Director Tommy Wirkola is following up Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters with a sequel to his 2009 cult Nazi- zombie hit Dead Snow. Titled Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead, the film finds a Norwegian survivor teaming up with an American group of professional zombie killers to battle the undead Schutzstaffel.
Variety reports that “Freaks and Geeks” alum Martin Starr and comedienne and Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World co-star Ingrid Haas have signed on to star. Also on board are Jocelyn Deboer (5 to 7)and original Dead Snow players Vegar Hoel and Ørjan Gamst.
Wirkola made his English language film debut this year with Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. A sleeper hit in the U.S. and international blockbuster, the movie earned more than $225 million worldwide. Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead will release in Norwegian and English.
RLJ Entertainment and Ruthless Pictures have released a trailer for Mischief Night, a Halloween-set thriller directed by Richard Schenkman (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies), starring Noell Coet (Ice Scream), Erica Leerhsen (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Ally Walker (“Sons of Anarchy”).
Coet toplines the film as Emily Walton, a young woman afflicted with psychosomatic blindness after the death of her mother in an automobile accident. Walker plays the doctor treating her. All is going well up until a masked murderer invades Emily’s home on the night before Halloween.
Mischief Night will play selected theaters on Oct. 30.
Inception Media Group has set a Sept. 24 DVD and VOD release date for Silent But Deadly, a horror-comedy starring Jason Mewes (Clerks) and featuring special nude performances from Kim Poirier (Dawn of the Dead), Vanessa Burns (Severance), Rebeka Coles-Budrys and Nicole Arbour (pictured).
Silent But Deadly finds Mewes tapping into Silent Bob territory to play an introverted small-town farm boy whose gig with a visiting Hollywood film crew goes awry when his beloved pet goat is butchered and served as lunch, triggering his bloody wrath.
