Shooting is underway on the supernatural thriller Compound Fracture, starring Tyler Mane (Halloween), Derek Mears (Friday the 13th) and Muse Watson (I Know What You Did Last Summer).
Mane is producing the film under his Mane Entertainment production banner. Written by Renae Geerlings and Tyler Mane, the film is directed by A.J. Rickert-Epstein. The cast also includes Dan Roebuck, Todd Farmer, Renae Geerlings, Alex Saxon, and Susan Angelo. In it, a shattered family with an ailing patriarch must heal old wounds in order to escape a high-tech compound haunted by the vengeful ghost of their past.
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Universal Home Entertainment sent along a few photos from its March 6 DVD and Blu-ray release, Columbus Circle, which streets on March 6th. Amy Smart, Selma Blair, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Lee and Beau Bridges star.
In order to escape the hounding public and press, Abigail (Blair), the famous daughter of a wealthy industrialist, secluded herself in her Manhattan loft on the day she received her enormous inheritance – her eighteenth birthday. Sequestered at the top of the Columbus Circle luxury apartment high-rise, Abigail remained seemingly secure for nearly 20 years until the day her elderly neighbor was suddenly slain. Abigail’s world is now disrupted by strange new neighbors and a police investigation that brings the inquisitive and intrusive NYPD Homicide Detective Frank Giardello (Ribisi) to her door. Peering anxiously through her peephole each day, Abigail soon learns that the dangerous new tenants, Lillian Hart (Smart) and Charles Stratford (Lee), may threaten more than just her privacy.
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Rob Zombie let loose another still from The Lords of Salem, his tale of witchcraft - from the producers of Paranormal Activity - that is currently in post-production. You'll find the photo after the jump.
Zombie, who posted the pic on his Facebook page, explains, "Here is a really odd moment from The Lords of Salem. Local Salem TV host Lobster Joe (Christopher Knight) gets ready to entertain the kiddies as his camera assistant (Barbara Crampton) checks her light meter."
Can we all agree that Crampton is still looking incredible? Daaaamn.
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Pillay-Evans Productions and producer Adam Stephe Kelly are pairing up to remake the 1960s British horror film, The City of the Dead, or, as it was known in the U.S., Horror Hotel.
S.J. Evans (Tattoos: A Scarred History) is on board to write and direct.
“The remake of The City of the Dead will stay true to the original and concentrate on atmosphere and good old fashioned storytelling, instead of relying on gore or CGI to move the plot along," says Evans. "I grew up watching the classic Universal horrors and was inspired by how the likes of James Whale created this sense of dread and unease with just a look. I want to bring that style of filmmaking back to the big screen instead of another music video, quick-cut horror film. We are all very excited by the prospect of bringing one of the greatest witchcraft films ever made to a new audience and know that fans of the original will be satisfied with the effort we are making to honour this classic.”
The original starred Christopher Lee, Venetia Stevensen and Patricia Jessel. Head inside for more details and a NSFW piece of promotional art!
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SEGA has unveiled a new trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines entitled "Contact" on IGN. To put it simply, this game cannot get here soon enough. The preview begins with a dead xenomorph, then follows drops of its acidic blood as it cascades through multiple layers of a ship until it reaches its final destination.
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Outsider Pictures today announced the acquisition of the international hit Juan of the Dead for U.S. theatrical distribution in the United States.
As previously announced, Focus World, the unique digital distribution initiative owned and operated by Focus Features, will release the movie later in 2012 to EST, iVOD and VOD, along with DVD and other formats.
“It’s a satirical look at the present day streets of the controversial regime and we’re excited to add it to our diverse catalogue of films.” said Paul Hudson, co-founder of Outsider Pictures. “And it’s a great zombie film too!”
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Found footage never went away, it has always been here, contrary to the mainstream media’s claims that “found footage” films are smokin’ hot courtesy of The Devil Inside successful opening weekend. And I’ve waxed philosophical before here on Shock as to why audiences are fascinated with this narrative device.
Some of it has to do with the curiosity and arousal one gets watching home videos on You Tube where the element of voyeurism is amplified. Found footage – as far as horror films are concerned – eliminates the need for polished visuals, allowing filmmakers to get creative; however, on an audience level, the raw nature serves a more plausible connective tissue between the screen and the viewer, opening the door for immeasurable ways to create frights. Take Neil Marshall’s The Descent, for instance. It’s by no means a found footage film, but what is the one scene that elicits the biggest jump? When Marshall employs the use of a home video camera, in night vision mode, and in a frantic state, the frame finds a creature lurking just over another character’s shoulder.
Found footage is here to stay, at least until movie-goers completely dismiss the sub-genre. Then it may go into hibernation, only to be rejuvenated years later. For now, with Chronicle opening on February 3, I thought we could look ahead at what is to come.
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Neil LaBute's 2006 take on The Wicker Man has evolved from "wow, that's a terrible remake" to, well, a number of things...
A gem to purveyors of bad cinema. A clip reel of star Nicolas Cage's acting spiraling out of control. A great source for those who like to create animated GIF files of Cage being attacked by bees...or dressing like a bear and punching someone out. Oh, then there's Cage kicking Leelee Sobieski across a room. Yeah, that's a good one.
While a sequel to the redo is highly unlikely, Cage believes there's some material to explore in a follow-up.
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According to Q, if you break down a narrative you will find at its heart seven essential conflicts: man against man, man against nature, man against himself, man against God, man against Society, man caught in the middle, and man and woman. Any one of these is more than enough grist for a storyteller's mill, and has been the root for our most archetypal narratives.
Or you could go the other way and try to jam as much of that as you can into one plot, the way Joe Carnahan (The A-Team) has done in his modern Jack London-like adventure, The Grey.
John Ottway (Liam Neeson) is a master at going his own way and has done so for probably his entire life, as far as we can tell from the small snippets we get at it. A soldier, or possibly even a mercenary or terrorist (we'll never know for sure), in his early life, in the loneliness of middle age he now finds himself a professional killer of a different stripe tasked with keeping wolves and other predators from attacking oil field workers in the frozen wasteland of northernmost Alaska. A place, in Ottway's estimation, fit only for men who have discovered they can't live in the civilized world. That's an assumption which will be tested for him and a small group of oil workers who survive a plane crash and must make their way through the elements away from a pack of territorial wolves and back to safety.
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Toy and collectible companies love to milk the hell out of James Cameron's Aliens. Or, I should say, the Alien franchise. We've see model kits, statues and action figures based on the series. Some good. Some bad. But when it comes to Sideshow Collectibles, it's all good. Today, the company teased a new Alien warrior statue that will be fully revealed on January 31. Head inside for a look at the photo.
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I'm a HUGE fan of Eric Powell's The Goon. Being a fan of monster flicks and a native southerner, I can't help but love every aspect of this comic. So, of course when the news of a Goon movie hitting the big screen I was ecstatic.
That was almost four years ago.
"Development Hell" is a scary place, so many cool things get stuck there and sometimes never see the light of day. Now it seems like our ill-fated Goon might languish there...or maybe not.
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Here in the U.S., Sony, to date, has predominantly released a large batch of screen grabs from the trailer for Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance to the press. A few on-set publicity pics have been offered as well, but we would prefer to see those over screen grabs. Overseas, it's another story and Kinopoisk, a Russian film site, has received a batch of never-before-seen images. We've collected them here for you.
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