Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood is tossing his hat into the supernatural realm this October with the Matt Damon vehicle Hereafter. The film tells the story of a former psychic named George (Damon) who is sought after by a group of people attempting to cope with mortality by seeking insight into the afterlife.
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After watching Eastwood take on serial killer drama in 2008’s Changeling, I’m extremely intrigued to see what he does with the I-see-dead-people theme.
Entertainment Tonight scored a clip from screenwriter-turned-first-time-director Mitch Glazer’s supernatural-romance story Passion Play. The footage reveals a meeting between Megan Fox’s winged circus show freak and Mickey Rourke’s downtrodden sax player.
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The film’s synopsis reads:
Nate (Rourke), a small-time jazz musician, is clearly a hard-luck case. Caught trying to break into a car, he is taken off into the desert where his assailant puts a gun to his head. Game over? Not quite. Stumbling into a circus pitched amidst the vast expanses of the southwest desert, Nate finds himself drawn to the exotic beauty of Lily (Fox), the Bird Woman.
Lily is cold and dismissive; socializing with customers is not her scene. But it dawns on her that this gentle giant may well be her way out of a life of eccentric exposition. Nate is protective and understanding, and to him her aquiline beauty is a magic part of her uniqueness.
As their bond deepens, Nate finds that his dreams of bliss are about to be thwarted by Happy Shannon, a cucumber-cool businessman with deep pockets and an eye for the bizarre.
Passion Play costars Kelly Lynch (The Jacket), Rhys Ifans (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Chris Browning (Let Me In), and the highly overrated Bill Murray (Zombieland) as Happy Shannon. The film will have its premiere at this years Toronto International Film Festival.
Lionsgate has released the first official full-length trailer for its upcoming sequel Saw 3-D. Directed by Kevin Greutert, the seventh entry in the franchise Guinness World Records named the Most Successful Horror Series of all time is said to be its last.
The trailer plays up the 3-D angle, but I’m eager to find out what Det. Hoffman is going to do after being left for dead by Jill Tuck at the end of part six. I’m also eager to see the return of Dr. Gordon (Carey Elwes) and the scene teased on the Saw 6 Blu-ray featuring Amanda Young warning a captive Corbett (test subject Jeff’s tween daughter in Saw 3) about the man who will eventually show up to save her, namely Hoffman.
TV starlet Reagan Dale Neis (”A Minute with Stan Hooper”) stars in award-winning filmmaker Drew Daywalt’s new horror-short Doppelganger. The 33-year-old actress plays a woman who receives a disturbing call from someone who is either her husband or his evil double.
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Sadly, Doppelganger’s payoff didn’t really do much for me. I’m especially disappointed because—up until the end—I was really creeped out and expected to see some kind of disturbing conclusion along the lines of Daywalts’ Suicide Girl and the truly chilling Bedfellows. That said, I really can’t wait to see a full-length feature film from this guy.
Daywalt is one of the founding members behind the indie-horror troupe Fewdio. He recently completed a 17-episode web series entitled Camera Obscura for MGW Entertainment.
