Syfy has released a full length trailer for producer Ronald D. Moore’s (“Battlestar Galactica”) new series “Helix.” Set to premiere Jan. 10, the show stars Billy Campbell (“The Killing”), Kyra Zagorsky (ABC’s of Death), Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine), and Jordan Hayes (House at the End of the Street).
A team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that may hold the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation.
However, the lethal threat is just the tip of the iceberg, and as the virus evolves, the chilling truth begins to unravel.
If the “chilling truth” proves to be some kind of Sharktopus or Megapython, I’m gonna be pretty damn pissed.
A sales trailer has gone online for Image Entertainment’s All Cheerleaders Die, a remake of the 2001 Lucky McKee (The Woman) slasher, written and directed by McKee and Chris Sivertson (I Know Who Killed Me). The horror-comedy is slated for release in spring 2014.
All Cheerleaders Die stars Caitlin Stasey (I, Frankenstein) as a rebellious teen who joins her high school cheerleading squad after experiencing a tragic event. Her decision pisses off the popular cheerleaders and her loner, black magic practicing ex-girlfriend, played by Sianoa Smit-McPhee (”Hung”).
Assuming enough truckloads of cash show up at her doorstep, Kate Beckinsale is set to star in the ghost thriller The Disappointment Room. The film is directed by D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) from a script by “Prison Break” star turned screenwriter Wentworth Miller (Stoker).
The Disappointment Room stars Beckinsale as a mother who moves with her husband and child into a country manor in an old Eastern seaboard town. In the attic, she meets the ghost of little girl who beckons her to open a locked room. Cameras roll Feb. 3 in Greensboro, N.C.
Beckinsale is coming off last year’s Total Recall remake and the sequel Underworld: Awakening. She will next be seen as the lead in Eliza Graves, a psychological thriller based on the 1945 Edgar Allan Poe story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.”
Model and actress Roxanne McConnell stars in Safehouse Pictures UK and Straight To Video Productions’ new slasher Banjo. McConnell plays the adulterous wife of Peltzer Arbuckle (James Hamer-Morton), a pushover who conjures up an imaginary childhood friend to fight back against the bullies in his life.
We’re not familiar with McConnell’s previous work, but her ball-crusher charm is not lost on us. Written and directed by indie filmmaker Liam Regan, Banjo needs funding to happen. Folks can help by chipping in on its Kickstarter page. Below is a teaser trailer to get motivated.
Lionsgate’s new psycho-sexual slasher Nurse 3D arrives on VOD and in limited theatrical release on Feb. 7. Paz de la Huerta (“Boardwalk Empire”) toplines the film as Abby Russell, a beautiful, but bat-shit crazy, day nurse who seduces and murders men she deems wicked by night.
The official synopsis:
By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, someone you wouldn’t hesitate to trust your life with. But by night, her real work begins… using her smoldering sexuality she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are.
When a younger nurse starts to suspect Abby’s actions and compromises her master plan, Abby must find a way to outsmart her long enough to bring the cheater you’d least expect to justice.
Katrina Bowden (“30 Rock”) plays the pretty younger nurse. Rounding out the cast are Judd Nelson (Breakfast Club), Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), Boris Kodjoe (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Adam Herschman (Bucky Larson), Niecy Nash (“Reno 911”), and Melanie Scrofano (SAW VI).
Nurse 3D is directed by Doug Aarniokoski (The Day, “Criminal Minds”) and written by David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace, Dreamscape).
Tribeca Film has released a trailer for Apollo 18 director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s new thriller Open Grave. Sharlto Copley (Elysium) plays a man who wakes up in a ditch filled with dead bodies and has no idea how he got there or who he is (we’ve all been there, buddy).
After escaping the mass grave, he breaks into a house where he finds others like him hiding from an outside threat. Erin Richards (“Breaking In”) co-stars in the film as Sharon, one of the group struggling with memory loss.
