2013
08.09
By Eddie Muertos on August 9th, 2013 at 10:01 pm
Category:
Television /
Tag:
Mystery /

Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers) is joining the impressive all-star cast of the upcoming Fox event series “Wayward Pines,” a ten-episode mystery from Chad Hodge (”Playboy Club”) and M. Night Shyamalan, based on the Blake Crouch novel of the same name.
“Wayward Pines” follows Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) on assignment to find two missing federal agents in the Idaho town of Wayward Pines. What he discovers instead are mysterious and sinister happenings that threaten the very core of who he is as a person.
Deadline reports that Lewis will play an affable, shoot-from-the-hip Wayward Pines bartender named Beverly, who knows something ain’t right in the small town.
The series also stars stunner Carla Gugino (Sin City), Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Terence Howard (Iron Man), Shannyn Sossamon (“Mistresses”), Greta Lee and Toby Jones (The Girl). The series is penned by Hodge and is slated to debut in 2014.
2013
08.09
By Eddie Muertos on August 9th, 2013 at 12:30 am
Category:
Images /
Tag:
Adaptations /

Photographer Jeff Zoet has released a series of pics that re-imagine the Scooby Gang as a group of hardcore zombie hunters not unlike Rick Grimes and his “Walking Dead” cohorts. It’s a shame Zoet isn’t a filmmaker because this is the Scooby-Doo adaptation nostalgic horror fans are waiting to see on the big screen.
The photo shoot features Claire Werkiseras as an amply bosomed Daphne, Ashley DeCarolis as an ax-weilding Velma, Matt Diamond as an ascot-less Fred, Roger Kean as a sober-looking Shaggy and Faith the Great Dane as Scoob. Sorry, no sign of Scooby-Dum or Scrappy-Doo.
Zoet’s complete Scooby-Doo vs. the Zombie Apocalypse gallery can be seen on his Facebook page. Below is a Scooby snack. Peep it!
2013
08.08

Anchor Bay Entertainment will release on Oct. 15 its remake of the 1994 cult classic Embrace of the Vampire, an erotic supernatural thriller about a college virgin’s sexual awakening at the hands of handsome vampire. The news comes via scream queen turned producer Christa Campbell.
Up-and-comer Sharon Hinnendael plays Charlotte Wells, the chaste young woman seduced in dreams by a vampire promising her a life of emotional and sexual fulfillment. Alyssa Milano memorably and toplessly played the part in the original.
Hinnendael, no stranger to nudity, is best known for her role as teen party girl Hannah on the short-lived Showtime series “Look.” The Wisconsin-born starlet also stars in the horror-indies Machine Head and Rites of Passage, the fun must-see directorial debut from Point Break writer Peter Iliff.
Photo: Joe Goger
2013
08.08

Colombian knockout and “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara plays leather-clad femme fatale Madam Desdemona in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to his 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. Posted above is a new image of Vergara in action featured in this week’s Entertainment Weekly magazine.
You’re welcome. Now use the money you would have spent to buy some proper porn to finish what you’ve started here.
Machete Kills finds ex-federale Machete (Danny Trejo) recruited by the U.S. government to take down a billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson) looking to trigger a world war. The Quickdraw Productions’ film swings into theaters on Oct. 11.
Machete Kills also stars Amber Heard, Zoe Saldana, Lady Gaga, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexa Vega, Antonio Banderas, Demián Bichir, Cuba Gooding Jr; returning players Michelle Rodriguez and Jessica Alba and Charlie Sheen as the President of the United States.
2013
08.08

Phase 4 Films has set a Sept. 6 limited theatrical release date for Duane Graves and Justin Meeks’ Butcher Boys, a cannibalistic thriller written by original Texas Chainsaw Massacre scribe Kim Henkel, starring Twilight Saga alumna Ali Faulkner.
The synopsis reads:
A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring a group of friends face to face with the macabre world of cannibals, the Butcher Boys. The Butcher Boys are international predators who deal in human flesh – dead or alive.
A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring a group of friends face to face with the macabre world of cannibals, the Butcher Boys. The Butcher Boys are international predators who deal in human flesh – dead or alive. – See more at: http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/new-artwork-release-information-for-butcher-boys-formerly-boneboys-from-tcm-scribe#sthash.s6uWIj5G.dpuf
A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring a group of friends face to face with the macabre world of cannibals, the Butcher Boys. The Butcher Boys are international predators who deal in human flesh – dead or alive. – See more at: http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/new-artwork-release-information-for-butcher-boys-formerly-boneboys-from-tcm-scribe#sthash.s6uWIj5G.dpuf
Faulkner is coming off Matthew Spradlin’s big-screen adaptation of his and Barry Wernick’s comic book “Bad Kids Go to Hell.” She is best known for her portrayal of bad speller and Volturi secretary Bianca in Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part One.
Butcher Boys will be made available on home video and VOD on Oct. 8.
2013
08.08
By Eddie Muertos on August 8th, 2013 at 1:09 am
Category:
Loose Lips /
Tag:
Sequels /

