A trailer for director Julian Richards’ upcoming frightener Shiver has hit the web. Based on author Brian Harper’s grisly1992 novel of the same name, the filmfollows an L.A. detective on the hunt for a ruthless killer who keeps his victims’ heads as souvenirs.
Shiver stars Danielle Harris (Stake Land) as our damsel-in-distress Wendy Alden, Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) as Det. Sebastian Delgado, Rae Dawn Chong (Tales from the Darkside: The Movie) as Det. Mavis Burdine and John Jarrat (Wolf Creek) as head-collecting serial killer Rood.
The trailer for director Rob Lurie’s upcoming remake of Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 home-invasion thriller Straw Dogs has arrived. James Marsden and Kate Bosworth star as David and Amy Sumner, a married couple terrorized by Louisiana hicks and Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie, played by Alexander Skarsgard.
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Synopsis for the remake reads:
David and Amy Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father’s death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie, leading to a violent confrontation.
Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs was set in England and followed a mousy mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) and his wife (Susan George) as they tried to rebuild their marriage in a countryside village while gradually being terrorized by rape-happy rapscallions.
The original film also featured a lengthy rape scene in which Amy appears to submit willingly to Charlie midway through the assault. According to Bosworth, who is rumored to have gone nude for the part, the remake remains “bold” and is “not watered down in the parts that people are going to be curious about.”
Straw Dogs bullies its way into theaters on Sept. 16.
The first official trailer for DreamWorks revamp of the 1985 horror-comedy Fright Night has hit the web. Directed by Craig Gillespie from a script by “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” producer/writer Marti Noxon, the remake stars Anton Yelchin as Charlie Brewster, a high school teen convinced his new neighbor is a vampire.
The cast also includes Colin Farrell as vampire Jerry, Imogen Poots as Charley’s girlfriend Amy, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as “Evil” Ed Thompson, Toni Collete as Charley’s mom, David Tennant as vampire-killer/Vegas magician Peter Vincent, and Sandra Vergara (Sophia’s sister) as Vincent’s insanely hot assistant.
Director Frankie Latina is assembling quite a motley crew of actors to star in Skinny Dip, his comedic ode to exploitation cinema. The cast currently includes former porn star Sasha Grey, ’70s sex-pot Pam Grier, reality show tragedy Brigitte Nielson, tough guys Michael Madsen and Bill Moseley, and everyone’s favorite Mexi-can Danny Trejo.
The film stars Grey as a nice girl who on a dare goes for nude swim and gets caught up in a storm that delivers her to the beach where a group of college football players have gathered to party and gang-rape.
When local law enforcement fails to provide justice, she takes matters into her own hands—which brings us to the film’s tagline: “They took her bikini. They took her virginity. She took her revenge.”
Production on the rape/revenge thriller is set to begin next month in Santa Marta, Colombia.
HBO has finally released a trailer for the upcoming fourth season of its vampire soap “True Blood” that provides a peek at what’s to come. Normally, I’d give you a recap of where the show left off, but—for the life of me—I just can’t remember. It was good though … just like your sister.
Actress Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween) is set to join Michael Biehn (The Victim) and Frances Fisher (The Roommate) in writer/director Simon Foster’s blackout thriller The Darkness. The project will roll camera on June 8 in Louisiana.
The synopsis reads:
When the world is plunged into darkness, Greg Stonehaven has to somehow get to his children two hundred miles away.
All forms of communication have stopped working. No cell phones, no Internet, no television, and to make matters worse the absence of sunlight is resulting in regular power failures as the electrical grid struggles with unprecedented demand.
It soon completely fails. People are confused and very frightened and their only sources of artificial light will soon run out.
Compton’s horror creds include the AfterDark 8 Films to Die For entry Wicked Little Things and the Butcher Brothers’ remake of the 1986 comedic-slasher April Fool’s Day. The pretty 22-year-old, however, is best known for taking on the iconic role of Laurie Strode in Rob Zombie’sHalloween and Halloween 2 re-imaginings.
Professional cock-accessory Alexis Texas makes her mainstream movie debut in Breaking Glass Pictures and Vicious Circle Films’ low-budget horror comedy Bloodlust Zombies. The gorgeous 25-year-old performer, best known for her big ass and totally understandable fear of black cock, plays a research lab survivor trying to escape a viral outbreak.
