The complete movie lineup for the 19th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival has been announced and tickets are available here. Running Oct. 8 – Oct. 17 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theater in Los Angeles, the event will see the premiere of a variety of features and shorts from around the world.
Among the U.S. premieres are Rabid, a remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 classic by horror queens Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary), starring Laura Vandervoort as an accident victim suffering horrific side effects after experimental surgery, and Trick, a Halloween-based thriller from Drive Angry and My Bloody Valentine (2009) director Patrick Lussier.
West coast premieres include Lucky McKee’s Kindred Spirits, starring Thora Birch (American Beauty) as a milf tormented by the unexpected arrival of her demented sister, Wounds with Dakota Johnson (5o Shades of Grey) and Armie Hammer (Lone Ranger) as a couple who get hung up on a mysterious smart phone, and We Summon the Darkness, featuring Alexandria Daddario (“True Detective”) as a top-heavy headbanger up against satanists in Marc Meyers’ (My Friend Dahmer) new thriller.
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Maddie Hasson (“Mr. Mercedes”) is co-starring alongside Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle) in Malignant, a new horror film from director and producer James Wan for New line Cinema. The movie is Wan’s 10th and marks his return to the fright genre since helming the 2016 blockbuster The Conjuring 2.
Plot and character details are hush hush, but Hasson is said to have a key role in the film which Wan promises will be worthy of a hard R rating.
Hasson is best known for her work on “Bones” spinoff “The Finder” and ABC Family’s crime-mystery series “Twisted.” She will soon be seen opposite Alexandra Daddario in satanic cult thriller We Summon the Darkness.
Amanda Seyfried is set to star in Things Heard & Seen, a new Netflix original slated to roll camera this fall. The supernatural thriller centers on a couple whose marriage collapses further when they move to a small town farm haunted by its previous and brutally murdered owners.
Seyfried plays the wife in the film, a big city babe struggling with small town life, who is the first to believe the couple’s new home is haunted. An adaptation of the 2016 novel “All Things Cease to Appear,” Things Heard & Seen is helmed by people named Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.
Seyfried is coming off last year’s Netflix original Anon, a stylish sci-fi actioner from director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca). The blonde, big-eyed stunner has a string of horror and sci-fi works under her garter belt, including Niccol’s In Time, Twilight helmer Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood, erotic thriller Chloe, and underrated cult classic Jennifer’s Body with Megan Fox.
FX has set a Sept. 15 premiere date for Battle at Big Rock, an eight-minute Jurassic World short film from director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) and writer Emily Carmichael (Pacific Rim: Uprising). Secretly shot in Ireland last winter, the short picks up one year after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
More thrilling, however, is that it takes place at a national park 20 miles away from where Fallen Kingdom ended, pitting an unsuspecting family of campers against newly freed dinosaurs. The film stars “American Horror Story” alum André Holland and Death Race’s Natalie Martinez (pictured above).
Battle at Big Rock will introduce two new dinosaurs: a docile herbivore, Nasutoceratops, and a deadly carnivore, the Allosaurus. The movie serves as a bridge between Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World 3, slated to open in 2021.
Warner Bros. has released a final trailer for Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 followup to his beloved 1977 novel “The Shinning.” Helmed by Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House”), the film also serves as a sequel to the classic Stanley Kubrick film.
Ewan McGregor stars as a grownup Danny Torrance, son and survivor of alcoholic writer gone mad Jack Torrance, who also struggles with alcoholism and anger issues while trying to suppress his psychic abilities. Things go bonkers when he attempts to protect a young girl who shares his gift from hot vampire Rebecca Ferguson (pictured above).
Imogen Poots, a name which sounds like what happens to us after eating too much Taco Bell, leads a cast of dressed down hotties in Sophia Takal’s remake of legendary filmmaker Bob Clark’s Black Christmas. Set to release Dec. 13, the film finds a group of sorority girls in peril as a maniac stalks and murders them one at a time.
Joining Poots are Aleyse Shannon (“Charmed”),BrittanyO’Grady (“The Messangers”), and Lily Donoghue (“Jane the Virgin”). The ladies are a little too frumpy for our taste, but the action still looks fun.
And…if it blows, there’s always the 2006 remake, featuring the most stroke-worthy cast ever: Katie Cassidy (“Arrow”), Lacey Chabert (“Party of Five”), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane), and Michelle Trachtenberg (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)!
British babe Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) plays a hot marine biology student fighting a deadly creature aboard a fishing trawler in the deep Atlantic in first-time director Neasa Hardiman’s eco-thriller Sea Fever.
The film held its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and is seeking U.S. distribution.
Corfield has appeared in a string of notable films, including Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s re-imagining of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, as a sexy siren in Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur, and as an A-wing pilot in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The USA Network has released a full-length trailer for season two of “The Purge,” a small-screen companion series to the Blumhouse hit movie franchise. Set to premiere in the fall, the new season is 10 episodes long and explores the aftermath of Purge night on a handful of participants for the remainder of the year.
Among those survivors is Rochelle Aytes, familiar to horror fans for her role in the cult classic Trick ‘r Treat and best known for co-starring in sexy, long-running ABC series “Mistresses.” Aytes plays the hot wife of an ambitious professional (Derek Luke) who must come to grips with what he did on Purge night.
Annabelle Wallis is set to star in Malignant, a new original horror film from director and producer James Wan for New line Cinema. The movie is Wan’s first fright flick since 2016’s The Conjuring 2 and reunites Wallis with The Conjuring universe creator.
Details on what role Wallis plays in the film remain under wraps, but Wan co-wrote the script and promises a film worthy of a hard R rating.
Wallis first caught buzz on Showtime’s “The Tudors” before breaking out into film in 2004’s Annabelle. She has since starred in Guy Ritchie’s The Legend of King Arthur and the Tom Cruise fronted reboot of Universal’s The Mummy.
