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.
A trailer has gone online for season two of Netflix original series and water-cooler sensation “Stranger Things.” Picking up about a year after the events of season one, the show finds 12-year-old Upside-Down abductee Will Byers having visions of a new monster coming to destroy the people of Hawkins.
Set to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the trailer quickly touches on the 80’s nostalgia that made the show so fun while simultaneously flexing its bigger, scarier horror muscle. Everything looks so damn good and creepy, it’s easy to forget Eleven … until she pops up and nearly steals the whole thing!
HBO released today a trailer for season two of “Westworld,” a re-imagining of the 1973 Michael Crichton classic about androids run amok in an amusement park designed for humans to indulge in their lust for blood and sex.
The show won’t return until 2018, but the footage revealed is new and provides a peek at the aftermath Westworld faces now that its cyborg hosts have achieved awareness and begun a revolution against their human handlers. Ironically, humanity’ best play at survival will be in the hands of The Man In Black.
AMC released a first trailer for season eight of “The Walking Dead” this week and it is five minutes of intense action, gruesome gore, and everything awesome and fun that makes us shit our pants! The footage teases the pending war between Rick Grimes and his growing alliance and big bad Negan and his Saviors.
The feuding footage is pure whiteknuckle and the zombie action will put a smile on your face, but it’s the scenes bookending the trailer that raises eyebrows: Father Gabriel at the mercy of Negan and some walkers; a drastically aged Rick awakening from a deep slumber in what appears to be a hospital room.
“Games can be won,” says a defiant Laura Vandervoort in the first official trailer for Jigsaw, the eighth film in Lionsgate’s record-breaking SAW franchise. It’s a nice bit of bravado, but can Vandervoort outmaneuver John “Jigsaw Killer” Kramer’s work? Don’t make me laugh like Billy the puppet on his tricycle!
Jigsaw is back and the games are starting again! But, how? Kramer’s dead. Copy cat killer? Jigsaw cult? It doesn’t matter! The traps are gruesome and inspired and hearing Tobin Bell’s voice again will put a smile on your face ten miles wide.
Jigsaw is helmed by Michael and Peter Spierig (Daybreakers) and written by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg (Piranha 3D) and creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell. It arrives in theaters Oct. 27!
Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween) stars in composer-turned-director Rich Ragsdale’s (“King of Queens”) feature film debut Ghost House, a creepy supernatural thriller set around a newly engaged couple tormented by a malevolent spirit after desecrating its resting place while vacationing in Thailand.
Ghost Houses are small shrines built to comfort the spirits of the dead. Shit hits the fan when they hook up with a snarky gay British couple to photograph abandoned countryside ghost houses and are convinced to steal a keepsake, unleashing the wrath of a murdered woman.
Ghost House arrives in selected theaters and VOD Aug. 25.
