Insidious, the new film from Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell, will have its premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. A creepy clip from the supernatural thriller has hit the web.
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Insidious stars Australian actress Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later) and Patrick Wilson (Watchmen) as a married couple who discover that the body of their comatose son is hosting evil spirits. The film was originally entitled The Further.
Paranormal Activity’sOren Peli and Jason Blum are producing.
Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced a limited theatrical run for Studio Canal’s upcoming remake of the 1970 British abduction-thriller And Soon the Darkness. The film will play in selected theaters on Dec. 17 before arriving on DVD and Blu-ray disc on Dec. 28.
The movie marks the directorial debut of commercial director Marcos Efron and stars sexy up-and-comers Amber Heard (Drive Angry) and Odette Yustman (The Unborn) as American girls on a bike-riding excursion in Argentina that goes terribly wrong when one of them is kidnapped.
And Soon the Darkness costars Heard and Odette’s skimpy bikinis, Karl Urban (Dredd), Adriana Barraza (Drag Me to Hell), Michel Noher, and Gia Mantegna.
Life is short. On any given day, you could meet your end. It could come from a random act of violence, an accident, or at the hand of the diseased-riddled, minimum wage-earning cook at your favorite restaurant. There’s nothing you can do about it other than to have your affairs in order and find a God to forgive all the terrible things you’ve done.
The worse thing about your imminent demise, however, has nothing to do with the loved ones you leave behind (you knew them all your life anyway) or the possibility of burning in eternal hell. The true horror of death lies on all the things you will miss out on while rotting in a worm-infested grave.
Things like actress Gemma Arterton’s nude breasts in Anchor Bay’s abduction-thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed for example. If you missed the film’s limited theatrical run in the U.K. and selected cities in the States, you’ll have to wait until Nov. 23 to pick it up on DVD/Blu-ray.
But, what if you croak before then? Your penis’s soul will be doomed to roam the earth in a state of unrest. With that in mind, I have posted Arterton’s topless scene to ensure that doesn’t happen.
This afternoon, while surfing the net for a deal on footwear and interracial POV porn, I came across some genuinely horrific footage taken from the upcoming season of the CBS reality show “The Amazing Race.”
The clip below features home-shopping hosts Brook Roberts and Claire Champlin competing in a watermelon slingshot event gone terribly wrong.
Take a look:
How fucked up is that? I don’t know what’s worse: taking a watermelon to the face or having a bitch of a friend telling you to carry on!
I have never watched “The Amazing Race” (“Survivor” 4Ever, Beyotches!), but I may have to tune in to the new season on Sept. 26 if this clip is indicative of the shenanigans at hand.
Cameras are now rolling on American Psycho director Mary Harron’s new girl-on-girl vampire thriller The Moth Diaries. Based on author Rachel Klein’s novel of the same name, the film stars Sarah Bolger (pictured above) of Showtime’s “The Tudors,” British model-turned-actress Lily Cole, and Sarah Gadon of Dreamworks upcoming Daniel Craig/Naomi Watts thriller Dream House.
Set in an elite boarding school for girls, the film centers on an emotionally disturbed 16-year-old girl named Rebecca (Bolger) and her growing obsession over the budding friendship between her classmate Lucy and mysterious new arrival Eranessa (Cole), whom she believes to be a vampire.
Scott Speedman (The Strangers) costars as Rebecca’s father-figure crush Mr. Davies, an English Literature professor teaching a course on supernatural fiction.
Harron has described her adaptation as a “chillingly atmospheric horror story” and promises that her screenplay remains true to the book’s Gothic and, most importantly, girl-on-girl vampire themes.
The Moth Diaries is currently shooting in Montreal through Oct. 8.
If girl-on-girl vamps aren’t your thing, you can check out Juno Temple andRiley Keough as teen lesbian werewolves here.
Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat bares some fangs and a little bit of skin in the international trailer for director Jennifer Lynch’s long-delayed frightener Hisss. The 33-year-old stunner plays a half-woman/half-snake creature known in Eastern folklore as the Nagin.
Enjoy:
Hisss was shot in India and costars renowned Indian actor Irrfan Khan. Despite having played at the AFM, Cannes, and the Berlin International Film Festival, the flick has yet to strike a distribution deal in the States.
Lynch—daughter of renowned director David Lynch—made her feature film debut in 1993 with the outrageous psychological-thriller Boxing Helena. After a lengthy hiatus, she returned in 20o8 with the serial-killer drama Surveillance.
Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood is tossing his hat into the supernatural realm this October with the Matt Damon vehicle Hereafter. The film tells the story of a former psychic named George (Damon) who is sought after by a group of people attempting to cope with mortality by seeking insight into the afterlife.
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After watching Eastwood take on serial killer drama in 2008’s Changeling, I’m extremely intrigued to see what he does with the I-see-dead-people theme.
Entertainment Tonight scored a clip from screenwriter-turned-first-time-director Mitch Glazer’s supernatural-romance story Passion Play. The footage reveals a meeting between Megan Fox’s winged circus show freak and Mickey Rourke’s downtrodden sax player.
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The film’s synopsis reads:
Nate (Rourke), a small-time jazz musician, is clearly a hard-luck case. Caught trying to break into a car, he is taken off into the desert where his assailant puts a gun to his head. Game over? Not quite. Stumbling into a circus pitched amidst the vast expanses of the southwest desert, Nate finds himself drawn to the exotic beauty of Lily (Fox), the Bird Woman.
Lily is cold and dismissive; socializing with customers is not her scene. But it dawns on her that this gentle giant may well be her way out of a life of eccentric exposition. Nate is protective and understanding, and to him her aquiline beauty is a magic part of her uniqueness.
As their bond deepens, Nate finds that his dreams of bliss are about to be thwarted by Happy Shannon, a cucumber-cool businessman with deep pockets and an eye for the bizarre.
Passion Play costars Kelly Lynch (The Jacket), Rhys Ifans (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Chris Browning (Let Me In), and the highly overrated Bill Murray (Zombieland) as Happy Shannon. The film will have its premiere at this years Toronto International Film Festival.
Lionsgate has released the first official full-length trailer for its upcoming sequel Saw 3-D. Directed by Kevin Greutert, the seventh entry in the franchise Guinness World Records named the Most Successful Horror Series of all time is said to be its last.
The trailer plays up the 3-D angle, but I’m eager to find out what Det. Hoffman is going to do after being left for dead by Jill Tuck at the end of part six. I’m also eager to see the return of Dr. Gordon (Carey Elwes) and the scene teased on the Saw 6 Blu-ray featuring Amanda Young warning a captive Corbett (test subject Jeff’s tween daughter in Saw 3) about the man who will eventually show up to save her, namely Hoffman.
TV starlet Reagan Dale Neis (“A Minute with Stan Hooper”) stars in award-winning filmmaker Drew Daywalt’s new horror-short Doppelganger. The 33-year-old actress plays a woman who receives a disturbing call from someone who is either her husband or his evil double.
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Sadly, Doppelganger’s payoff didn’t really do much for me. I’m especially disappointed because—up until the end—I was really creeped out and expected to see some kind of disturbing conclusion along the lines of Daywalts’ Suicide Girl and the truly chilling Bedfellows. That said, I really can’t wait to see a full-length feature film from this guy.
Daywalt is one of the founding members behind the indie-horror troupe Fewdio. He recently completed a 17-episode web series entitled Camera Obscura for MGW Entertainment.
