Well it looks like Poltergeist fans can thank Sam Rockwell for saving them a few bucks at the box office this July when producer Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan’s remake of Tobe Hooper’s brilliantly horrifying 1982 original arrives in theaters.

Sam Rockwell is playing the role of the dad in the film about a family tormented by malicious and angry spirits. The part originally played by Craig T. Nelson. In a chat with Collider, Rockwell admits that the remake is nothing more than a kid flick now.

Rockwell said:

The 10-year-old boy is really the protagonist this time.  JoBeth Williams was the protagonist for the most part in the first one and now the kid, it’s really through his point-of-view.  So it’s more of a kids’ movie so I don’t know if it’s gonna be like rated-R scary. It’s not like The Conjuring type of scary.

If that isn’t bad enough, Rockwell doesn’t even appear remotely confident that the remake is any good at all! In fact, he seems worried.

I hope it’s good.  I really don’t know.  I really wish I could tell you.  I’m praying that it’s – I mean, it’s gonna be hard to live up to the first one.  The first one’s pretty damn good.  This one’s gonna be in 3D though, I can tell you that.

So… there you have it from one of the film’s leads: it’s un-scary garabage, but you can watch it in 3D with whatever group of tweens haven’t figured out how to stream movies illegally on their iPhones yet.

Fox has released a trailer for “The Last Man on Earth,” a new comedy from writer/producer Will Forte (Nebraska) and directors/producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord (21 Jump Street). Forte toplines the show as Phil, a family man and bank employee left all alone in the world after a mysterious event in 2022.

Phil has traveled across the U.S. and to Mexico and Canada in search of survivors to no avail. He makes the best out of being alone, enjoying the freedom of walking around in his underwear and breaking all kinds of stuff. But, he’s lonely and holds out hope for meeting someone with a vagina.

Enter co-star January Jones. Sadly she’s not in the trailer, but the show looks fun enough to watch anyway.

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Disney has released a new trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joss Whedon is once again at the helm with all key players reprising their roles, including Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as HULK, Chris Evans as Captain America, and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow.

Unfortunately, there ain’t a lot of Scarlett Johansson in the trailler, which frustrates us. We’re tired of the angry green guy and rich red guy and the goofy blue guy and the worthless brown archer. Give us more Black Widow!

Synopsis:

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected.

Universal Pictures has released a trailer for Unfriended, a modern day I Know What You Did Last Summer thriller from visual mastermind Timur Bekmambetov, producer/director of Wanted and NightWatch. Directed by Levan Gabriadze, the film centers on high school kids hunted down by a malevolent spirit online.

Told from “a young girl’s computer screen,” Unfriended follows the mysterious demise of a group of teens responsible for triggering the suicide of a shamed mean girl. The film was previously titled Cybernatural.

Unfriended stars stunners Renee Olstead (pictured above), Heather Sossaman (”Days of Our Lives”), Courtney Halverson (”Death Valley”), and Miss Teen Louisiana Shelly Hennig (”Secret Circle”). The film opens in theaters April 17.

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Scarlett Johansson has been tapped to star in Rupert Sanders’ (Snow White) adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga Ghost in a Shell for DreamWorks. She will play Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg super agent fighting cyber terrorist who hack half-human/half-android beings to do crime.

Margot Robbie, the beautiful and very nude star of Martin Scorsese’s awesome Wolf of Wall Street, was said to be the front runner for the role, but Johansson ain’t chopped liver so penises everywhere will be like “what the… oh okay; that’s cool” when they hear the news.

Johansson is coming off the awesomely fun Luc Besson sci-fi actioner Lucy, Marvel’s blockbuster The Avengers, and Jonathan Glazer’s artsy-fartsy sci-fi drama Under the Skin, listed as number one in Clatto’s list of The Sexiest Horror Films of 2014.

A trailer has gone online for the Feb. 8 mid-season premiere of season five of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Season five has been an enthralling, heartbreaking doozey so far, and promises to get more intense as Rick Grimes and the gang continue on the road, knowing there is no actual cure waiting in Washington.

When it comes to a show like “The Walking Dead,” there’s no need to ramble on and on. Hell, most of you have already clicked play on the trailer by now. I could finish this post with my grocery list and you wouldn’t notice: bottle of Chopin, ice, popcorn, Advil.

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Lionsgate has released a trailer for Voices, a psychological horror-comedy from Iranian director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and screenwriter Michael R. Perry (Paranormal Activity). Ryan Reynolds stars as a bathtub factory employee falling for a woman in accounting only to have homicidal tendencies threaten their union.

Confusing him further are the pets he imagines speaking to him, an evil cat and his morally sound dog. Anna Kendrick plays the accountant. Gemma Arterton co-stars  as an ex who appears to have gotten the axe. Voices hits selected theaters and VOD on Feb. 6.

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“Spartacus: Blood and Sand” stunner Erin Cummings stars in The Last Word, a supernatural thriller inspired by the true criminal case of Johnny Garrett, a convicted killer sentence to death for the murder and rape of a 76-year-old nun on Halloween 1981.

Directed by Simon Rumley (Red White & Blue, ABCs of Death), The Last Word centers on the mysterious deaths of Garrett’s jurors after he damns them for their verdict, and follows one man’s quest to prove Garrett’s innocence in the hopes of reversing the curse and saving his son’s life.

Cummings is coming off Spanish filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano’s werewolf thriller Late Phases. She is best known for playing Sura, Spartacus’ doomed wife, on season one of the Starz original series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” and for her role as secret agent Hel in Rick Jacobson’s Bitch Slap.

XLrator Media announced it has acquired the North American distribution rights to Amnesiac, a psychological thriller from Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer). The film stars Kate Bosworth as a woman who may or may not be the wife of a man waking up with amnesia after an accident.

Wes Bentley (Hunger Games) plays the husband, who despite his memory loss, begins to suspect things aren’t right when he catches his supposed wife in what could be lies. XLrator will release Amnesiac this summer through its Macabre genre label.

Bosworth is coming off “The League’s” Katie Aselton’s girl-power thriller Black Rock and has starred in such notable genre offerings as Screen Gems’ remake of Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 home-invasion thriller Straw Dogs and Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns.

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Relativity has released a trailer for Blumhouse Productions new supernatural thriller The Lazarus Effect. Mark Duplass (“The League”) stars as a med-school student who reanimates his gorgeous dead girlfriend to disastrous results. Hey, you’d do the same if your lady was Olivia Wilde (Tron)!

The Lazarus Effect is directed by documentary filmmaker David Gelb (Jiro Dreams of Suishi) from a script penned by folks who must have really enjoyed Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners, a 1990 sci-fi thriller about med-school students conducting near-death experiments to see what lies in the afterlife.

The Lazarus Effect arrives in theaters Feb. 27.

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