Paramount Pictures has released a full-length trailer for Arrival, a sci-fi drama helmed by acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners) and starring Amy Adams (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Jeremy Renner (The Avengers), and Forest Whitaker (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).
Adams plays an expert linguist recruited by the U.S. government to communicate with an alien species that has arrived on earth in 12 giant, pebble-looking ships dubbed “Shells.” Her goal is to figure out what they want before governments around the world leaders decide to take military action.
The trailer looks sick and the story engaging. Let’s just keep fingers crossed it isn’t a yappy, preachfest. The Arrival touches down on theaters Nov. 11.
Stunner Alice Eve is set to co-star alongside Keanu Reeves in Replicas, a sci-fi thriller about a neuroscientist who defies government regulations, authorities, and science in his balls-out attempt to bring his wife back from the dead through cloning.
Reeves plays the neuroscientist and Eve his dead wife, who perishes after an automobile accident. The film is directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor) and written by Chad St. John (London Has Fallen). Cameras roll on the project this summer.
Eve made her horror movie debut in 2010’s Sex and the City 2… kidding! The gorgeous Brit dove into horror in 2012 with roles in Buried screenwriter Chris Sparling’sATM and Relativity Media’s Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller The Raven. She also starred in Men In Black 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness.
Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor event is no pleasure cruise. It’s designed to terrify those brave enough to come aboard one of Halloween’s most unique and fun haunts. Opening Sept. 29 and running through Oct. 31, Dark Harbor unleashes more than 200 horrific monsters and six nerve-racking mazes.
This year’s evils brings the new maze Intrepid and its overseer the Iron Master, a cursed 1930’s shipbuilder and original iron forger for the R.M.S. Queen Mary and now its most fierce protector. Half monster, half machine, the Iron Master rides the seas of madness to rid the harbor of those who threaten his beloved vessel.
Back to do harm at this year’s Dark Harbor event are the Ringmaster in Circus: Big Top Terror maze and young Scary Mary in the newly enhanced Lullaby: Hush Hush Don’t Cry maze. Graceful Gale returns in search of true love in the gruesome and revamped maze, Soulmate: Till Death Do Us Part.
Still out to get you this go around are the Captain and Samuel the Savage in re-imagined Deadrise: Depths of Darkness and B340: Descent Into Insanity mazes, respectively. A Sideshow of circus psychos and roaming phantoms and ghouls are also on deck to terrorize victims visitors.
Tickets are available now and can be purchased at the Dark Harbor website. Check out our reviews for Dark Harbor here and here.
Freestyle Media has set an Oct. 8 U.S. release date for Friend Request, a social media themed frightener starring “Fear the Walking Dead’s” Alycia Debnam-Carey. Helmed by Simon Verhoeven, the film follows the supernatural ass-kicking a popular college student brings upon herself when she unfriends an emotionally unstable misfit on social media.
Best known for her role as frustratingly naive and boy-crazy dumb-ass Alicia Clark on AMC’s okay “Walking Dead” spinoff “Fear the Walking Dead,” Debnam-Carey has also starred in The CW’s sci-fi series “The 100” and notable thrillers The Devil’s Hand and Into the Storm, a taut disaster flick co-starring “Walking Dead’s” Sarah Wayne Callies.
A second trailer for Disney’s first standalone Star Wars feature Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has gone online. The eagerly anticipated film is directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and tells the story of the Rebellion team tasked with stealing the plans to the Empire’s Death Star battle station.
As to be expected, the new footage is jaw-dropping. Tie Fighters, AT-ATs, Imperial Star Destroyers, the Death Star, and Darth “Oh, my God, it’s really him” Vader … the Empire is in full effect in this trailer. It’s absolutely enthralling!
Screen Gems debuted today a first trailer for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, the sixth and final installment in Paul W.S. Anderson’s blockbuster adaptation of the popular Capcom video game. Milla Jovovich toplines as resident ass-kicker Alice and Ali Larter returns as Claire Redfield, not seen since 2010’s RE: Afterlife.
The trailer promises everything Resident Evil fans expect and love: horrific monsters, big stunts, and an unhinged Alice doing what she does best – killing and surviving. Unfortunately, the use of Guns & Roses’ “Paradise City” is distracting and doesn’t mesh well with the action.
Picking up after the events of RE: Retribution, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter finds Alice returning to The Hive underground laboratory in Racoon City to fend off the Umbrella Corporation’s new attack against humanity’s survivors. Joined by new and old allies, she faces the undead and Umbrella’s army of mutant monsters. In theaters January 27, 2017.
eOne Entertainment has set a Dec. 2 VOD and home video release date for husband and wife producers Jennifer Blanc and Michael Biehn’s Hidden in the Woods, a remake of Chilean filmmaker Patricio Vallardes’ incest-fueled, rape-happy survival thriller En Las Afueras de La Ciudad.
Directed by Vallardes, the film starsElectra Avellan and Jeannine Kaspar as sisters repeatedly raped and tormented by their hooligan father until the day he’s sent to the pokey. The girls barely have time to pull up their knickers when their drug lord uncle shows up to collect the money their father owes him.
Lionsgate is set to unleash The Blair Witch on Sept. 16. Helmed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next), the film is a new sequel to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, the groundbreaking granddaddy of found footage frighteners from co-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez.
The Blair Witch follows James and a group of his college friends into Maryland’s feared Black Hills Forest in search of James’ sister, Heather, who disappeared there in 1994 while shooting a documentary on its legend of the Blair Witch.
Vertical Entertainment has released a trailer for The Remains, a haunted house thriller starring All Cheerleaders Die stunner Brooke Butler. Written and directed by newcomer Thomas Della Bella, the film finds a family tormented by the evil entity inhabiting their new Victorian home.
Butler made her horror debut in 2013 with All Cheerleaders Die and followed it up with the campy fright flick The Sand in 2015. The Remains released Aug. 5 and co-stars Todd Lowe (“True Blood”), Ashley Crow (“The Secret Circle”), and looker Lisa Brenner (The Patriot).
Resident Evil star Li Bingbing has wrapped the biggest budgeted Chinese and Australian co-production ever. Titled Nest, the creature feature is toplined by Bingbing and helmed by Kimble Rendall, director of the awesome shark thriller Bait.
Nest follows a group of scientists trapped in an ancient labyrinth with a swarm of man-eating funnel web spiders after making a monumental discovery. Co-stars include Kellan Lutz (Twilight) and Kelsey Grammer (”Frasier”).
