Hospitals are scary. If the jaded, inept nursing staff doesn’t kill you, the malevolent spirits of the dead patients just might! The latter appears to be what ails Shauna Macdonald (The Descent) in Dark Sky Films’ newly released frightener Nails.
Macdonald plays Dana, a mother and track coach left temporarily paralyzed by a terrible auto accident and tormented by a hospital boogeyman no ones believes to be real. Looks like terrifying stuff. Let’s hope there’s a glimpse of Macdonald in a backless hospital gown to ease the tension!
Romanian actress Alexandra Dinu co-stars alongside an award-winning cast in Bullet Head, a star-studded indie-thriller from writer and director Paul Solet, the twisted mind behind 2009’s sad and creepy dead-baby drama Grace.
Bullet Head follows three career criminals eluding capture after a heist gone wrong in a seemingly abandoned warehouse unaware of the bloodthirsty pit bull inside. John Malkovich, Adrien Brody, and Rory Culkin play the endangered thieves. Antonio Banderas is the gun-toting maniac on their ass.
Dinu plays Brody’s girlfriend. The film is rated R for violence, bloody imagery, drug use, and nudity(!) so let’s hope there’s a lot more to see from Dinu and not just some random shot of Malkovich’s old, saggy ass.
Aviron Pictures has released a teaser for Strangers: Prey at Night, the long gestating and eagerly awaited sequel to Bryan Bertino’s terrifying 2008 home invasion classic, The Strangers. Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) is at the helm with a script penned by Bertino and Ben Ketai (30 Days of Night: Dark Days).
Christina Hendricks (”Mad Men”) plays the busty matriarch of a family stranded at an abandoned trailer park and tormented by three masked killers: Pin-up Girl (Lea Enslin), Dollface (Emma Bellomy), and Man in the Mask (Damian Maffei).
Strangers was terrifying and brutal and, despite the retarded subtitle, the sequel is looking pretty intense. Watching the burlap sack guy pull up in the truck or give chase in a pool is fucking freaky! Slated for release March 9, 2018. Check out the creepy website.
Imagine being on a beautiful island in the middle of the night with Sabina Gadecki. Sounds pretty nice until you realize there’s something trying to kill you both. Nothing spoils the mood quicker than the need to keep breathing. But, what’s this cock-blocking murderous force and can it be stopped?
That’s what a group of college kids out at sea for some college kid fun must figure out in The Ninth Passenger. No details on Gadecki’s role in the thriller, but let’s hope it involves a bikini and low camera angles. The film is currently seeking distribution, but a trailer has gone online.
Hannah Emily Anderson, the sexy tatted forensic pathologist in the SAW prequel Jigsaw, is playing games again in What Keeps You Alive, a psychological thriller from writer/director Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters) that finds the sexy redhead in an embittered battle with her wife on their first year anniversary.
Playing Anderson’s hot lady lover is her Jigsaw co-star Brittany Allen. Okay, we don’t really know exactly how hot Allen is – she was wearing a bucket on her head for most of her screen time on Jigsaw and when it was off her face was melting, but… lesbians!
No major details on the film so we don’t know why they’re at each other’s throats or more importantly if they kiss, get naked, and/or scissor, but we’re already intrigued!
“Teen Wolf” and “Gotham” alumna Crystal Reed is heading back to the big screen in Incident at Ghost Land, a supernatural thriller from Martyrs‘ writer/director Pascal Laugier. The film marks Reed’s return to horror since 2013’s teen psycho-bitch thriller Crush.
Incident at Ghost Land stars Reed as a successful horror novelist living with her traumatized sister in the house where home invading assholes once threatened their lives and that of their mom’s 16 years ago. All is fine until a reunion with their mother triggers strange occurrences in their home.
Co-starring alongside Reed are Anastasia Phillips (“Reign”) as her loony sister and Mylène Farmer (Giorgino) as her mother. Taylor Hickson (Deadpool) and Emily Jones (High-Rise) play younger versions of the sisters. Incident at Ghost Land is slated for release April 2018.
Up-and-comer Vanessa Grasse co-stars in It Came From the Desert, an adaptation of the 1989 video game from its developer Cinemaware and Roger! Pictures. An ode to creature features of the 50’s, the film pits giant ants against a motocross enthusiasts.
Fright fans may recognize Grasse from her feature film debut as an abducted nurse in this year’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel Leatherface. Prior to that, she made her acting debut in the 2015 Syfy flick, Roboshark.
It Came From the Desert looks awesome, but can it beat the giant ant horror-comedy Dead Ant?
Allison Williams, the only attractive star of HBO’s “Girls,” is set to star in The Perfection, a psychological thriller about two cello prodigies and “a sinister obsession.” The film reunites Williams with “Girls” director Richard Shepard and marks her big screen followup to her horror debut, Get Out.
Shepard said:
It’s truly exciting to be reunited with Allison. Our time together during the six seasons of Girls was amazing. I loved watching her grow as an actress, and a person and I was thinking of her the entire time we were writing this movie. I can’t wait to bring a different side of Allison to the screen.
That sounds great and all, but of all Allison’s sides, we like this one the most:
If you look up or stumble upon the trailer for indie slasher Who’s Watching Oliver, you’ll most likely come across a thumbnail featuring a big boobed Asian girl cuffed and gagged on a table, nude and anguished. If you’re like us, you clicked on it immediately and spent hours trying to figure out who the girl is and what else she’s done for you to jerk off too see.
Well, the girl is Thai model Champagne Nuttanun and she plays an ill-fated prostitute in Who’s Watching Oliver, an award-winning psycho-sexual thriller about an autistic serial killer (Russell Geoffrey Banks) living in Thailand, tormenting and killing women to satiate his demented and sadistic mother’s (Margaret Roche) blood lust.
The holidays are all about family so what better time to catch up with our favorite cannibal clan, the Sawyers, than on Dec. 19 with the Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital release of Leatherfacefrom Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Special features include deleted scenes, an alternate opening and ending, and the featurette, “Behind the Bloody Mask: making Leatherface.”
Leatherface is a prequel to the 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, providing an origins story for its iconic chainsaw-wielding madman – one of four escaped mental inmates who abduct a young nurse, taking her with them on the lam as a pair of twisted Texas Rangers hunt them down on a personal mission of vengeance.
Stunner Jessica Madsen, Sam Coleman, Sam Strike (”EastEnders”), and James Bloor (Dunkirk) play the escaped inmates. Sexy newcomer Vanessa Grasse is the abducted nurse and Finn Jones (”Game of Thrones”) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) are the lawmen.
