster for the upcoming remake. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** PIRANHA 3D: Here's a superb french poster for the upcoming remake. (thanks to IMPAwards.com)
** SCRE4M: Voice actor Roger L. Jackson will return as "Ghostface" for the sequel, marking his 4th consecutive appearance in the horror franchise. Adam Brody, Marley Shelton and Erik Knudsen have joined the cast. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com & DarkHorizons.com)
** THE THING prequel is coming to theaters April 29th, 2011. Here's the official synopsis. Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller THE THING, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** IT remake: The Stephen King fansite Lilja's Library had a very interesting conversation with screenwriter Dave Kajganich about his approach to the project which, as of now, is steadily moving forward. "In all of my talks with the studio, it has only ever been discussed as a single feature film," says Kajganich. "The book's length is clearly more suited to a mini-series and I understand very well why they went that route the last time around, but I think the book's content is really more appropriate for cinema. I told the studio from the beginning that I felt I needed to be able to write for an R rating, since I wanted to be as candid as the novel about the terrible things the characters go through as kids. They agreed and off I went."
Kajganich also spoke on the seemingly impossible (and unenviable) task of consolidating the novel without losing sight of the story: "I think the biggest difference is that we're working with about two-thirds the onscreen time they had for the miniseries, Kajganich continues. "That sounds dire, I know, but it doesn't necessarily mean two-thirds the amount of story. I'm finding as many ways as I can to make certain scenes redundant by deepening and doubling others. To me, this is an interesting process because it has the effect of thematically intensifying the whole, but it can lead to dramatic surprises. Certain scenes I thought would be crucial to the coherence of the whole ended up cut, while other scenes, which were somewhat cursory in the book, ended up being pivotal in the script." (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** Hideo Nakata's THE INCITE MILL: The trailer is now online for the new film from the director of RING. (thanks to NipponCinema.com)
----- July 1st, 2010 -----
** LET ME IN: Here's the trailer for the remake of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, possibly the greatest vampire film of all time. After directing the amazing CLOVERFIELD, Matt Reeves is back.
** PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2: Here's the teaser trailer for the sequel to the highly successful first film last year.
** SAW VII 3D is getting an R rating "for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and language." (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** SCRE4M: The cast is dropping like flies before their characters (possibly) get killed in the upcoming sequel. Actress Lauren Graham's is out of the Wes Craven sequel. Graham isn't the first to walk away. Lake Bell departed the project last week. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** IFC will release TORMENTED on August 31, COFFIN ROCK and DOGHOUSE on October 12 and MUTANTS on October 26. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** Vivendi Home Entertainment is shouldering the duties of ushering the Dimension Films library out onto Blu-Ray. Exciting, depending on what films you are looking forward to. PULSE is set to street on September 7. This will be followed by FEAST on September 14, PREY hits September 28 and the 2006 remake of BLACK CHRISTMAS arrives on October 19. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: A sneak peek of the script to the sequel of the recent remake is now online.
** The 2010 Fantasia Film Festival: The full schedule is now online!
----- June 30, 2010 -----
** THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE: The twisted flick will be coming out to DVD on October 5th from IFC. This is a must buy for all horror fans.
** Neil Marshall's BURST: The Sam Raimi produced 3D film will be next for the director of THE DESCENT. So far all that is known from the story is that humans will be fighthing aliens, good enough for me! (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
** 5NAL DESTINATION: It looks like this going to be the title for the upcoming sequel in which the opening disaster will be a suspension bridge collapses. The film slated for release in 3-D on August 26, 2011. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE remake: Anchor Bay has a set a release date for the redo to roll into a limited theatrical release on October 8. Directed by Steven Monroe, this time it's Sarah Butler who dishes revenge after being repeatedly attacked in her remote cabin. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** SCREAM 4: Funworld's (owner, licensor, and manufacturer of Ghostface) R.J. Torbert posted a few "tweets" that reveal something quite interesting about Wes Craven's fourth film: "I expect there to be 2 diff masks, however I will say this, things changing very often – difficult to say without giving it away," he explains adding, "Sent out additional GHOSTFACE to the SET today, a very interesting opening scene." But here's the biggie: "Lets just say, the town of Woodsboro, has an obsession. There is your hint." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** The 2010 Fantasia Film Festival: The official web site is now online! Lots of must see films will be shows such as BLACK DEATH, THE DEVILS, THE LAST EXORCISM, POSSESSED, A SERBIAN FILM, THE PACK, MESRINE L'INSTINCT DE MORT, MESRINE L'ENNEMI PUBLIC NO.1, WE ARE WHAT WE EAT, CENTURION, REC 2, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE and more!
