Well Go USA has set an Oct. 6 limited theatrical run and VOD release date for Better Watch Out, a home invasion frightener from Chris Peckover, writer and director of 2010’s timely and frightening immigration thriller Undocumented. Aussie stunner Olivia DeJonge toplines the film, formerly titled Safe Neighborhood.
Described as Scream meets Home Alone, Better Watch Out is set in a quiet American suburb during the Christmas holiday and stars DeJonge as a babysitter protecting herself and a 12-year-old boy from home invaders who are not what they seem.
Better Watch Out co-stars Levi Miller (Pan) as Luke, DeJonge’s charge, Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Patrick Warburton (”Seinfeld”) as Luke’s parents, and DeJonge’s The Visit co-star, Ed Oxenbould.
Strand Releasing has set a July 21 limited theatrical run for Mexican director Amat Escalante’s The Untamed, a pervy creature-feature masquerading as an art-house drama about infidelity, homophobia, misogyny, and tentacle porn!
The Untamed tells the story of a small town, working class woman (Ruth Ramos) married to an abusive brute who is having an affair with her brother and – yada, yada, yada – there’s a tentacled monster fucking people in a cabin in the woods. A stranger (Simone Bucio) brings news of this sexy beast to the woman and – yada, yada, yada – tentacle sex.
Open Water tells the true tale of an American married couple who while scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef are accidentally left behind by the dive boat. As the pair drift further away from the dive zone, they soon realize that the only ones coming for them are the maneaters below. The 2003 film is dreadful, terrifying, and arguably the best shark movie since Jaws.
2006’s Open Water 2: Adrift not so much.
Lionsgate is now ready to revive the franchise more than 10 years later with Open Water 3: Cage Dive, a Grindstone Entertainment shark thriller about a group of American tourists trapped at sea with great whites after tragedy sinks their boat while cage diving to shoot video for an Australian reality show.
Open Water 3: Cage Dive looks fun and promising. It’s co-written and directed by Gerald Rascionato and stars Aussie babe Megan Peta Hill as the bikini-clad person we will root for to survive. Look for it in selected theaters and VOD Aug. 11.
Lionsgate has set an Oct. 20 limited theatrical run and VOD release date for Leatherface, the newest entry in its Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise from celebrated Inside directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury and producers Lati Grobman (Embrace of the Vampire) and scream queen/ex-Playboy model Christa Campbell (Day of the Dead).
Leatherface plays as 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 and take her with them on the lam as a pair of twisted Texas Rangers hunt them down on a personal mission of vengeance.
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Jessica Madsen, Sam Coleman, Sam Strike (“EastEnders”), and James Bloor (Dunkirk) play the escaped inmates – one of the latter two rumored to be young Leatherface. Newcomer Vanessa Grasse (pictured) is the abducted nurse and Finn Jones (“Game of Thrones”) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) the lawmen. Seth M. Sherwood penned the script.
Leatherface sounds awesome, especially with its promise of being a meaner sequel than 2013’s Texas Chainsaw 3D. Of course, the film to beat in the entire Texas Chainsaw Massacre canon, including the original, is producer Michael Bay and director Marcus Nispel’s 2003 remake, starring Jessica Biel.
Dimension Films has released a trailer for Polaroid, a supernatural thriller marking Norwegian director Lars Klevberg’s feature debut. Based on his acclaimed 2015 short, the story follows a high school loner who finds a vintage Polaroid camera capable of taking the lives of those whose photographs are taken.
Polaroid’s cast includes Mitch Pileggi (“X-Files”) and a photogenic group of young starlets, including Kathryn Prescott (“24: Legacy”), Madelaine Petsch (The Hive), Samantha Logan (“666 Park Avenue”), and standout stunner and newcomer Priscilla Quintana (pictured). Look for it Aug. 25.
Universal Home Entertainment has set an Oct. 3 home video release date for Cult of Chucky, the sixth sequel in its Child’s Play franchise. The film picks up after the events of 2013’s Curse of Chunky and finds its protagonist, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif), locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane, convinced she – not Chucky – murdered her family.
That all changes when her shrink introduces a Good Guy Doll to her therapy sessions and people start to die gruesome deaths. Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), Chucky’s first owner, is now grown up and determined to help Nica… if he can get past Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), Chucky’s cursed bride. Child’s Play creator and series writer Don Mancini directs with Brad Dourif once again providing the voice of Chucky.
Charlize Theron plays a a sexy and ruthless MI6 assassin with a taste for Sofia Boutella’s vaginal charms in John Wick director David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde, an adaptation of graphic novel “The Coldest City.” In theaters July 28, Focus Features has released a final trailer for the thrilling actioner.
Helmed by John Wick co-director David Leitch, Atomic Blonde looks to be 100% eye-popping, white-knuckle fun with shout-at-the screen stunts and fight sequences and heart-bursting hotness from Theron, reclaiming her status as bad bitch, silver-screen sex symbol.
While there is no need to apply monster makeup or use effects to make Willem Dafoe scary, his role in Adam Wingard’s (You’re Next) adaptation of the Japanese manga Death Note has him looking absolutely frightening – even more so than his portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in this Snickers’ commercial.
The movie is a Netflix original and follows a douchey high school student (Nat Wolff) who comes upon a supernatural notebook that kills the people whose names he writes down and faces he envisions. He goes vigilante, ridding the world of criminals (yawn) until his ethics get compromised with the help of Dafoe’s nightmarish creature.
Marvel has released a full length trailer for “Inhumans,” an eight-episode series making its debut Sept. 29 on ABC. The series centers on the Inhuman Royal Family, a race of super-humans created by aliens through experiments on primitive man.
At this point, Marvel could put out a show/comic about a family of stinking turds and it would immediately find a buyer. Jam-packed with subpar effects, melodrama, and a stupid, fake-as-fuck giant bulldog, “Inhumans” can’t possibly stay on the air. Right? A giant bulldog for God’s sake!
Because social justice warrior culture says you gotta dig chicks with dicks, but not actual chicks if they’re hot and sexy, Jumanji found itself in controversial waters earlier this year when it released an image for the film featuring stunner Karen Gillan in short-shorts and a crop top (gasp!) – never mind she’d be kicking ass alongside the Rock.
Sony has now released a full length trailer for the film, a sequel to the 1995 fantasy-adventure classic starring Robin Williams, and sure enough Gillan is holding her own opposite Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black in the rough and tumble jungle – not one shot of a sexy waterfall shower to be seen!
To boot, hot up-and-comer Madison Iseman (Tales of Halloween) is transformed into Black’s portly, middle-aged professor avatar once the movie’s plot kicks in: four high school kids sucked into an old magical video game must survive it to the end as the characters they’ve chosen to play.
So, yeah, not much on the frivolous thrills side, but still looks fun.
