AMC has released a teaser for the second half of its ninth season of “The Walking Dead,” spotlightling Samantha Morton as Alpha, leader of The Whisperers — dead skin mask-wearing assholes who killed Jesus and apparently viewed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre one too many times before the apocalypse.
“The Walking Dead” returns on Feb. 10.
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Every Catholic school survivor knows you don’t fuck with nuns. Sabrina Kern learns this the hard way in St. Agatha, a new nunsploitation thriller from SAW 2 & 3 director Darren Lynn Bousman. Set in 1950’s Georgia, Kern plays a pregnant fugitive of the law seeking shelter at a creepy convent.
Carolyn Hennesy (“Dawson’s Creek”) plays the mother of mother superiors and is out to make Kern regret the day she stepped inside her hallowed halls. Uncork’d releases the film in selected theaters and VOD Feb. 8.
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Warner Bros. and Legendary released today a new trailer for for Michael Dougherty’s (Trick ‘r Treat) Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a sequel to the 2014 blockbuster originally helmed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters) and the third entry in a shared universe that includes last year’s Kong: Skull Island.
Arriving in theaters May 31, the film pits Godzilla against giant insect Mothra, winged beast Rodan, three-headed flying dragon King Ghidorah, and “Stranger Things” monster killer Eleven! Okay, we don’t know what Millie Bobby Brown will do in the movie, but you can’t help but want her to unleash some telekinetic wup-ass.
Also in mankind’s corner are milfy Vera Farmiga (”Bates Motel”), Sally Hawkins (Shape of Water), Ken Watanabe (Inception), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Ingrid Goes West) and Charles Dance (”Game of Thrones”).
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Cinedigm has set a Jan. 25 VOD and limited theatrical release date for Dead Ant, a horror-comedy from writer-director Ron Carlson about an aging hair-metal band battling giant ants while on the road to a big music festival in the hopes of pulling off the comeback performance of a lifetime.
Dead Ant stars Tom Arnold (True Lies), Jake Busey (”From Dusk Till Dawn”), Rhys Coiro (“Entourage”), Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), Leosha Hailey (”L-Word”), Cameron Richardson (Open Water 2: Adrift), Cortney Palm (Zombeavers), Joi Liaye (Prom Ride), and stunner Sydney Sweeney (“Handmaid’s Tale”).
The film held its world premiere at Sceamfest 2017. Read our review (spoiler alert: it rocks hard!) here.
Sony Pictures has released a trailer for Brightburn, a dark super villain origins tale from producer and beloved Hollywood degenerate James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) and director David Yarovesky (The Hive). It is slated for release May 24, 2019.
Stunner Elizabeth Banks (Hunger Games) and David Denman (“The Office”) topline the film as a rural couple who find an abandoned alien baby who doesn’t grow up to become Superman but an evil bastard with tremendous super powers.
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Petite stunner Lucy Hale is set to star in the Blumhouse big screen adaptation of ABC’s classic late-70s/early-80s iconic series Fantasy Island. Slated for release Feb. 28, 2020, the film is helmed by Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2) from a script he wrote with Jillian Jacobs (Truth or Dare) and Christopher Roach (Truth or Dare).
“Fantasy Island” centered on a magical island where visitors are granted their wildest wishes often to devastating results. Hale will play a guest to the island who is eager to have her fantasy fulfilled. She co-stars with Michael Pena (“Narcos: Mexico”), who plays the iconic Mr. Roarke – made famous by Ricardo Montalban.
Hale, best known for her role on teen soap “Pretty Little Liars,” is coming off the modest Blumhouse hit Truth Or Dare. She also co-starred in Wes Craven’s Scream IV.
A first trailer has gone online for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures‘ Happy Death Day 2U, a sequel to its hit doom-loop thriller about a college student reliving the day of her murder and attempting to identify the masked killer responsible.
Setto release Feb. 2019, Happy Death Day 2U will reveal the mystery behind the time loop while delving into time travel. Christopher Landon returns to helm with star Jessica Rothe reprising her role. New faces include Suraj Sharma (Life of PI) as a science geek and coder and Sarah Yarkin (”American Horror Story”) as his tomboy, nerdy cohort.
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Louisa Krause (“Girlfriend Experience”) co-stars alongside Val Kilmer (Tombstone) in The Super, a new thriller from Black Swan screenwriter John J. McLaughlin and “Law & Order” franchise producer Dick Wolf, arriving on DVD/Blu-ray Dec. 18.
The movie follows a retired and widowed cop and his bratty daughters as they move into the old New York apartment where dad will begin his new gig as superintendent. It’s not a bad deal until dead bodies start popping up and creepy Val Kilmer acts guilty as sin. Krause plays a hot tenant.
Horror fans may know Krause from the underrated thriller The Abandoned, in which she played a single MILF working night security at an abandoned luxury apartment complex to regain custody of her kid. Hooker fans may know her from STARZ’s “Girlfriend Experience,” in which she played a hot high-end prostitute.
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Keri Russell (Dark Skies) is set to star in Antlers, a recently announced supernatural thriller from producer Guillermo del Toro and director Scott Cooper (Black Mass) for Fox Searchlight. Russell plays a hot Oregon schoolteacher who takes an interest in a freakish boy with a deadly secret about the town.
Russell joins a cast that includes Jeremy T. Thomas (“Lore”), Jesse Plemons (“Breaking Bad”), Grahame Greene (Dances with Wolves), Rory Cochrane (White Boy Rick), and Amy Madigan (Uncle Buck). Cameras are currently rolling on the project.
Russell, best known for her breakthrough series “Felicity” and her most recent FX show “The Americans,” has starred in a small handful of genre films, including the blockbuster Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the lesser known, but awesome, Blumhouse alien thriller Dark Skies.
Eiza Gonzalez, the Mexican stunner who courageously stepped into Salma Hayek’s stilettos to play Satanico Pandemonium in Robert Rodriguez’s small screen adaptation of his 1996 vampire crime thriller From Dusk Till Dawn, is set to co-star in director Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong.
Gonzalez joins a cast that includes Rebecca Hall (The Gift), Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”), and Alexander Skarsgard (“True Blood”). The eagerly anticipated grudge match arrives in theaters May 22, 2020.
Lowly dogs, bow your heads for Gonzalez: