A trailer has gone online for Geostorm, an environmental disaster flick from producer-turned-first-time-director Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Godzilla) for Warner Bros. and Skydance Media. Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Andy Garcia, Eugenio Derbez, and stunners Abbie Cornish and Katheryn Winnick (pictured) provide the star power.
A global geostorm is set to wipe humanity off the earth when satellites designed to control the climate go bonkers, forcing satellite engineer Jake Lawson (Butler) to leave his insanely hot ex-wife (Winnick) and their daughter behind – again! – and go into space to fix the problem. Garcia plays the President, Harris the Secretary of State, Sturgess Jake’s brother, and Cornish a hot federal agent.
Australian streaming service Stan has begun production on season two of “Wolf Creek,” a serial adaptation of Greg McLean’s 2005 slasher, starring John Jarratt as colorful outback killer Mick Taylor. POP, a joint venture between entertainment giants CBS and Lionsgate, will once again broadcast the show in the U.S.
The new season will run six episodes and finds Mick Taylor terrorizing a bus load of tourists on holiday. Jarratt reprises the role of Mick Taylor. New blood includes Matt Day, Ben Oxenbould, Stephan Hunter, Chris Haywood, “Animal Kingdom’s” Laura Wheelwright and Alien: Covenant’s Tess Haubrich (pictured).
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We’ll join an amazing cast on a road trip of a lifetime, as they must draw on their inner strength to outwit the terrifying Mick Taylor. John Jarratt returns to take Mick’s dark arts to a whole new level, showcasing the beautiful and dangerous landscapes of the remote outback.
“Wolf Creek” debut last year on POP. Read Clatto’s review of season one here.
Remember Rachel Greene? Asshole daughter to the wonderful, lifesaving Dr. Mark Greene on “ER?” Well, actress Yvonne Zima is all growns up now and starring in The Monster Project, a found-footage thriller about a group of young filmmakers looking to interview people who claim to be monsters for YouTube fame.
Things get out of hand when the three subjects they speak to turn out to be a skinwalker, a vampire, and a demon – all having a bad day on the eve of a lunar eclipse. Victor Mathieu (CarnieVille) directs what looks to be a pretty fun flick. The Monster Project arrives in selected theaters and VOD Aug. 18.
Aussie stunner Teresa Palmer will always be our genre girlfriend. Coming off David F. Sandberg’s exceptional Lights Out and this year’s abduction thriller Berlin Syndrome – a role worthy of scoring Palmer placement in Clatto’s esteemed Best Nude Acting annals, Palmer can now be seen in Paul Currie’s sci-fi thriller 2:22.
Written by Currie and Nathan Parker (Moon),2:22 tells the story of an air traffic controller who experiences patterns of chaotic déjà vu at the same time of day every day since nearly causing the aerial collision that got him suspended. Palmer plays a passenger on one of the planes whose life gets entangled with his and becomes endangered.
Well Go USA has set an Oct. 6 limited theatrical run and VOD release date for Better Watch Out, a home invasion frightener from Chris Peckover, writer and director of 2010’s timely and frightening immigration thriller Undocumented. Aussie stunner Olivia DeJonge toplines the film, formerly titled Safe Neighborhood.
Described as Scream meets Home Alone, Better Watch Out is set in a quiet American suburb during the Christmas holiday and stars DeJonge as a babysitter protecting herself and a 12-year-old boy from home invaders who are not what they seem.
Better Watch Out co-stars Levi Miller (Pan) as Luke, DeJonge’s charge, Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Patrick Warburton (”Seinfeld”) as Luke’s parents, and DeJonge’s The Visit co-star, Ed Oxenbould.
Strand Releasing has set a July 21 limited theatrical run for Mexican director Amat Escalante’s The Untamed, a pervy creature-feature masquerading as an art-house drama about infidelity, homophobia, misogyny, and tentacle porn!
The Untamed tells the story of a small town, working class woman (Ruth Ramos) married to an abusive brute who is having an affair with her brother and – yada, yada, yada – there’s a tentacled monster fucking people in a cabin in the woods. A stranger (Simone Bucio) brings news of this sexy beast to the woman and – yada, yada, yada – tentacle sex.
Open Water tells the true tale of an American married couple who while scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef are accidentally left behind by the dive boat. As the pair drift further away from the dive zone, they soon realize that the only ones coming for them are the maneaters below. The 2003 film is dreadful, terrifying, and arguably the best shark movie since Jaws.
2006’s Open Water 2: Adrift not so much.
Lionsgate is now ready to revive the franchise more than 10 years later with Open Water 3: Cage Dive, a Grindstone Entertainment shark thriller about a group of American tourists trapped at sea with great whites after tragedy sinks their boat while cage diving to shoot video for an Australian reality show.
Open Water 3: Cage Dive looks fun and promising. It’s co-written and directed by Gerald Rascionato and stars Aussie babe Megan Peta Hill as the bikini-clad person we will root for to survive. Look for it in selected theaters and VOD Aug. 11.
Lionsgate has set an Oct. 20 limited theatrical run and VOD release date for Leatherface, the newest entry in its Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise from celebrated Inside directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury and producers Lati Grobman (Embrace of the Vampire) and scream queen/ex-Playboy model Christa Campbell (Day of the Dead).
Leatherface plays as a prequel to the 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, providing an origins story for its iconic chainsaw-wielding madman – one of four escaped mental inmates who abduct a young nurse and take her with them on the lam as a pair of twisted Texas Rangers hunt them down on a personal mission of vengeance.
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Jessica Madsen, Sam Coleman, Sam Strike (“EastEnders”), and James Bloor (Dunkirk) play the escaped inmates – one of the latter two rumored to be young Leatherface. Newcomer Vanessa Grasse (pictured) is the abducted nurse and Finn Jones (“Game of Thrones”) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) the lawmen. Seth M. Sherwood penned the script.
Leatherface sounds awesome, especially with its promise of being a meaner sequel than 2013’s Texas Chainsaw 3D. Of course, the film to beat in the entire Texas Chainsaw Massacre canon, including the original, is producer Michael Bay and director Marcus Nispel’s 2003 remake, starring Jessica Biel.
Dimension Films has released a trailer for Polaroid, a supernatural thriller marking Norwegian director Lars Klevberg’s feature debut. Based on his acclaimed 2015 short, the story follows a high school loner who finds a vintage Polaroid camera capable of taking the lives of those whose photographs are taken.
Polaroid’s cast includes Mitch Pileggi (“X-Files”) and a photogenic group of young starlets, including Kathryn Prescott (“24: Legacy”), Madelaine Petsch (The Hive), Samantha Logan (“666 Park Avenue”), and standout stunner and newcomer Priscilla Quintana (pictured). Look for it Aug. 25.
Universal Home Entertainment has set an Oct. 3 home video release date for Cult of Chucky, the sixth sequel in its Child’s Play franchise. The film picks up after the events of 2013’s Curse of Chunky and finds its protagonist, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif), locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane, convinced she – not Chucky – murdered her family.
That all changes when her shrink introduces a Good Guy Doll to her therapy sessions and people start to die gruesome deaths. Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), Chucky’s first owner, is now grown up and determined to help Nica… if he can get past Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), Chucky’s cursed bride. Child’s Play creator and series writer Don Mancini directs with Brad Dourif once again providing the voice of Chucky.
