Evangeline Lilly (“LOST”) stars in Little Evil, a new horror-comedy from writer and director Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil) premiering on Netflix Sept. 1. Lilly plays a recently wedded MILF whose six-year-old son is the antichrist – a fact threatening to strain her relationship with her new hubby (Adam Scott).
Lilly is best known for playing fugitive Kate Austen on the greatest TV series ever “LOST.” She has most recently starred as Hopevan Dyne (aka: The Wasp) in Marvel’s Antman and woodland elf Tauriel in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit sequels, The Desolation of Smaug and Battle of the Five Armies.
Australian streaming service Stan has released a teaser for season two of its series “Wolf Creek,” an adaptation of Greg McLean’s 2005 slasher, starring John Jarratt as colorful outback killer Mick Taylor. POP, a joint venture between entertainment giants CBS and Lionsgate, will broadcast the show in the U.S.
Running six episodes deep, the series finds Mick Taylor terrorizing a bus load of vacationing tourists. Jarratt reprises the role of Taylor. New blood includes Matt Day, Ben Oxenbould, Stephan Hunter, Chris Haywood, Laura Wheelwright (“Animal Kingdom’s”) and Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant).
Our review of “Wolf Creek” season one can be read here.
Netflix has set a Sept. 29 premiere date for Gerald’s Game, director Mike Flanagan’s (Ouija: Origin of Evil) film adaptation of the 1992 Stephen King novel. Stunner Carla Gugino (Sin City) stars as Jessie Burlingame – unhappy trophy wife of successful attorney Gerald, played by Bruce Greenwood (I, Robot).
In an attempt to rekindle their love life, the couple take to their cabin in the woods to indulge in a weekend of kinky BDSM play. Things go terribly wrong when Gerald unexpectedly croaks, leaving his hot and scantly clad wife cuffed to the bed to face her demons and survive the elements.
Gugino is coming off the M. Night Shyamalan produced mystery series “Wayward Pines” and the natural disaster thriller San Andreas. She will next be seen in the Netflix original series The Haunting of Hill House, based on Shirley Jackson’s 1959 ghost novel and helmed by Flanagan, and San Andreas 2.
Nostromo Pictures has released an English language trailer for its much maligned remake of the 2007 overrated and silly French slasher, Inside. The much needed redo is helmed by Spanish director Miguel Ángel Vivas and penned by [REC] franchise scribes Jaume Balagueró and Manu Diez.
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Inside stars Rachel Nichols (P2) as a young and pregnant widow tormented on Christmas by a mysterious woman determined to cut out her unborn child and take it as her own. Laura Harring, Naomi Watt’s gorgeous lover in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, plays the murderous MILF.
XYZ Films has released a trailer for Beyond Skyline, a sequel to the highly underrated 2010 alien invasion thriller Skyline. Original scribe Liam O’Donnell pens and directs the new film, starring Frank Grillo (Purge: Anarchy), Iko Uwais (The Raid), and Serbian-Australian babe Bojana Novakovic (Devil).
Beyond Skyline takes place during the same alien invasion of the original film, but at a different location where a detective (Grillo) risks his life to rescue his son from an alien warship.
The Monster Project is now available on VOD. The film stars Yvonne Zima – Dr. Greene’s daughter on “ER” and real life sister of “Californication’s” Madeline Zima – as one of the subjects interviewed by a group of young filmmakers documenting tales of people who claim to be monsters for YouTube fame.
Things get out of hand when the three subjects the crew speak to turn out to be a skinwalker, a demon, and a vampire (Zima) – all having a bad day on the eve of a lunar eclipse. Victor Mathieu (CarnieVille) directs the found-footage thriller for Epic Pictures.
Annalynne McCord (“90219”) stars in Deadgirl scribe Trent Haaga’s 68 Kill, a bloody heist flick based on the novel by Bryan Smith. McCord plays a trashy psycho-bitch who uses her God-given gifts of pussy, tits, and ass to manipulate the men around her to do her bidding, including her boyfriend whom she convinces to help her steal 68K.
Matthew Gray Gubler (“Criminal Minds”) plays McCord’s doting boyfriend, Chip, and looker Alisha Boe (“13 Reasons Why”) co-stars as a lingerie-clad abduction victim-turned-troublemaker, Violet. Producers on the film include the rich folks that brought us acclaimed horror indies Starry Eyes and Trash Fire. 68 Kill is now available from Snowfort Pictures and IFC Midnight.
Scream Factory Films has set a Sept. 1 VOD and limited theatrical release date for Jackals, an 80’s era home invasion thriller from director Kevin Greutert (SAW VI). The film centers on a family under siege at their cabin home by a cult looking to claim back their estranged son as one of their own.
Deborah Kara Unger (The Game) plays the boy’s hot mother and model-turned-actress Alyssa Julya Smith (pictured) is Fox Girl, the hottest mask-wearing psycho since Gemma Ward’s Dollface in The Strangers. Jackals marks Smith’s horror debut and we can only hope to see more of her!
Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming original series “Mindhunter.” Produced by Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theronand acclaimed director David Fincher (Se7en), the show is based on retired FBI profiler John Douglas and novelist Mark Olshaker’s book, Mind Hunter:Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit.
“Mindhunter”recounts Douglas’ experiences tracking down serial killers and rapists while pioneering profiling techniques used by the Bureau today. He was the inspiration for agent Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter novels and the Frank Black character in Chris Carter’s “Millennium” series.
Douglas has profiled such noted monsters as JohnWayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz (aka: Son of Sam), Charles Manson, James Earl Ray, Edmund Kemper (aka: the Coed Killer), Richard Speck, and countless others.
“Mindhunter” premieres Oct. 13 on Netflix. It stars Jonathan Groff (”Glee”), Holt McCallanay (Alien3), Cotter Smith (You Don’t Know Jack), Hannah Gross (”Unless”), and “Fringe’s” Anna Torv (pictured).
Our first look at Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is finally here. Based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline, the adaptation is absolutely epic and finds Spielberg in his wheelhouse – so expect Jurassic Park thrills, E.T. heart, and A.I. ambition and none of that latter-day political/historical snooze-shit!
Set in 2045, the world has gone to shit and its population has taken refuge at OASIS, a virtual universe with real rewards created by an eccentric genius whose death triggers a global competition to find a digital Easter egg granting control of OASIS to its winner.
Tye Sheridan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) plays hero Wade Watts, a young and impoverished 80s aficionado looking to win the game to keep its world accessible to everyone and away from greedy big business.
Movie and gaming icons populate OASIS and are fun to spot in the trailer (we spy with our virtual eye Iron Giant, Freddy Kruger, Duke Nukem, the Back to the Future Delorean, A-Team van, Stephen King’s Christine, and Joust ostrich!). Ready Player One arrives in theaters March 30, 2018.
