A trailer for director Julian Richards’ upcoming frightener Shiver has hit the web. Based on author Brian Harper’s grisly1992 novel of the same name, the filmfollows an L.A. detective on the hunt for a ruthless killer who keeps his victims’ heads as souvenirs.
Shiver stars Danielle Harris (Stake Land) as our damsel-in-distress Wendy Alden, Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) as Det. Sebastian Delgado, Rae Dawn Chong (Tales from the Darkside: The Movie) as Det. Mavis Burdine and John Jarrat (Wolf Creek) as head-collecting serial killer Rood.
The trailer for director Rob Lurie’s upcoming remake of Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 home-invasion thriller Straw Dogs has arrived. James Marsden and Kate Bosworth star as David and Amy Sumner, a married couple terrorized by Louisiana hicks and Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie, played by Alexander Skarsgard.
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Synopsis for the remake reads:
David and Amy Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father’s death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie, leading to a violent confrontation.
Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs was set in England and followed a mousy mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) and his wife (Susan George) as they tried to rebuild their marriage in a countryside village while gradually being terrorized by rape-happy rapscallions.
The original film also featured a lengthy rape scene in which Amy appears to submit willingly to Charlie midway through the assault. According to Bosworth, who is rumored to have gone nude for the part, the remake remains “bold” and is “not watered down in the parts that people are going to be curious about.”
Straw Dogs bullies its way into theaters on Sept. 16.
The first official trailer for DreamWorks revamp of the 1985 horror-comedy Fright Night has hit the web. Directed by Craig Gillespie from a script by “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” producer/writer Marti Noxon, the remake stars Anton Yelchin as Charlie Brewster, a high school teen convinced his new neighbor is a vampire.
The cast also includes Colin Farrell as vampire Jerry, Imogen Poots as Charley’s girlfriend Amy, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as “Evil” Ed Thompson, Toni Collete as Charley’s mom, David Tennant as vampire-killer/Vegas magician Peter Vincent, and Sandra Vergara (Sophia’s sister) as Vincent’s insanely hot assistant.
Director Frankie Latina is assembling quite a motley crew of actors to star in Skinny Dip, his comedic ode to exploitation cinema. The cast currently includes former porn star Sasha Grey, ’70s sex-pot Pam Grier, reality show tragedy Brigitte Nielson, tough guys Michael Madsen and Bill Moseley, and everyone’s favorite Mexi-can Danny Trejo.
The film stars Grey as a nice girl who on a dare goes for nude swim and gets caught up in a storm that delivers her to the beach where a group of college football players have gathered to party and gang-rape.
When local law enforcement fails to provide justice, she takes matters into her own hands—which brings us to the film’s tagline: “They took her bikini. They took her virginity. She took her revenge.”
Production on the rape/revenge thriller is set to begin next month in Santa Marta, Colombia.
