Black & Blue Films (Dead Cert) is currently in post-production on yet another horror film, Devil's Playground, which stars Danny Dyer (Severance), Jaime Murray ("Dexter"), Janet Montgomery (The Hills Run Red, Wrong Turn 3), Craig Fairbrass, Shane Taylor, Craig Conway, Steven Berkoff, Lisa McAllister, Bart Ruspoli, Del Henney and Jack Healy. Directed by Mark McQueen, a hardened killer searches for a cure to the illness causing a zombie apocalypse across the globe, and that is slowly turning him into one. Check out the first still and a long synopsis below. ...Read More
Eliza Dushku (Wrong Turn) is toplining a new horror thriller alongside 90's heartthrobs Freddie Prinze Jr. (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and James Van Der Beek (Scary Movie, The Plague) entitled Zoe. Directed by Theo Avgerinos, in a small New England town two brothers trying to revive the greek restaurant owned by the family. But the two fell in love the same girl, the waitress Zoe, who works in the restaurant. ...Read More
Hot goth chicks in peril? Get ready for the first ever reality horror movie as SuicideGirls.com has set a March 12th release for Suicide Girls Must Die! The plot? 12 hotties begin to disappear from a remote cabin. While last week you saw the one sheet, below you can check out the official trailer. What do you think? ...Read More
Before heading off to Berlin BD scored a look at some early promo art for Robert Legato's Choose, which stars Katheryn Winnick, Nicholas Tucci, Kevin Pollok, Bruce Dern, Talia Balsam, Cady Huffman and Richard Short. In the film Winnick (Amusement) stars as a journalism grad student who attempts to track down a vengeful killer (Tucci) with the help of her detective father (Pollak) and a shrink (Dern). Inspired by the look of SE7EN and the psychological tone of The Silence of Lambs, Choose is a suspense laden psycological thriller from Oscar winning FX guru Robert Legato. You'll find the art and a more detailed synopsis below. ...Read More
Received a small tip today that Luís Tossar (although I'm pretty sure they meant Luís Tosar) will be toplining Flatmate for Filmax International. Tosar starred in Cell 211 and about a gazillion other Spanish films. Flatmate is to be directed by Jaume Balagueró off the success of his collaboration on REC and REC 2. He also directed two other genre films, Darkness and Fragile: A Ghost Story. Check out a synopsis below along with the early promo art. ...Read More
Gearing up for the world premiere in Baltimore (click here for info) Bloody Disgusting's Tex Massacre got his hands on a copy of President's Day, a new slasher film that wooed him. "The way I see it, President’s Day is a quantum leap forward for a fledgling filmmaker who has proven over the last 4-years that he’s more than capable making quality films for less. Now, if he could just get a little bit more money for his next feature, maybe he can solve the FX issues and, perhaps, even buy back some of those precious VHS tapes he sold off." Click the title for the full review. ...Read More
Urban-focused production company Deon Taylor Enterprises has launched a genre label. "Nite Tales Presents" is inspired by "Nite Tales", the 1998 horror anthology narrated by rapper Flavor Flav that Taylor co-wrote and served as executive producer on. Screen Daily reports that the company will create genre content for film and television as well as animated children’s series and a branded interactive online platform. Taylor (Chain Letter - penned by Thomas Fenton) will direct and produce for the label and collaborate with such writers as Thomas Fenton from Saw IV and Chain Letter. Flavor Flav has signed on as the recurring host and face of Nite Tales Presents. The first two features to go will be the two-part anthology Dark Christmas and Terminated. Check out a trailer for Terminated below. ...Read More
Dread Central got their hands on a trailer for a new indie film that looks quite intense. While there's no IMDB page or info available, beyond the break you'll find the trailer that teases a plot featuring a group of teens who make a pact to the death, alongside a link to the official website that's pretty claustrophobic. Color me interested. ...Read More
We've got a look at the newest trailer for the Chilean independent action horror film Blind Death (Muerte Ciega). Directed by Cristian Toledo and Lucio Rojas, after a mining disaster, a large area is ravaged by a strange virus that turns humans into a violent and territorial animals. The area is placed in quarantine, not knowing what happened. Years later a group of mercenaries and scientists is sent to investigate the truth about the zone. The trailer is subtitled and you don't get a very good look at any zombies. I'm still intrigued. ...Read More
Bloody Disgusting has learned that Xavier Gens' The Fallout is dropping the title when it goes on sale at this month's EFM. ContentFilm International is producing. The post-apocalyptic pic comes from the director of the bloody French flick Frontier(s) and IFC Films' forthcoming zombie splatterfest The Horde. Beyond the break you'll find some cool new art for the thriller, along with a revised plot synopsis. ...Read More
Bloody Disgusting learned that Peter Briggs (Hellboy co-writer, and the forthcoming Mortis Rex) will be getting beind the camera for Panzer 88 from his own screenplay. Gary Kurtz (Star Wars(!)) is producing. In an interview with Briggs from this past October we learned that "Panzer is another supernatural thriller: basically a character piece set in a German King Tiger tank in Russia in World War 2. It's five guys in a tin can, and something's trying to stop them making it home. It's creepy, and smart." Briggs is also scheduled to direct Mortis Rex, which was announced in the trades last November with Mummy producer Jim Jacks. Mortis is currently in pre-production.
