XLrator Media sends Good Tidings this holiday season with the Dec. 6 VOD release of director Stuart W. Bedford’s new Santa slasher. The film tells the Christmas story of a downtrodden war veteran who must rely on his old survival skills to save everyone inside a homeless shelter from three murderous Santas.
The plot sounds good and the Santas are frightening and while production is modest, Good Tidings’ grittiness makes it look even more disturbing.
Our first glimpse of Vanessa Angel came in 1985’s Spies Like Us in which the then 19-year-old British stunner made her movie debut as a Russian soldier memorably emerging from a tent in a tiny white bikini and fur hat.
She tickled our funny boner again 11 years later as trophy wife Claudia in the Farrelly Brothers’ underrated classic Kingpin (pictured above) and USA’s “Weird Science” adaptation. We’ve been jonsing for more Angel since!
Now comes news of Angel starring in Behind the Walls, a haunted house thriller presented from the P.O.V. of the ghosts that inhabit the dwelling and that are out to spook Angel and her family when they move in.
“Dollhouse” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star Eliza Dushku returns to horror in director Robert Legato’s Eloise, an asylum set supernatural thriller written by Vatican Tapes scribe Christopher Borrelli about a group of friends trespassing in an abandoned loony bin where they meet a terrible fate.
Dushku came to fame as “Scooby Gang” member Faith on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spinoff “Angel,” but is also known for her roles in 2003’s hillbilly classic Wrong Turn and the popular, but short-lived sci-fi series “Dollhouse,” which reunited her with “Buffy” creator Joss Whedon.
IFC Midnight has released a new trailer for 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.
The film is directed by André Øvredal (Troll Hunter), making his English language debut from a script by Ian B. Goldberg (“Once Upon a Time”) and Richard Naing (“Dead of Summer”). Brian Cox (Braveheart) and Emile Hirsch (Lone Survivor) are father and son and Irish stunner Olwen Catherine Kelly plays Jane Doe.
Orion Pictures and Blumhouse Tilt have released a red-band trailer for The Belko Experiment, an office-set survival frightener helmed by Wolf Creek director Greg McLean and penned by Guardians of the Galaxy writer/director James Gunn.
The Belko Experiment takes place in an American corporate office in South America taken over by mysterious captors who threaten to slaughter employees if they don’t kill one another in a bizarre game of survival. Hmm… still better than the company holiday potluck if you ask us.
Life’s a bitch for animal shelter employee Seth. He’s just run into the crush of his life and she’s still as hot and unattainable as ever. He does his best to win her over, but his best is creepy and reeks of desperation – so much so he can’t even score after taking her hostage and locking her in a dog cage!
Pet stars Dominic Monaghan (“LOST”) as Seth and Ksenia Solo (“Orphan Black”) as Holly, the unusually rabid object of his misguided affections. Carles Torrens (Apartment 143) directs from a script by Jeremy Slater (“The Exorcist”). Pet arrives in selected theaters and VOD on Dec. 2 and on DVD Dec. 27.
Jaclyn Betham is set to be a horror fan’s new crush with a starring role in the indie frightener Getaway Girls. The ballerina-turned-actress plays a woman abducted by a backwoods cult during a lakeside retreat with her hot BFFs.
Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween) and Landry Allbright (Cameron Poe’s daughter in Con Air) play the hot friends in the film, which marks the directorial debut of Lane Toran, Betham’s husband and the voice of Arnold in the animated series “Hey Arnold!”
Betham made her horror debut in the frighteningly awful Tyler Perry created cable series “The Haves and the Have Nots.” She can also be seen in the satirical slasher Ulterior Motives: Reality TV Massacre.
There are strip joints throughout this great country of ours where the dancers do not look like what you would expect and the patrons are anything but gentlemen. Indie darling Bel Powley (Diary of a Teenage Girl) plays Cherry, one such stripper in the alternate reality thriller Detour.
Cherry is the troubled girlfriend of a violent criminal who’s volunteered them to carry out vengeance for a man who blames his stepfather for the accident that has left his mother in a vegetative state. Christopher Smith, director of awesome fright indies Severance, Triangle, and Black Death is at the helm.
Sarah Shahi has always been a person of interest for us since we first caught glimpse of her cuffed in a compromising position by Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 3 and as sexy lesbian DJ Carmen de la Pica Morales on Showtimes’ “The L Word.”
Of course, true love didn’t come until Shahi joined CBS police procedural and AI sci-fi drama “Person of Interest” as sexy and brooding, bisexual government assassin Dr. Sameen Shaw. Now, we’ll watch her pick her nose sitting on a chair if that were all that’s available.
Hangman finds Shahi playing a police captain overlooking a case involving a decorated homicide detective (Al Pacino) and a criminal profiler (Karl Urban) on the trail of a serial killer obsessed with the childhood game of Hangman. Complicating matters is the crime journalist shadowing them (Brittany Snow).
If you thought Wes Craven’s Scream taught you everything you needed to know to survive the trappings of a horror film in real life, you clearly overthought things. When it comes to not getting murdered by a monster or a dude in a burlap sack, you only need to know one thing… Don’t Fuck in the Woods.
Part PSA, part creature-feature throwback, Don’t Fuck in the Woods is gruesome, good fun from the mind of some guy named Shawn Burkett. The flick follows a group of college graduates attempting to survive the evil they unleash when they recklessly tempt the fates by fucking in the woods.
Head to Concept Media Films’ website to buy Don’t Fuck in the Woods on DVD or Blu-ray!
