Horror's Not Dead

Horror's Not Dead

"The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!"
-- Dagon

Weekly News Re-Cap: 2/10 - 2/17

Weekly News Re-Cap: 2/10 - 2/17

February 17th 2008 @ 11:05 am

Theatrical Trailers and Clips
The Signal - "Webisode"
Far Cry - Uwe Boll strikes again, adapting a computer game about giant mutant creatures and soldiers into a substandard action movie from 1992.

Studio News and Attachments
Hasbro pops out a Cloverfield toy, reveals the full view.
The Strangers finally gets earmarked for May 30th.
The increasingly cool Melissa George cast in Christopher Smith’s Triangle.
Case 39 does the release date sign of quality and slides yet again, from this August to April ‘09.
"Fear Itself", the NBC replacement for "Masters of Horror", gets its first seven directors; Stuart Gordon, Brad Anderson (!), John Carpenter, Ernest Dickerson, Mary Harron (!!!), Ronny Yu, Breck Eisner (wtf?).
John Landis directing William Gaines (creator of EC Comics) biopic called, Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines.

Remakes

Sara Paxton, star of Aquamarine and Return to Halloweentown, cast as the victim in The Last House on the Left.

Random and Indie News
Chan-Wook Park’s (Oldboy) moves forward on his vampire flick Thirst.
Judd Nelson cast in Howl, a flick I think is about a werewolf detective trying to solve a crime!
Australian controversy, kind of, as Wrong Turn 2 was shown to "underage sex offenders".

Indie/Foreign Trailers and Clips
Serpent Lake - Teaser
Prom Night - International Trailer
Otis - Trailer
Kingz - Trailer


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