Now arriving in UK cinemas April 9 is Andrew Shortell's Psych: 9, which features Cary Elwes (Saw), Sara Foster, Gabriel Mann and Michael Biehn (Terminator, Grindhouse). In the Universal Pictures international release, Lawrence Robinson script revolves around an unstable woman who takes a job organizing patient records at a recently closed hospital. Working alone at night, she experiences a series of disturbing events that may be connected to a string of gruesome murders. Check out the newest trailer beyond the break. Is this something you'd be excited to see here in the States? ...Read More
Just announced a few hours ago is the official line up for the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW). One of the films premiering as part of the "Midnighters" category is Andrew Bowser's microbudget Jimmy Tupper VS. The Goatman of Bowie, a film that "was made out of my love for films like 'Evil Dead,' 'Pumpkinhead,' 'Gremlins', and a million other horror films!" Bowser explained to BD. In the "first true found footage horror pieces, Jimmy Tupper is no one, he's nothing, until one night he sees something in the woods that can't be real. It becomes his mission to prove its existence and find his purpose. Bloody Disgusting has scored an exclusive first look at the trailer that can be viewed beyond the break. ...Read More
Playing at this March's South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival is Tae-Kyun Kim's Higanjima. The film begins two years after losing contact, Akira discovers that his long-lost brother may be found on Higanjima Island. He may also find on Higanjima an army of blood-sucking vampires. Check out the official trailer below or click here for the SXSW line-up. ...Read More
Off the recent success of District 9, website io9 caught up with Oscar-nominated writer Terri Tatchell who revealed that she's working on feature film version of Trevor Cawood's insane short "Terminus", while also giving some brief hope on District 9 sequel potential. Read on for the skinny. District 9 is currently in the running for the Academy Award for Film Editing, Visual Effects, Writing [Adapted Screenplay] and Best Film. ...Read More
Blood, boobs and hot chicks hit your computer screen in the first images from Steve O’Brien and Warren Speed's Zombie Women of Satan. Starring Warren Speed, Victoria Hopkins and Peter Bonner, when a group of performers - including 'Pervo' a randy clown, 'Zeus' a flatulent dwarf, and 'Skye' a feisty rock chick – visit a remote farm, they discover a dark secret. Its owners have been torturing women in a perverted cult. Their experiments have gone wrong, and the stocking-clad women have become.... ZOMBIES! The ragtag visitors struggle not only to stay alive, but also to rescue Skye's sister from the cult. ...Read More
A new indie slasher comedy is in our midst and will be premiering in Baltimore on February 15. From Midnight Crew Studios comes Chris LaMartina's President's Day, which follows a high school student council election that turns deadly when a homicidal maniac dressed as Abraham Lincoln starts killing candidates (uh, can you say "awesome"?). Bloody Disgusting contributor Josh Slates caught up with Chris LaMartina & Nicolette LeFaye, director and star respectively, who chat about the indie slasher that look like one helluva good time. Click here for the interview or check out the Facebook for more info on the film and the world premiere (Charles Theatre in Baltimore, MD. 7:30PM. Tickets are $10). ...Read More
Hot goth chicks in peril? Get ready for the first ever reality horror movie as SuicideGirls.com has set a March 12th release for Suicide Girls Must Die! The plot? 12 hotties begin to disappear from a remote cabin. I can only see this going downhill -- one less Suicide Girl every few minutes? I wanna see more! Anyways, check out the poster below, courtesy of AICN. ...Read More