----- June 29, 2010 -----
** Code Red DVDs in September: Up for pre-order are NIGHT CHILD (Il medaglione insanguinato, Massimo Dallamano 1975) and EXTERMINATORS OF THE YEAR 3000 (Gli sterminatori dell'anno 3000, Giuliano Carnimeo 1983). The release dates are September 7 and September 21. (thanks to DVDSleuth.blogspot.com)
** DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK remake: Gearing up for the San Diego Comic Con, Miramax has announced a January 21, 2011 release for the Guillermo del Toro produced remake starring Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, and Bailee Madison. Del Toro and Matthew Robbins penned the adaptation of a 1973 ABC telepic. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** M. Night Shyamalan has set the second feature to be made through his genre producing banner The Night Chronicles. Shyamalan and Media Rights Capital have set Chris Sparling to write TWELVES STRANGERS, a thriller that involves a jury deliberating a case involving the supernatural. Sparling scripted BURIED, the Rodrigo Cortes-directed Ryan Reynolds-in-a-coffin thriller snapped up by Lionsgate after a raucous midnight premiere screening at Sundance. The first Night Chronicles, DEVIL, arrives in theaters next February from Universal Pictures. It was directed by the Dowdle brothers (QUARANTINE) and is still shrouded in mystery. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- June 28, 2010 -----
** DEXTER Season 5: According to Variety, Jonny Lee Miller (HACKERS) -- who nearly scored the leading role in AMC's THE WALKING DEAD - is joining Showtime's forthcoming fifth season of DEXTER and will have a multiepside arc. He'll portray a mysterious man who ends up tangled in a storyline with Julia Stiles, who is beginning her first season on the skein. April Lee Hernandez joins fellow season 5 newbies Julia Stiles (as Dex's new pal), Maria Doyle Kennedy (as an Irish nanny), and Shawn Hatosy (as the latest villain), alongside star Michael C. Hall as a like-able Miami police forensics expert who moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Backstage at the Saturn Awards Thursday night, Guillermo del Toro did updating us on future projects including his hoped-for adaptation of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN. "I'm presenting the storyline to Universal...but I think that I wanna be if possible shooting in May next year," said del Toro. "So I need something that's ready to go into pre-production immediately."
In fact, the project is so achingly close they're even already doing makeup tests with Doug Jones, set to play the Monster in the remake: "We're doing tests we did all the sculpting already. He's completely done, the body, the face, all the parts, including the nuts, which are something to behold. [Laughter] But we are doing a test with Doug very soon."
Of course, there's that whole thing about needing a screenplay to actually make a movie (well, usually), and on that front (sounds like he's really going for a faithful adaptation of the novel) del Toro still doesn't feel it's quite there: "The screenplay's not ready. That's the problem it's not an easy screenplay to crack. There's been so many versions, and I really would love to bring something new, and I believe what we're doing is something new, without changing the novel. That's the curious thing. I think by endearing ourselves to what the novel proposes is just the approach that is new. But if I say what it is, I spoil it completely."
He also explained why H.P. Lovecraft adaptation AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS hasn't come to fruition, and why it may never (thanks a lot, Hollywood): "I'm like a broken record, I'd love to be doing Mountains of Madness. But still, even now, it's very difficult for the studios to take the step of doing an R-rated, tentpole movie with a tough ending, no love story, set in period from a writer [who has] a readership as big as any best-seller, but it's [tough] to quantify because his works are in the public domain. But...they have been reprinted for so many decades and they have captured the imagination of so many filmmakers is how powerful this guys is. But since it doesn't look like I can do Mountains of Madness, I have now [narrowed down] the projects that I am interested in to three."
So when will we know which it is? "The announcement may come at Comic-con or a little after Comic-con. But right around that time, I'm not sure still." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** JACOB'S LADDER: Adrian Lyne's highly-effective 1990 film is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a Blu-Ray debut on September 14, courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The disc will include a 1080p Hi-Def transfer, an audio commentary with Lyne, deleted scenes, a "Building Jacob's Ladder" featurette and a theatrical trailer. Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena and Danny Aiello star in this head trip about a Vietnam vet suffering from visions of "demons" trailing his every move. Terrific stuff definitely worth revisiting. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** At the Saturn Award, Sam Raimi "answered" questions about the long rumoured THE EVIL DEAD 4 sequel and the possible remake. So, Sam, can we expect an EVIL DEAD 4 sometime in the near future? "I’d love to make one, but I just don’t know what the future holds regarding that," he said grimly.
How about that EVIL DEAD remake news that been bandied around for the last few years? "I mean, that movie was made 31 years ago. And it was shot in 16 millimeter. It was never really seen on the big screen, only 60 prints were made, they were bicycled around to different theaters, very few people saw it. It was X-rated, very few people saw it. Many movie theaters...wouldn’t show it, newspapers wouldn’t run the advertisements because it was X-rated so people haven’t really ever seen that movie on the big screen, I think that actually is a good reason to remake it." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** JONAH HEX dropped to the tenth spot the box office with only $1.6 million for a total of only $9.1 million so far.
----- June 24, 2010 -----
** NIGHT OF THE DEMONS remake: E1 Entertainment has announced an October 19, 2010 release for Adam Gierasch's remake on both DVD and Blu-ray. Starring the delicious and favorite of mine Diora Baird, Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Bobbi Sue Luther, Jonathan Beach, Michael Copon, Tiffany Shepis, and Edward Furlong, the film follows Angela Feld throwing the Halloween party to end all Halloween parties at the infamous Broussard Mansion in New Orleans, where dark events transpired almost a century ago. But when the packed party gets busted by the police, Angela and her friends Maddie, Lily, Suzanne, Colin, Dex and Jason are the only ones left behind. Soon Colin and Angela make a grisly discovery in the basement and inexplicable events start to take place. With the mansion gates mysteriously locked, the seven find themselves trapped for the night...and soon they're fighting ancient demons for their very souls. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** QUARANTINE 2: Mercedes Masohn and Josh Cooke are starring in Sony Screen Gems' direct-to-disc sequel now filming in the Los Angeles area. Being directed by John Pogue (GHOST SHIP) from his own script, the sequel to the 2008 film is said to take the infection to an airport. The Dowdle brothers' feature was a remake of the Spanish REC franchise, which will see its sequel in theaters July 9. Two more sequel are being developed in Spain. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** PIRANHA 3D: Here's some new stills from the upcoming "remake".
----- June 23, 2010 -----
** PIRANHA 3D: Finally here's a cool poster for the upcoming remake.
** THE HOWLING REBORN: Moonstone has released the official plot synopsis for Joe Nimziki's film, their reboot of the werewolf franchise that featured some groundbreaking FX work. "On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past... that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will's growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them... and then, us all." Shooting begins in Montreal, Canada this year. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE LAST EXORCISM: The MPAA announced that it's given this new chiller a PG-13 "for disturbing violent content and terror, some sexual references and thematic material for the forthcoming Lionsgate film previously known as COTTON. (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** Magnet Releasing is giving George A. Romero's SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD a DVD and Blu-Ray release on August 24. Here's what to look for in the 2-disc set and on Blu-Ray "Ultimate Undead Edition":
• Dual-option menus: Human vs. zombie
• Introduction by Romero (with the option to play it before the film)
• Audio commentary by Romero, actor Kenneth Welsh, executive producer Peter Grunwald, film editor/executive producer Michael Doherty and stunt coordinator/2nd-unit director/actor Matt Birman
• Audio commentary by Romero and Dread Central's Steve Barton
• “Time With George” featurette
• HDNet: A Look at SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD
• “Walking After Midnight” full-length documentary
• “Sarge” short film
• Fangoria.com interviews with Romero
• “A Minute of Your Time” shorts:
-A Message to Sitges
-Midnight Madness
-Zombie Walks
-Welsh Wisdom
-A Bloody Mess
-Horsing Around
-Getting to Location
-Undead Interview
-A Just Reward
-Bang Your Head
-A Man in Uniform
-Fanboy at Heart
-A Little Swim
• Storyboard Comparisons
• “How to Create Your Own Zombie Bite” by Backyard FX
(thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
----- June 22, 2010 -----
** FRIGHT NIGHT 3D: DreamWorks has announced that they plan on releasing Craig Gillespie's remake in theaters on October 7, 2011. Penned by Marti Noxon, the redo will star Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, David Tennant, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** TRUE BLOOD: HBO has renewed the hit show for a 12-episode fourth season, it was announcedby Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Created by Alan Ball, the series will begin production of new episodes early next year in Los Angeles, with debut set for summer 2011. Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, "True Blood" follows the romance between waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who can hear people’s thoughts, and her boyfriend, 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), who went missing at the end of season two, and is now the object of a frantic search. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Festival season is gearing up in earnest for the genre film world and the Sitges Festival - the largest and most important genre event in Europe - have just dropped their opening titles. Leading off opening night on October 7th will be the Guillermo Del Toro produced chiller JULIA'S EYES by director Guillem Morales. On the international front, the Official Fantastic Selection will kick off with LET ME IN, the American remake of Swedish vampire hit LET THE RIGHT ONE IN by CLOVERFIELD director Matt Reeves. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
