And lots more. Sorry for not getting a new Death Scenes We Love up this week–it’s done (and it’s a good one…), but it won’t be live until later today or tomorrow.
Psych 9, a new British horror film from Andrew Shortell and starring Cary Elwes and Michael Biehn, has sort of flown under the radar–but that’s about to change with today’s unveiling of the official trailer. After watching this clip, I’m definitely more interested in checking out the full feature.
Our friends in England will get their chance to see what Shortell and company have come up with on April 9th, when the film hits theaters. Plans are currently in the works for a limited theatrical release here in the States as well, but the official release dates haven’t been hammered out yet.
If you’re interested in learning more about the film, my Horror Squad colleague Alison Nastasi recently posted a lengthy interview with Shortell over at her Screamstress blog. I highly recommend checking it out.
As always, here’s the plot breakdown:
A young woman with a troubled past takes a job at a recently closed hospital to collate the hard copy patient records. Working alone in the building after dark, she experiences a series of unsettling events that lead her to believe the hospital may be connected to a number of recent murders in the area. To uncover the truth, she has to solve the mystery of her own disturbing past.
Everyone keeps talking about how Twilight has made vampires popular again and a vampire movie renaissance is happening all around us, but I’ll be honest–I don’t see it. It should be pretty obvious to anyone who covers the genre or follows it closely that horror is still all about zombies. I remember lamenting years ago that I’d die happy if zombie films made a comeback–and there are now days where I regret making that wish. I get up and post news every day (well, almost every day–the past few weeks have been rough since my college courses are killing me this semester…) and there’s always something about a new zombie flick. The walking dead are everywhere.
Unfortunately, most of these films are of the “me too!” variety, or even worse, low budget crap that’s barely watchable. However, occasionally I stumble upon something that actually looks promising. Such is the case with this trailer for Chilean zombie film Blind Death.
The guys over at B-D brought this clip to my attention, and I’m sharing it with you, my zombie loving brothers and sisters. I don’t think the film, directed by Cristian Toledo and Lucian Rojas looks to be groundbreakingly original, but military guys blasting the holy hell out of zombies is something I can always get behind. The story is the usual “strange virus turns people into monsters and the military goes in later to find out what happened” deal, but it looks well shot and features lots of shooting.
No word on when we might get a look at the full version of Blind Death, but in the meantime you can check out this trailer–which even features English subtitles–to get you in the mood.
I posted news and some still photos for a film entitled In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani a few weeks ago–and today I bring you the first trailer.
As a hardcore fan of Italian horror, I’m hoping that Gabriele Albanesei’s film might help get the country back into the horror business. Granted, I wasn’t blown away by the director’s last film, The Last House in the Woods, but it did have its moments. This trailer looks interesting enough, even if the whole thing feels like an Italian version of Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness. That’s not a negative as far as I’m concerned–I love Carpenter’s film, and some of the best Italian horror films were rip-offs of other western movies.
Anyway, here’s the plot breakdown:
Alessio Rinaldi, a 25 years old director, is hired by a producer to write the script for his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani’s house to start this collaboration and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side and Alessio falls into a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares.
There is a reason why Terzani’s bestsellers are so frightening…Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild and he will have to fight hard to break free of Ubaldo Terzani’s jaws.
La Casa Muda is another horror film that may not have appeared on your radar. The Latin American production is supposedly “inspired by true events”, but more interesting is that it’s shot with a professional photo camera, was made for roughly $6,000, and was filmed in one long continuous 72-minute take. That last part is what sets my inner film geek off. I nerd out over five minute shots with no cuts in them–hearing something’s going to run for 72 minutes is crazy. I can’t think of another horror film that’s attempted something similar.
