Anchor Bay Films has released the first official trailer for its re-imagining of Charles E. Sellier Jr.’s beloved holiday classic Silent Night, Deadly Night, in selected theaters Nov. 30 and on DVD and Blu-ray Dec. 4. While it doesn’t look nearly as disturbing as the 1984 original, the Steven C. Miller-directed slasher appears to have enough creative kills to keep our Christmas spirits up.
Silent Night, Deadly Night follows a murderous Santa as he slays residents of a small Midwestern town during its annual Christmas day celebration. The film stars Jaime King (Mother’s Day), Malcolm McDowell (Silent Hill: Revelations), Donal Logue (Shark Night), Ellen Wong (Scott Pilgrim), Lisa Marie (Lords of Salem) and Brendan Fehr (“Roswell”).
“Spartacus” stunner Viva Bianca stars opposite AnnaLynne McCord (Excision) and Billy Zane (Titanic) in Scorned, a Fatal Attraction-like thriller helmed by Leprechaun director Mark Jones for Lightening Entertainment.
Having done horror with comedy, I wanted to delve into something more sophisticated along the lines of Fatal Attraction and Misery.
Scorned stars McCord and Zane as Sadie and Kevin, a couple staying at a lake house during a romantic getaway weekend. Bianca plays Jennifer, Sadie’s not so BFF who is out to seduce Kevin by any means possible, free of conscience and regardless of consequence.
Bianca is best known for her turn as Commander Legatus Claudius Glaber’s oft-nude wife Iliythia on Starz’s hit swords-and-sandals series “Spartacus.” The 28-year-old Aussie can also be seen as a burnt-out prostitute out to do one last big trick in IFC Midnight’s X.
Former porn star Sasha Grey (Cum Fart Cocktails 5) is set to join Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings) in Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows, a “high-tech” abduction thriller made to appear as if viewed on a laptop screen. The Wild Bunch-produced project marks the Spanish filmmaker’s English-language debut.
Instead of simulating a home video camera, we will be representing a computer desktop. The movie screen becomes a computer screen, and the spectator becomes the protagonist of this adventure.
Open Windows follows Wood as he desperately searches for a kidnapped actress, played by Grey. British actor Neil Maskell (Kill List) is Grey’s abductor, Chord. The film, now shooting in Madrid, is to be presented in real time and will utilize webcams, tablets, mobile phones and satellite and security cams.
I once thought my favorite porn star had been abducted. Turns out she turned 28 and can only be found on MILF sites now.
Producers John Campopiano and Justin White are currently shooting Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sementary, a new indie-documentary about the 1989 Stephen King-based frightener from director Mary Lambert.
The project features exclusive interviews with cast and crew, including Lambert and leads Denise Crosby, Dale Midkiff and Miko Hughes, who played the Creed’s back-from-the-dead son. The film also provides an extensive look at the making of the film and the origins of its story.
Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sementary is written and directed by Campopiano and White. To keep up with the doc’s progress, visit its FaceBook page.
Jaime King and Jamie Chung have signed on to star in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For. They join returning cast members Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson and Mickey Rourke.
King played doomed prostitute Goldie in the original film and will now portray her twin sister Wendy. Chung is new to the fold, but is stepping in for Devon Aoki as sword-wielding assassin Miho.
King most recently starred in Darren Lynn Bousman’s remake of the 1980 Troma Entertainment’s rape/revenge thriller Mother’s Day and will next be seen in Anchor Bay’s redo of the 1984 holiday classic Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Jamie Chung
Chung starred in last year’s Zack Snyder-directed fantasy-actioner Sucker Punch. She currently plays Mulan on ABC’s fairy-tale series “Once Upon a Time” and has wrapped the Grudge director Takashi Shimizu’s new airline frightener 7500.
A Dame to Kill For is based on Miller’s comic of the same name published in 1993 by Dark Horse. The story is adapted for the screen by Miller and Rodriguez. Production on the film started on Oct. 29 at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas.
More casting announcements are expected including the lead role of sexy femme fatal Ava Lord, said to have been written with Angelina Joli in mind.
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has released a trailer for award-winning FX artist Paul Hyett’s (Woman in Black) directorial debut The Seasoning House, about an orphaned deaf-mute girl who plots vengeance against the men who have abducted her to take care of the girls kept at a rape house for soldiers to enjoy.
Described as a cross between Pan’s Labyrinth and Martyrs, the revenge thriller is written by Hyett and stars Anna Walton (Hellboy II), Sean Pertwee (Doomsday), Jemma Powell (Alice in Wonderland), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker) and 17-year-old Rosie Day (”Bernard’s Watch”) as the film’s lead Angel.
Image Entertainment has acquired the U.S. rights to Minds Eye Entertainment and Moving Pictures Media’s new sci-fi thriller Stranded. The deal was announced today at this year’s American Film Market, taking place now in Santa Monica, Calif.
Stranded follows four astronauts on a moon base as they’re bombarded by meteors that produce spores capable of replicating cell structure, reproducing and mutating.
The film stars Christian Slater (Heathers), Brendan Fehr (“Roswell”), Michael Therriault (Nurse 3-D) and Canadian actress Amy Matysio (pictured) as the lucky lady impregnated by said spores. Roger Christian (Battlefield Earth) directs.