To go along with the trailer posted a few weeks back, beyond the break you'll find a bunch of new hi-res stills from Kaare Andrews's Altitude. The images don't tease any of the H.P. Lovecraftian happenings, but we do get a good look at Jessica Lowndes and Julianna Guill, the two leading beauties of the film. Lost in a mysterious cloudbank, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends must contend with a freak mechanical failure that first sends their small plane climbing to an impossible height, and then plummeting through endless mist. After regaining control, the survivors are confronted with a horrifying realization - the very ground beneath them has vanished and a malevolent force lurking in the clouds wants them dead. ...Read More
Famous Monsters' first feature film, Downstream, is finally complete and ready to share with the world. For one night only, they are having a sneak preview followed by a Q&A with the writer, cast a crew at the The Egyptian (6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028) in Hollywood. The event takes place Wednesday, F ebruary 24th. Downstream is one of the first handful of projects to be shot on the RED ONE camera for a modest budget. You can purchase your tickets on Fandango.com or at the box office but seating is limited so please purchase your tickets in advance. Winner of the 2009 Merit Award from the Accolade Film Festival, Downstream tells the story of a young man left to fend for himself in a world where oil has run dry and civilized society has collapsed. Looking for the fabled city of Plutopia, Wes Keller traverses the wastelands amidst roving bands or mercenaries to find what may very well be mankind’s last hope for a future. ...Read More
Legendary bad-guy actor Bill McKinney (Deliverance, The Outlaw Josey Wales, First Blood) is in talks to play a small but important role as the modern-day version of Richard The Lionheart in Sherwood Horror a contemporary set reimagining of the Robin Hood legend with bite. Ex-con Rob Locksley (DJ Perry) returns home after a six-year absence to find his town under the rule of vampires. He must join forces with his old roughneck hunting buddies to wage war against the evil Sheriff and his horde of blood-sucking minions. ...Read More
When the original Slime City was released as a midnight movie back in the late 80s, I’m pretty sure that just about everybody would have called you a crazy bastard if you’d told them that more than two decades later, writer and director Greg Lamberson would once again fill up gallons and gallons of green jelly and get ready to shoot the longtime overdue sequel to his slime-tastic splatter fest from 20 years ago. But much to the surprise and delight of all the devoted slime-heads (me included!), he actually pulled it off! Now, only half a year later, Slime City Massacre is already finished and ready to be unleashed to the public. I hooked up with the lovely Buffalo-based actress Jennifer Bihl, one of the films lead actresses, and asked her a couple of questions about her role as Alexa. Grab yourselves a yoghurt & enjoy the read, fellow slimeheads! ...Read More
Indie filmmaker Drew Daywalt is back again with a brand new short film, Suicide Girl, this time following a young woman's suicide video acts as a catalyst for horror from beyond the grave. Daywalt is also the man behind the Fewdio Short Film Collection and the forthcoming web series Camera Obscura. Check out Suicide Girl below! ...Read More
Famous Monsters has been resurrected as a convention that will take place in Indianapolis from July 9-11. The newly launched official website confirms guests ranging from Thomas Jane (The Mist) to the cast of 20th Century Fox's Predators reboot (including Derek Mears, who plays Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th remake). Ticket are now available and more guests are to be announced. ...Read More
Roxxanne Benjami, one of our new contributors, sent us in her thoughts on Henry Saine's The Last Lovecraft: The Relic of Cthulhu, a new indie horror comedy that premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival last week. "For their part, the actors seem to be enjoying themselves, the story is solid, and the creature effects are astoundingly good for the budget range they're in. The result is a lovingly crafted and light-hearted monster flick that will get more than a few laughs." Click the title for the full review and don't forget to check out the badass trailer.
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