** JONAH HEX opened at the 8th spot at the box office with only $5.1 million.
----- June 21, 2010 -----
** MONSTER SQUAD remake: Paramount Pictures is still moving forward on the remake tapping screenwriting cousins Mark and Brian Gunn. Rob Cohen, who produced the original film, will still produce and direct the new version. The 1987 original, which Fred Dekker directed from a script he co-wrote with Shane Black, concerns a group of kids who discover a plot by Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Gill Man and The Mummy to try and take over the world. The studio is looking to the family-oriented property as a potential franchise. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** DEATH BELL 2: Here's two posters for the upcoming South Korean sequel. (thanks to 24framespersecond.net)
** SCREAM 4: Entertainment Weekly appears to have a stranglehold on the Scream IV casting as they've not only confirmed the near addition of Lauren Graham, but they also report that Anthony Anderson and and Marielle Jaffe. Dimension will release it in theaters on April 15, 2011. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** GODZILLA 3D producer Brian Rogers made the following statement: "CLASH OF THE TITANS is important here...because it made the industry realize that you cannot do substandard 3D and charge full pricing." He also noted how well Clash did at the box office, but it's nice to know that some people are more focused on providing a quality product. A+! Being produced by Legendary Pictures, the big green monster is still quite a ways a way from arriving in theaters as a writer hasn't even been hired. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** FRIGHT NIGHT 3D: Imogen Pootsis in final talks to star as "Amy", a popular high school senior who "needs to get nasty" by the finale, in DreamWorks' remake. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Summer Glau is the first fem to join the cast of Joe Lynch's THE KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM. She joins Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, and Danny Pudi. Penned by Kevin Dreyfuss and Matt Wall, the black comedy follows a group of costumed LARPers (Live Action Role Players) who accidentally release a real-life Heavy Metal demon. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Major Spanish producers Rodar Y Rodar (THE ORPHANAGE) are set to make a new $7m thriller/horror called EL HOMBRE HUECO (Hollow Man) with Guillem Morales and Oriol Paolo, the writing/directing duo of JULIA'S EYES. Paolo will take on directing duties and co-write the script with Morales, which will be a Spanish-language film set in a remote town where a young professor tries to solve a load of unexplained murders leading to mysterious happenings involving ghosts. "Shooting is due to take place in either 2011 or 2012 in Spain," Joaquin Padro told the ScreenDaily web site. "We are looking for financing with the intention of having a quality international cast for the project." (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** RESIDENT EVIL AFTERLIFE: A second trailer is now online for the upcoming sequel.
----- June 17, 2010 -----
** MANIAC on Blu-ray: Arriving on high def Blu-ray October 26 from Blue Underground is William Lustig's awesome slasher, which features a slew of brand new interviews to go along with features from the previous releases. Frank Zito (a career performance by co-writer/ co-executive producer Joe Spinell of ROCKY and THE GODFATHER fame) is a deeply disturbed man, haunted by the traumas of unspeakable childhood abuse. And when these horrific memories begin to scream inside his mind, Frank prowls the seedy streets of New York City to stalk and slaughter innocent young women. Now Frank has begun a relationship with a beautiful photographer (Caroline Munro), yet his vile compulsions remain. These are the atrocities of a human monster. This is the story of a Maniac. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE CABIN IN THE WOODS: In a new article over at the Hollywood Reporter chatting about MGM's recent hunt for a new CEO, they reveal that the studio could be pushing THE CABIN IN THE WOODS out of the January 14, 2011 date. Originally slated for release last year, the Drew Goddard directed creature feature was delayed to post-covert it to 3D. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE THING prequel: Universal Pictures has announced an April 29, 2011 release for the Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. directed "prequel" to John Carpenter's classic from 1982. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Dennis Storhøi, the action takes place in a remote Antarctica outpost, an alien spaceship is discovered far beneath the ice. When a group of ambitious scientists decide to thaw out one of the creatures inside, they're in for the terrifying fight of their lives. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** PRIEST: Scott Stewart's film has been pushed back again from Sony. It is now set to be release May 13, 2011. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** DEXTER Season 5: April Lee Hernandez has landed what Entertainment Weekly calls the last new recurring role of DEXTER's upcoming fifth season. The actress - best known for her supporting work as Nurse Inez on ER - will play a new cop (presumably) working in Miami Metro’s homicide department. Hernandez joins fellow season 5 newbies Julia Stiles (as Dex's new pal), Maria Doyle Kennedy (as an Irish nanny), and Shawn Hatosy (as the latest villain), alongside star Michael C. Hall as a like-able Miami police forensics expert who moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Universal Home Entertainment has revealed the cover art for their October 19 Blu-Ray release of PSYCHO. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** DEATH BELL 2: Here's the trailer for the South Korean sequel.
** PREDATORS: Here's some new stills from the upcoming film.
----- June 16, 2010 -----
GOREZONE is 12 years old!!
I've always loved films that were scary, gory, atmospheric and just plain vile. Back in June 1998, I decided to start GOREZONE because of the lack of coverage for the horror genre on the Internet. There was tons of sites dedicated to STAR WARS and STAR TREK, yet apart from a few good horror sites such as HorrorMovies.com and HouseofHorrors.com, the net was leaving me wanting for more. The very first news update of GOREZONE featured the poster of H20 which was infact a GOREZONE exclusive, the poster didn't appeared anywhere else online before, some rumours about FREDDY VS JASON and Fantasia Film Festival 1998. The logo on top now is actually the very first logo I created for the site!
