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Trailer of the Week: Katie’s Journey

Twitch is, by far, the best source for cute, completely harmless trailers.  The site’s owner, Todd Brown, has a gift of plucking quality from the ether.  Case and point, this trailer for Katie’s Journey, directed by Samuel Jorgensen.
If google is to be believed, "A little girl must reconcile with her father after a family tragedy. […]

30 Days of Night - Red Band Trailer + Badass Scene

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I dig this harder ‘Red Band’ trailer and following scene from the David Slade (Hard Candy) directed adaptation of Steve Niles pitch black graphic novel so much that I actually went out of my lazy way to install a plugin to embed this duo for all equally lazy people to […]

Trailers: Gamebox 1.0 - Please Secure Your Jaws Prior to Viewing

When I was doing this past week’s news re-cap I came across a post on Arrow in the Head that was shilling a new STD’er called Gamebox 1.0.  My thoughts regarding nerd usage in plots should be obvious by this point.  I don’t believe it to be a bad idea, but people drastically need to […]

1408 Looks Fuck All Great

You don’t need a plot re-cap from me.  You don’t need a cast update.  All of that is in the teaser.  All you need to know is that 1408 is an adaptation of a Stephen King short story and that it looks wild.
On a more disheartening note, AICN has an early review of the film […]

Mary Poppins: Scary Mary Re-Cut Trailer

Trailer mashups and re-cuts are the new Star Wars kid.  Ten of them pop up each day, most of them are average at best if you bother to watch them.  However, Chris Rule’s Scary Mary is slick enough to deserve your minute.
Scary Mary at the Disney Blog.

Trailers: The Number 23

If you’re 555, then Jim Carrey is 2/3.
Or that’s what the attractive trailer for Joel "Let’s cast Ahnud as Mr. Freeze" Schumacher’s latest film would have you believe.  I’m a fan of the number, there are a chain of coincedences in my own life that led it to be my favorite early on, but I’ve […]

Trailers: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

I made mention of it in the below weekly news re-cap, but the US domestic trailer for Tom Tykwer’s latest film is so captivating that it deserves a post in and of itself.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Domestic Trailer
I can’t wait.

Trailer: Grindhouse/Planet Terror

Today you’ll see this on nearly every website relating to movies, but what would people hop on if it weren’t for bandwagons?
The first intarweb viewable trailer for Grindhouse is up, but it looks like it’s only for Robert Rodriquez’s Planet Terror, zombie outbreaking badassness half. I’m guessing it was captured from last night’s Scream […]

Upcoming Horror - The General Verdict Out of Toronto

Film geeks are surely already aware of it, but for anyone not paying attention, the Toronto International Film Festival has been going on for the past week or so (if you’re there, I hate you).  I’ve gone ahead and sifted through the buzz on the upcoming crop of genre pictures (some I hadn’t even heard […]

Trailers: Bug

I needed a break from writing for the upcoming Chicago International Film Festival (yes, I just plugged myself, I need to constantly convince my ego that I am a decent writer) so I began my usual routine of movie news perusal and much to my delight I found the boys at Bloody-Disgusting had a link […]

Trailers: Adrift

I point you towards this trailer for Adrift, another people stuck in the ocean movie, not because it’s all that great of a trailer, but because the concept is so damned simple that it is genuinely terrifying to me.
Open Water had some cleverness to it, but really it was an exercise in tedium, because all […]

Trailers: 13 (Tzameti)

If the poster alone isn’t enough to make you want to see 13 (Tzameti), a hard boiled thriller about Russian roulette insanity, I dare you to watch this trailer and not move closer to the screen when instructed to stare at that judicious light bulb. 
This is the kind of story I crave these days:
20-year-old […]

Night of the Living Dead 3D Gets 1,500 Screens

Extremmmmeeeeee Zombies!!!!!!
I never thought I’d get the chance to sit in a theater with a pair of dorky red and blue glasses on and watch a horror movie in that wacky, extreme-2-the-max, third dimension, but it seems a company you’ve never heard of, Midnight Movies Entertainment, has enough faith in a gimicky Night of the […]

Trailers: Stinger (aka. Tail Sting II)

I was waiting until I finally watched Tail Sting to throw up the single greatest B-Movie poster ever made.  Giant, mutant scorpions.  On a submarine!  That is sooo Stinger!
Check out the trailer here or the official synopsis here.  It sounded equally generic as the original, until I read this:
[…] discloses the startling secret of Project: […]

Trailers: Heroes

This is one of those times where I pull the Sci-Fi card out.  You may have heard about Heroes, an hour long series NBC picked up for their Fall slate, about people who start to realize they have super powers.  If you’re like me, when you heard about it you laughed it off as being […]

Trailers: The Backwoods

I try to keep this blog genre related only, but every now and then I’m compelled to break that rule.  Both the teaser and poster for Koldo Serra’s Spanish lensed The Backwoods are too good not to share.
That poster alone is awesome in its ’70s throwback style - especially the tag line.  And, let us […]

Trailers: Snakes on a Plane

PARSELTOUNGE MUTHAFUCKA, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!?!
I’d been waiting for the real trailer to come out just so I could use that line, but, in reality, this trailer TV spot is incredibly boring and entirely undeserving of such enthusiasm.  Except for this shot of Samuel L. Jackson holding what looks like an underwater harpoon gun.  Because […]

Updated: Colic Keeps Getting Better

Here I am to keep with my original promise to let everyone know every little thing that I can find out about the movie with that incendiary poster.  The teaser trailer was pretty cool, but now the the full trailer has raised the bar once again.  I’m talking to the point where I was […]

