Filmmakers have taken multiple swings at the Lizzie Borden story for years, but never has an adaptation been more intriguing than screenwriter Bryce Kass’ lesbian take on the notorious tale of the 1892 hatchet murders of Andrew and Abby Borden by their daughter.
Directed by Craig William Macneill, taking a break from his fascination with nine-year-old schoolboy stories, Lizzie explores the brooding murderess’ backstory leading up to the slaughter of her parents and introduces a pretty family maid as her sympathetic lesbian lover.
Chloe Sevigny (“American Horror Story: Asylum”) and Kristen Stewart (Twilight Saga) topline the film as Lizzie Borden and young maid Bridget Sullivan, respectively. While we would have preferred Megan Fox or Bella Thorne in the role of Lizzie, but we understand at least one had to resemble a real lesbian.
Screw Santa… Twentieth Century Fox made every horror fans’ Christmas with the release of a first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. Set to release May 19, 2017, the Prometheus sequel/Alien prequel stars Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice), Demian Bichir (Hateful Eight), Amy Seimetz (You’re Next), Danny McBride (”Eastbound & Down”), James Franco and Michael Fassbender, back as David the android.
The official synopsis reads:
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN: COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS — and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction.
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
The trailer is exciting beyond words (the shower… not since Psycho, man!), which poses a wonderful problem for us in this post – namely, you just gotta see this damn thing for yourself!
A new trailer has gone online for Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness, a stylishly and eerie psychological thriller starring Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) as a young company executive sent to retrieve his CEO from a wellness center in the Swiss Alps, where strange experiments are being conducted on spa guests.
A Cure for Wellness looks masterful and creepy and marks Gore Verbinski’s return to horror since 2002’s fright classic The Ring. Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter) and Mia Goth (Nymphomaniac: Vol. II) co-star. Twentieth Century Fox Feb. 17, 2017.
Warner Bros. has released an announcement trailer for its upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s renowned sci-fi classic, Blade Runner 2049. Ryan Gosling stars as L.A.P.D. blade runner K and Harrison Ford reprises his role as original Replicant hunter, Rick Deckard.
The teaser is good and hearing Deckard tell K at gunpoint, “I had your job once. I was good at it,” is juicy bravado that makes us wish he’d pull that trigger and carry on for the remainder of the film.
Official synopsis reads:
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Clatto has a new crush and she stars in The Autopsy of Jane Doe, a supernatural thriller set in a small town morgue run by father and son coroners unaware of the horrors the female corpse on their table, murdered in a family massacre, is about to unleash on them.
Irish model-turned-actress Olwen Catherine Kelly plays Jane Doe in the film, directed by André Øvredal (Troll Hunter) from a script by Ian B. Goldberg (“Once Upon a Time”) and Richard Naing (”Dead of Summer”). Kelly doesn’t have any lines, but her performance has got tongues wagging among critics.
Sometimes I would only be on the slabs for a few hours, and sometimes it was essentially all day with just breaks as I needed them. So some days I was lying still, essentially for eight hours.
I remember definitely not wanting to twitch or to break anyone else’s concentration. There’s a lot going on around me, a lot of people working very hard, particularly the other actors. I was very aware that I was supposed to be lying there completely still.
Never mind the twitching! Considering Kelly was nude on the slab, we’re surprised the movie could be made at all. These must be some serious acting professionals. You can see them all when The Autopsy of Jane Doe arrives on VOD Dec. 20 and in theaters Dec. 21.
A teaser trailer has gone online for indie frightener Close Calls and it is truly an example of genius marketing, focusing on its bosom-heavy, butt cheek baring star as her evening with a tasty pizza and some ranch dressing is rudely interrupted by sinister forces.
The teaser will remind horror fans of the opening scene in Wes Craven’s Scream, but re-imagined with a lot more ass, courtesy of lead Jordan Phipps (pictured above).
Helmed by writer and director Richard Stringham in his feature film debut, Close Calls stars Phipps as a troubled teen left home with her grandmother by her father and forced to fend off a stalker obsessed with her big boobs and enormous ass – well, that’s why we think he’s obsessed with her.
Jackals tells the tale of teenage boy’s family seized by a homicidal cult in their cabin home when they rescue him from their evil, manipulating clutches. Set in the 80s, the film stars Deborah Kara Unger as the boy’s hot mother.
Unger is, of course, the gorgeous star of many noted thrillers, including David Fincher’s The Game, David Cronenberg’s Crash, the Silent Hill films, and the Michael Keaton frightener White Noise.
If Unger’s involvement in the project isn’t enough to lock you in, Jackals is helmed by Kevin Greutert, director of SAW: The Final Chapter and SAW VI, arguably the best entry in the SAW franchise since SAW II. He’s also directed the eerie ghost story Visions, starring Isla Fisher and Eva Longoria, and the terrifying creep show Jessabelle.
Twentieth Century Fox has released a first trailer for War for the Planet of the Apes, the third film in its Apes franchise reboot. The sequel finds rabble-rouser Caesar going ape shit over the slaughter of his simian brothers by a courageous colonel in the human army, played by Woody Harrelson in total ass-kicker mode.
The trailer sets up what’s at stake for apes and man in this war and promises an epic showdown that will hopefully put down those trouble-making monkeys for good. Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) is back at the helm with Andy Serkis topling as damn dirty ape Caesar.
Sony Pictures has released a first trailer for Spider-man: Homecoming, its eagerly anticipated web-slinger reboot with superhero hit machine Marvel Studios. Tom Holland (In the Heart of the Sea) seizes the Spidey reigns from it-wasn’t-my-fault-it-was-the-franchise-machine crybaby Andrew Garfield.
Holland made his debut as Spider-Man in the ridiculously overrated and blow-your-brains-out boring Captain America: Civil War, giving the overwrought flick its only worthwhile moment.. or so we imagine (we walked out). Spider-Man: Homecoming is directed by Jon Watts (Clown) and set during Spidey’s high school years.
The new Spider-Man/Peter Parker feels a lot more Tobey Maguire and less Andrew Garfield, which is good because you don’t get the urge to punch him in the hair.
Twentieth Century Fox has released a final trailer chockful of new footage for its movie adaptation of the Ubisoft video game Assassin’s Creed. Michael Fassbender plays Callum Lynch, a death row inmate and descendant of a secret society of assassins dedicated to stopping the Knights Templar.
A revolutionary technology allows for Callum to access his genetic memories and experience the adventures of his ancestor Aguilar in 15th century Spain. The film is directed by Justin Kurzel (Macbeth) and co-stars Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons. It arrives in theaters Dec. 21.