The history of GOREZONE is a long and wild one. The site first started on the now defunt Xoom.com free hosting, then switched to Geocities.com, then back to Xoom to finaly find a little spot over at Horror.net. That's when things really started for the site. At the same time because of the lack of time I decided to close the French section of the site. I started to get more involved in the horror community, meeting actors, directors and people working behind-the-scenes. I did the Unnoficial Fantasia film festival because of the lack of news and update on the official one. Tim Roach of the great Fistful of Dario web site and I started the first ever web site dedicated to horror movies on DVD, the DVD CRYPT. And how could anyone forget those wild days over at the Inside The Web board! Then all of the sudden, Horror.net disapeared...
I then decided it was finaly time for GOREZONE to be on its own, hence the birth of Gorezone.net. At the time my personal life was going down the toilet, things were a mess, I was broke, basically I was fucked. Then emails started to pop from readers and lovers of the site who wanted to help me, and help me they did! Thanks to YOU, I was able to register the name's domain and pay for the hosting. I will never forget this.
So here we are now, twelve years later... its crazy!
GOREZONE is still alive and kicking. And unlike most sites out there we never sold out.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to read, talk or promote the site.
I appreciate it and consider you all familly.
----- June 15, 2010 -----
** MARTYRS remake: Producer Wyck Godfrey is pursuing TWILIGHT star Kristen Stewart to star in a remake of 2009 French-Canadian horror masterpiece and my favorite film of last year. Wyck Godfrey dropped a few nuggets of laugh-out-loud information. "I think it's not remake-able in its form for an American audience." "We're doing it for an American audience with an American cast," dropping this brilliant casting idea out there, "I would love for Kristen to do it." When he says "Kristen" he's referring to that lovable and charming Kristen Stewart. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com & Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** ALIEN prequel: Talking at the L.A. Times Hero Complex Film Festival, director Ridley Scott revealed that the script for the prequel has been completed and pre-production is currently underway according to FearNet. As previously reported, the focus will be on the origin of the 'Space Jockey', the unknown alien pilot of the crashed ship carrying the more familiar xenomorph alien eggs in the original 1979 film. Surprising news though is that this prequel may not be the only one with Scott commenting that a second prequel is planned as events will take place well before the events of "Alien".
Scott says "If you explain who he [Spacey Jockey] was and where he came from, then that will deal with the savagery of this version, which will be pretty savage. Then you may want to find out where they came from, the place where his people come from." Scott has done a lot of underwater research for the upcoming movies which will cover different ground - "The first Alien was honestly The Old Dark House -- seven people in the old dark house with a visitor. This will go further into the world of terraforming. We're thinking about doing it. In fact, if Kennedy had been allowed to continue his space program, we'd probably be on Mars now with a population of nine-thousand people. That's how far we should have gone." (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Director Breck Eisner (THE CRAZIES remake) will apparently helm a film adaptation of the graphic novel BLOOD OF INNOCENT reports Fearnet. The period piece pits Dracula against Jack the Ripper, taking an imaginative spin on fictional events in Bram Stoker's vampire novel and the real life Ripper murders which are actually quite close dates wise.
Co-creator Mark Wheatley told the site that some studios want Jack, in the comics speculated to be an insane Prince Albert Victor, to become a vampire - something they will not do. There will however be a romantic subplot between Dracula and a woman. Eisner is expected to work on the project once he wraps his commitment to the ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK remake. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Casting is officially underway for Dusan Strugar's NIGHT WINGS, a new supernatural thriller aimed at "tweens" and being shot in 3-D. Paul A. Birkett, who penned the made-for-TV movie HELLHOUNDS and Anchor Bay's forthcoming ALTITUDE, wrote the screenplay that begins on a redeye flight over the Atlantic, a twelve-year-old boy tries to convince the crew that a vampire is among them, but no one believes him. Shooting begins this October in New Orleans. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- June 14, 2010 -----
** THE WALKING DEAD: Here's the first look at the zombies from the highly anticipated upcoming TV series. (thanks to TwitchFilm.net)
** Guillermo Del Toro's VAN HELSING: With the bittersweet decision to leave the THE HOBBIT behind him, Guillermo Del Toro is now surveying the landscape of potential projects. Del Toro apparently has a treatment for an action-horror film surrounding the vampire killer. But it has no connection to Stephen Sommers' film starring Hugh Jackman. Del Toro offered a statement to the Latino Review web site about the project. He says, "On the record. There is no deal set." (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** DEATH BELL sequel is currently in production with director Sun-dong Yoon this time causing more trouble in the school halls. Here's the synopsis: Find the answer to survive! The killing game begins again. Se-hee is haunted by her step sister Tae-yeon who used to be a promising swimmer but suddenly killed herself in a swimming pool two years ago. During the summer vacation, she joins the study camp at school for upcoming college entrance exam. On the first night, the succession of cruel killings occurs whenever the students fail to answer the given questions in time. Meanwhile, the hidden truth behind Tae-yeon's suicide is slowly revealed and terrified students struggle to undo the puzzle before they become the next victim. The first film was acquired for an American release last October by IFC Films. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** THE HOUSE THAT WEPT BLOOD: Genre favorite David Hess is set to star in the new indie feature for director Stanley Scott Bullock, along side Meggie Maddock, Jimmy Drain, and Amanda Sides. Here's the synopsis: "Deborah Laymon prayed that life would normalize once her husband, Chris, returned home from a tour of duty in combat. To her horror, she discovers that some things aren't as they seem and others will never be the same again." (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** SCREAM 4: THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE star Nico Tortorella announced via her been locked in for a role in the sequel that reteams Wes Craven with screenwriter Kevin Williamson to kick off a brand new trilogy. On April 15, 2011, the returning cast will join a group of young teens who can hopefully stay alive long enough to figure out the new rules to this one-of-a-kind horror franchise. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE TWILIGHT SAGA BREAKING DAWN: Though we've all known about it for a while, Summit Entertainment finally confirmed that THE TWILIGHT SAGA BREAKING DAWN will be released as two separate films. In fact they even announced the release date for 'Part One' as November 18th 2011. No doubt Part Two will hit late June 2012 if the film series holds to the current patterns. Bill Condon will direct both films and all the key cast will return including all the members of the Cullen family. Shooting on the project kicks off in the Fall. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** DEXTER Season 5: Actress Maria Doyle Kennedy (THE TUDORS) will have a recurring role in the Showtime series. She'll play a nanny hired by Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) to watch his kids since, well, you know. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** RESIDENT EVIL AFTERLIFE: Here's another new poster for the upcoming sequel.
** PIRANHA 3D: Here's an extremely boring North American poster for the upcoming remake to be out August 20th. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- June 11, 2010 -----
** THE WALKING DEAD: HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER star Michael Rooker's career is still booming. After starring in James Gunn's horror comedy SLiTHER a few years back, he has since landed the leading role in Dark Sky Films' HYPOTHERMIA and now AMC TV's highly anticipated adaptation of Robert Kirkman's comic book series THE WALKING DEAD. Rooker writes on his Twitter, "on my way to Atlanta soon to work with my new best friend Frank Darabont on 'THE WALKING DEAD. Consider that confirmed. He joins the previously announced Jon Bernthal, Andrew Lincoln, Jeffrey DeMunn, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, and Steven Yeun in the project set among a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who are led by a police officer, Rick Grimes, in search of a safe place to live. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** DEXTER Season 5: Shawn Hatosy (THE FACULTY) is making a pit stop in Miami as sources confirm to Entertainment Weekly exclusively that Hatosy has booked a multi-episode arc on the forthcoming fifth season of Showtime's DEXTER. They add that he will be playing "a bad guy". He joins the latest addition of Julia Stiles, with Julie Benz making some sort of return alongside Michael C. Hall as a like-able Miami police forensics expert who moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** PIRANHA 3D has been moved forward to a August 20th release.
** SPLATTER SISTERS: MTV caught up with Adam Bhala Lough, the man who will be directing both Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood in his 80's homage, a sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movie circa 1989 dubbed "Skinemax Cinema." We now have a plot crunch: "It's about two 18 year old beautiful drifter girls who go on a murderous rampage across California, killing scores of teenage boys," he tells MTV. "And they're under mind control by the leader of this death metal band, this underground death metal band." Manson will be starting his own metal band to score the film. He'll be playing "Lars", the rock leader who is also a samurai, while Wood takes on the role of one of the titular Splatter Sisters. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- June 10, 2010 -----
** FRIGHT NIGHT remake: Former DOCTOR WHO star David Tennant and rising young these Christopher Mintz-Plasse (KICK ASS) have joined the cast of the remake for Dreamworks Pictures. Filming kicks off in July. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** PIRANHA 3D: Here's the South Korean poster for the upcoming remake which hits the screen August 27th. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** Neil Marshall's CENTURION: The new action-thriller acquired by Magnet for release this summer. Below is the official U.S. poster. The film is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general. The son of the Pict leader is murdered during the raid, and the Romans find themselves hunted by a seemingly unstoppable group of the Pict's most vicious and skilled warriors, led by a beautiful and deadly tracker, who are hell bent on revenge. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE WALKING DEAD: After all of the anticipation and all of the buzz, director Frank Darabont is officially on set filming the first of six episodes of THE WALKING DEAD, the AMC TV adaptation of the incredible Robert Kirkman zombie comic series from Image. After a decade of unique and different zombie films - one of the first questions we all want to know is: will these zombies walk or run? Darabont is looking to George A. Romero's groundbreaking 1968 film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for inspiration. Read about it below.
