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SXSW ’11: Bloody Disgusting Selects Acquires Apocalyptic Thriller ‘Fase 7’!
I’m starting to lose track of all the awesomeness that’s coming your way starting this May.
While Anchor Bay acquired The Divide, Bloody Disgusting and The Collective have acquired domestic rights to Nicolás Goldbart’s Fase 7 (Phase 7), a Spanish-language end of the world thriller that carries a more lighthearted approach to the apocalypse. It premiered last week at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
Those of you who are into conspiracy theories will enjoy the in-your-face connection to the N.W.O.
Executive Produced by Steven Schneider (Insidious, Paranormal Activity), Fase 7 stars Berlin Silver Bear winner Daniel Hendler (Lost Embrace) as “A husband who has just moved into a new apartment with his seven-months-pregnant wife when their building is quarantined due to a deadly epidemic. Soon the residents of the building become unexpected enemies, and the husband is forced to join forces with his loony next-door neighbor to defend the contents of his fridge and keep his pregnant wife safe.”
Phase 7 taps into early Romero and can be described as a cross between The Crazies, Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later. We’re told Goldbart loves John Carpenter and used Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing and Escape From New York as a template for the score.
The film will hit AMC Theaters (every Wednesday and Friday night, don’t forget that!) at a further date, before also arriving on VOD, internet and DVD. Other films you guys will be able to enjoy in theaters are Atrocious, Rammbock, YellowBrickRoad and the ball-to-the-wall insane Cold Fish.
EXCLUSIVE CLIP
It was announced two weeks ago that Paramount is resurrecting the Scary Movie spoof franchise with a brand new reboot movie, which will likely arrive in theaters next year.
The new movie, a joint venture between Paramount and Miramax that will technically be the sixth installment in the franchise, is expected to go into production this coming Fall.
We don’t yet know who will be writing, directing or starring in the Scary Movie reboot, but two actors in particular have already expressed an interest in joining the franchise.
The first is Melissa Barrera, who can currently be seen in theaters in Radio Silence’s bloody horror movie Abigail. Barrera is of course also the star of Scream and Scream VI, which kind of makes her a perfect candidate to lampoon herself in a Scary Movie reboot.
“I always loved those movies,” Melissa Barrera tells the website Inverse. “When I saw it announced, I was like, ‘Oh, that would be fun.’ That would be so fun to do.”
The actress adds, “They have the iconic cast that did it, so we’ll see what goes on with that. I’m just excited to see a new one.”
In a tweet posted last night, Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night, the upcoming “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School”) also threw her hat in the running.
Madison tweets, “Random but scary movie 6 hit me up cause I just feel like we’d have fun okay bye.” Your move, Paramount. And make sure you call Anna Faris and Regina Hall too.
Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, the first Scary Movie was released in 2000, just four years after Wes Craven reinvigorated the horror genre with his meta slasher masterpiece, Scream.
The film parodied horror movies of the time including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Blair Witch Project, and the horror-comedy spoof scared up $278 million at the worldwide box office. The success of that first Scary Movie paved the way for an entire franchise of horror spoofs, five of them in total released between 2000 and 2013.
Bailee Madison in “The Strangers: Prey at Night’
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