A trailer has gone online for Fox Home Entertainment’s Fright Night 2, a remake of the recently remade Tom Holland vampire thriller, masquerading as a sequel. This time out, Charlie Brewster and his BFF “Evil” Ed Bates are studying abroad when they discover that their hot teacher is a vampire.
Fright Night 2 is directed by Eduardo Rodriguez (Stash House) and penned by Matt Venne (Mirrors 2). The trailer doesn’t make the film look as fun as Tom Holland’s original Fright Night and its awesome 2011 remake, but oft-nude actress Jaime Murray (“Spartacus: Gods of the Arena”) does star as the hot vamp.
Fright Night 2 arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Oct. 1.
A red-band trailer has gone online for Universal Home Entertainment’s Curse of Chucky. Directed by franchise creator and writer Don Mancini, the sequel finds the not-so Good Guy Doll (voiced once again by Brad Dourif) getting his kill on during a family funeral.
The trailer provides plenty of violent mayhem, including the regrettable murder of one red lingerie clad girl (Maitland McConnell). I’m guessing Chucky’s lack of one very important doll part makes him extra grumpy. Curse of Chucky arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 8.
Ocean’s Light Productions has released a trailer for John Campopiano and Justin White’s Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sementary, an upcoming documentary on Mary Lambert’s 1989 movie adaptation of the Stephen King bestseller.
The film features exclusive interviews with cast and crew, including Lambert and leads Denise Crosby, Dale Midkiff and Miko Hughes, who played the Creed’s back-from-the-dead son. The film also provides an extensive look at the making of the film and the origins of its story.
Open Road has released a new trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s star-studded sequel Machete Kills. The clip reveals more of the film’s plot and provides a look at some of the outrageous kills in store. It also gives us a peek at beauty queen Amber Heard and villain Mel Gibson.
Machete Kills finds ex-federale Machete (Danny Trejo) recruited by the U.S. government to take down a billionaire arms dealer (Gibson) looking to trigger a world war. The Quickdraw Productions’ film swings into theaters on Oct. 11.
Producer Joe Danteand director Nick Basile (American Carny: True Tales from the Circus Sideshow) have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Dark, a psychological thriller set during the 2003 New York City blackout.
The synopsis reads:
Kate, a struggling 30-something model with a troubled past, has just moved into her girlfriend Leah’s Brooklyn loft but already doubts about their relationship have begun to loom.
When Leah leaves for the weekend, Kate unexpectedly finds herself alone in the apartment in the midst of the worst blackout in North American history.
As darkness falls over the city, Kate’s paranoia grows and she begins to believe someone in the building is stalking her. With no one to help her and escape out of reach, Kate is forced to confront her deepest fears as she fights to survive through the night.
If that’s not good enough to give up the skrilla you earn at your soul-killing job 40-hours a week, then keep in mind that the film stars “American Horror Story” babe Alexandra Breckenridge (she was the young maid) and Monsters stunner Whitney Able (pictured).
Vanessa Hudgens is currently in talks with Sony Pictures to star in The Kitchen Sink, a horror-comedy in which a group of teens join forces with vampires and zombies to fight off an alien invasion. As silly as that sounds, the Oren Uziel-penned script was part of 2010’s Black List.
The film is directed by Robbie Pickering (Natural Selection) and co-stars Denis Leary (Amazing Spider-Man), Nicholas Braun (Red State), Mackenzie Davis (Smashed), Josh Fadem (Miss March) and Chris Zylka (Piranha 3DD).
TheWrap reports that Hudgens will play a popular teen whose life is in danger when aliens invade earth. Hudgens, who came to fame in Disney’s High School Musical franchise, has starred in a string of genre offerings, including Beastly, Sucker Punch and the upcoming Frozen Ground and Machete Kills.
IFC Films has released a trailer for Haunter, a supernatural thriller from Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali, starring Abigail Breslin (The Call) as a girl trapped in her home, reliving the same day over and over up until ghostly visions tip her of the evil specter(Stephen McHattie) keeping her prisoner.
Haunter arrives in theaters and VOD on Oct. 18. Folks online are understandably describing the film as a horror version of Groundhog Day, but it also calls to mind an older and more subdued Freddy Krueger, one who’s lost his sense of humor and his razor bladed glove.
Magnet Releasing has crapped out a red-band trailer for Bad Milo, a horror-comedy from the Duplass Brothers, starring Ken Marino (“Childrens Hospital”) as a man who discovers an anxiety-driven demon living inside his intestines.
Things really start to stink when, at his therapist’s urging, he releases the demon, names it Milo and attempts to regain control of his life.
Bad Milo co-stars include Gillian Jacobs (pictured), Patrick Warburton (“Seinfeld”), Mary Kay Place (“Big Love”), Stephen Root (Office Space), Peter Stormare (Undocumented) and Diana Toshiko (Zomboobies). The film drops on VOD on Aug. 29 and in selected theaters on Oct. 4.
British actress Samantha Barks is set to co-star in Universal Pictures’ Dracula, an origins story about the world’s first and most infamous vampire. She joins Sarah Gadon (Amazing Spider-Man 2), Dominic Cooper (Devil’s Double), Charlie Cox (“Boardwalk Empire”) and Luke Evans as the Count.
Dracula tells the story of a Transylvanian prince who becomes the first vampire to save his wife and child from a Turkish horde, subjecting his soul to eternal damnation. According to THR, Barks will play a baba yaga, a beautiful young woman capable of transforming into a savage witch.
Dracula is Barks first horror film. Her big break came last year in Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Les Misérables.
Full Moon Entertainment released today on Redbox its new Charles Band-directed horror-comedy Unlucky Charms, starring Disney’s Tiffany Thornton (“Sonny with a Chance”), Alex Rose Wiesel (Switched at Birth), pin-up model Masuimi Max and Playboy Playmates Anna Sophia Berglund and Nikki Leigh (pictured).
Unlucky Charms tells the story of five hot chicks competing to win a spokesmodel gig for a high-end lingerie company. Making the competition more cutthroat are the group of creepy leprechauns running amok (exactly what “America’s Next Top Model” was missing).