In an interview with AMC, director Frank Darabont explains how he'll be deciding if the zombies in THE WALKING DEAD will walk, run, or even jog. "I've always wanted to do my take on the zombie mythos, since I was a kid and I saw Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD - the 1968 black and white version," he tells AMC. "For our zombie show I'm calling that the Book of Genesis, and whenever there's a question about zombie behavior I go back to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD."
He continues, "Here's my favorite thing: the endless debate among the fans about how fast a zombie can move. There are the folks who just can't stand seeing zombies running. I'm kind of in that camp, but if you look at the very first zombie in Night - the one in the cemetery chasing Barbara, he gets up to a pretty good jog. I'm keying our zombie behavior off of that film: Whether they're in a very languid state or they're on the attack, they'll move no faster than that first zombie in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD."
THE WALKING DEAD is set among a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who are led by a police officer, Rick Grimes, in search of a safe place to live. Jon Bernthal, Andrew Lincoln, Jeffrey DeMunn, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, and Steven Yeun all star. AMC will premiere it this October. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- June 9, 2010 -----
** FINAL DESTINATION 5: Steven Quale, the second unit director for AVATAR, has been tapped to helm the latest installment in New Line's horror franchise. An interesting choice on the cusp of rumors that David R. Ellis didn't know how to shoot 3-D with THE FINAL DESTINATION. Eric Heisserer wrote the script, and Craig Perry is producing the pic, which has a September 13 start date in Vancouver. Quale is a James Cameron protege, having started as a PA on the director's 1989 sci-fi movie THE ABYSS. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** Max Minghella (AGORA) is headed for THE DARKEST HOUR, toplining the New Regency-Summit supernatural project opposite Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, and Joel Kinnaman. The film is set to shoot this summer in Moscow. Chris Gorak, who directed the chilling RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR, is directing the $40 million pic, which revolves around a group of kids struggling to survive in Russia after an alien invasion. Les Bohem and Jon Spaihts penned the screenplay. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** DEXTER Season 5: As rumoured last week, Julia Stiles has officially joined the cast of the Showtime series. Stiles will appear in ten episodes in the upcoming fifth season as a mysterious young woman who forms a unique relationship with Dexter (Michael C. Hall) in the wake of his wife's death last year. Filming kicks off this month with the new season premiering in the Fall. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
----- June 8, 2010 -----
** DEXTER Season 5: Guess who's coming back?! Julie Benz. You read that right. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the actress will be reprising her role as Dexter's wife Rita in Showtime's forthcoming season. How can this be? Give her - SPOILERS! SPOILERS! - demise at the hands of the Trinity killer (John Lithgow) last season, she can't possibly be back, can she? (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** FRIGHT NIGHT remake: In Variety's article about women in Hollywood, they reveal some new info on DreamWorks' redo that is in pre-production for a July shoot. Marti Noxon, a former BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER showrunner, has returned to the supernatural. Her modern-day remake is set in Las Vegas, with a more badass vampire than the current vogue. "He's a much more 'Jaws'-like vampire in the Amblin tradition," Noxon says. Colin Farrell will play the vampire Jerry. Chris Sarandon played the role in the 1985 horror comedy about a teenager who discovers that his neighbors are vampires. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** BAD LUCK: In an interview over at Moviehole.net director David R. Ellis reveals that RESIDENT EVIL star Milla Jovovich will be starring in his $30 million dollar horror BAD LUCK, a pic that tells of a group of friends find their lives changed when the superstitions they don't believe in begin to come true. The screenplay was penned by David Schow (THE CROW). No word on a start date. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** SUICIDEGIRLS MUST DIE!: First Look Studios proudly announces the June 29 DVD release of SUICIDEGIRLS MUST DIE!, the first reality horror movie. When twelve nude models from the infamous SuicideGirls.com begin disappearing from a remote cabin, the calendar video they are shooting becomes a fun SuicideGirls' getaway gone dangerously wrong. SUICIDEGIRLS MUST DIE! is a blend of black humor and unnerving horror - with no actors and no script - it's all true. Except for the killings of course, but the girls don't know that! It is a scantily clad hellride that will leave you in stitches. Special Features include: Trailer, Rigel Confession (Unrated Version Only), Photo Gallery, English SDH & Spanish Subtitles and Previews. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** THE HUNT: Here's the trailer for the upcoming french horror film. (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
----- June 7, 2010 -----
** John Carpenter's FANGLAND: Based on a Mark Wheaton script, adapted from the novel by John Marks. It's centered on a New York-based producer who travels to Romania for an interview with a notorious European arms dealer, who turns out to be a modern-day Dracula. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** BURIED: Here's a very cool new poster for the upcoming film. (thanks to MTV.com)
** HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET: Jennifer Lawrence and Max Thieriot are starring in the upcoming horror thriller from FilmNation and A Bigger Boat being directed by Mark Tonderai. The film centers on a teen girl (Lawrence) who moves with her mom to a new town and learns that their home is across the street from a house where a double murder took place. Complications ensue when the teen befriends the massacre's sole surviving son (Thieriot). Jonathan Mostow wrote the story on which the script, written by David Loucka, is based. Producers are looking at a mid-July start in Ottawa.
