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Horror's Not Dead

"I will become, have become, a creature unstirred by history, no longer moved by the present, just hungry, blind and at long last filled of mindless wrath."
-- House of Leaves

Bi-Monthly News Re-Cap: 07/1 - 07/15

Bi-Monthly News Re-Cap: 07/1 - 07/15

July 15th 2007 @ 11:07 am

Studio Trailers and Clips
Death Sentence - Trailer jacks some 28 Weeks Later music usage, but I’m damn glad to see Kevin Bacon bacon in the game, even if it isn’t real horror.
I Know Who Killed Me - clip
10,000 BC - Hell, yeah, Roland Emmerich!
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane - Domestic trailer

Studio News and Attachments
Resident Evil: Extinction gets an R, the One Missed Call remake a PG-13.
July 20th ruined; Mandy Lane no longer releasing; Peter now crying.
Trick R’ Treat pulled from release this Halloween.
Dracula, Year Zero to be helmed by the great Alex Proyas.
New Line has, probably wisely, dropped giant-shark’er Meg.

Remakes

Holy shit, there hasn’t been any major remake news over the past two weeks?!

Random and Indie News
Tom Holland has a web series called Driven, now with a trailer.
Richard Franklin, director of Psycho 2, passes.
Ray Wise, and some other people I don’t care about, cast in fun sounding Infestation.  I’m sure it’ll be STD, but I’ll be there premiere Tuesday.
Shoreline Ent. picks up film rights to obscure comic series, The Living Corpse.
David Arquette says he’ll do a Tripper 2 if DVD sales are strong.

Indie/Foreign Trailers and Clips
Interplanetary - Footage
El Orfanto
Slap Attack - Short film from the guys behind Freak Out
Fermat’s Room - Now we’re getting closer to what it would look like if Shane Carruth made a horror movie.
Scream the Night


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  1. shawn
    July 21st, 2007 | 7:51 am | #1

    holy shit death sentence looks awesome. Kevin Bacon looks so freakin hardcore in that. Sometimes I just love a good vigilante justice film.

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