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‘Laid to Rest’ Shoots Additional Scenes, New Casting!
This morning writer-director Rob Hall dropped us a line informing us that he’s about to embark on some reshoots for Laid to Rest, his slasher film acquired by Anchor Bay Entertainment for release later this year. In addition, there have been new additions to the cast, read on for the skinny and watch for the trailer to debut online after the San Diego Comic Con.
“I’m so happy with the film that I decided to celebrate with more carnage,” Hall tells Bloody-Disgusting. “We were shooting some stuff for the opening titles anyway and I had a great idea on how to weave a couple more characters into the small cast!
Jonathan Schaech (Quarantine, Prom Night) will play Lena Headey’s brother who pays a visit at the wrong time. Jana Kramer (Prom Night) will play his girlfriend.”
“Laid to Rest” is a terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and outsmart the technologically inclined killer who is hellbent on finishing what he started.
The trailer will debut this week at the San Diego Comic Con, watch this spot for new updates and a look at the trailer in the coming week.
Zach Cregger is no stranger to violent movies, with his first two at-bats in the horror genre yielding the films Barbarian and Weapons. But even those movies can’t compete with the level of violence on display in his next movie Resident Evil, he teases in a new chat.
Zach Cregger tells Empire Magazine that Resident Evil is “definitely the most violent thing I’ve done.” He teases, “You gotta go grotesque! I wanted to go all the way.”
“So it’s gnarly. It’s brutal,” Cregger continues. “A very bloody affair.”
He also tells Empire, “Fleshing out what [the Umbrella Corporation is] up to and how the T-virus works, that’s not what this movie is. This movie is about one dude’s journey on foot, fighting monsters. I don’t give a fuck about checking boxes. All I cared about was just telling a fun story. We step on the gas at about eight minutes in and never take our foot off the floor.”
Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons).
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.