Yes, I know I’m two weeks late on this, but better two weeks than never.

Just a heads up that Sci-Fi is airing Eric Red’s return to the field, the Famke Janssen starring ghosty 100 FEET (review) tonight (4/26/09) at 9 Eastern.  I’ve no idea what their for TV edits consist of, but the movie boasts a few standout sequences that make it worth a watch.

Weather out on the east coast is beautiful, though, so you may just wanna DVR it for a rainy day.

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT – Five clips.
• THE BOOB – I didn’t want this section to be empty and since this very short short is playing at SXSW…

Studio News and Attachments

• MANDY LANE – Senator is finally going to release ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (review) on July 17th?  I wouldn’t count on it.
• SPLICE – Senator must be on a PR kick as they also slipped Bloody-Disgusting some photos from the upcoming Vincenzo Natali directed chimera-horror flick.  Pics look great, though if one commenter is to believed, the script is awful.
• REPOSSESSION MAMBO – The Jude Law starring sci-fi tale of borrowed organs gets an R rating.

Remakes

• FRIDAY THE 13TH 2 – How does BD surmise the headline, “FRIDAY THE 13TH Sequel Officially Announced” and then link to a source article that clearly states, “Insiders caution that there is no green light”.  We all know there is going to be a F13², but man, let’s wait until that “officially” means the same thing the dictionary says it does.
• THE BIRDS – According to Brenna Roth, who is in talks for a role in the Platinum Dunes recash, THE BIRDS will be shot in 3-D.
• TOTAL RECALL – Neal H. Moritz, yes the NHM curse of PROM NIGHT ‘08, is allegedly bringing TOTAL RECALL back to the big screen his bank account.
• SORORITY ROW 2 – Summit has yet to release the remake of THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW and already the sequel is on a word processor somewhere.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• 100 FEET – The Sci-Fi channel will be premiering Eric Red’s impressive haunter (review) on April 26th.

Non-Theatrical (US) Trailers and Clips

• PONTYPOOL – Second Trailer.
• ..OF THE DEAD – Behind the Scenes clip from Romero’s new, still untitled entry.
• BUPPAH RAHTREE – The third sequel in the Thai horror/comedy RAHTREE franchise.
• MEAT GRINDER – Extended Thai trailer.

Written and Directed by Eric Red, 2008

Having just been released from the pen for murdering her abusive husband Mike, Marnie (Famke Janssen) begins her final year of servitude by way of house arrest.  Should she stray more than the titular distance from her ankle monitor’s base unit in the center of her Brooklyn brownstone, said unit will page Lou (Bobby Cannavale), the pissed off cop and former partner to Marnie’s slaughtered spouse.  This is problematic for Marnie as a slightly less corporeal yet no less abusive Mike has stuck around to give his wife what for from the afterlife.

Eric Red’s directorial return is a probing tour of a beaten woman’s battered life more than it is a horror film, if only because the ghost side undercurrent is low exertion versus Famke Janssen’s perpetual emotional gauntlet.  The gal gives one heck of an admirable turn, carrying the film by the scruff of its neck throughout.  That is not to say that 100 FEET is lacking the meat and potatoes of a good haunt.  Quite the opposite, actually.  100 FEET executes two film clinching sequences worth going down as two of the cooler, wilder poltergeist-gags found on film.

Regrettably, these two sequences are not characteristic of the film entire.  When not belting it out of the park (albeit in minute spurts), Red is either reinforcing the already unsinkable Marnie as an anomalous, complicated damsel in distress through melodrama or playing standard spook setups to telegraphed conclusions.  Por ejemplo, When we first see Marnie paint over her husband’s blood stain (which hadn’t been cleaned during her jail time) anyone who has ever been in the same room as a horror movie will know its reappearance is inevitable.  A blood stain that doesn’t go away is not an ultimate evil.  The audience is not Mr. Clean.  We need a reminder there is a ghost in the house as much as a smoker needs a skull and cross bones on his favorite pack.  This isn’t our first time to the rodeo.  Move on.

