Horror's Not Dead

Last Week in Horror: November 30th to December 7th

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• FRIDAY THE 13TH – New Trailer.  Purists be damned, I think it looks badass.  Plus, was that Willa Ford water skiing topless?  Sold!
• THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL – Four Clips

Studio News and Attachments

• Sigourney Weaver is talking up a theoretical project with Ridley Scott to bring Ripley out of the ALIEN universe.
• Jackson’s THE LOVELY BONES and Whedon/Goddard’s THE CABIN IN THE WOODS have been delayed.  BONES not til 12/11/09, CABIN 2/5/20!
• Len Wiseman to direct comic adaptation ATLANTIS RISING, to be written by mediocre machines Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
• David Goyer’s THE UNBORN has been rated PG-13…
• Scout Taylor Compton denies word that Rob Zombie will do the inevitable HALLOWEEN 2.
• J. Michael Straczynki talks WORLD WAR Z a tiny bit, says the “scale of what we’re doing here is phenomenal.“
• Lexi Alexander wants to do JONAH HEX so long as Josh Brolin is involved.
• BENDERSPINk buys the rights to highly praised (read: Stephen King likes it) book/comic series THE STRAW MEN.

Remakes

• CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON has lost Breck Eisner as a director, henceforth replaced by no one.
• But then AICN says that Eisner is still directing.  So…yeah…
• FRIDAY THE 13TH poster has a humongous neck.
• The Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS lurches a tad closer.
• THEY LIVE, remade.  Could stand an update in my book.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Forrest J. Ackerman has passed away.  I won’t pretend to personally feel the weight of his impact in life, but from everything I’ve read we all owe him a debt.
• Because it worked so well with THE SCORNED, REALITY HORROR NIGHT is going to star cast from “SURVIVOR”, “THE MOLE”, and more crap.
• Despite even a distributor for the first go aroung, the Romero produced DEADTIME STORIES already has a sequel underway.
• Frank Spotnitz blames THE DARK KNIGHT for the terrible performance of THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE.
• If you’re going to Sundance, enjoy MOON, DEAD SNOW, GRACE, and THE KILLING ROOM.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• NAILBITTER – Teaser
• SCREAMERS 2 – Trailer
• DEAD SNOW – Undead Nazis never lose

David Goyer is Not Fucking Around.

Directed by David Goyer, the idea man behind DARK CITY, BATMAN BEGINS and THE DARK KNIGHT, featuring Gary Oldman, an Auschwitz ghost possession and a guy in a patient smock doing the always effective upside down body crawl.  Does THE UNBORN look great or what?