U.S. Screen Media Films acquired the North American distribution rights to Phil Hawkins’ The Last Showing. It will release the thriller on VOD in September and on DVD in October. The film stars horror icon Robert Englund and stunner Emily Berrington (“24: Live Another Day”).
Berrington plays the better-half of a young couple trapped in a movie theater by a deranged projectionist hellbent on making them the stars of his real life horror movie. Englund potrays Berrington’s lover… just kidding! He’s the homicidal maniac of course.
Berrington, a relatively new actress who first caught buzz on the historical drama “The White Queen,” can currently be seen as sexy, psycho-bitch assassin Simone Al-Harazi on “24: Live Another Day,” an event series picking up four years after the season eight finale of Kiefer Sutherland’s “24” series.
Syfy has released a three-minute sneak peek of Sharknado: The Second One, a sequel to its social media fueled juggernaut about a shark-hurling twister. Original leads Ian Ziering and Tara Reid are joined by newcomers Andy Dick, Kelly Osbourne, Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath, Judd Hirsch, and Vivica A. Fox.
Sharknado 2: The Second One finds Reid and Ziering out to save New York from a new and bigger sharknado. Directed by Anthony Ferrante and written by Thunder Levin, the creative masterminds behind Sharknado, the sequel premieres July 30.
Jaimie Alexander (Thor) is set to star in Broken Vows, a psychological thriller about an evil woman who misleads a suitor into believing he’s got a shot with her, but instead smashes his heart and soul into tiny pieces, triggering an outburst of psychotic, but understandable, rage.
Or… maybe, he was just a maladjusted creep.
Belgian commercial director Bram Coppens makes his feature debut with the film, scripted by Jim Agnew (Rage) and Sean Keller (Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep). Wes Bentley and his bushy eyebrows play the deranged romeo.
Alexander is best known for playing Asgardian warrior Goddess Sif in Marvel’s Thor franchise, but horror fans first fell for brunette stunner in the 2006 slasher Rest Stop. She also starred in the lesser known frighteners The Other Side and Hallowed Ground.
Universal Pictures has released a trailer for Dracula Untold, an origins story about the transformation of Prince Vlad “The Impaler” into the vicious vampire. Luke Evans toplines the film for new director Gary Shore and Gods of Egypt scribes Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.
Dracula Untold finds Prince Vlad turning to the dark realms for power to protect his family from a Turkish invasion. The film co-stars Sarah Gadon (Amazing Spider-man 2), Dominic Cooper (Devil’s Double), Charlie Cox (“Boardwalk Empire”), and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”).
A24 has released the first trailer for its upcoming rom-zom Life After Beth, starring Geek babe Aubrey Plaza (The to Do List) and Dane DeHaan (Chronicle). The horror-comedy finds Plaza back from the dead and dating her committed boyfriend.
Life After Beth marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Jeff Baena (I Heart Huckabees). The film co-stars Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), John C. Reilly (Boogie Nights), Molly Shannon (“SNL”), Paul Reiser (“My Two Dads”), and Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
IFC Midnight has released a trailer for Pact writer and director Nicholas McCarthy’s creepy new supernatural thriller At the Devil’s Door. Previously titled Home, the film stars Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno (Twilight: Eclipse) as a motivated real estate agent out to sell a haunted house.
All’s well until she runs into the homeowner’s daughter (Ashley Rickards) and gets sucked into a terrifying ordeal. “Glee’s” Naya Rivera (pictured above) co-stars. At the Devil’s Door comes a-knocking on VOD Aug. 8 and in selected theaters Sept. 12.
There are no flying sharks or cows, but New Line Cinema’s Into the Storm looks pretty damn promising as a disaster flick. Sure some of the graduating coeds in the new trailer could have lost their robes and underthings to the winds, but this is only director Steven Quale’s second feature film. Cut him some slack!
Written by John Swetnam (Evidence), Into the Storm stars “The Walking Dead’s” Sarah Wayne Callies (Rick Grimes’ annoying and adulteress wife, Lori) as a meteorologist teamed up with a storm chaser during a series of violent twisters in an Oklahoma town.
One look at the new trailer for Blumhouse Productions’ The Purge: Anarchy and it’s clear we’re in for a far more intense ride than the original. The story’s scope is bigger and the action appears to deliver the kind of white-knuckle thrills that not only disturb, but make you genuinely ask “what if that was me?”
To find out what if it was you, make sure to catch The Purge: Breakout attraction currently touring the nation.
The Purge is a government sanctioned 12-hour night during which all criminal activity is permissible by law, including murder, rape, and more murder. Once again written and directed by James Demonaco, the film stars Frank Grillo (The Grey), Carmen Ejogo (Alex Cross), Michael K. Williams (”Boardwalk Empire”), and Kiele Sanchez (”LOST”).
Paramount Pictures has released a new two-minute plus trailer for producer Michael Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a live-action adaptation of the popular comic first published in 1984 by Mirage Studios.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are four turtle brothers that mutate into crime fighting humanoids after being exposed to radioactive slime. In this reboot, they must battle an enemy named Shredder with the aid of sexy news reporter April O’Neil, played by the ever gorgeous Megan Fox.
Image Entertainment has set an Aug. 19 DVD release date for writer Jake Helgren’s (Bloody Homecoming) feature film debut Varsity Blood. Set during Halloween, the college based slasher stars a bevy of babes: Lexi Giovagnoli, Debbie Rochon, Natalie Peyton, Blair Jackson, Elyse Bigler, Melody Herron, and Kiarra Hogan.
Varsity Blood follows a group of small town jocks and cheerleaders as they’re hunted down by an axe-wielding Indian mascot during a drunken getaway to a remote farmhouse. No word if the Oneida Indian Nation approves of this, but the poster and trailer are enough to make us say, “How… can I get a copy?”
