Last Week in Horror News: December 7th to the 14th

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• THE UNBORN – Clip
• THE BROKEN – Trailer
• KNOWING – Second Trailer

Studio News and Attachments

• Deceivers they be, Platinum Dunes does have an actual non-remake in the works.  A satanic cult yarn from Scott Kosar.
• NEW MOON, aka the sequel to TWILIGHT, has been fast tracked with Chris Weitz replacing Catherine Hardwicke, who happens to now be in the history books for highest grossing film made by a woman.
• THE UNBORN gets an international poster you most likely won’t be seeing in your local cineplex.
• Fangoria called it a few weeks ago, but THE WOLFMAN has officially been bumped to November.

Remakes

• Platinum Dunes swears they aren’t thinking about FRIDAY THE 13TH sequels until they see how it sells.  Platinum Dunes are liars.
• And, as of right now, they are not remaking NEAR DARK, but are working through A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Why is it that if something involves a bug and a human it is forever deemd Kafka-esque?  The guy who made BOTCHED is now doing DEMENTAMANIA about a software engineer who starts hallucinating after a bug bite.
• Australia, home of giant crocodiles and 3D films about FLIES.
• Stephen King’s Top 10 list of ’08 contains one true horror movie, THE RUINS, and one tangentially related, FUNNY GAMES.  And LAKEVIEW TERRACE…
• Whoopi Goldberg will star in an online series for FEARnet.com called STRANGE.

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• NIGHTMARE – Trailer
• BITE ME – Trailer
• MEAT GRINDER – Trailer

Tags: BITE ME, DEMENTAMANIA, FEARnet.com, FLIES, Friday the 13th, KNOWING, MEAT GRINDER, NEAR DARK, NEW MOON, NIGHTMARE, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, Platinum Dunes, Scott Kosar, STRANGE, THE BROKEN, The Ruins, THE UNBORN, THE WOLFMAN