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Looking for something to do this summer? Why not travel the world attending horror film festivals and conventions, letting the blood drain from your face as the money drains from your wallet? To help you meet that goal, here's a handy schedule of 2014 genre fests and conventions you might want to check out.
...WOLF CREEK 2 John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Philippe Klaus, Shannon Ashlyn, Shane Connor, Gerard Kennedy, Annie Byron.
Charlie Ferrie, left, and Nick Holland star in "The Woman in Black," opening Thursday at Bas Bleu Theatre in Fort Collins.
Hollywood star Milla Jovovich has appeared in Cannes sporting a sign with the hashtag #SaveOurGuys, calling for the release of two Russian journalists detained in Ukraine a few days ago.
Scared stiff: Sigourney Weaver's Ripley reels at the dreaded extraterrestrial created by H.R. Giger in 1992's sci-fi thriller "Aliens 3." By Memorial Day weekend in 1992, the Alien franchise was unstoppable.
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There was a lot of buzz - and not necessarily the good kind of buzz - surrounding bad-boy director Abel Ferrera's "Welcome to New York," his fictionalized account of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, which was screened on Saturday for press and market ahead of its VOD-only release in France .
Mike Flanagan on the set of Oculus.
Photo: John Estes © Lasser Productions,
Hot off the modest commercial success of Oculus, writer-director Mike Flanagan has lined up an adaptation of one of the few Stephen King books that have yet to be made into a film: Gerald's Game. The 1992 novel finds a woman trapped in a remote cabin, handcuffed to her bed after a bondage sex game with her husband causes his accidental death. Insanity ensues. Flanagan, who has already written the script with writing partner Jeff Howard, is a longtime fan of the novel, comparing it to Misery and saying it "has been a dream project for many years."
...McDonough will play Sean Cahill, who is not so much an SEC investigator as he is a bulldog.
