Screen Gems has released a trailer for Deliver Us From Evil, a based-on-true events exorcism drama from writer and director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose). Eric Bana, Edgar Rameriz, Joel McHale, and geek-goddess Olivia Munn star in the Jerry Bruckheimer Films release.
Deliver Us From Evil follows an Irish Catholic cop (Bana) working with a rogue priest (Ramirez) on a case that may be demonic in nature. Munn plays the cop’s hot wife, who is also linked to the case. She looks good, but it’s no Ghost Tits.
Deliver Us From Evil arrives in theaters on July 2.
Ever wonder what “Glee” would look like with more blood and less preachy gay kids? Magnet Releasing gives us an idea with its red-band trailer for Stage Fright, a musical slasher from director Jerome Sable (ABC’s of Death 2). It arrives on VOD on April 3 and in theaters May 9.
Stage Fright finds the daughter (Allie MacDonald) of a murdered Broadway star (Minnie Driver) following in her mother’s steps by taking a lead role in an art camp play. Shit hits the fan, however, when people start to croak during rehearsals.
Dimension Films has released the first trailer for Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For. Josh Brolin stars as facially-reassigned private dick Dwight McCarthy, a man whose life is led to ruin by the only woman he’s ever loved (Eva Green).
A Dame to Kill For is based on Miller’s comic of the same name, published in 1993 by Dark Horse Comics. Returning players include Mickey Rourke as Marv, Bruce Willis as Hartigan, Rosario Dawson as Gail, Jaime King as twins Goldie/Wendy and Jessica Alba as stripper Nancy.
New faces include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Meloni, Jamie Chung, Alexa Vega, Juno Temple and Playboy model Crystal McCahill. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For arrives in theaters on Aug. 22.
If you thought catching a glimpse of your bloated gut in the mirror after a night of binging on booze and burritos was bad, wait till you see the horrors presented in Blumhouse’s new ghost storyOculus. Directed and co-written by Mike Flanagan (Absentia), the film stars Karen Gillan (”Dr. Who”), Brenton Thwaites (Gods of Eygpt), and Katee Sackhoff (”Battlestar Galactica”).
Oculus follows a twenty-something brother and sister (Gillan, Thwaites) duo orphaned as children after the mysterious murder of their parents. The brother was charged for the crime by authorities, but his sister still believes that a haunted antique mirror is truly responsible for their deaths. The film will hold its premiere at the 2014 SXSW Film Fest in Austin, Texas before hitting theater on April 11.
Lucy Griffith (“True Blood”) is the female lead in NBC and Warner Bros. TV’s upcoming adaptation of DC Comics’ Constantine. She will star alongside Matt Ryan (“Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior”), who plays the titular antihero—an ex-conman turned supernatural detective out to save humanity from demonic forces.
Griffith will play the daughter of Constantine’s dead friend who helps him fight evil after he rescues her from demons. Also along for the ride is Harold Perrineau (“LOST”) as Constantine’s guardian angel Manny. Neil Marshall (The Descent) is attached to direct the premiere episode.
Griffith is best known for playing Eric Northman’s vampire sister Nora on season five of HBO’s “True Blood,” and for her role as doomed Lady Marion of Leaford on the BBC program “Robin Hood.” She also starred on The CW’s short-lived tween zombie drama “The Awakening.”
Paramount Pictures has released a two-minute plus trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers 4: Age of Extinction. Mark Wahlberg and “Bates Motel” stunner Nicola Peltz take the lead in the new entry, which also introduces the Dinobots.
Wahlberg plays a mechanic who discovers the truck he’s working on is a damaged Transformer. Peltz plays his insanely attractive daughter. Together they discover something that leads to lots of robot fights and shit getting blown up. The action looks cool, but things get cheesy the minute the Transformers talk.
After thrilling genre fans as Silk Spectre in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation, Malin Akerman abandoned sci-fi and horror to star in a string of romantic comedies and ABC’s “Trophy Wife.” But, now, she’s back! Sort of.
Akerman is set to star alongside Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”) in Groundswell Productions’ upcoming horror-comedy The Final Girls. The story centers on the daughter of a recently deceased 80’s scream queen who gets trapped in her mom’s most famous film and must help her fight its killer.
The Final Girls is directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) and is slated to go into production in Louisiana in April. Sony Pictures acquired the worldwide rights to the film and will distribute.
If you think you know what to expect when you’re expecting, director Bryan Coyne and actress/producer/horror babe Jessica Cameron have got news for you: that ain’t a bundle of joy in your belly; it’s a monster… and not the the kind that grows up to hate you because you didn’t buy them the right pair of kicks, but the fang-y, eat-you-alive kind.
Utero stars Cameron as an agoraphobic single mom who believes her unborn child is “more monster than human.” Posted below is the film’s poster, and it is gross and terrifying and… makes me hope they show how it was conceived. I’m guessing a drunken night in Tijuana.
Syfy has acquired the first two seasons of the French sci-fi anthology series“Metal Hurlant Chronicles.”Directed by Guillaume Lubrano, each season is made up of 12 thirty-minute shows, and features a variety of guest stars, including Rutger Hauer, Michael Jai White, and the gorgeous Kelly Brook (pictured).
According to Variety, Syfy will premiere the first season of the show in April.
“Metal Hurlant Chronicles” is a live action adaptation of the 1974 French comic book series of the same name, adapted as “Heavy Metal Magazine” in the U.S. in 1977, and produced in 1981 as the animated feature Heavy Metal.
Genre queen Radha Mitchell is set to star alongside Kevin Bacon in Blumhouse Productions’ new supernatural thriller 6 Miranda Drive. The film reunites Mitchell with Rogue director Greg Mclean, best known to horror fans for helming the brutal Aussie slasher Wolf Creek.
According to THR, 6 Miranda Drive follows a family tormented by a “fear-feeding” force they inadvertently picked up while vacationing at the Grand Canyon. The film is written by Mclean and Bait writers Shane Krause and Shayne Armstrong. It shoots in Los Angeles in March.
Mitchell is coming off the serial killer dramas Frozen Ground and Evidence. She also starred in the Silent Hill franchise, the sci-fi actioners Pitch Black and Surrogates, and 2010’s remake of George Romero’s classic viral outbreak thriller The Crazies. She will next be seen in Peter A. Dowling’s Sacrifice.
