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Horror Nights ’09: Joe Dante, Roger Corman and Corey Feldman Horror Collaboration!
Update: We’re told horror writer Richard Christian Matheson is the writer an creator of the series. BD learned that Joe Dante, Roger Corman and Corey Feldman have all teamed up for Splatter, an internet only web series from Netflix! “I have secretly be working on a new project that is going to be presented by Netflix and it’s the first ever live streaming web series by Netlifx,” Feldman tells Bloody-Disgusting on the red carpet for the Chiller Eyegore Awards last night in Studio City, CA. “It’s going to be a collaboration by Roger Corman, Joe Dante and myself all working together for the first time.” Adding, “It’s Definitely horror [and will be] premiering Halloween weekend. As a special treat, just for fans tonight, they’ve put up the first clip, which is streaming right now! If you go to Netflix.com/splatter, you can get an idea of the gruesome things that await. You don’t have to have a membership to see this. There’s going to be a lot of gory stuff.” Click the link to check it out and tell us what you think.
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R-Rated ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Director’s Cut Gets New Title and Streaming Premiere Date
After a slight delay, Disney has finally announced a new streaming date for the R-Rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to Gizmodo, it’ll also come with a new title.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu on August 14.
The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he teased a much scarier movie he intended.
“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained last year. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“
The director’s cut of the film was initially set to arrive on Disney+ in June, but quietly disappeared from the schedule without a word. Polygon reported the delay was “due to some last-minute adjustments being made to the film.”
The release’s new “Vrach Frankenshteyn” title certainly suggests those adjustments have been made, likely referring to a Frankensteining of bonus footage.
In the film, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient.
When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped, and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics.
The brand new R-rated cut will “faithfully restore the filmmaker’s original vision.”
Look for it on Hulu next month.