Last Week in Horror: 02/17 – 02/24

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• THE RUINS – Red Band trailer
• THE SIGNAL – Clip
• THE BOX – Behind the scenes clip from within a NASA wind tunnel

Studio News and Attachments

• Sony Pictures buys up Roland Emmerich’s next disaster flick, 2012.  Not to be confused with Michael Bay’s 2012 THE WAR FOR SOULS.
• Bret Easton Ellis to direct DOWNER’S GROVE, an adaptation of someone else’s novel about a high school with a tradition of death around graduation time.
• MGM slates PATHOLOGY for April 18th.
• Teri Polo moves into an old apartment building haunted by a child inadvertently killed by his abusive father in THE BEACON.
• Several join FINAL DESTINATION 4, Krista Allen is the only one you’ve heard of.
• David Fincher will direct the graphic novel BLACK HOLE about an STD that does a lot more than itch.

Remakes

• Hugo Weaving cast as a detective in the now Joe Johnston helmed remake of THE WOLFMAN.
• Dark Sky picks up the rights to a Spanish film called SHIVER.

Random and Indie News

• Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, and Ted Raimi all together for THE HORRIBLENESS.
• Saturn award nominees are out.
• THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, Ben Chapman, has passed away.
• JT Petty did a day of reshoots for THE BURROWERS because, "We decided we didn’t have enough people stabbing monsters in the face with bones torn from rotting corpses."  Sold!
• For a current bid of $27 you can own the rights to a Christian horror script called TURN ME ON DEADGIRL.

Indie/Foreign Trailers and Clips

• MORITURIS – Italian zombie gladiators!
• BOG BODIES – Trailer
• ALICJA WONDERLAND – Trailer