Here are some recently announced horror/suspense DVD/Blu-ray release dates of note:
June 19:
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On the heels of Hannibal and the upcoming small-screen adaptations of Psycho, Dracula and Hellraiser, it seems the latest trend in Hollywood is to remake horror movies into TV shows. The latest to join that list is The Exorcist, the 1973 classic about the exorcism of a young girl possessed by an ancient demon. Unlike those other adaptations, the Exorcist TV series in planned as only a limited-run, 10-episode show — a welcome display of restraint from which some current TV shows could learn. The show, which is still in the early stages of development and has yet to be picked up by a network, is the brain child of Sean Durkin, the writer-director of the acclaimed Elizabeth Olsen dramatic thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene.
OK, add this to the list of horror clichés we can do without: ghostly hands coming out of nowhere to grab someone. (The Grudge, I'm looking at you.) I thought that The Possession's recently released poster had taken the overused trope to the extreme, but now here comes The Apparition's poster, featuring SEVEN (Is there an amputee ghost in there somewhere?) hands feeling up star Ashley Greene. Eight Seven is enough! Thankfully, there's only a hint of this "handy" work in the newly released trailer for The Apparition, which looks entertaining in a safe, shallow way.
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Briefly: a couple of juicy tidbits on two eagerly anticipated TV shows returning this fall:
The major TV networks recently released their upcoming fall schedules, and there is a surprisingly healthy dose of new horror/suspense on the slate. Even better, most of the new shows already have trailers or video clips available online. Click the links below to check ’em out.
After taking a few years off from directing to produce films like The Last Exorcism and the upcoming marital arts epic The Man with Iron Fists and to act in flicks like Inglorious Basterds and Piranha 3D, Eli Roth is jumping back into the director's chair with both feet. When he finishes helming the upcoming Netflix werewolf series Hemlock Grove (airing in early 2013), Roth is set to begin shooting The Green Inferno, his first feature film directorial effort since 2007's Hostel: Part II. The plot, conceived by Roth, is hush-hush, but it was inspired by his producing gig on the to-be-released earthquake thriller Aftershock in Chili. The Green Inferno will shoot in Chili and Peru this fall, so we might see it in late 2013 or in 2014.
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This week, Chernobyl Diaries hits theaters, while home video releases are led by The Woman in Black, Season 1 of The River and Mutant Girls Squad.
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After years of sputtering along in the very early stages of development, the remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian classic Suspiria is moving ahead at a fast and furious pace. With filming set to begin in September, the David Gordon Green-directed movie has found its star, Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), who will play Suzy, an American college student attending a prestigious European university who discovers that the school hides a deadly secret. (It’s not clear yet if the remake will retain the original ballet theme.)
This week, the hit J.J. Abrams monster movie Super 8 makes its TV debut, airing on Sunday, May 20, at 8:00 PM ET/PT on Epix.