Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 29, 2012
Elijah Woods in
Maniac.
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If nothing else, the new NSFW trailer for the remake of the 1980 exploitation flick Maniac succeeds in making the new version look about as scuzzy as the original. Whether that's a good or bad thing is debatable. The remake, which just finished showing at the Cannes Film Festival in hopes of fetching a buyer, comes from the makers of P2 and stars Elijah Woods as a loner with Norman Bates-ish mommy issues who stalks women on the streets of New York City, collecting their scalps in the process. One interesting revelation from the trailer is that Maniac is shot from the killer's point of view -- lending a sort of "found footage" feel. Depending on how soon it gets picked up for US distribution, we could see it in theaters (or straight to video) by the end of the year, but 2013 may be more likely.
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 28, 2012
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This week witnesses a trio of limited theatrical horror/suspense releases — Piranha 3DD, The Loved Ones and Apartment 143 — while home video releases are headed by Gone, The Aggression Scale and Season 4 of True Blood.
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 27, 2012
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It wasn’t expected to do a whole lot at the box office, and Chernobyl Diaries delivered just that, earning a scant $8 million in its opening frame this past weekend, good enough for only fifth place. That said, the film’s budget is so small — especially in comparison to the summer blockbusters competing against it — that it can hardly be considered a flop; we’ll reserve that designation for Battleship.
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 26, 2012
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This week, the Hilary Swank-Jeffrey Dean Morgan “fatal attraction” thriller The Resident makes its TV debut, airing on Saturday, June 2, at 10:00 PM ET/PT on Lifetime. Also premiering this week are the Melissa George kidnapping thriller A Good Place to Die (Wednesday, May 30, at 8:00 PM ET/PT on Showtime 2) and the supernatural flick Absentia (Friday, June 1, at 4:55 PM ET/PT on The Movie Channel).
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 25, 2012
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Here are some recently announced horror/suspense DVD/Blu-ray release dates of note:
June 19:
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 25, 2012
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Here are some recently announced horror/suspense DVD/Blu-ray release dates of note:
June 19:
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 24, 2012
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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.
Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 24, 2012
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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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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
May 23, 2012
Jason Gedrick
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Briefly: a couple of juicy tidbits on two eagerly anticipated TV shows returning this fall:
- Jason Gedrick (who to me will always be the kid from Iron Eagle) has joined Dexter for a multi-episode arc in Season 7. According to TV Line, he’ll play “the manager of a Miami-area gentlemen’s club that becomes linked to a high-profile murder case.”