Trailers: In The Name of a King

When not training to be the ultimate fighter, Uwe Boll tries to make movies based off video games that should never have had movies made from them in the first place.  You may not recognize the title, but this is his Dungeon Siege movie.
Did Dungeon Siege even have a plot past hacking and slashing stuff […]

Trailers: The Host (Theatrical)

If you watched the video posted a few weeks back, you’ll have seen some of this footage, but even with any familiarity and the language barrier, it looks like city-wide monster mayhem perfection.
The Host’s native theatrical release is in a few weeks, but if Korea’s DVD habits keep up, I’ll have a copy in the […]

UPDATED Trailers: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Well, that didn’t take long.  It was attached to prints of the infallibly mediocre Omen remake as a lure for fans, but of course it’s turned up online today.  You can view it in the HD format right now, or you can wait until what appears to be 10pm-4am to watch it in regular ‘ole […]

Wicker Man Remake Trailer, TCM Prequel Poster

Yawn.  As virtuous as it is for a lot of fans, I actually am pretty indifferent to the 1973 Wicker Man.  It has a killer ending, obviously, but there are stretches of the film that, well, stretch.  Thus, I didn’t care one way or the other about the announcement of the remake.  And after this […]

Trailers: Colic Teaser

I had no clue what it was about, but I was sold on Colic months ago.  Now KFCC has gotten the heads up on an actual synopsis, as well as a link to the official site, which contains the first teaser trailer for it.
Can any moving images ever live up to that poster? 
It looks […]

Trailers: The Host

I’ve been reading and checking out pictures of The Host for what seems like months now, but haven’t seen any footage of it until today.  And all my hopes have been confirmed.  (trailer link at bottom, as always)

Trailers: Ghost Rider

I honestly don’t know jack about Ghost Rider, but the trailer for the first film adaptation is out, and some of it looks pretty damned geektastic.Ghost Rider Trailer

Trailer: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Full)

A while back I posted the teaser trailer for German director Tom Tykwer’s upcoming chiller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, which is a film I’ve been interested in for some time now.  Well, a few days ago the film’s native site went live, and with it came the full trailer (albeit in German).
I don’t […]

Trailer: Lady in the Water

Not straight shot of horror, but comeon, this flick looks pretty damned fun.  I’ve never been one of the bandwagon Shyamalan haters - I think the man is a great director - and on top of that, Christopher Doyle is doing the cinematography; so I am very interested.  Doyle is the most talented cinematographer alive […]

Trailer: Monster House

What the genre needs most are more movies about children being swallowed by houses.  Thank the gods for Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, who produced this CGI fest, which is directed by Gil Kenan.
All I ask is that it be at least as scary as "Ah! Real Monsters!"
Monster House Full Trailer

Cthulhu Trailer

Lovecraft is a sacred word around these parts, so much so that I'm sure people are tired of hearing me mention it.  But the man's influence on fantasy horror is so dominant that I can't think of a single fantasy horror film that doesn't owe its roots to 'ole H.P.
So when I hear about […]

Trailer: The Omen (2006)

The full trailer for the John Moore helmed remake of the 1976’s classic The Omen has hit today.
It’s not a bad trailer, but honestly I don’t care about the movie one way or the other. But since the original is such hallowed ground in the horror genre and there really haven’t been any new […]

Trailer: Hatchet

Hatchet is a film by some guy - and I say some guy because there is no reason to know him - named Adam Green, and while I know very little as to what the film is about, I do know that the flick has been getting a lot of name recognition around horror sites […]

Black Night Trailer

Black Night, a new Asian horror anthology with entries from Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand, looks flat out amazing! Each of the shorts depicts an urban legend, but what seals the deal is that Asian urban legends are apparently psychotic. None of this caller-is-inside-the-house or escaped-mental-patient-with-a-hook-for-a-hand BS.
The trailer is for just the Thai […]

UPDATED Snakes on a Plane Teaser Trailer

From AICN:
UPDATE: According to New Line, the footage linked below is not a trailer, rather an assemblage of clips exclusive to TagWorld. The effects seen in this footage aren’t finished & are works in progress, not reflecting the film’s final effects work. The official teaser trailer should be coming in about a month.
[…]

Perfume Teaser

In the land of internet time, I’m years late on posting this, but this teaser works so well that I should. I had downloaded the trailer when it was first posted on Twitch almost two weeks ago, but then forgot to watch it and just now found it on one of my drives. […]

Trailers: The Woods

Chances are pretty good that unless you’re a geek (or dating a geek), you’ve never heard of The Woods - except maybe that it is the film that forced M. Night to rename The Village as it had attempted to steal the title. Lucky McKee’s followup to his very respectable directorial debut, May, has […]

Broken

Save for Creep, my recent UK experiences have been pretty unrewarding. But Twitch put up a trailer this morning for a no-budget, psycho flick called Broken. The trailer itself is fairly typical of this type of fare, but it does have some moments that slightly catch you off guard. Plus, I haven’t […]

Indie horror; Automaton Transfusion

Todd at Twitch posted today about an upcoming indie zombie flick called, of all things, Automaton Transfusion. You can check out the trailer here and the site as well. The footage looks very nicely shot and obviously the production has some genuine heart behind it, but at the same time there isn’t a […]

Official Pulse Trailer Out

I was spreading around a bootleg cut of this trailer a few months ago, but the glossy one is now up at Apple, so check it out.
Pulse
I wasn’t the biggest fan of the source of this remake, the 2001 Kiyoshi Kurosawa film Kairo, but I think that is due entirely to me being a nerd […]

Silent Hill Trailer

I only played the first Silent Hill years ago, and not full through, so I’m not sure how much of a screen adaptation this is, but the trailer for Christophe Gans’ (Brotherhood of the Wolf) film is up and it looks like the best video game film yet. Gans’ has done what others have […]

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