Note: was anyone else aware that South Korea has a reality show about exorcisms?  And that its music is the SAW theme?

Also, what billiards game involves a blue pool table with no pockets and only three balls, the goal of which, as far as I can surmise, is to hit both balls after bouncing off at least two of the rails?  I really want to know what this is called as it is on TV All. The. Time.

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

Sorry, bone dry.

Studio News and Attachments

• Francis Lawrence swears there is no rush on figuring out a script for I AM ALMOST LEGEND, studio coffers will eventually say otherwise.
• Emma Stone joins Woody Harrelson in ZOMBIELAND.
• Why was I unaware that Joe Dante was filming a 3D film called THE HOLE about a bottomless pit discovered in a basement?

Remakes

• Some guy named Mathijs van Heijningen Jr is posed to direct the Ronald D. Moore scripted remake/prequel/reboot of THE THING for Strike Entertainment.  Great, another American company outsources a prime job!
• Emmanuel Chriqui joins the ensemble of the 13 TZAMETI remake, which damn well better be more intense than the original, which made a great trailer, but a warmed over feature.  Come on now, how hard is it to make a movie about a Russian Roulette tournament nerve racking?
• The kick ass Radha Mitchell joins THE CRAZIES remake helmed by Breck Eisner with Timothy “Emperor of Eyebrow Acting” Olyphant as the male lead.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• I’ll try to remember to remind when it gets closer, but Canada will release [REC] on Region 1 DVD January 27th.
• Charisma Carpenter to play a novelist who travels to the mistrusting, vision-filled English countryside to finish her latest book in VIVID.
• Ever wonder what the guy who made THE FLY II was up to these days?  Me neither, but the answer is BABY ZOMBIES.
• The Sci-Fi channel bought the rights to premiere it in the States this summer, but Eric Red’s Famke Jensen starring ghostie 100 FEET will hit UK DVD shelves in March.
• Does anyone actually faint at movies?  I thought that was always a publicity gag? Weinberg’s attendance to a Sundance run of undead baby loving GRACE supposedly had two.  He was one.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• GRACE – Teaser.  Playing enthusiastically at Sundace, so expect this to find its way into theaters
• SEVENTH MOON – Featurette.  Go Ed Sanchez!
• SYMPATHY – Trailer
• NINE MILES DOWN – Trailer
• KNIFE EDGE – Trailer

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLET – 6 Minute clip
• THE UNINVITED – Clip
• 100 FEET – Clip

Studio News and Attachments

• New rash of MPAA ratings out: ALONE IN THE DARK 2 is PG-13, as is Richard Kelly’s THE BOX, while both DYING BREED and RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION (the CGI movie) get an R.
• Remember TYRANNOSAURUS REX, Rob Zombie’s next movie news has been trickling on for months now?  Has nothing even close to resembling a script; “All I have is one sentence.“
• I thought I had only just read about it being adapted, but already BD has some pics from Clive Barker’s DREAD.
• After Dark released the majority of their posters for January’s Horrorfest, but all I care about is the sweet job on Lena Headey’s face for THE BROKEN.
• HBO axed it, so now Sam Mendes is going to bring PREACHER to the big screen.
• A good sign for a possible release: Warner Brothers has begun test screening TRICK ‘R TREAT.  I don’t know why they’re even bothering, didn’t they get the fellating?

Remakes

Really?  No big news?  I must be missing something…

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Is Ron Perlman interested in taking over for Bruce in BUBBA NOSFERATU?
• You need to check out LEFT 4 DEAD’S badass opening cinematic.
• Please call it JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAY HARDER.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• CRAWLER – Teaser
• LADY BLOOD – Teaser
• THE ALPHABET KILLER – Trailer
• THE LONG WEEKEND – All animals vs All Humans!?
• LAID TO REST – Clip
• PONTYPOOL – Trailer
• VIY – English trailer

Oh, and in case you don’t refresh the site every 14 seconds like I do, Cinematical now has a routine horror news re-cap from its own genre head Scott Weinberg.  Now my weekly job is a lottt easier.