Relativity has released a trailer for Blumhouse’s new ghost story Oculus… and it is creepy. 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.
Entertainment One Films has released a trailer for actress Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut The Babadook. The supernatural thriller stars Essie Davis (Matrix ReLoaded) as the widowed mother of an emotionally trouble six-year-old who is convinced a storybook boogeyman is out to kill them.
This is why reading to children is bad. It makes them think. It makes their imaginations run wild. Sit them down in front of the PS4 and toss Hot Pockets at them every so often instead… OK, Lean Pockets. You don’t want to be an irresponsible parent #endchildobesitynow.
Katharine Isabelle will bring romance to the table on season two of NBC’s “Hannibal,” its superb, but ratings-challenged, drama chronicling the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/serial killer first introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
Isabelle will play a lesbian named Margot, whose relationship to her serial killer twin brother has led her to Hannibal Lecter’s (Mads Mikkelsen) couch. According to TVLine, she will serve as a love interest for FBI profiler and basket case Will Graham (Hugh Dancy).
Isabelle is coming off as the lead in the Jen and Sylvia Soska’s critically acclaimed medical frightener American Mary. Her creds include the Ginger Snaps franchise, Freddy Vs. Jason, and Chris Nolan’s Insomnia.She’ll next be seen in the Soska’s See No Evil 2, a sequel to Gregory Dark’s 2006 slasher.
Ambyr Childers (We Are What We Are) is set to star in Vice, a new sci-fi thriller from Lone Survivor producers Emmett/Furla Films. Childers plays a sexy android used by rich people to live out there most sexually deviant fantasies at an exclusive resort.
Bruce Willis plays the resort owner, where numerous hot cyborgs are used and abused and later rebooted to wipe their memory. Childers character, however, suffers a glitch and is suddenly overloaded with recollections of donkey punches and Dirty Sanchez-fueled sex, triggering a need for vengeance.
Writing duo Jeremy Passmore (Red Dawn) and Andre Fabrizio (The Prince) wrote the script. A director is yet to be attached. Childers is coming off the cannibal drama We Are What We Are and the actioner 2 Guns.
Lionsgate has released a trailer for Hammer Films’ creepy new supernatural thriller The Quiet Ones. The film is directed by John Pogue (Quarantine 2: Terminal) and stars Olivia Cooke (“Bates Motel”), Sam Claflin (Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Jared Harris (“Mad Men”), and Erin Richards (Open Grave).
The Quiet Ones finds a unorthodox college professor (Harris) and a group of his best students experimenting on an emotionally disturbed young woman (Cooke) with the purpose of using her negative energy to create a poltergeist. What they summon is pure evil (DOH!)
The first trailer for season two of NBC’s “Hannibal” has gone online. The footage teases the dangerous mind games between Dr. Hannibal Lector (Mads Mikkelsen) and FBI profiler Will Graham (Huge Dancy), and strained relationship between Graham and FBI chief Jack Crawford.
The imagery remains spine-tingling and beautiful, and the trailer’s music—a haunting cover of Ben E. King’s classic “Stand by Me” by Mona—adds the eeriness.
“Hannibal” is an hour-long crime drama chronicling the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/serial killer first introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.” The series was created by Bryan Fuller (“Dead Like Me”).
Annabelle Wallis (“The Tudors”) is set to star in New Line’s Annabelle. No that’s not a bio-pic on the British babe; it’s a spinoff to James Wan’s blockbuster ghost tale The Conjuring, centering on the film’s creepy Annabelle doll. Wan produces the John Leonetti-directed thriller, which begins production on Jan. 27.
Wallis is best known for playing queen Jane Seymour on Showtime’s period drama “The Tudors.” Her additional creds include X-Men: First Class, The Lost Future, and Snow White and the Huntsman.
The Conjuring starred Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real-life married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, best known for their work on the infamous Amityville Horror case of 1975. The plot—based on true events—follows the horrifying ordeal faced by the Perron family in 1970 after moving into a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse.
The Annabelle doll is one of the haunted artifacts collected by the Warren’s during their ghost busting adventures.
Actress and producer Jacqui Holland is looking to tear into some funny bones with director Scott Dow’s parody of the AMC’s zombie series “The Walking Dead.” Titled Walking with the Dead, the horror-comedy stars Holland and is produced by her company MNDFCK.
According to ComingSoon, Walking with the Dead follows a group of unlikely zombie apocalypse survivors, including a sheriff, his son, and a zombie who has convinced them he’s not dead and just slow, as they seek safe haven.
Holland is best known for her role as the kindly topless stripper in the Lionsgate rom-com My Best Friend’s Girl. Her genre creds include the Full Moon Features horror-comedy Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver and the slashers Sorority Party Massacre and Monsters in the Woods.
Oh yeah… After releasing a string of annoying Vine videos, HBO has finally released the first official trailer for season four of “Game of Thrones.” The clip is less than two-minutes, but teases more than enough drama, heartbreak, and brutality. The new season premieres on April 6.
Dimension Films has released a trailer for producer Eli Roth’s Clown, a very creepy frightener from director Jon Watts about a father (Andy Powers) consumed by the clown costume he wears at his young son’s birthday party when the hired talent doesn’t show.
Watts and producing partner C.D. Ford first shot Clown as a faux trailer for a fake Eli Roth movie. The short caught Roth’s attention and the rest is the kind of Hollywood fairytale that pisses the fuck out of the broke and struggling screenwriters using the free wifi at Starbucks.
