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TV: New ‘The Walking Dead’ Trailer, AMC Fearfest Announced!
This month, AMC presents its annual AMC Fearfest, the most highly anticipated horror movie marathon of the Halloween season. A celebration of the best in contemporary and classic horror genre films, this year’s AMC Fearfest will kick off a countdown to the Sun., Oct. 31 premiere of AMC’s newest original series The Walking Dead (watch the new trailer inside), written and executive produced by Oscar nominee Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist). The two-week marathon will also feature such films as 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead as well as interviews with both established and upcoming horror filmmakers and actors with “Killer Conversations” and “New Blood” segments airing throughout each night’s prime time film. With more than 60 films (including five new zombie movies online), AMC Fearfest kicks off on-air on Mon., Oct. 18 then runs through Sun., Oct. 31, culminating with the 90-minute world premiere of “The Walking Dead” on Sun., Oct. 31 at 10/9c. Click here for more info on AMC Fearfest. Now this is what WE DESERVE! Hellz yeah!
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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