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THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Trailer

Producer Joss Whedon and director/co-writer Drew Goddard have been coy about how The Cabin in the Woods turns the eponymous horror sub-genre on its head. The first trailer for the movie has gone online and now we can see what they meant. The Cabin in the Woods genre usually revolves around something supernatural with only a mystical explanation as a vague guide. Judging by the trailer, it looks like Whedon and Goddard have thrown together the scientific in the supernatural. It was an approach Whedon took in the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but instead of Frankenstein, Cabin looks something more along the lines of Hostel where hapless tourists are subjected to the sadistic whims of a shadowy organization. That organization also has forcefields.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.
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Yeah this has been done for a while, but unlike other movies that sit on a shelf for years this one was caught up in the death of a company and in limbo due to rights issues. By all acounts it's a good movie.
 
jerseydevil said:
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Trailer



Yeah this has been done for a while, but unlike other movies that sit on a shelf for years this one was caught up in the death of a company and in limbo due to rights issues. By all acounts it's a good movie.
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I was coming here to post this but as soon as I saw your name I knew it was futile. :becky: Intrigued by the trailer...
 
Hostel Part III (DVD) | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

Believe it or not this third film breathes some nice fresh air into the dank stuffy cells that came before it, and while not perfect by any means, it does enough right to be considered to be a worthy follow-up. Yes, the usual direct-to-video pitfalls are here, but given the amount of onscreen mayhem and a rather clever storyline, they're all pretty easy to forgive...

...Hostel Part III is way better than it has any right to be. Quick, fun, and blissfully brutal it stands head and shoulders above the usual direct-to-video sequels that are shoved down our throats at a steady pace. Given the flick's setting it's kind of fitting that it beat the odds. We love it when the house loses!
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Lowered expectations or is this really decent?
 
Save the Date! Monsterpalooza 2012 Scheduled for April 13th-15th! | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

That's right, all you West Coast monster fans! The date is set, and the roster of celebrities is already looking like a who's who of horror! The next Monsterpalooza: The Art of Monsters will be held April 13th-15th, 2012, at the Marriott Burbank Convention Center in Burbank, California. You have been warned!

Presented by Eliot Brodsky's The Rubber Room, Monsterpalooza: The Art of Monsters features award-winning F/X artists, horror genre celebrities, monster related artwork on display and for sale, special guests and presentations, and a walk-through monster museum! Just who are the special guests, you ask? Read on...

Amongst the F/X artists already scheduled to attend are: Ve Neill (Academy Award winning F/X artist of Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean), Michael Westmore (Academy Award winning F/X artist of "The Munsters," Rocky, Raging Bull, Mask, "Star Trek" series), Steve Johnson (Blade II, Ghostbusters, Fright Night), and Jordu Schell (creature designer and sculptor, Avatar, Galaxy Quest, 300, Hellboy, The Thing (2011)).

The list of horror celebs is also quite extensive already. Feast your peepers on this lineup: Tom Holland (director of Childs Play, the original Fright Night, The Langoliers as well as appearing in Hatchet II), Linnea Quigley (Night of the Demons, Return of the Living Dead), Howard Sherman (Bub from Day of the Dead, "Tales from the Darkside", "Star Trek Deep Space Nine"), Stephen Geoffreys (Fright Night (1985), 976-Evil, Heaven Help Us), William Ragsdale (Fright Night (1985)), Caroline Munro (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Maniac, The Abominable Dr. Phibes), Veronica Carlson (Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed), Thomas G. Waites (The Thing (1982), The Warriors), David Naughton (An American Werewolf in London), and many more to come!
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Well I know where I am taking Kingsqueen for her birthday...more bowling in to dark???? Yeah, I know how to treat a lady.
 
