In just four weeks, Los Angeles will wake up screaming to Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare, a haunted Halloween attraction and live concert event taking place every Thursday-Sunday from Oct. 10-Nov. 2 at the Fairplex in Pomona, CA.
Peep the teaser:
Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare will feature bloodcurdling mazes based on three of Zombie’s horror films: Lords Of Salem Total Black Out, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto 3D and Haunt Of 1,000 Corpses. The haunt will also include outdoor screenings of classic horror films, food and booze, DJ and Monster Midway.
Performing at the haunt will be artists representing a variety of musical genres: hard rock/heavy metal, alternative-rock, electronic dance and Latin. Zombie will headline the event’s closing night with special guests Eagles of Death Metal and Powerman 5000. See complete listing here.
The Asylum has set a Dec. 10 home video release date for Zombie Night, a new undead thriller from director John Gulager (Piranha 3DD), starring Daryl Hannah (Splash) and Anthony Michael Hall (Weird Science). The film will premiere on Syfy on Oct. 26 as part of the network’s “31 Days of Halloween.”
Zombie Night finds two small town American families joining forces to fight against the zombie apocalypse. Co-stars include Rachel G. Fox (“Desperate Housewives”), Tia Robinson (Rise of the Zombies), Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and old people actress Shirly Jones (“Partridge Family”).
Hannah’s genre creds include The Tie That Binds, Attack of the 50Ft. Woman, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, High Spirits, Brian De Palma’s The Fury, and Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner. As of late, she has been starred in such direct-to-DVD fodder as Dark Honeymoon, The Cycle, and Shark Swarm.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released The Stranger Within on DVD. The psychological thriller is written and directed by Adam Neutzsky-Wulffand stars Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes), William Baldwin (Flatliners) and Sarah Butler(I Spit On Your Grave).
The Stranger Within centers on an emotionally unstable actress tormented by a mysterious traveler (Butler) while vacationing in the Mediterranean with her psychiatrist husband (William Baldwin). Costars include Jeffrey Pierce (“Alcatraz”) and Katia Winter (“Dexter”).
A new trailer has been released to promote the DVD, but posted below is the flick’s red-band trailer, which provides a glimpse at Warren and Butler going nude.
“American Idol” judge Jennifer Lopez is set to star in The Boy Next Door, a micro-budgeted erotic thriller from director Rob Cohen (Alex Cross, The Fast and the Furious) and writer Barbara Curry for Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, Insidious). The film goes into production this fall.
The Boy Next Door finds Lopez playing a newly separated MILF who starts banging her son’s friend, a young teenager new to the neighborhood. Things go wrong when she decides to end the relationship.
Lopez is coming off the Jason Statham actioner Parker. She made her horror film debut in the 1997 creature-feature Anaconda and toplined Tarsem Singh’s stylish serial killer drama The Cell in 2000 and Michael Apted’s stalker thriller Enough in 2002.
Wild Eye Releasing has set a Sept. 17 DVD and VOD release date for Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven, a sequel to director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas’ 1995 cult classic about a Las Vegas stripper’s quest to become a successful showgirl.
The film is written and directed by Showgirls co-star Rena Riffel, who reprises her role as ditzy blonde stripper, Penny Slot—seen here making her way to Hollywood to star on a dance show. Along the way, she commits murder, is tricked into prostitution and cast in an X-rated snuff film.
While that all sounds pretty dark and worthy of a post on our little horror blog, chances are it all goes down with plenty of camp. So what to do? I wrestled with my penis myself for the entirety of the flick’s trailer before deciding boobs.
MGM and Sony Pictures have released the first trailer for Jose Padilha’s upcoming remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic Robocop, about a veteran police officer murdered by criminals and brought back to life by the OmniCorp corporation as a cyborg crime fighter.
Robocop stars Joel Kinnaman as Robocop Alex Murphy, Abbie Cornish as his wife, Gary Oldman as his creator, Sam Jackson as a media mogul and Michael Keaton as OmniCorp’s CEO.The film is slated for release on Feb. 7.
Fans of the original will get a kick out of seeing the awesome ED-209, but will most likely be disappointed to see Murphy get blown to smithereens by a car bomb (yawn) instead of slaughtered by street thugs. Kinnaman also lacks Peter Weller’s intensity, but Cornish and her tight sweater I’d buy for a dollar!
Open Road will release Robert Rodriguez’sMachete Kills on Oct. 11. I crashed a screening of the flick and can honestly say esta chingon, cabrones! That’s Spanish for “you’re going to have an enjoyable time at this movie.” To get you further pumped, I’ve posted some pics from the sequel below.
Machete Kills finds the ex-federale (Danny Trejo) taking on Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel leader (Demian Bichir) and a psycho weapons dealer (Mel Gibson). Adding to his trouble are beauty queen Miss San Antonio (Amber Heard), Madame Desdemona (Sofia Vergara) and the U.S. President (Charlie Sheen).
IFC has released a rather enticing photo gallery for Plus One, a supernatural thriller from Last House On the Left director Dennis Iliadis and screenwriter Bill Gullo, starring “Pretty Little Liars” babe Natalie Hall and Chronicle’sAshley Hinshaw.
Plus One is set at the biggest party of the year and finds three college friends struggling to save their relationships and lives after a supernatural phenomenon occurs at the shindig. Co-stars include Rhys Wakefield (The Purge) and Logan Miller (Would You Rather).
The party kicks off on VOD and selected theaters on Sept. 20.
Emily Browning, nude star of Sleeping Beauty and less nude star of Sucker Punch, toplines Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke’s new psycho sexual thriller Plush. Browning plays a slutty rock musician whose hookup with a new guitarist ends on a sour note when he proves to be a nut job.
Plush co-stars Cam Gigandet (Priest), Xavier Samuel (Twilight Saga), Frances Fisher (The Host), Thomas Dekker (“The Secret Circle”), Brandon Jay (“Falling Skies”), Casey LaBow (Twilight Saga) and stunner Dawn Olivieri (“House of Lies”). The film opens in selected theaters on Sept. 13.
A teaser-trailer has gone online for director Jonathan Glazer’s (Sexy Beast) upcoming adaptation of Michel Faber’s debut novel “Under the Skin.”Scarlett Johansson stars in the sci-fi drama as a sexy alien picking up hitchhikers for her species to turn into food — a delicacy called Vodsel.
When the project was first announced, I had hopes we’d see Johansson in something along the lines of aSpecies or Lifeforce, but this thing looks like gay cowboys eating pudding. Seriously, guys, it looks terrible. Even Johansson can’t save this.
