Sony Pictures and Skydance Media have released a trailer for Life, a star-studded sci-fi thriller from director Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool). Cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine), and stunner Rebecca Ferguson (The Girl On the Train).
The film follows the crew of an international space station on the brink of discovering life on Mars. Unfortunately for them, that life is intelligent and deadly. The footage has a very cool Alien meets Gravity vibe. Reynolds is funny and Ferguson (pictured above) is always interesting to watch (did that sound creepy). Movie arrives May 26, 2017.
The 16th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival came to a close last week with the announcement of its Skully Award Show winners. The Pierce Brosnan produced thriller My Father Die took home Best Picture and Best Director honors for writer/director Sean Brosnan.
“Big Bang Theory” star Johnny Galecki won Best Actor for his role in writer/director Babby Miller’s The Master Cleanse and Mimosa Williamo (tastiest name ever) earned Best Actress honors for acclaimed Finnish true-crime thriller Lake Bodom.
We were beyond bummed not to see Richard Bates Jr.’s Trash Fire recognized. Not only did the film feature powerful performances by leads Adrian Grenier (”Entourage”) and Angela Trimbur (The Final Girls), it arguably had one of the best dark comedy scripts in festival history.
The winners are:
Best Short – A Nearly Perfect Blue Sky Best Student Short – Pigskin – Jake Hammond Best Editing – Jason Eric Perlman & Sean Brosnan – My Father Die Best Actor – Johnny Galecki – The Master Cleanse Best Musical Score – Justin Small & Ohad Benchetrit – My Father Die Best Actress – Mimosa Williamo – Lake Bodom Best Makeup – Naomi Bakstad – The Master Cleanse Best Cinematography – Joe Dietsch – Happy Hunting Best Special FX – Nicholas Podbrey, Werner Pretorius & Creature FX Artists – The Master Cleanse Best Visual FX – George A. Loucas – The Master Cleanse Best Unproduced Screenplay – Plum Island – Matthew Lee Blackburn Best Director – Sean Brosnan – My Father Die Best Picture – My Father Die
Busty model Amber Jean is generating a healthy dose of buzz for Full Auto Films and Code 3 Films’ Christmas themed horror show, Massacre On Aisle 12. The movie follows a hardware store employee’s night when he discovers a dead body and a duffel bag of money on the job.
Massacre on Aisle 12 appears to be Jean’s movie debut. Aside from being a contestant on Latino network Telemundo’s sexy matchmaker game show “12 Corazones,” Jean’s creds are mostly of the modeling variety and can be perused on her website.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has set a Dec. 20 release date for DVD and Blu-ray editions of Rob Zombie’s 31, a Halloween-set survival frightener pitting a group of abducted carnie folks against murderous clowns hired to hunt and slaughter them by their mysterious abductors.
The 31 Blu-ray and DVD includes the two-hour making-of documentary, “In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn: The Making of 31,” and audio commentary from writer and director Rob Zombie.
The 31 cast is made up of Sheri Moon Zombie (Lords of Salem), Jeff Daniel Phillips (“Westworld”), Meg Foster (They Live), Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (”Welcome Back Kotter”), Richard Brake (Hannibal Rising), and Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange).
Twentieth Century Fox has released a trailer for Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness, a stylishly 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.
Well if its cheaper than the spa at The Wynn in Vegas, we’re all in no matter how creepy things get. A good Swedish butt rub is a good Swedish butt rub! A Cure for Wellness marks Verbinski’s return to horror since 2002’s fright classic The Ring and arrives in theaters Feb. 17, 2017.
Don’t Kill It will have its Los Angeles premiere Tuesday at the 16th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles, running through Oct. 27. Helmed by Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider), the supernatural actioner pairs Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) and Kristina Klebe (Halloween, 2007) as mismatched demon hunters out to save a small Alaskan town from an ancient evil.
The synopsis reads:
An ancient evil is unleashed in a small Alaskan town leaving a trail of death and destruction as it passes from host to host. The only hope of survival lies with a grizzled demon hunter (Lundgren) who has faced this terror before. Together with a reluctant FBI agent (Klebe) he has to figure out how to destroy a demon with the ability to possess its killer.
Lake Bodom will have its U.S. premiere tonight at the 16th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles, running through Oct. 27. The film is directed by Taneli Mustonen and inspired by the true 1960 unsolved murder of three teenage campers in a forest lake west of Helsinki, Finland.
Lake Bodom follows a new group of teenagers as they visit the campsite to reconstruct the murders in an attempt to solve the case, which has become a creepy urban legend passed down generation to generation. Things go badly when some of them are too zealous in their recreation of the horrifying events.
Screamfest presents Lake Bodom’s U.S. premiere at 8 p.m. tonight. Don’t miss the pre-screening cocktail reception at 6:30 p.m. where you can toss back a free drink with presentation of your ticket. For more info and tix, visit the Screamfest website.
Carla Gugino (Sin City) is set to star alongside Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek) in director Mike Flanagan’s (Ouija: Origin of Evil) film adaptation of the 1992 Stephen King novel “Gerald’s Game.” Produced for Netflix, production is underway in Mobile, Alabama.
Gugino plays Jessie Burlingame, unhappy trophy wife of successful attorney Gerald, who in an attempt to rekindle their romance takes her to their cabin in the woods to indulge in some kinky BDSM action. Things go badly and Jessie soon finds herself alone and tied to the bed, trapped.
Gugino is coming off the M. Night Shyamalan produced mystery series “Wayward Pines” and last year’s San Andreas. She’s starred in a long string of notable genre movies, but horror fans fell in love with the busty brunette when she popped up very naked in Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City.
Saxon Sharbino is one of five teens who download a smartphone app connecting them to a demon eager to feed on their fears in the Vang Brothers’ Bedeviled. Described as being in the vein of The Ring, Bedeviled holds its L.A. premiere tonight at Screamfest, the largest and longest running horror film festival in the U.S.
Bedeviled synopsis reads:
A group of friends download a Siri-like “App” which, at first, seems like a harmless way to get directions or a restaurant recommendation. But the sinister nature of the App soon reveals itself.
The App not only knows each person’s deepest, darkest fears, but is able to manifest these fears into the real world to literally scare the kids to death.
Sharbino made her feature film debut at 11 in the revenge thriller Red, White, & Blue and went on to hold roles in 2010’s I Spit On Your Grave remake and Julia X. A recurring role on Fox’s short-lived series “Touch” followed and she played the eldest daughter in 2015’s reboot of Poltergeist.
The Bedeviled screening will be followed by a Q&A and raffle giveaway. Get your tix at the Screamfest website.
Thandie Newton plays brothel madam Maeve on HBO’s “Westworld,” a re-imagining of the 1973 sci-fi classic about androids run amok in an amusement park for humans to indulge in their lust for blood and sex. Newton goes nude in the show’s second episode, “Chestnut.”
Though the nudity is handled tastefully and with a lot of regrettably strategic shadow, performing the scene appears to have put Newton in touch with the power of her vagina.
When I was naked, people were really respectful and in awe of my “bravery.” The thing about sexy, lacy undies is that you’re covering up the sacred stuff, so that you can forget about that. You’re inviting people to think about what’s underneath, but not see what’s underneath.
It’s the allure of the unknown. You’re inviting hysteria with your boobs that are nearly showing nipple and your skirt that’s nearly showing muff. You’re exciting this hysteria that leads to a lack of control, which then leads to, “It wasn’t my fault.”
But naked, I have all the power because I got there before you did, and what is actually there is vulnerable, life-giving and hasn’t been tampered with. I don’t wax or anything. All of the hosts have full body hair because it’s more period, and even that it shocking.
I haven’t done anything to try to invite you in to think about my clitoris, my labia or my vagina. I’ve left myself as I am. And that was really empowering.