PIRANHA 3D Director Alexandre Aja to Helm Adaptation of Joe Hill’s HORNS

Could be decent. Aja has made pretty much crap since Haute tension(sorry Adge, I just wasn't real fond of Hills). The book itself needs some work. It has a great concept that, for a short book, wears thin after a bit. Hill(S.King's son) shows a lot of promise but needs to get some road miles on him before he can compete with his dad.

Here’s the synopsis for Joe Hill’s Horns:

“Ignatius Martin Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke the next morning with a headache, put his hands to his temples and felt something unfamiliar, a pair of knobby, pointed protuberances. He was so ill-wet-eyed and weak-he didn’t think anything of it at first, was too hung-over for thinking or worry. But when he was swaying over the toilet, he glanced at himself in the mirror above the sink and saw he had grown horns while he slept.

The second son of a renowned musician and doting mother, Ig Perrish has a privileged life and expectations of a bright future with his childhood sweetheart, Merrin Williams. But life takes an unexpected dark turn when Merrin is brutally killed and suspicion falls hard on Ig.

A year passes, but Ig is nowhere near over his grief or his rage . . . feelings that come to a head in a lost evening of alcohol and hate. When he wakes the next morning he discovers that he has undergone a surreal transformation, and is in possession of an incredible power. It isn’t long before he turns his terrible new abilities towards vengeance. Unfortunately Ig is about to learn that when it comes to revenge, the devil is in the details.”
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I haven't read Horns...yet. :/

And I still think that Haute Tension was one of the lamest movies that I've seen. And I've seen Paint Your Wagon. mhihi: :facepalm:
 
orpheus said:
I haven't read Horns...yet. :/

And I still think that Haute Tension was one of the lamest movies that I've seen. And I've seen Paint Your Wagon. mhihi: :facepalm:
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Horns is a good book. Worth a read. Luckily its short so it's not a chore but like that other book of his about the suit(Heart Shaped Box???) it's a little lite. What was so lame Orph about HT. It wasn't earthshattering but I thought it was solid, surely a hellova lot better than What Lies Beneath...once again, POOP...that's what lies beneath...lotsa POOP.
 
Neil Marshall to Direct HELLFEST

Director of such recent horror films as The Descent and Doomsday, Neil Marshall is looking to bring a little terror to your favorite family theme park. Marshall is currently in the early stages of discussion with CBS Films to direct their new horror project, Hellfest. The plot of Hellfest follows a costumed killer who singles out unsuspecting theme park attendees to slaughter on Halloween night. The studio plans to start production by the summer of 2012, making this Marshall’s next movie project. If successful, there are hopes to turn the project into a franchise to fill the void that has been left by the Saw, Final Destination and (hopefully) Paranormal Activity series. Hit the jump for more.

Deadline reports that Marshall is in talks to direct the project, his first since 2010’s Centurion. While Hellfest would be Marshall’s next movie, he is currently finishing up his directorial effort for “Blackwater,” an episode in the HBO series Game of Thrones, based on the popular series of novels by George R. R. Martin. The second season of Game of Thrones will start in April of 2012, with the Marshall-directed episode slated to be the ninth of the season.
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Marshall is brilliant. Awesome that he is doing an episode of GOT.
 
Little Deaths (DVD) | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

For those of you who may not like your horror on the perverse side, you'll want to skip Little Deaths. There is definitely a lot of incredibly disturbing and often shocking material offered up in the anthology, however all of it approached tastefully. Our trio of directors smartly shy away from using an overabundance of gore, letting audiences stew in their own juices about the horrors we're not seeing (particularly in "Bitch") and that's what makes the film so effective- once you see it, Little Deaths continues to resonate long after the credits have finished, making it a truly effective piece of filmmaking by Hogan, Parkinson and Rumley.

For the DVD release of the flick, Image doesn't really give fans a whole lot on the Little Deaths disc. We get a brief behind-the-scenes featurette and a trailer but that's about it. I really wish there would have been a commentary track at least for Little Deaths- considering the material and the bold performances in the flicks, I would have loved to hear more from Hogan, Parkinson and Rumley about their experiences making their segments and what went into their stories and the visuals within their films.

