While plot details regarding Brian Keene’s new foray into a world of the living dead remain hard to come by, the author has given us a small taste of what to expect when his new comic series debuts this summer. Above you’ll find the first issue cover art for Keene’s The Last Zombie. Looks pretty spiffy to me.
Keep up with all of Keene’s latest projects at his official website.
I really wish I was going to SXSW next week, because as usual, a ton of cool sounding movies are playing. Amer, A Serbian Film, and now Jimmy Tupper vs. The Goatman of Bowie.
That’s the cool new one sheet above (click it for the larger version). Sort of reminds me of an animated version of the poster for Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. The first film in a planned trilogy, JTVTGoB (Christ, even the acronym is long…) was written, directed, and stars Andrew Bowser. If you’re in the Austin area, you can catch it several times during the SXSW film festival, starting on the 14th. Read on for the plot synopsis and then jump past the break for the trailer.
“Part modern horror documentary and part old school monster movie, JIMMY TUPPER VS. THE GOATMAN OF BOWIE is an innovative and quirky film that challenges the notion of found footage and what it means to be scared in the woods. Jimmy Tupper (Andrew Bowser) is a no one; he’s nothing. He spends his days working at a Starbucks in suburban Maryland and his nights drinking and playing Rock Band. His friends see him as the resident stoner and waste of space. One night they decide to pull a prank on poor Jimmy, and while he is passed-out drunk, they leave him in the middle of the woods of Bowie, Maryland.
The next day Jimmy is nowhere to be found. When he finally emerges from the woods, he is beaten and bloodied and making outlandish claims. He says he’s seen a monster, the famed “Goatman” of Bowie. His friends believe this to be the drunken ramblings of an overexcited nitwit, but Jimmy knows better. He heads to the woods determined to capture footage of the elusive creature and prove what he knows to be real.
Was Jimmy only dreaming? Did he really see a monster? Only time, and Jimmy’s video camera, will tell.”
There’s probably nothing I can really say to prepare you to view the trailer for Dennis Law’s Hong Kong horror film Womb Ghosts, so I’m not even going to try. Sure, it rips off the girl ghost thing Japan is so infamous for in a pretty hardcore way, but it also pushes the boundaries of good taste by featuring more aborted fetuses than I’ve seen in a long time. Add in some really awful English subs and you wind up with a trailer that has to be seen to be believed. Thanks to the guys at Twitch for spreading the love and aborted children…
Here’s the plot breakdown:
Life after death of a fetus inside a woman’s body exists as a Womb Ghost. Unnatural termination of such life will turn the baby into the evilest and most vicious kind of spirit.
A mental hospital is haunted by spirits, the mysterious miscarriage of a young and beautiful inmate causes the authority to investigate. Only one answer can be given to the existence of such an ungodly creature…Womb Ghost.
Womb Ghosts, a non-stop horror experience where haunting begins when life ends…
The marketing department for Platinum Dunes’ remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street is kicking things into high gear. We’ve had set reports, a new trailer, and assorted other goodies over the past few weeks–and today we get a new character banner featuring none other than Mr. Krueger himself.
I like this piece of advertising–but I will say that it confirms what I hadn’t realized until recently: Jackie Earle Haley is really fucking short. I’m not saying that because Rooney Mara looks huge (I understand the concept of foreground and perspective–thank you Intro to Humanities!) but because looking at Haley in this pic makes it pretty clear he’s a thin and tiny guy. I’ve got no problem with that–Englund wasn’t big either and he made it work–but I’m just finally noticing that this guy is a lot smaller than I realized.
Anyway, enough of my pointless digressions about Jackie Earle Haley being smaller than I thought. Check out the new banner above (click for a larger version) and expect lots more Elm Street news between now and April 30th.
I wasn’t sure what to expect going into Travis Betz’s Lo. All I really knew was that it was about a guy who summoned a demon. Having seen about a bazillion horror movies during my life and career, this vague plot synopsis could have gone one of a hundred ways. I was pretty cocky—figuring I could guess where it was headed. I was also completely wrong. Lo is a film about a guy who summons a demon, but it’s more than that—it’s a romantic drama with horror undertones, a comedy with gore, a musical, and a stage play captured on film. It’s not without flaws—some serious, others forgivable—but it’s difficult to look at what Betz has achieved on what was surely a miniscule budget and hold those negatives against him.
