IFC Midnight has unleashed a new extended trailer for director Josh Reed’s survival-frightener Primal. Set in Australia, the film centers on a group of friends that turn savage after skinny-dipping in a remote waterhole during an expedition to find an aboriginal painting.
The trailer gives us an eye-popping look at the film’s horrifying makeup effects, beautiful backdrops, and sexy headlining shelias Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Rebekah Foord and Krew Boylan. It also provides a peek at what could be a live-action tentacle-rape scene featuring Smith as victim to some giant—and hopefully possibly horny—beast. Or it could just be hungry.
Elvira takes over the boob tube this weekend as host of the newly rebooted syndicated series “Movie Macabre.” The still-surprisingly-sexy 58-year-old horror icon (played by Cassandra Peterson) will provide eye-candy, skits, and snarky commentary for the show, much like she did when it originally aired in 1981.
The premiere episode will feature George Romero’s 1968 beloved zombie frightener Night of the Living Dead, a notable departure from the D-grade titles the original “Movie Macabre” show ribbed.
We saved the best for the first show. Night of the Living Dead may be the only film on my show that qualifies as good. The others are good in their own crappy way, but they are better fodder for me to make fun of. The first show basically features more jokes making fun of me returning to TV than the actual movie.
“Elvira’s Movie Macabre” is slated to air 26 episodes. The show is produced and written by Elvira and will present films such as Attack of the Giant Leeches and The Killer Shrews. To see local listings for time and channels, go here.
Director David Harris’ feature film debut Savage County will air on Oct. 7 at 11 p.m. on MTV.com and MTV 2. The film, shot in Memphis for a reported $250,000, follows a group of teens who run out of booze and out of luck while partying in hillbilly country.
Check it, y’all:
Savage County stars Mimi Michaels (Boogeyman 3), Melissa Carnell (Boggy Creek), and TV actresses Ana Ayora and Rebekah Graf. Vagina-less costars include Ken Luckey (The Haunting of Marsten Manor), Sinqua Walls (Shark Night 3-D), and Doug Haley (Freeway Killer).
The film will also be available on Xbox 360, Playstation, iTunes, Amazon and Comcast VOD.
Madcap director Tom Six has wrapped production on the eagerly awaited sequel to his outrageous sleeper hit The Human Centipede. Entitled The Human Centipede: Full Sequence, the film introduces a new demented doc named Martin and a whooping 12 victims to be sewn together ass-to-mouth.
Peep the quirky teaser:
Unlike its predecessor, The Human Centipede: Full Sequence is being promoted as being “100% medically inaccurate” and will serve as a love letter from Six to those sensitive souls who dismissed the original over its fucked up premise.
Six tells IFC:
I knew when I wrote the script that it was going to be controversial. There are movies that are more gory, but somehow this film messes with your head. People find it so degrading that they think that because I can imagine such horrible things that I must be a pervert or an idiot or an escapee from a mental hospital.
When I was writing [First Sequence]. I had so many ideas that I couldn’t fit them all in the movie. And I wanted the audience to get used to this crazy centipede. Now, in ‘Part 2,’ I can use all my ideas.
So everything is in it this time. I don’t hold back anything. It’s pretty nasty.
IFC Films released The Human Centipede: First Sequence in April to critical acclaim from the horror community and surprisingly much of the mainstream media. After winning Best Picture at the 2009 Scream Fest LA Film Festival and Best Horror Film at the 2009 Fantastic Fest, the indie-frightener is now up for Best Villain and Most Memorable Mutilation honors at the upcoming 2010 Scream Awards.
For those not familiar with the movie, The Human Centipede: First Sequence stars Ashlynn Yennie and Ashley C. Williams as American tourists abducted by an evil German scientist hell-bent on creating a human centipede by sewing people together mouth-to-anus. To get the full skinny, read Clatto’s review here.
The Human Centipede: Full Sequence is slated for theatrical release in 2011. Home editions of the original film will be available on Oct. 5.
