Last Week in Horror News: December 14th to the 21st

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• EDEN LOG – Trailer

Studio News and Attachments

• Paul W.S. Anderson will not deboard his RESIDENT EVIL life raft.
• MGM buys THE HOW-TO GUIDE FOR SAVING THE WORLD, which might as well give up.  We all know MOM AND DAD SAVE THE WORLD, not some guy with a tutorial.
• The new box set for FRIDAY THE 13TH will include the much needed 3D glasses.
• Surprise!  Rob Zombie is doing HALLOWEEN 2!  Le sigh.
• Witchcraft brings career success in MGM’s CONJURE WIFE, which I’m pretty sure has the same plot as WITCHES OF BREASTWICK.
• PRIEST shakes off the dust of inactivity with the announcement of effects pro Scott Charles Stewart as director.

Remakes

• Attention all parents (I’m looking at you, John); it is your duty to put son or daughter in the TROLL remake.
• How did I miss that the remake of the Russian roulette happy 13 TZAMETI was not only happening, but starring Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Ray Winstone and Fiddy Cent?
• Pair behind fest groupie DEADGIRL plucked to remake Danish film MURK for Gold Circle films.
• James Cameron supposedly orbiting a trilogy – part remake, part prequel, part sequel – of FORBIDDEN PLANET written by J Michael Straczynski.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Studio 407′s comic series HYBRID, about a creature aboard an adrift vessel at sea, to become a movie under 407 and Myriad Pictures.
• JUDGE DREDD is coming back thanks to DNA films.
• Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS Barbie Doll is out of stock, but definitely real.
• Barbie of the Undead, however, is slightly less commercially viable.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• PENANCE – Trailer (would be red band if submitted to the MPAA)
• PULSE 3: PULSIER – Clip
• BAJO LA SAL (UNDER THE SALT) – Teasers
• AGAINST THE DARK – Vampires taking over the world.  Steven Segal won’t let them.
• SAMURAI ZOMBIE – Trailer
• MUM AND DAD – Clip

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