We’ve all been clamoring for a new Gremlins movie for years, but have any of us done anything about it? No. We just sat around watching sequels to Critters and Ghoulies instead. Well, now, finally, someone has stepped up to give us a new Gremlin experience!
Writer and director Ryan Bellgardt presents Gremlin – a film that, despite what its marketing materials may suggest, has nothing to do with the beloved Joe Dante-directed Gremlins, but still features a demonic creature you don’t want anyone gifting you. It releases on VOD July 11 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Spike has released a new trailer for its upcoming horror series “The Mist.” Based on the Stephen King novella, the show follows a community tormented by supernatural forces hidden in the mist engulfing their small town on the wake of a horrible crime.
The show features 10 one-hour episodes and premieres June 22.
Synopsis reads:
THE MIST centers around a small town family that is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world and, in some cases, each other.
Family, friends and adversaries become strange bedfellows, battling the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain morality and sanity as the rules of society break down.
Ask most horror fans about the 2007 French slasher Inside and they’ll rant and rave how it’s one of the best horror films ever made. It’s not. Not even close. Sure, if you’re a gore hound, there’s plenty to get you off. The plot is good too – widowed mom-to-be tormented by psycho-bitch out to take her unborn child – but the execution is terrible.
When word broke of an American remake of Inside, starring genre stunner Rachel Nichols, most cried like babies, but we nearly crapped our diapers with excitement! An opportunity to see a good story done right is A-OK with us! Miguel Ángel Vivas directs and Jaume Balaguero (Quarantine) pens.
Teresa Palmer (Lights Out) goes nude in director Cate Shortland’s movie adaptation of novelist Melanie Joosten’sabduction thriller The Berlin Syndrome, now playing in selected theaters. Palmer plays an Australian photographer abducted by a sexual predator while vacationing in Berlin.
Max Riemelt (“Sense8”) plays the abductor, a seemingly affable high school teacher traumatized by the abandonment of his mother who kidnaps female tourists to keep in his apartment for a sick and emotionally twisted girlfriend experience. Palmer’s character finds herself trapped for months when she falls for his act.
Palmer is coming off Warner Bros. creepy, white-knuckle hit Lights Out. She can also be seen in Takashi Shimizu’s The Grudge 2, Jonathan Levine’s romantic zombie comedy Warm Bodies, and D.J. Caruso’s I Am Number Four.
Salma Hayek remains one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women and her iconic From Dusk Till Dawn scene as stripping serpent queen Santanico Pandemonium can only be described as stroker’s cocaine. Hayek reminisced with Yahoo about getting the gig, fear of snakes, director Robert Rodriguez and writer Quentin Tarantino.
According to Hayek, the part came about when Rodriguez was auditioning strippers for a brief part in his and Tarantino’s Four Rooms and, well, just couldn’t find a good one! Hayek came to the rescue despite her hesitation to strip on camera. Tarantino saw the footage and wrote the Satanico Pandemonium role for Hayek.
The whole story is fun and sexy to hear Hayek tell it, but if you’ve seen the Four Rooms scene, you know Rodriguez’s mom could have done it and he and Tarantino just wanted to get Hayek to strip!
An official trailer for season seven of HBO’s award-winning fantasy series “Game of Thrones” is online. The tease begins with Cersei Lannister, now Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, assessing the threats descending upon her throne in the Great War and defiantly proclaiming victory over all who stand in her way.
What follows are shots of Daenerys Targaryen and her army of Unsullied, Dothraki, and dragons kicking Lannister butt. King of the North Jon Snow is also on the move and likely to discover he’s of Targaryen/Stark blood. Tyrion Lanister, Theon Greyjoy, and Sansa Stark look worried, the Mountain not so much.
Julia Goldani-Telles (“The Affair”) is set to co-star in Screen Gems’ Slenderman, an adaptation of the popular urban legend about a freakishly tall and faceless man with elongated arms who is the cause of many mysterious disappearances and deaths.
Goldani-Telles joins Annalise Basso (Oculus), Joey King (The Conjuring), Talitha Bateman (Annabelle: Creation), and Jaz Sinclair (When the Bough Breaks). Sylvain White, director of dance drama Stomp the Yard and stylish actioner The Losers, helms from a script co-written by Elle scribe David Birke.
Goldani-Telles made her acting debut on the ABC Family series “Bunheads” and currently stars as bratty teen Whitney Solloway on the Showtime drama “The Affair.”
A new trailer has gone online for 47 Meters Down. The shark thriller is directed by Johannes Roberts (The Other Side of the Door) and stars pop-singer-turned-actress Mandy Moore (pictured above) and Claire Holt (”Aquarius”) as hot cage-diving sisters trapped undersea with great whites.
47 Meters Down finds Moore and Holt vacationing in Mexico off the coast of Huatulco on a cage-diving expedition to observe great white sharks. When cables snap, the cage sinks to the bottom of the ocean and the sisters have less than an hour of oxygen to get back to the surface in shark infested waters.
The movie looks fun, but how many times can the chicks keep dodging the shark bites!
French actress Bérénice Marlohe stars in F/X guru Tim Smit’s directorial debut Kill Switch, a sci-fi thriller about an experiment for unlimited energy that goes wrong or some shit and finds a pilot trying to save his family and humanity from an imploding world or something.
It all sounds pretty convoluted, but Marlohe is a Bond girl – last seen meeting a tragic end as vengeful former sex slave Severine in Sam Mendes’ Skyfall – and that alone is worth the trouble. She’ll next make an appearance in an episode of David Lynch’s upcoming “Twin Peaks” revival.
Kill Switch hits selected theaters and VOD June 16.
Cameras are set to roll May 20 on Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers 2, the long gestating sequel to Bertino’s terrifying 2008 home invasion classic. 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”) stars as the immensely busty matriarch of a family stranded at an abandoned trailer park and tormented by masked killers during a road trip gone terribly wrong. Lewis Pullman (Aftermath) plays her husband and Bailee Madison (“Trophy Wife”) is their flat chested daughter.
Hendrick’s is coming off French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s English-language debut Dark Places, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best selling 2009 novel about a woman doubtful of the testimony she gave as a child to put her brother away for murder, and Nicolas Refn’s cannibal cat-walk thriller Neon Demon.
