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Lily Collins to Star in THE EVIL DEAD Remake

Fede Alvarez? remake of Sam Raimi?s The Evil Dead has landed its first piece of major casting with Lily Collins (The Blind Side) in final negotiations to play the role of ?Mia?. Like the original, the new version centers on five friends who go to a remote cabin and unleash dark forces when they read from the Necronomicon. From there, the evil starts possessing each member of the group until only one remains and must fight for survival. Per Bloody Disgusting, Mia is headed to the cabin to detox after a recent overdose. Struggling with her new-found sobriety, ?she begins acting insane, so it comes as no surprise that nobody believes her crazy claims of coyote dogs and trees attacking her!? Co-writer Diablo Cody has said the script is unbelievable violent, and BD says there?s also a drug subplot.

Collins had a rough 2011 with both Priest and Abduction receiving critical scorn and flopping at the box office. Her 2012 may not get much easier as she?s starring as Snow White in Tarsem Singh?s rushed and atrocious-looking Mirror, Mirror. The young actress is also attached to star in the indie comedy The English Teacher and the adaptation of the young adult novel The Mortal Instruments. The Evil Dead is due out April 12, 2013.
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Oh, It says nothing here but, her character's name is ASHley...get it????? Aren't they cheeky little monkeys????
 
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Michael Biehn Appearances and Canned Food Drives Scheduled for The Divide Screenings | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

Big time horror, action, tension and brutality are all teased in the trailer for director Xavier Gens' (Frontier(s)) upcoming film The Divide. With stars like Michael Biehn, Lauren German, Milo Ventimiglia and Rosanna Arquette appearing, this film is sure to get some attention. Knowing this, Anchor Bay Films decided to use the film to give something back to the community.

Select theaters screening The Divide will be hosting a canned food drive with those audience members donating to the fund receiving some free swag from the film. In addition, the legendary Michael Biehn will be making two special guest appearances at The Divide events. Now that's exciting folks!

The kick-ass trailer for The Divide is posted below. That should tide you over until the January 13 release. Buckle up!

Michael Biehn Appearances for The Divide
Michael Biehn signing appearance on behalf of The Divide
Dark Delicacies
3512 W. Magnolia in Burbank
Sunday, January 8th, 2-3pm

Opening Night! Friday the 13th Special Midnight Screening of The Divide and Signing
Landmark Nuart
11272 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles
Meet Michael Biehn! Intro and special signing prior to Midnight Opening Night Screening. Buy tickets early!
The Divide Food Drive Details
Anchor Bay Films has teamed up with Feeding America Food Banks to conduct a canned food drive in conjunction with the January 13, 2012 release of Xavier Gens new film, the unrated post-apocalyptic thriller, The Divide.

In a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the canned goods needed for survival in the film, the first 50 people in each market attending the opening night midnight screenings who bring a donation of canned goods will receive a limited edition poster for the film designed by Mondo-commissioned street artist “Jock.”

The canned food drive will be held at the following theatres:
Los Angeles at The Nuart
New York at The Landmark Sunshine
Austin at The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Boston at The Coolidge Theater
Dallas at The Landmark Inwood
Denver at The Landmark Esquire

The Divide features a large and diverse cast featuring such icons of horror and sci-fi as Lauren German (Hostel Part 2), Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens), Milo Ventimiglia (NBC’s "Heroes") and Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction). In this graphic and violent, post-apocalyptic thriller, nine strangers—all tenants of a New York high-rise apartment—escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, the group begins to descend into madness, each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment. As supplies dwindle, and tensions flare, they grow increasingly unhinged by their close quarters and hopelessness. Each act against one another becomes more depraved than the next. While everyone in the bunker allows himself or herself to be overcome by desperation and lose their humanity, one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape, even with no promise of salvation on the outside.
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Kingsqueen...Adgy...anyone???
 
First Trailer For The American Silent House, A Single Take Horror Film | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

The US remake of Silent House premiered at Sundance almost a full year ago, and the film is finally set for release in March. This timing seems intended to exploit the imminent buzz from when the film’s star, Elizabeth Olsen, gets her practically-guaranteed Oscar nomination for Martha Marcy May Marlene.

I’ve not seen this remake so I can’t vouch for it having been executed in a single take, but it’s certainly supposed to consist of one unbroken shot. Cheating may have been employed.
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Word is mixed, most of the complaints center around 'artsy/self-indulgent' still. could be a conversation piece.
 
Hey JD, did you ever watch the original Silent House? I have it somewhere and have started watching it, but couldn't get into it. The original doesn't really have that great of a reputation so I don't see why they remade it.
 
BD Horror News - 'Splice' Director Tells Reverse Ghost Story In 'Haunter'

Bloody Disgusting has exclusively learned that Splice and Cube director Vincenzo Natali will next go behind the camera and direct Haunter, a supernatural horror film lensing this March in Toronto.

Penned by Brian King, we're told that Haunter will be a kind of "reverse" ghost story. Instead of following the "haunted", the ghost flick will be told through the eyes of a spirit named Lisa, who, along with her family, died in 1986 under "sinister circumstances" but remain trapped in their house. Lisa haunts (and possesses) a young "living" girl by the name of "Olivia in an attempt to save her from the same fate.
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I know it was as beloved as a hot shart, but I still think Splice, while flawed, was overall a good movie.
 
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BD Horror News - [Sundance 2012] A Super Dead Whale In Fresh 'Grabbers' Imagery!

H.P. Lovecraft. Is there anyone cooler in the world of horror? His slimy, creepy, creatures of the underworld are so hideous that they're beyond description. I'm an immediate sucker for anything related (which is probably why John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness and Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator are among my favorite horror films of all-time.)