As an anthology, Little Deaths successfully embraces the world of taboos fearlessly- with sex and death being topics which have both mortified and intrigued audiences endlessly throughout the years. All in all, Little Deaths is tailor-made for edgier horror fans who enjoy stories that push the boundaries of conventional and classic genre storytelling but casual fans will definitely find the flick a bit hard to stomach in the end.
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sign me up.
 
Stitches Wraps! First Official Still! | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

From the Press Release
IT'S A WRAP! STITCHES is a Dark Sky Films original production in partnership with Fantastic Films and the Irish Film Board. Shooting wrapped this weekend in Dublin. The film stars popular British comedian Ross Noble and Tommy Knight of Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures and is directed by Conor McMahon (Disturbed, Dead Meat). STITCHES is the macabre story of Richard 'Stitches' Grindle, a jaded workaday kids' birthday clown, whose one-liners are witty in a way that's just not for kids. Stitches falls victim to a fatal party mishap at the hands of a group of particularly nasty children. Years later, the group of now teenagers attend a party at which Stitches is the uninvited guest of honor, returning to avenge his untimely death.
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Prolly gonna be mediocre, but...CLOWN!!!!!!!
 
Make a Date with Ti West's The Innkeepers in Theatres This February! | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

Finally we have a rock solid release date so that you can plan on enjoying all of the ghostly goodness that Ti West's latest fright flick, The Innkeepers, has to offer where it was meant to be seen ... in a darkened theatre on a big-ass screen!

Magnet will release The Innkeepers as part of its Ultra VOD program, launching the film on all digital VOD platforms on December 30th, with a theatrical release in major markets on February 3rd, 2012. MPI Media Group will be handling the film's home video release. More soon!

The movie stars Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, and George Riddle.

Synopsis
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees - Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.
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Innkeepers, The (2011) | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

Ti West’s new one, The Innkeepers, is essentially the Scary Maze Game of the 2011 SXSW Film Festival. It’s a feature-length prank of sorts that draws you in, holds your attention, and then ultimately scares the **** out of you at the last second. That might sound like a bad thing, but it’s not. West succeeds in creating a true horror comedy - one that makes you laugh out loud and jump out of your seat - and that’s not an easy thing to accomplish considering you can probably count on one hand the films that actually succeed at both.

The question is - How can you play with the cliches and conventions of the ghost story without actually becoming the very thing you’re dancing around and trying to avoid? You have to have truly dynamic characters to make it work, and the likable duo of Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) as the last two desk clerks at the all-but-forgotten Yankee Pedlar Inn are the perfect guides for the roller coaster ride of a film Ti West and Glass Eye Pix have orchestrated.

You don’t mind that the two keep leaving each other alone at the worst possible times because it’s played for laughs; when Claire goes down to the creepy basement AGAIN, you forgive her stupidity because she’s just so damn adorable. Kelly McGillis, as a new age actress well past her prime, adds to the proceedings as well, and her character’s involvement in the final act of the film really kicks off the harrowing last twenty minutes where the scares become genuine.
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Personally, haven't seen this, but West is a bit pompous, and HOTD was overrated. Heard this is ok, but not much to it. I'll see it when I get a chance though.
 


Screen Gems to Adapt Short VIRAL Into a Feature Film

Viral is an 11-minute tale about a cyberbully that incorporates supernatural elements. Hit the jump more info on the short, plus a trailer.





Here’s the syopsis posted on the Facebook page for Viral:


“Julia and Alexis are supposed to be studying. But Alexis gives in to the temptation to go online and provoke someone… or something… that should have been left alone.”

Susco explained what he likes about Schechmeister’s work.


“It strikes at the modern social media anxiety that really hits a hot nerve in this country. How young people communicate is changing and technology is altering the tenor of that communication—in many cases for the worse. And this is an opportunity to do something scary and really potent at the same time.”
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