A new subtitled teaser trailer for the film turned up online this week. You can find it below. According to the Dread Central gang, the film is currently in post-production and should meet its March 2010 completion date. No info on a release date yet, but here’s the plot synopsis:
Laura (Florencia Colucci) and her father Wilson (Gustavo Alonso) settle down in a cottage that seems to be off the beaten track in order to update it since its owner (Abel Tripaldi) will soon put the house up for sale. They will spend the night there in order to start the repairs the following morning. Everything seems to go smoothly until Laura hears a sound that comes from outside and gets louder and louder on the upper floor of the house. Wilson goes up to see what is going on while she remains downstairs on her own, waiting for her father to come down. The plot is based on a true story that happened some time ago in a small village in Uruguay. La Casa Muda focuses on the last seventy-eight minutes, second by second, while Laura attempts to leave the house, which hides an obscure secret, unharmed.
REAL FEAR IN REAL TIME is the most remarkable underlying feature of the film, which will not go unnoticed by all those who may be willing to experience this different and disturbing filming experience.
There’s not much left to say about After Dark’s 4th annual Horrorfest–it starts later this month, features another 8 Films to Die For, and here’s yet another trailer.
Bloody-Disgusting scored the exclusive to this one, which is for the Norwegian film Hidden. I’m phoning this one in completely, in case you were wondering. Here’s the synopsis and trailer. The film will be in theaters on January 29th.
Kai Koss, upon the death of his cruel mother, unwillingly returns to the small town he ran away from 19 years ago. He is left in charge of the family home and the dark secrets that come with it. Kai soon finds himself tangled up in a series of murderous events that are beyond anyone’s control and his troubles begin to overwhelm him. He has spent the past two decades trying to forget a tortured past only to find that there are some things you just can’t run from.
As American audiences continue to wait impatiently for Sony to decide when we’ll finally be able to Rec 2, the rest of the world is getting cool trailers and release dates. The film’s set to make its Italian debut sometime soon–as this trailer fully demonstrates. There are no English subtitles, but the language of gore and terror is universal.
Paco Plaza and Jaume Balaguero’s sequel picks up roughly fifteen minutes after the end of the first film. A SWAT team has been dispatched to enter the quarantined building and I don’t think they’re going to like what they find inside…
I’ll bring you the full details on a US release whenever Sony pulls their head of their ass and actually announces it.
Sorry for the lack of updates yesterday. My PC is in the shop and I’m writing stuff on a very old Sony desktop. Posting anything is an exercise in frustration, but I’m trying to share at least one thing each day until my machine is back in action.
Today, I bring you the first five minutes of Rec 2 (courtesy of the good folks at Allocine). I haven’t watched it (I have a dislike for seeing five minutes of a film out of context) but I’m sure some of you are curious to check it out. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balaguero’s sequel picks up roughly 15 minutes after the original film ends, with a SWAT team sent into the monster-infested building.
Still no word on a US release, but hopefully it will be sometime in early 2010.
News that Filmax was already developing Rec 3 took the horror community by storm last week. Now that we’ve all had a few days to digest it, questions have started to emerge. The most common one revolves around who might direct this newest entry. Filmmakers Paco Plaza and Jaume Balaguero helmed the first two installments of the series, but the early buzz was that they’d be passing the reins to someone else this time out and taking a producer’s position instead.
That is apparently untrue. Dread Central has an exclusive story up this morning that says Balaguero and Plaza will be back to direct Rec 3. Their source? None other than Balaguero himself.
Dread caught up with the filmmaker at a screening of Rec 2 and the director says that he and plaza definitely plan on returning to direct the new film and that he has several story ideas in mind–including several that take the series outside of the apartment building for the first time.
There’s no timetable for when Rec 3 might happen (Balaguero tells DC that he has another film to make in the interim), but the project is in the pre-development stage and appears to be in good hands with the news that he and Plaza will likely return to guide the project.
Now, we just need a release of Rec 2 here in the States…
Rec 2 still hasn’t made it out here in America, but that hasn’t stopped Filmax from teasing us all with a potential third entry in the popular franchise.
The first hint of a new sequel turned up online yesterday in two forms: a teaser website and a Facebook page. I’d love to tell you what was being said at either location, but I can’t read Spanish. I can decipher enough to say that it appears as though the next installment will be out at some point in 2011.
No clue as to where a third installment will go narratively, but I’ll keep you posted as details become available. Hopefully this means we’ll be seeing Rec 2 in the not too distant future.