** BIG TITS ZOMBIE 3D: Terracotta Distribution in the UK has picked up the Sola Aoi starring BIG TITS ZOMBIE 3D and has plans for limited theatrical exhibition. (thanks to 24Framespersecond.net)
** DJINNS: Directed by Hugues and Sandra Martin, the horror film follows a platoon of French soldiers on a rescue mission in North Africa confront invisible evil creatures. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** 2001 MANIACS FIELD OF SCREAMS: Here's the trailer for the upcoming sequel.
** THE REEF: Here's the trailer for the upcoming Australian killer shark flick.
----- June 3rd, 2010 -----
** Julian Gilbey's newly titled directorial debut A LONELY PLACE TO DIE. In the thriller starring Melissa George (30 DAYS OF NIGHT) and Ed Speleers, a group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** French model-godess Laetitia Casta will topline BEHIND THE WALLS, a 3D low-budget suspenser directed by Pascal Sid and Julien Lacombe. The 1922-set fantasy thriller turns on a young novelist who moves to a creepy village to write a book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares. The film is produced by Paris-based Sombrero Films' Alain Benguigui and Thomas Verhaeghe, via their new label Studio Mad, which is dedicated to genre films. The $5 million pic will be distributed by Bac Films during the first trimester of 2011. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
----- June 2nd, 2010 -----
** KING KONG on Blu-ray: According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog, "KING KONG, the master of all movie beasts and one of the more important movies of the 20th century, will make its Blu-ray debut Sept. 28, 2010. Warner Home Video is behind the Blu-ray iteration of the 1933 RKO classic, which will have all of the extras from the highly rated two-disc DVD special edition released in 2005 coinciding with the Peter Jackson remake. The Blu-ray will come with a 32-page booklet featuring rare photographs and trivia written by film historian Rudy Behlmer, who apparently personally interviewed 'Kong' creator Merian C. Cooper back in the day." (thanks to DreadCentral.com)
** I SAW THE DEVIL: According to the ScreenDaily web site - on the strength of seeing just 18 minutes of promo footage at Cannes - UK distributor Optimum Releasing have announced they’ve nabbed the UK rights to director Kim Ji-Woon’s hard core serial killer thriller. That’s our English subtitled DVD source sorted. The film opens in Korea late summer. (thanks to 24FramesPerSecond.net)
** Madhouse Entertainment (THE INVASION) is currently developing a new spin on PETER AND THE WOLF, Sergei Prokofiev's Russian fairy tale from 1936. In order to save the love of his life and confront his own past, Peter, with the help of two very unlikely allies, sets out to trap a cunning serial killer who has returned to the college town he once terrorized. The screenplay was penned by Paul Busenitz. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** GUINEA PIGS: Vertigo Films and the National Film and Television School (NFTS) have started principal photography on a micro-budget film that's an atmospheric horror about volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong. Ian Clark writes and directs. The cast features Aneurin Barnard, Alex Reid, Amit Shah and Steve Evets. The project, which started shooting today, is the first film from Vertigo and NFTS' Schools Project slate. Protagonist Pictures will handle international sales and Vertigo will release in the UK in 2011. The Vertigo Schools Project gives three teams of students/graduates the opportunity to make micro-budget features with a budget of £100,000. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)
** George A. Romero's SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD: Last week, we told you George Romero's sequel was coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on August 24. Here's a look at the art for both releases. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
----- June 1st, 2010 -----
** RESIDENT EVIL AFTERLIFE: Milla Jovovich told her fans, via her Twitter account yesterday: "So to answer many of your questions in one fell swoop, yes! The gorgeous and talented Sienna Guillory is back as Jill Valentine in RE4!!!" And here's a new poster for the upcoming 3D sequel. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** THE LOST BOYS 3 THE THIRST: Probably the only good thing coming out of this sequel will be the casting of the gorgeous South African model turned actress Tanit Phoenix. Here's what she had to say in a recent interview: "What I found very interesting about the Lost Boys script was that it showcases vampires how they really are, blood-sucking and evil, which somewhat dances around the fact that TWILIGHT made their vampires seem beautiful, but they really are not."
As for working with Corey Feldman, who is reprising his role as vampire hunter Edgar Frog in the film, Phoenix opined, "Corey is very sweet. He takes his work seriously. But he is just a big kid!" When asked if maybe her character, Gwen Lieber, a wealthy vampire-romance novelist, ends up a little bruised and battered in her dealings with Frog, she laughed and said, "I wanted to play a bad girl, and I finally got my chance, [but] the most physical I got was getting into skimpy outfits." She is also starring in DEATH RACE FRANKENSTEIN LIVES. (thanks to MovieHole.net)