Pegged as Waking Dead meets Tremors, with tentacles, Jon Wright directs the Irish horror comedy Grabbers that stars Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley and Russell Tovey in a film that takes to "a sleepy Irish fishing village forced to fend off a blood-sucking sea creature."

With the creature feature premiering later this month as part of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Bloody Disgusting has landed a whale of a "first official image" that can be enjoyed after the break. Those of you heading down to the fest, we've also included the screening times. Hope to catch you there!
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This one automatically goes on the 'interested' list.
 
BD Horror News - Tobe Hooper's 'Djinn' Buried In Alleged Payoff? New Imagery!

Tobe Hooper - the man behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeiest - is struggling to get his latest genre offering released as word behind the scenes is that the film's producers are burying it...

Last March Hooper got behind te camera for Djinn, a supernatural horror flick that stars Khalid Laith, Razane Jammal, Aiysha Hart, Carole Abboud, Paul Luebke, and May El Calamawy.

Sounding like an Arabic ripoff of Paranormal Activity and Poltergeist, "The story follows a young Emirati couple who return home from the U.S. to discover that their new apartment in a luxury high-rise built on the site of an abandoned fishing village is also home to the malevolent beings known as "djinn.""

With the feature in post-production, news out of Italy (Movie Sushi) is that there are major problems behind the curtain -- problems that range to the alleged payoff of the studio's chairman. You can read a translation inside, and dig on a trio of new images (at least something good came out of this).

Paolo Zelati translates:

"Rumors are swirling that someone close to Abu Dhabi's royal family has seen the movie and does not appreciate its portrayal of the UAE and considers the movie to be politically subversive, and that they've paid off the studio's chairman, Mohammed Al Mubarak, to bury it.

We have heard that even after the movie had a very successful earlier test screening in London, two other film companies even offered to buy it outright, but the chairman refused to hear their bids.

The whole cast and crew is furious with Imagenation [the studio]. They are telling everybody different stories. One actor in the film was even told by someone at the studio that it would never be released because it portrays a 'witchcraft belief that the country does not acknowledge'. "That's unbelievable!," one source close to the production said. "Everybody knows what's really going on but they're afraid to talk because they think Al Mubarak will start a smear campaign against them in the Emirati pressn - which is not exactly fair or free."
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Had concerns when this was announced. Wondering how much of this is truth and how much is misdirected pr. More to come I am sure.
 
Nicholas Hoult as a Zombie in WARM BODIES

While Hollywood’s zombie obsession has tapered off a bit, it’s far from dead. Though some of the recent zombie output suggests profit rather than creative fascination is the motivating factor, director Jonathan Levine’s (50/50) adaptation of Isaac Marion‘s novel Warm Bodies sounds like a wholly intriguing and incredibly fun zombie pic. The “zombie love story” stars Nicholas Hoult as “R”, a zombie who falls in love with Julie (Teresa Palmer) after he eats her boyfriend’s brains and absorbs his memories. It’s a really cool premise anchored by a stellar supporting cast (Rob Corddry, John Malkovich) and an exciting young filmmaker.

The first official image of Hoult as the zombified “R” has been released, and it’s pretty great. The look is different enough from the gruesome zombies of The Walking Dead to appear fresh, yet still maintains the vacant stare and pale skin that says “I hunger for brains.”


Here’s the full synopsis for Warm Bodies:

Zombies love people, especially their brains. But R (Nicholas Hoult) is different. He’s alive inside, unlike the hundreds of other grunting, drooling undead—all victims of a recent plague that drove the remaining survivors into a heavily guarded city. Now the Zombies roam about an airport terminal, searching for human prey and living in fear of the vicious Boneys, the next undead incarnation.

One day, R and his best friend M lumber toward the city in search of food. There, R first sets his eyes on JULIE (Teresa Palmer), a beautiful human. Determined to save her—first from the other Zombies and then from the Boneys—R hides her in his home, a cluttered 747 aircraft. Julie is terrified, and R’s grunted assurances of “Not…eat” do little to calm her. But when R begins to act more human than Zombie, coming to her defense, refusing to eat human flesh, and even speaking in full sentences, Julie realizes that R is special.

After a few close calls with the Boneys, and with her father mounting an armed search for her, Julie realizes she can’t hide forever. So she sneaks back home, leaving R broken-hearted. Desperate to see her, R decides to comb his hair, stand a little straighter, and impersonate a human long enough to get past the city guards. If only he can prove to the humans that Zombies can change, maybe R and Julie’s love might stand a chance. But with the rampaging Boneys heading toward the city and Julie’s father intent on killing R and his Zombie friends, the stage is set for an all-out battle between the living and the undead.

A genre-bending tale of love and transformation, WARM BODIES is a story about a boy who loves a girl…for more than just her body.
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Dunno. Has Tobe Hopper directed anything during the last decade that wasn't awful? His episodes for Masters of Horror were among the worst. :facepalm:
 
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Dunno. Has Tobe Hopper directed anything during the last decade that wasn't awful? His episodes for Masters of Horror were among the worst. :facepalm:
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Outside of TCM and Fun House(which I love more for it's culty vibe) I can't think of too many great works by TH, so I agree.
 
Didn't know that, but it makes sense. TCM2 is more a product of a great performance more than it is a well directed movie.
 
BD Horror News - [Sundance 2012] Stylish and Eye-Catching 'Excision' One-Sheet

Richard Bates, Jr.'s Excision, which looks insanely bloody. We've just now landed the official festival one-sheet that's a trip. Dig on it below.

Starring AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter, Roger Bart, and John Waters, the flick will premiere as part of the Park City at Midnight program next January.

"A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother."
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Click the link for a still and a poster that make this look interesting.
 
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