© 20th Century Fox
Things are looking up for the Alien prequel. Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof has turned in his rewrite of the original screenplay, and Fox execs are reportedly very pleased with it for a number of reasons:
© 20th Century Fox
Things are looking up for the Alien prequel. Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof has turned in his rewrite of the original screenplay, and Fox execs are reportedly very pleased with it for a number of reasons:
© 20th Century Fox
Rumors of 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle, hot off his award-winning Slumdog Millionaire and currently promoting his true-life tale 127 Hours, returning for a third film in the viral infection series swirled this week, thanks to a report on DreadCentral.com that 28 Months Later was already in the works with Boyle hoping to return behind the camera.
© IFC
The best zombie movie of the year might not be a movie at all, but rather a miniseries. Dead Set is a five-episode British show that aired in the UK in 2008 but is just now making it to the States, via IFC. The series begs the intriguing question of what would happen if a zombie epidemic broke out during the filming of Britain’s Big Brother reality TV show. The nature of fame, voyeurism and intestinal consumption are all explored in this thrilling — and surprisingly straight-faced — zombie epic.
© Warner Bros.
There aren’t any major theatrical horror/suspense releases, but it’s a busy week for home video, with Jonah Hex, Lost Boys: The Thirst, Doghouse, Coffin Rock, As Good as Dead, Four Boxes, S&Man and the Angel box set leading the way.
…
© Lionsgate
Initially targeted for release this past spring, Nicolas Cage’s Season of the Witch was postponed indefinitely by Lionsgate and quickly faded from thought…until recently, when, according to Bloody-Disgusting.com, it was dropped by Lionsgate’s slate altogether and picked up by Relativity for release on January 7, 2011. It’s an appropriate time, seeing as how January has become fertile ground (or, to pessimists, “dumping ground”) for studios’ horror efforts in recent years.
…
© IFC
As Halloween approaches, several horror/suspense movies make their debuts this week. The most high-profile is the somewhat disappointing The Lovely Bones (Saturday, October 16 at 8:00 PM ET/PT on HBO), while two solid entries from this year’s After Dark Horror Fest — The Final (7:00 PM ET/PT) and Kill Theory (9:00 PM ET/PT) premiere that same night on Syfy. The real highlight in my book, though, is the lesser-known Home Movie, an awesome blend of killer kid and POV/”found footage” sub-genres that airs on Friday, October 15 at 2:00 AM ET/PT on IFC.
…
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and
Joel Edgerton in The Thing.
© Universal
…
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and
Joel Edgerton in The Thing.
© Universal
…