I still have no clue as to whether or not Shutter Island is a horror film. Every time I ask someone, I get conflicting answers. That being said, it still dominated the weekend box office for a second weekend in a row. It had company in the top 3, where Breck Eisner’s remake of George Romero’s The Crazies landed when everything was said and done.
Scorsese’s creepy film (starring Leo DiCaprio) closed out its second weekend in theaters with 22.2 million dollars according to Box Office Mojo, bringing its total haul to 75 million dollars. With a reported 80 million dollar budget, the film will certainly turn a profit.
Meanwhile, The Crazies opened with an impressive 16.5 million dollar take. That put it roughly 2 million dollars behind second place film Cop Out. The Crazies showed on roughly 700 fewer screens. The Timothy Olyphant vehicle had a 20 million dollar budget, so it looks like a given that it will move into profitability by the time of next week’s tally.
Lots of stuff to share this week–aside from the stuff you read here, here’s what you might have missed from me over at Horror Squad.
ADI Handling Special FX on The Thing Prequel
Anthony Hopkins Joins the Cast of The Rite
Crazy List of Names Being Considered to Direct Paranormal Activity 2
New Nightmare on Elm Street trailer
Craven not Officially Signed for Scream 4
Five Freaky Minutes with Alan Wake
And lots more. Find all your Bracken shit by clicking right here.
My pals over at Twitch posted a cool trailer for the British horror film Salvage this morning, and since the internet is all about sharing, I figured I’d pass it along for your perusal.
Here’s the plot synopsis:
“It’s Christmas Eve and a quiet cul-de-sac is suddenly plunged into a world of violence, terror and paranoia when a group of heavily armed military personnel storms the area, sealing off the close and ordering the residents at gunpoint to retreat inside their homes. Unsure if this is the first sign of a terrorist attack, or something worse, one local single mother, Beth (Neve Mcintosh), finds it in herself to fight to save her estranged daughter, Jodie (Linzey Cocker), who is visiting her for the holiday but is now stranded across the street in a neighbour’s house. However, with growing dread, the trapped residents soon discover that the imminent threat is far more monstrous than any of them could possibly imagine. Only one thing is certain… survival is no longer guaranteed.”
The film is set to make its British debut on March 19th, then turn up on DVD on March 22nd. I’m not sure if you’ll be able to view it via VOD through iTunes here in America, but I suspect we’ll see it turn up on our shores sooner or later.
Check out the trailer by pointing your browser here.
I haven’t watched a Puppet Master flick in years, but that may change this June.
News hit yesterday that the newest installment in the long-running franchise, Puppet Master: Axis of Evil, will be landing on DVD this June 15th. No details on the extras (if there are any…) but here’s the plot breakdown.
In a stateside hotel during the height of World War II, young DANNY COOGAN dreams of joining the war effort. Following the murder of hotel guest Mr. Toulon by Nazi assassins, Danny finds the old man’s crate of mysterious PUPPETS and is suddenly thrust into a battle all his own. He discovers that Nazis MAX.
If you mention the name Kongkiat Komesiri, even most horror fans wouldn’t know who you were talking about. Yet if you mentioned that he directed the Art of the Devil series, most savvy fans of foreign horror would get excited. The filmmaker’s back with a new project, entitled Cheun, and the Monsters and Critics blog has the first details on what we can expect.
The film revolves around the hunt for a vicious serial killer, and was written by Wisit Sasanatieng. As the author at Monsters and Critics points out, there are definitely some giallo overtones in the trailer. Unfortunately, there are no subtitles–but the language of blood, gore, and violent death is universal, so check it out below. In the interim, here’s a plot synopsis courtesy of an IMDB user:
A serial killer is preying on the rich and influential, exposing their sexual proclivities, dismembering them and dumping them and their severed body parts in various locations around Thailand. The police officer on the case is not even close to finding the killer, but given an ultimatum to solve it in 15 days, Papa Chin (Chatchai Plenpanich) turns to the one man he doesn’t want to use — an imprisoned hitman named Tai (Arak Amornsupasiri), who thinks the killer is a friend of his from childhood. Tai is let out of prison while his girlfriend Noi is kept under close watch by Chin. Tai heads back to his hometown to search for clues about where his old friend might be. As he recalls his childhood and friendship with the troubled boy Nut, the events of the present day crystallize until Tai is confronted with a shocking reality.