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The film’s official synopsis reads:
Like typical 9-to-5 cubicle dwellers, the workers at Zlantoff Industries are just counting down the minutes and seconds by the end of the day. And just like any office, mishaps are bound to happen: spilt coffee, jammed fax machines … mutant viral outbreaks.
When a chemical spill in the lab on an otherwise uneventful weekday puts the office on emergency lockdown, the staff unwittingly becomes the first test subjects for an experimental, biological weapon – and if the mutant virus doesn’t spur cannibalistic murder, the passive aggressive office banter will.
Bloodlust Zombies is a rollercoaster ride of sex, gore and action.
Alexis Texas is the star of such romantic fare as Anal Buffet 5, Bikini Clad Cum Sluts, Valley of the Facesitters, and Destination Tonsils 2 (the Empire Strikes Back of the series). She is part of the growing number of fuck-performers making the jump to indie-horror (See: Riley Steele, Jasmine St. Claire, Belladonna, Maria Lapiedra, Sora Aoi and Sasha Grey).
Breaking Glass Pictures is the studio behind Half Moon, a werewolf frightener starring porn star and Penthouse Pet Tori Black. Bloodlust Zombies arrives on DVD on July 5.
Actress Katie Aselton, best known for her comedic role as Jenny MacArthur on FX’s fantasy-football series “The League,” is set to star and direct an all-girl thriller written by husband and “League” costar MarK Duplass (Cyrus).
Black Rock follows a group of vacationing girlfriends as their private island getaway turns horrific when they discover that they’re not alone. Joining Aselton on screen are Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) and Lake Bell (Burning Palms).
Says Aselton (via press release):
I grew up watching classic suspense films and have long had the idea of making a girl-based thriller where the threat to the characters is very real, and the audience is left with the terrifying thought ‘this could happen to me.
Exploring that kind of movie excites me as a filmmaker, and I am elated to have Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth alongside me on the journey.
Aselton made her directorial debut last year with the relationship comedy The Freebie. The 32-year-old former beauty queen will also return for season three of “The League.”
Bosworth recently wrapped Sony Screen Gems’ remake of Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 home-invasion thriller Straw Dogs, in which she’s rumored to go nude. Bell, who starred on NBC’s sea-monster series “Surface,” will next be seen in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.
If some sadistic psycho told you that your wife and her lover were buried six feet under ground in a pine box with only 75-minutes worth of oxygen to breathe, would you risk your life to rescue the two-timing hussy or would you pour a bowl of Froot Loops and sit down to watch some HBO?
If you’re the cuckold clown in Kipp Tribble and Derik Wingo’s ridiculously plotted thriller Coffin, you do the former. Take a peep:
The film’s synopsis reads:
A masked stranger reveals to Jack that his estranged wife and her lover are buried underground in a wooden box and their oxygen will run out in 75 minutes. He must engage in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the masked stranger in order to save his wife…and himself.
This film just makes no sense to me. What guy would ever save both his cheating wife’s life and that of the man fucking her? A more realistic scenario would have been to have the guy’s wife buried underground with his mistress.
Yes, they’d be upset upon meeting each other—but, after facing death, they’d surely be up for some three-way action with the guy who just pulled them away from death’s clutches. Now, that’s the kind of realism they just don’t teach kids at film school.
Coffin stars Kevin Sorbo (Sorority Party Massacre), Sunny Doench (Downloading Nancy), Bruce Davison (“Ghost Whisperer”), Moksha McPherrin (Catacombs), Johnny Alonso (“Dawson’s Creek”), Candace Kita (Barb Wire), Luke Barnett (“MANswers”), and Patrick Barnitt.
After headlining the sappiest shark movie ever made, AnnaSophia Robb is diving into darker waters for her next project. The young Soul Surfer star is joining Aaron Eckhart (Battle: Los Angeles) and Sean Bean (“Game of Thrones”) in Pan, director Ben Hibon’s twisted reimagining of the classic Peter Pan tale.
Set in the present, Pan finds former detective Hook (Eckhart) on the trail of a childlike predator with the help of his one remaining ally on the force, Det. Smee (Bean). Robb is playing Wendy, one of Pan’s surviving victims eager to leave a mental asylum to aid in his capture.
Production is slated to begin in Eastern Europe come October.
