Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming original series “Mindhunter.” Produced by Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theronand acclaimed director David Fincher (Se7en), the show is based on retired FBI profiler John Douglas and novelist Mark Olshaker’s book, Mind Hunter:Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit.
“Mindhunter”recounts Douglas’ experiences tracking down serial killers and rapists while pioneering profiling techniques used by the Bureau today. He was the inspiration for agent Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter novels and the Frank Black character in Chris Carter’s “Millennium” series.
Douglas has profiled such noted monsters as JohnWayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz (aka: Son of Sam), Charles Manson, James Earl Ray, Edmund Kemper (aka: the Coed Killer), Richard Speck, and countless others.
“Mindhunter” premieres Oct. 13 on Netflix. It stars Jonathan Groff (”Glee”), Holt McCallanay (Alien3), Cotter Smith (You Don’t Know Jack), Hannah Gross (”Unless”), and “Fringe’s” Anna Torv (pictured).
Our first look at Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is finally here. Based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline, the adaptation is absolutely epic and finds Spielberg in his wheelhouse – so expect Jurassic Park thrills, E.T. heart, and A.I. ambition and none of that latter-day political/historical snooze-shit!
Set in 2045, the world has gone to shit and its population has taken refuge at OASIS, a virtual universe with real rewards created by an eccentric genius whose death triggers a global competition to find a digital Easter egg granting control of OASIS to its winner.
Tye Sheridan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) plays hero Wade Watts, a young and impoverished 80s aficionado looking to win the game to keep its world accessible to everyone and away from greedy big business.
Movie and gaming icons populate OASIS and are fun to spot in the trailer (we spy with our virtual eye Iron Giant, Freddy Kruger, Duke Nukem, the Back to the Future Delorean, A-Team van, Stephen King’s Christine, and Joust ostrich!). Ready Player One arrives in theaters March 30, 2018.
A trailer has gone online for season two of Netflix original series and water-cooler sensation “Stranger Things.” Picking up about a year after the events of season one, the show finds 12-year-old Upside-Down abductee Will Byers having visions of a new monster coming to destroy the people of Hawkins.
Set to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the trailer quickly touches on the 80’s nostalgia that made the show so fun while simultaneously flexing its bigger, scarier horror muscle. Everything looks so damn good and creepy, it’s easy to forget Eleven … until she pops up and nearly steals the whole thing!
HBO released today a trailer for season two of “Westworld,” a re-imagining of the 1973 Michael Crichton classic about androids run amok in an amusement park designed for humans to indulge in their lust for blood and sex.
The show won’t return until 2018, but the footage revealed is new and provides a peek at the aftermath Westworld faces now that its cyborg hosts have achieved awareness and begun a revolution against their human handlers. Ironically, humanity’ best play at survival will be in the hands of The Man In Black.
AMC released a first trailer for season eight of “The Walking Dead” this week and it is five minutes of intense action, gruesome gore, and everything awesome and fun that makes us shit our pants! The footage teases the pending war between Rick Grimes and his growing alliance and big bad Negan and his Saviors.
The feuding footage is pure whiteknuckle and the zombie action will put a smile on your face, but it’s the scenes bookending the trailer that raises eyebrows: Father Gabriel at the mercy of Negan and some walkers; a drastically aged Rick awakening from a deep slumber in what appears to be a hospital room.
“Games can be won,” says a defiant Laura Vandervoort in the first official trailer for Jigsaw, the eighth film in Lionsgate’s record-breaking SAW franchise. It’s a nice bit of bravado, but can Vandervoort outmaneuver John “Jigsaw Killer” Kramer’s work? Don’t make me laugh like Billy the puppet on his tricycle!
Jigsaw is back and the games are starting again! But, how? Kramer’s dead. Copy cat killer? Jigsaw cult? It doesn’t matter! The traps are gruesome and inspired and hearing Tobin Bell’s voice again will put a smile on your face ten miles wide.
Jigsaw is helmed by Michael and Peter Spierig (Daybreakers) and written by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg (Piranha 3D) and creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell. It arrives in theaters Oct. 27!
Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween) stars in composer-turned-director Rich Ragsdale’s (“King of Queens”) feature film debut Ghost House, a creepy supernatural thriller set around a newly engaged couple tormented by a malevolent spirit after desecrating its resting place while vacationing in Thailand.
Ghost Houses are small shrines built to comfort the spirits of the dead. Shit hits the fan when they hook up with a snarky gay British couple to photograph abandoned countryside ghost houses and are convinced to steal a keepsake, unleashing the wrath of a murdered woman.
Ghost House arrives in selected theaters and VOD Aug. 25.
Production has wrapped on The Strangers 2, the long gestating sequel to Bryan Bertino’s terrifying 2008 home invasion classic. Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) is now at the helm with a script penned by Bertino and Ben Ketai (30 Days of Night: Dark Days).
I love the first one. I think it’s a super cool movie,” he said. “It’s really smartly put together and I think [Bertino] did a really good job of creating a really oddly paced movie. In a good way.
You know, people have played with the whole mask thing since then… they haven’t really done that sort of pacing, and set it in a drama, or the feel the first one had.
So it’s a great opportunity to try something a little different, for me. There’s a real grounded drama. You really buy into this family and the journey they’re going through before everything goes horribly wrong.
Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”) stars as the immensely busty matriarch of a family stranded at an abandoned trailer park and tormented by masked killers – Pin-up Girl (Lea Enslin), Dollface (Emma Bellomy), Man in the Mask (Damian Maffei) – during an ill fated road trip.
Lewis Pullman (Aftermath) plays Hendricks’ husband and Bailee Madison (”Trophy Wife”) is their flat chested daughter. The film is slated for a 2018 release.
Lionsgate has released a trailer for Leatherface, the eighth entry in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. Celebrated Inside directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are at the helma. Lati Grobman (Embrace of the Vampire) and scream queen/ex-Playboy model Christa Campbell (Day of the Dead) produce.
Leatherface is 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.
Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for Blade Runner 2049, its upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s renowned 1982 sci-fi classic. The film is helmed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) and written by Hampton Fancher (Blade Runner) and Michael Green (Logan).
Ryan Gosling stars as L.A.P.D. blade runner K and Harrison Ford reprises his role as original replicant hunter, Rick Deckard. Jared Leto plays replicant creator Neander Wallace. Cuban stunner Ana de Armas, a 2015 Best Nude Acting honoree for her role in Knock Knock, is the film’s female lead, Joi.
