Meir Zarchi is set to produce I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu, a sequel to his controversial 1978 revenge-thriller Day of the Woman—re-released as I Spit On Your Grave in 1980. Deja Vu picks up decades after protagonist Jennifer Hills has been acquitted for the brutal slaughter of the four men who gang-raped her.
Jennifer, now a bestselling non-fiction author, becomes the target of the surviving members of her “victims” families, who feel justice is owed. I Spit On Your Grave star Camille Keaton, now 67, will reportedly reprise her role as Jennifer.
Zarchi most recently produced Steven R. Monroe’s awesome 2010 I Spit On Your Grave reboot, starring pretty newcomer Sarah Butler, and its worthy sequel with “Hollyoaks” recurring Jemma Dallender. Anchor Bay, who distributed the newer films, have also announced a third entry in its franchise.
Red Nights is a 2010 Hong Kong psycho-sexual thriller described by filmmakers Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud as an homage to giallo, complete with sadistic murders and sexual kink. On Oct. 21, the film will finally get its stateside release on DVD.
Sexy Frédérique Bel plays a French woman on the lam in Hong Kong after murdering her lover and stealing a mysterious artifact containing a poison that kills people through absolute pleasure (carbs? alcohol?). In Taiwan, she meets a mobster and female assassin out to take the potion from her.
Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Comics announced today that they will bring comic book antihero Deadpool to the big screen on Feb. 12. 2016. Tim Miller is set to make his feature directorial debut with the long gestating project. Funny man Ryan Reynolds is expected to star.
Deadpool is a foulmouthed, sarcastic, mentally unstable mercenary with regenerative healing powers like Wolverine. The film adaptation is reportedly budgeted at $50 million, and expected to be rated a hard R. Reynolds credits leaked audition footage online as a reason for the film getting made.
Reynolds is coming off the failed comic flicks R.I.P.D. and The Green Lantern. In 2009, he played Deadpool in the shockingly terrible X-Men Origins: Wolverine. His best work can be seen in comic based sequel Blade: Trinity, the dramedy Adventureland, and the comedies Just Friends, Waiting, and The Change-Up.
A trailer has gone online for producer Eli Roth’s The Stranger, an indie thriller written and directed by Green Inferno and Aftershock scribe Guillermo Amoedo. The film tells the story of a man who returns home after a 16 year absence and triggers an odd chain of events.
Chilean model-turned-actress Lorenza Izzo co-stars in the film, making it her fifth collaboration with Roth. She has starred in the awesome disaster flick Aftershock, the Netflix original werewolf series “Hemlock Grove,” and the upcoming cannibal frightner Green Inferno and psycho-sexual thriller Knock, Knock.
The North American trailer for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters director Tommy Wirkola’s Dead Snow2: Red vs. Dead has gone online. A sequel to his 2009 Nazi zombie cult hit, the film finds a Norwegian survivor teaming up with an American group of professional zombie killers to battle the undead Schutzstaffel.
Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead stars Martin Star (”Freaks and Geeks”), Derek Mears (Friday the 13th), Ingrid Haas (Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World), original players Vegar Hoel and Ørjan Gamst, and Norwegian stunner Amrita Acharia (pictured above).
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead arrives in selected theaters and VOD on Oct. 10.
Halloween is still a bit away, but trust us when we say… you don’t want to miss the boat. We’re, of course, talking about the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor event, taking place during 18 terrifying nights from Oct. 2 – Nov. 2. This year, the haunt includes two new mazes, Soulmate and B340, and a Voodoo Village.
Dark Harbor will also include a new Exclusive Encounter experience that requires guests to sign a waiver to participate, and takes them “on a terrifying top secret paranormal journey through the depths of the ship that have never been open to Dark Harbor guests before.”
Tickets for the Dark Harbor event are already on sale and can be purchased here. Clatto was fortunate enough to be brought on board for the evil festivities in 2013. Read our spine-tingling account here.
Paz de la Huerta (“Boardwalk Empire”) stars in The Editor, an ode to giallo by co-directors Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy (Father’s Day). Set in Italy, the movie tells the tale of a downtrodden editor suspected in the brutal murders of the cast and crew of a 1980 horror film.
De la Huerta is coming off the psycho-sexual thriller Nurse 3D, in which she nudely portrayed a homicidal RN with Sapphic tendencies. She is best known for nudely playing Nucky Thompson’s mistress Lucy Danziger on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.”
The Editor will have its L.A. premiere at Beyond Fest on Sept. 25. The screening will be free. Click here for more info.
A trailer has gone online for The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a sequel to the 1976 cult film from producers Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity) and Ryan Murphy (“American Horror Story”). Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (“American Horror Story”), the film is based on the true story of the 1946 Moonlight Murders, a series of homicides committed in the Texas/Arizona border town of Texarkana.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown follows a copycat killer mimicking the Phantom Killer murders of the original film during its annual screening at Texarkana. Addison Timlin, best known for toplessly playing actress Sasha Bingham on Showtime’s “Californication,” toplines the film as a busty high school girl holding the key to catching the Phantom Killer.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown will be screened for free at Beyond Fest in L.A. on Oct. 4. Click here for details.
A trailer has gone online for the original Syfy thriller Dead Still, co-starring genre stunner Elle LaMont. Set to premiere Oct. 6 as part of Syfy’s “31 Days of Halloween” programming, the film centers on a wedding photographer (Ben Browder) who inherits an antique camera that kills its subjects.
LaMont has appeared in a string of notable genre offerings, including the indie vampire frightener The Devil’s Gravestone and Robert Rodriguez’s TV adaptation of “From Dusk Till Dawn” and Machete Kills, in which she played Dollface, one of Sofia Vergara’s sexy hooker-assassins gang.
Universal Pictures has released a trailer for The Boy Next Door, a micro-budgeted erotic thriller from director Rob Cohen (Alex Cross, The Fast and the Furious) and Blumhouse Productions. Jennifer Lopez (“American Idol”) toplines the film as a newly separated MILF who starts banging her teen son’s friend.
All is koo-koo-ka-choo until she decides to break things off with her deranged young suitor (Ryan Guzman). The kid goes ape, and starts to stalk and torment J. LO at every turn. It looks exhausting, but stalking is a young man’s game. Co-stars include John Corbett as the ex-husband and Kristin Chenoweth as the BFF.
