Last Week in Horror News: December 14th to the 21st
Posted by: Peter Hall
Theatrical Trailers and Clips
- EDEN LOG – Trailer
Studio News and Attachments
- Paul W.S. Anderson will not deboard his RESIDENT EVIL life raft.
- MGM buys THE HOW-TO GUIDE FOR SAVING THE WORLD, which might as well give up. We all know MOM AND DAD SAVE THE WORLD, not some guy with a tutorial.
- The new box set for FRIDAY THE 13TH will include the much needed 3D glasses.
- Surprise! Rob Zombie is doing HALLOWEEN 2! Le sigh.
- Witchcraft brings career success in MGM’s CONJURE WIFE, which I’m pretty sure has the same plot as WITCHES OF BREASTWICK.
- PRIEST shakes off the dust of inactivity with the announcement of effects pro Scott Charles Stewart as director.
Remakes
- Attention all parents (I’m looking at you, John); it is your duty to put son or daughter in the TROLL remake.
- How did I miss that the remake of the Russian roulette happy 13 TZAMETI was not only happening, but starring Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Ray Winstone and Fiddy Cent?
- Pair behind fest groupie DEADGIRL plucked to remake Danish film MURK for Gold Circle films.
- James Cameron supposedly orbiting a trilogy – part remake, part prequel, part sequel – of FORBIDDEN PLANET written by J Michael Straczynski.
Indie, Foreign and Random News
- Studio 407′s comic series HYBRID, about a creature aboard an adrift vessel at sea, to become a movie under 407 and Myriad Pictures.
- JUDGE DREDD is coming back thanks to DNA films.
- Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS Barbie Doll is out of stock, but definitely real.
- Barbie of the Undead, however, is slightly less commercially viable.
Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips
- PENANCE – Trailer (would be red band if submitted to the MPAA)
- PULSE 3: PULSIER – Clip
- BAJO LA SAL (UNDER THE SALT) – Teasers
- AGAINST THE DARK – Vampires taking over the world. Steven Segal won’t let them.
- SAMURAI ZOMBIE – Trailer
- MUM AND DAD – Clip
