Leading up until the New Year we've got our annual round-up of the best and worst films, along with preview pieces for all films coming in 2009. Beyond the break you can check out the 2009 Horror Movie Preview for Universal Pictures, Rogue Pictures and Focus Features. Watch here for previews of Lionsgate, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems, 20th Century Fox, Dimension Films, Paramount and various others. What films are you looking forward to the most from Universal's line-up?
--UNIVERSAL/ROGUE/FOCUS 2008 HORROR MOVIE PREVIEW--
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The Unborn (January 9; Rogue Pictures)
The psychological thriller follows an 18-year-old who is haunted by a Dybbuk - the soul of a dead person barred from heaven - in the form of a young boy who perished in Auschwitz.
Coraline (February 6; Focus)
A high-definition stop-motion animated feature – the first to be originally filmed in 3-D – with spectacular CG effects, based on Neil Gaiman's international best-selling book. A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life – only much better. But when this wondrously off-kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit parents (including Other Mother) try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home – and save her family.
Drag Me to Hell (May 29; Universal Pictures)
Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead series) returns to the horror genre with Drag Me To Hell, an original tale of a young woman’s desperate quest to break an evil curse.
The Wolfman (November 9, Universal Pictures)
Like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., new pic will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.
The Last House on the Left (No Date Available; Rogue Pictures)
John and Emma Collingwood are on vacation at their lakeshore house when, by a bizarre twist of fate, they give shelter to the sociopaths who have just assaulted and nearly killed their daughter. Upon discovering the truth, they exact a chilling revenge on her attackers...
Thirst (No Date Available; Focus Features)
The story finds Korea's leading man, Song Kang-ho, as a much-loved priest who becomes a vampire after a failed medical experiment; he becomes a tortured and depraved soul. Title refers to a craving for sex, blood and love. CJ is pitching the pic as a love story with horror and drama.
25/8 (tentative title) (No Date Available; Rogue Pictures)
As legend has it, a notorious serial slayer will return to the sleepy community of Riverdale to finish off the seven children born on the night he purportedly died. But is the slayer really dead, or is he still at large? Or has the mysterious evil personality that once impelled his bloody spree entered the body of an unwary teen, who will now be compelled to do his evil bidding?
Looking forward to THE UNBORN, largely because it's Platinum Dunes (gotta support the makers of the new F13!) and because of Odette Yustman. THE WOLFMAN looks cool, too. The rest of this line-up is rather uninspiring.
I hope that these all turn out solid. there's been too much junk as of late from some lazy studios. I am VERY excited about Coraline, Unborn and that new Raimi flick looks slick.
I HOPE EVERYONE AT BLOODY DISGUSTING HAS A VERY HAPPY FESTIVUS & MERRY OLD YEAR!!!! I'm off to the Costanza's for the airing of grievances & feats of strength....then I shall take Elaine to my lair & partake of her sweet nectar!!!! Everyone drink & be merry, & get lots o' snootchie bootchie nootchies!!!!
Happy festivus right back at you. Let me air my grevience right now. Drag me to hell is gonna be a PG-13 piece of shit, much like his (as producer) Boogey Man series.
The Wolfman looks pretty sweet and i'm also interested in The Unborn (although could be one of those dumb psycho thrillers in which you think one thing but really aliens are really at fault! ha)
So I thought Last House was already scheduled for March 2009. Has that changed, I'm guessing??? I really want to see it. The test screening seemed to be positive.
I concur with Cathedral. Why in the hell is "Last House on the Left" being remade? "The Unborn" looks whacktacular. I guess I could be grateful for the lack of good 'Horror' over here these days. I'm able to keep my hard earned money in my pocket. :)
I'm expecting Unborn and Last House to be crap. Drag Me reminds me of the first Boogeyman (crap). Coraline should be good for the kids, and I'm looking forward to Thirst.
The original was fun, but 'Last House' being remade is a horrible idea, i wish they would let okay movies rest in peace instead of trying to 'make it better' and pretty much ruin it.
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