News and Reviews

• Guillermo del Toro is A Champion

  submitted at Nov 9, 2007 at 12:26 PM by Marissa C.

  Director Guillermo del Toro will be juggling multiple projects, including “The Champions,” “Hellboy 2” and “399” throughout the next few months.

  

  Del Toro has just signed on with United Artists and C/W Productions to write, direct and produce the sci-fi action film, “The Champions.”

  “The Champions,” originally a British TV series starring Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, and William Gaunt, is based on the adventures of a team of secret government agents with superhuman powers. After their plane crashes in the Himalayas they are saved by a foreign …(read more)

• An Old Tale with a New Beat

  submitted at Oct 31, 2007 at 2:20 PM by Marissa C.

  “Tear up the planks! ...it is the beating of his hideous heart!” The Scott brothers will, indeed, “Tear up the planks!” on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” for a modern-day movie rendition, which will star Josh Lucas (“Sweet Home Alabama” “Glory Road”).

  

  Tony and Ridley Scott as part of their company, Scott Free (“American Gangster,” “Alien”), plan to transform Poe’s unsettling narrative into a film with a $20 million budget.

  “Tell-Tale” is a psychological thriller that sets Poe’s haunting tale against the backdrop of modern science, ...(read more)

• Watch it Here - New Teaser Video Released for "Repo! The Genetic Opera"

  submitted at Oct 31, 2007 at 12:50 PM by Marissa C.

  Lionsgate, in conjunction with Twisted Pictures, has released a new teaser video for its highly anticipated film “Repo!” that began production in early September.

  And based on the teaser, audiences should expect “Repo!” to drip with bloody scenes. But lets not forget, this is not just a typical horror film; this is an opera! So audiences can also expect that their …(read more)

• Screamfest - Discovering the New Blood of Horror and Honoring the Masters 2007 Winners Anounced

  submitted at Oct 29, 2007 at 11:52 AM by Marissa C.

  Screamfest, Hollywood’s Premier Film Festival dedicated to screening the work of up and coming filmmakers in the horror/sci-fi genre, has announced winners for its 7th annual year.

  

  “Alone,” a Thai Ghost Story, took the big prize as this year’s “Best Picture” and won in five other categories as well. “Storm Warning” and “Paranormal activity” also received multiple wins in more than one category.

  “Alone” directed by Banjon Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, explores the haunting of a formerly conjoined twin, Pim. Pim and Ploy were separated in a surgery …(read more)

• After Dark Horrorfest cuts "Frontiers"

  submitted at Oct 26, 2007 at 4:22 PM by Marissa C.

  The crew at “After Dark Horrofest 2007” have replaced “Frontiers” with “Crazy Eights” and “Lake Dead” in this year’s list of highly anticipated horror films.

  

  “Crazy Eights,” and “Lake Dead,” will now be shown alongside, “The Deaths of Ian Stone,” “Mulberry Street,” “NIghtmare Man,” “Tooth and Nail,” “Unearthed,” and “Borderland,” in over 300 theaters across the nation November 9th-18th.

  After Dark’s CEO Courtney Solomon is “very excited” to announce this year’s final slate of horror films. “We are incredibly proud of all 8 films and look forward to …(read more)

• Playing Cat and Mouse with a Killer

  submitted at Oct 26, 2007 at 4:17 PM by Marissa C.

  Hope Davis (“Flatliners) and Alfred Molina (“Spider-Man 2,” “Species”) are set to star in Sony Pictures’ remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 psychological thriller, “The Lodger.”

  

  Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lodger,” based on a Marie Belloc Lowndes novel by the same name, traced the trail of the notorious Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper.

  The remake, which will take place in present-day L.A, will keep audiences on the edge of their seats as the hunt for a serial killer begins. A landlady (Davis) suspicious of her mysterious “Lodger,” and a detective, played …(read more)