I’m a big fan of Noboru Iguchi (director of Machine Girl) and Yoshihiro Nishimura (special FX wizard and director of Tokyo Gore Police and Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl). The two men have almost singlehandedly saved Japanese horror cinema from the girl ghost plague that’s ruined it for the past decade. These guys love gore, over the top action, and just flat out crazy shit.
I didn’t think Tokyo Gore Police could be topped in terms of sheer insanity, but their newest collaboration, RoboGeisha might be film to up the ante yet again.
Check out the trailer below (courtesy of the good folks at Twitch film)–this thing is so full of win that I can’t even pick out the best part. Is it the corny music? Is it the robot geisha shooting acid out of their boobs? Is it the giant robot building thing smashing other buildings, causing geysers of blood to shoot out of them? Maybe it’s the crazy narration–where the guy sounds like he has no tongue and is talking with his mouth full of marbles. I just don’t know.
I do, however, know good cult cinema when I see it and this has all earmarkings of another cult classic for Iguchi and Nishimura. No release date has been announced, but have a gander at the trailer below.
Fans of the gang at Curious Goods have been wondering when we’d finally get the third and final series of the Friday the 13th television series. Well, we can all wonder no more.
Paramount has announced that the final season will make its DVD debut on September 22nd. No word on extras, but if it’s like the first two discs, there won’t really be any. Extras would be nice, but just having the whole run of episodes on DVD is enough to keep me happy.
At this stage, there’s probably not even a point to releasing All the Boys Love Mandy Lane in theaters. Everyone who wanted to see it has downloaded one of the billion torrents of it out there. We knew it was being bumped from its July 17th release date to the much more nebulous TBD awhile back, though, so it’s not really news.
What is news is that Senator Distribution, the company who was responsible for the release, has now changed everything on their schedule to To Be Determined. This means Splice–the sci-fi horror flick starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley has also been bumped. The film, which finds Brody and Polley playing scientists who merge human and animal DNA to create a creature that eventually starts doing really nasty things, was originally set to debut on September 18th.
Will we ever see either of these movies? What’s going on at Senator Distribution? I have no answers–I just bring the bad news that two horror films that were going to be out in the not too distant future are now in limbo. If a reason for the change emerges or new release dates are set, I’ll bring it to you here.
With Transformers 2 set to become to worst reviewed movie to ever make 400 million dollars, the world is once again in Megan Fox overdrive. Now that the big robot movie is out of the way, we can start focusing on her new horror film, Jennifer’s Body.
Fox will play a proverbial “maneater” in the new film, penned by Juno scribe Diablo Cody. Fox’s character develops a taste for human flesh after being possessed by a demon at a rock concert. Film School Rejects posted a few new scans of photos from the upcoming film. You can see a few of them here and the rest by clicking the FSR link.
I’m genuinely curious about how this film is going to turn out. I’d love it if we got sort of a Night of the Creeps cult classic, but I’m not really that optimistic. I’ll just be happy at this point if there’s a reason to see it beyond watching Fox cavort around topless.
Jennifer’s Body invades theaters on September 18th.
Bloody-Disgusting had some news yesterday about a rumored remake of American Werewolf in London. Turns out that’s not just a rumor.
Variety has confirmed the story that Dimension Films has acquired the rights to remake the classic John Landis horror film. The film will be overseen by the Furst brothers–who’ve also handled similar duties on the forthcoming vampire film Daybreakers.
No writer or director has been attached to the project yet.
As far as I’m concerned, this is probably a really bad idea. Watching CGI werewolf transformations (which is almost assuredly the direction they’ll go in) will never be even remotely as cool or impressive as Rick Baker’s transformation sequences in the original.
News from THR today on recent casting in the remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark indicates that Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison will now be starring along the previously announced Katie Holmes.
The film is a remake of a 1973 ABC television film about a young girl who moves in with her father and his current girlfriend only to discover that the house they’re living in is filled with demonic monsters.
Madison is set to play the young daugher, with Holmes and Pearce taking on the role of the parents. Guillermo del Toro disciple Troy Nixey is onboard to direct. Filming is set to commence in July.
I have no idea how this is going to turn out since I’ve never seen the original, but Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes are big names–and big names rarely get involved with genuinely disturbing horror films. A Guillermo del Toro compatriot directing might make this worth seeing though–I guess we’ll all just have to wait and see.
It’s hard to believe that Trick ‘r Treat is finally set to come out. I’ve spent all these years waiting to see it and had kind of reached a point where I had concluded that it was just never gonna happen.
That changed recently when Warner Bros. finally announced plans to give the film a limited theatrical run and bring the movie to Blu-ray and DVD later this year.
You’d be forgiven if that announcement didn’t entirely convince you that this was going to happen (because we’ve heard release dates for this movie before…), but the unveiling of the film’s official website should at least lead you to believe that Warner Bros. is ready to finally let horror fans check this film out.
You can see the official site here. There’s only a trailer and a synopsis up at the moment, but hopefully they’ll be updating with more goodies as the official release draws nearer.
I’m not one for bragging about how smart I am, but I think if you look very closely at the following new image from Rob Zombie’s animated feature The Haunted World of El Superbeasto I think there’s some hidden symbolism in there.
Take, for instance, the subtle imagery of the titular character running down an animated Michael Myers. What is the artist trying to say here? What can we infer from this positioning? The spatial iconography seems to indicate that the car is representative of the sub-prime rate mortgages while Myers represents the US economy. Or, if one probes deeper, you could argue that perhaps the car represents the Iranian people while Myers is the regime they’re attempting to topple.
Or maybe it’s all just Zombie saying “H2 is pretty much done and now it’s on to my next thing–which is this movie.” I doubt that, though.
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is due out on September 22nd.
If you popped Eden Lake into your DVD player without knowing a thing about it, I bet you could guess what it was going to be about in the first ten or fifteen minutes. Director James Watkins’ film makes sure to show us lots of children early on-and when lead characters Jenny (Kelly Reilly) and Steve (Michael Fassbender) head off for a romantic weekend at an isolated lake set to become prime yuppie real estate, viewers can pretty much guess that they’re going to run afoul of some young adults looking for trouble.
Perhaps the best way to describe Howard McCain’s sci-fi medieval monster movie (as if that weren’t enough of a description right there…) Outlander is to ask viewers to re-imagine Jackson’s Lord of the Rings-minus Jackson’s direction and WETA’s special FX. Take that and add in Jim Caviezel as an Aragorn-esque character from outer space, set it in the area around Helm’s Deep, and make the Balrog an angry extra-terrestrial-and you’d be pretty close to what the film is. Or, you could just imagine it as Beowulf with a space traveling twist. Either works…