Where there’s a whip, there’s a way. Harrison Ford announced this week that he would be game for another go-around as beloved archaeologist and adventurer Dr. Henry Jones in a fifth Indiana Jones film. The 71-year-old icon said all it would take is a little less ass kicking and a strong story.
Ford tells The Telegraph:
We’ve seen the character develop and grow over a period of time and it’s perfectly appropriate and okay for him to come back again with a great movie around him where he doesn’t necessarily have to kick as much ass.
To me, what was interesting about the character was that he prevailed, that he had courage, that he had wit, that he had intelligence, that he was frightened and that he still managed to survive. That I can do.
Here’s hoping the fifth Indy movie makes up for the disappointing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Sucks Balls in the way that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade totally redeemed the series after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
The Indiana Jones franchise has made close to $2 billion worldwide.
2013
08.07

Starlet and Runaways star Stella Maeve is set to play the female lead in Dark Summer, a supernatural thriller from Grace director Paul Solet and screenwriter Mike Le. Production on the Preferred Film & TV project begins this fall.
Synopsis reads:
A highly stylized modern ghost story, Dark Summer follows Daniel Williamson, a 17-year-old on house arrest for the summer. With his mother away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house.
Maeve is coming off the cancelled CBS cop show “Golden Boy” and a star-making turn as a hothead porn star in Sean Baker’s indie drama Starlet. Horror creds include the MTV teen-slasher My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2, the sci-fi thriller Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles and the upcoming Charles Manson followers biopic Manson Girls.
Maeve is best known, however, for her portrayal of drummer Sandy West in the 2010 film The Runaways.
2013
08.07

IFC Midnight has released a trailer for director Renny Harlin’s Devil’s Pass, a fact-based survival thriller that finds a group of students heading out to the Ural mountains to investigate the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident, where nine Russian skiers died under mysterious, and some say supernatural, circumstances.
Harlin said:
I was fascinated by this story, which remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of modern paranormal lore. The facts, the script, and the very dramatic setting convinced me that there is a thrilling movie there, just waiting to rivet audiences.
Aiding in said riveting will be British model-turned-actress Gemma Atkinson (pictured). The busty (34-E!!!) stunner made her horror debut in the 2012 werewolf thriller Night Wolf, and starred in the in-flight frightener Airborne that same year.
Peep it:
2013
08.07

Anchor Bay has set an Oct. 7 release date for DVD and Blu-ray editions of Steven R. Monroe’s I Spit On Your Grave 2, a sequel to his 2010 remake of the controversial 1978 Meir Zarchi rape-revenge thriller. The film is penned by Thomas Fenton (Saw IV, Chain Letter) and Neil Elman (Mongolian Death Worm).
I Spit On Your Grave 2 stars Jemma Dallender (”Hollyoaks”) as an aspiring model lured to a photo shoot in New York to be raped, tortured and taken to a foreign country where she endures more horrors before being buried alive and left to die. The film’s world premiere will be held at this year’s Film4 Frightfest in London.
Monroe’s I Spit On Your Grave starred newcomer Sarah Butler as Jennifer Hill, a young novelist on a mission to maim, dismember, and murder the men who brutally and repeatedly raped her while on holiday in the woods. The film grossed just under $100,000 in its limited theatrical run, but was a hit on home video.
2013
08.06

Well Go USA Entertainment has set an Oct. 8 home video release date for Zombie Hunter, starring Danny Trejo as an ax wielding priest attempting to lead a group of zombie apocalypse survivors to the Promised Land, joined by a dude with a bitchin’ Camaro and a chip on his shoulder (Martin Copping).
Zombie Hunter also features the acting debut of Playboy model Jade Regier. She plays Debbie, one of the bustier survivors of the group and the one we most hope will live long enough to enjoy a frivolous skinny dip in a lake.
Peep it: