http://shocktillyoudrop.com Do you know what's coming? en-us Jul 3, 2009 Matt Lanter is the latest cast member from the new 90210 to leap into horror after Jessica Lowndes ( Autopsy ) and AnnaLynne McCord ( Day of the Dead ). A veteran of "The Clone Wars" (he voiced Anakin Skywalker on the Star Wars series), the young actor will be seen this September in Summit Entertainment's Sorority Row , a redo of The House on Sorority Row , starring Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Audrina Patridge, Jamie Chung and Leah Pipes. Not bad company to keep. "Those girls are not bad to look at," he admits while chatting with ShockTillYouDrop.com. "I play the wealthy senator's son, so I'm a guy in a position of potential power. I date the sorority president played by Leah Pipes. We're the power couple there in the film and in the... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10984 Jul 3, 2009 Sheri Moon Zombie and Chase Wright share a little rehearsal time on the set of Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 . The writer-director posted the following photo on his MySpace blog today. Wright replaced the remake's Daeg Faerch after Zombie found the latter had gotten too physically big for the role. Halloween 2 opens on August 28th. Click on the title for more pics and trailers. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10983 Jul 3, 2009 On July 7th, David Goyer's The Unborn comes to DVD and Blu-Ray ( specs and artwork here ). And in anticipation of its release, we've got a Rogue Pictures DVD prize pack to give away which will include this title as well as the company's other productions ( Slither , The Strangers , et al.). Here's the rub. This site needs an exorcism. To perform the task, you'll need to find Jumby, the lil' bastard that haunts Odette Yustman in The Unborn . E-MAIL US HERE with your full name, address and the links to the two news stories containing one of the two photos below. Hint: Use our search box and type in THE UNBORN. We'll select one winner, who gets the two links correct, at random and notify you when the contest ends on Friday, July 10th. Good luck! http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10980 Jul 3, 2009 Creep and Severance director Chris Smith is back with Triangle , a mind-bender starring Melissa George. The film kicks off the UK genre event FrightFest this year with a screening at 6:30pm on Thursday, August 27th. In anticipation of the premiere, the fellas behind the fest forwarded on this hi-res still of George being stalked. Click below for a larger version! And click on the title above for more details on this thriller. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10982 Jul 3, 2009 The Film 4 FrightFest in London kicks off on August 27th and the organizers have officially announced their schedule along with a bevy of photos and posters to go with the films on their roster. Click here for the official site. Highlights this year include Night of the Demons (Diora Baird pictured below), The Descent: Part 2 (poster art below), Heartless , the American Werewolf in London documentary Beware the Moon , Triangle and The Hills Run Red . http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10981 Jul 3, 2009 It's been over a year since we've heard anything about Cowboys for Christ . Reports in early 2008 said director Robin Hardy's "companion piece" to his 1973 chiller The Wicker Man had lost its funding shortly before shooting was to begin in Scotland with Christopher Lee and Joan Collins leading the cast. Things are picking back up for Hardy. Sources tell us a bit of shooting has already taken place in Texas and Hardy is currently in production in Scotland! Now, according to the IMDB, the film still stars Lee, as Sir Lachlan Morrison, and includes Ed Speleers ( Eragon ), Susie Amy ( Lesbian Vampire Killers ), Henry Garrett, Keith Warwick and Morgan James. James and Speleers play Beth and Steve, respectively, Texas Christians on a mission to spread the word of the... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10979 Jul 3, 2009 Updated with a third one-sheet from MTV When ShockTillYouDrop.com was invited to get a first look at Marcus Dunstan's The Collector , we spied this retro beauty and gave Dunstan the thumbs up. Thankfully, the poster you see below is ultimately what Freestyle Releasing is using the market the picture which opens on July 31st. Love the white border. The mysterious face. What do you think? Sound off below... Click here to check out some early stills and the plot synopsis. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10965 Jul 3, 2009 International site DVD-Forum scored another look at New Line's The Final Destination . Things are looking grim for the star of this fourth entry which opens on August 28th. If you click here you'll see a couple more photos. I'd love to know how that tow truck "accident" comes about. Starring Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andy Fiscella, Shantel VanSanten and Bobby Campo, the sequel is directed by David Ellis who also helmed Final Destination 2 . Read about our visit to the set right here . http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10978 Jul 2, 2009 Update: According to The Hollywood Reporter Alex Litvak and Michael Finch are writing the script. Harry Knowles gave a ring to Robert Rodriguez to get confirmation on who's at the helm of Predators , 20th Century Fox's next film in the franchise. And it is Nimrod Antal, the man behind the upcoming action flick Armored and who last dabbled in the thriller genre with Vacancy . You'll recall Latino Review broke Antal's potential involvement here . Speaking exclusively to AICN, Rodriguez, who is shepherding the project, says the story involves "a very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors - that are not always from outside their group. So like the original movie, the title does have a double meaning. Aliens was a... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10970 Jul 2, 2009 Piranha 3-D may be the bloodiest film you'll see next year. And behind the carnage is none other than KNB EFX, reuniting with director Alexandre Aja for a third time after 2006's The Hills Have Eyes and last year's Mirrors , both of which offered audiences a generous amount of punctured craniums, slit throats and hacked limbs. None of this compares to the gore-covered canvas KNB's Greg Nicotero, his team and Aja are playing with this time. Within the on-set Piranha FX trailer utilized by Nicotero, Jake Garber, Mike McCarty and Carey Jones one finds corpses and sundry body parts in various stages of consumption - chewed up by the film's titular fish which will be created practically by KNB and CGI visual effects supervisor Derek Wentworth's crew. "In my 500 homages to... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10977 Jul 2, 2009 Blood: The Last Vampire is being ushered into U.S. on July 10th. Distributor Samuel Goldwyn Films has passed along a theater listing, as expected this one is getting a limited release. For all of your Blood needs - photos, trailer, poster art, etc. - click here ! Los Angeles Mann Chinese 6 / Hollywood, CA University Town Center 6 / Irvine, CA Chicago Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema / Chicago, IL San Diego Hillcrest Cinemas / San Diego, CA Seattle Varsity Theatre / Seattle, WA Boston Kendall Square Cinema / Cambridge, MA Embassy Cinema / Waltham, MA DC E Street Cinema / Washington DC San Francisco Metreon 15 / San Francisco, CA Shattuck Cinemas 10 / Berkeley, CA Honolulu Kahala Theatres 8 / Honolulu, HI Pearlridge West 16 /... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10976 Jul 2, 2009 Even though we were informed this artwork was created solely for ShoWest earlier this year, the official MySpace page for Sorority Row has an updated version of the one-sheet you see below (there's a credits block this time) which has been confirmed as "final." The film opens on September 11th. You can find a teaser one-sheet, hi-res stills and a trailer here . http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10975 Jul 2, 2009 The first footage from the upcoming horror film The Graves can be seen in the all-new video by horror-punk icons Calabrese. Give is a spin below. The Graves is about sisters Megan and Abby whose visit to Skull City Mine turns into a mind bending fight for survival against menaces both human, and supernatural. "We'll launch The Graves official trailer on July 20th, right before Comic-Con International, but we wanted to give everyone a sneak peek," says writer / director Brian Pulido. "We feature Calabrese early on in The Graves and this video is a natural extension of that scene." http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10974 Jul 2, 2009 Below you'll find the official Paramount Vantage trailer for the upcoming thriller Carriers - you can compare it to the bootlegged version which has made the rounds the last few months. In other developments regarding the Alex and David Pastor-directed picture, an official site has launched. Also, there have been a few cuts made to the film. Last year the MPAA gave it an R, when it was initially primed for an '08 release. Now it's getting a PG-13 "for violence, disturbing content and language." Carriers - starring Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp - opens in theaters on September 4th. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10973 Jul 2, 2009 Update: We have just received confirmation - the release date is true! In spite of what any of the talent involved in Resident Evil: Extinction told us during the press tour (mostly, "this is the final chapter"), the film left the door wide - and we mean WIDE open - for a fourth installment. Late last year, Paul W.S. Anderson revealed he was indeed writing another film. Capcom was getting involved. Everyone, as he said, was "excited." Well, we've just learned from a studio insider that Sony is looking to get Resident Evil: Afterlife into theaters by September 17, 2010. That's according to an internal memo circulating through the offices there. Will Anderson direct? Unsure. Will Milla Jovovich be back? I think it would be safe to say yes... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10969 Jul 2, 2009 Kudos to reader 'HT' for catching this! In a paparazzi video featuring Milla Jovovich out on the town, the actress says, "We're going to start shooting at the end of the year." When asked what she merely replies, "Number four!" implying the next chapter in the Resident Evil franchise. Sony would need to begin lensing on Resident Evil: Afterlife if they hope to make the September 17, 2010 release date we announced yesterday . http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10972 Jul 2, 2009 Sarah Bradford, Dechen Thurman, Patrick McMullan and Liam McMullan have been cast in Ken Kushner's horror film When The Devil Comes . Shooting has begun on this horror film - which is described as The Blair Witch Project meets The Exorcist - in New York City as well as in upstate New York and Long Island. Kreative Film Empire and Blue Marble Cinema are producing. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10971 Jul 1, 2009 Chaw is one film I've been following with fervent interest. Why? 'Cause I get Razorback flashbacks and the idea of a new giant pig flick coming our way, in this case hailing from Korea, gets me excited. Wait, that didn't sound right... Anyways, in our last update, we showed you the final trailer . Thanks to the gang at 24fps, we've been alerted to the final international one-sheet which gives you a glimpse of the big bastard that raises hell in Shin Jeong-won's picture. Head to the official site for more fun. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10968 Jul 1, 2009 Focus Features has officially announced the opening day schedule for the vampire thriller, Thirst , directed by award-winning auteur, Park Chan-wook ( Oldboy ). Thirst will open in NY, LA, and San Francisco on July 31st at the following locations: New York: Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema (143 East Houston Street, near 2nd Avenue) Los Angeles: Laemmle’s Sunset 5 (8000 Sunset Boulevard, at Crescent Heights) San Francisco: Landmark’s Bridge Theatre (3010 Geary Boulevard, near Blake Street) Synopsis: Sang-hyun (played by top Korean star Song Kang-ho, of The Host) is a priest who cherishes life; so much so, that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. But the virus takes the priest, and a blood transfusion is... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10967 Jul 1, 2009 Jennifer's Body could have gone either way. Embrace the teen angle and aim for a younger audience with a PG-13 rating or go balls-out with its story about a hot cheerleader (in this case, Megan Fox) that gets possessed and devours boys whole. Thankfully, director Karyn Kusama went the latter route and scored an R rating with the MPAA for "sexuality, bloody violence, language and brief drug use." Rejoice. The Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons, Johnny Simmons, Kyle Gallner and Josh Emerson-starring film opens September 18th. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10966 Jul 1, 2009 Dark Sky Films announced today their theatrical distribution plans for Gadi Harel and Marcel Sarminto's downright disturbing and perverse Deadgirl . The film will be released theatrically as a simultaneous, one-weekend, midnight only, roadshow-style theatrical event, currently in 9 major markets (more to be added), beginning July 24th. Seriously, catch this one in theaters if you can. Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen and Candice Accola star in this story of two high school misfits who cut school to explore the remains of an abandoned hospital. The gruesome discovery they make will test the very limits of their sanity and tear apart their young lives forever: A woman stripped naked and chained to a table. She’s abandoned, beautiful and dead...or is she. The... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10963 Jul 1, 2009 Twisted Pictures and director Darren Bousman are moving quickly on Mother's Day , a remake of the Charles Kaufman Troma film. They should if they hope to reach theaters by Mother's Day of 2010. According to Production Weekly, shooting begins in Winnipeg, Canada on August 24th and will wrap on October 9th. The Genre Company Rat Entertainment and LightTower Entertainment will join Twisted in producing this update which should start birthing some casting announcements this month. Scripted by Scott Milam, Mother's Day follows a family of villains, led by a smart, manipulative and sadistic mother, who return to the house where they grew up and terrorize the new owners and their guests. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10964 Jul 1, 2009 Filmmaker Shane Meadows ( Dead Man's Shoes ) is going to raise a lil' hell with his next film, Beware the Devil . He tells Empire Magazine, "It's based on a book of the same name, based on the life of a guy who, by getting involved with Ouija boards and the occult by trying to disprove it, trying to take the piss out of it, got possessed, had to be exorcised, and later became an exorcist himself. The guy it happened to has died, but his son's a novelist, and he helped him turn it into a book before he passed away, and now I'm working with him to turn it into a film." Beware the Devil: A True Story of Deliverance was written by Robert Lee and published in 1983. Meadows currently has Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee on the film festival circuit. Devil is just one a... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10961 Jul 1, 2009 Pulled once already, an old trailer for Paramount Vantage's Carriers is back online infecting YouTube this time. Expect an updated trailer to come soon as the film opens on September 4th. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10962 Jun 30, 2009 "My heart is beating out of my chest," enthuses French filmmaker Alexandre Aja. The reason behind the increased heart rate? He's on the 38th shooing day of Piranha 3-D - his big budget update of Joe Dante's 1978 Jaws rip-off - and things are going swimmingly well, no pun intended. Beneath unkempt, sand-colored hair, the High Tension director's eyes intensify when he rattles off the cast he has to work with this time: Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd, Jessica Szohr, Steven McQueen, Adam Scott, Jerry O'Connell and, sink your chompers into this...a cameo by Richard Dreyfuss, bearing a slight resemblance to his Matt Hooper persona in Steven Spielberg's aforementioned classic. ShockTillYouDrop.com is sitting with Aja on the arid, overcast Arizona set... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10956 Jun 30, 2009 Among those who turned out for the opening of Universal Studios Hollywood's Creature from The Black Lagoon: A Raging Rockin' Show was Julie Adams, the Gill-Man's main squeeze and star of the original 1954 film that inspired the park's latest attraction. "It's [for] a whole new generation and I thought everybody was great," Adams told ShockTillYouDrop.com of her reaction to the show. "They did fantastic things, wonderful effects. It's just different. It's the rock generation." In the musical stage adaptation, the Gill-Man is disturbed when an science expedition coasts into his turf. He later falls for a lovely gal and, well, a expect a few "enormous" deviations from the original film. Reflecting on why the tale of the Creature has endured... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10952 Jun 30, 2009 The Nicolas Cage-starring period tale Season of the Witch has locked a March 19, 2010 release date. Lionsgate is handling distribution of the film, directed by Dominic Sena, and obviously feels confident enough to put it up against Dimension Films' Piranha 3D . Co-starring Ron Perlman and Stephen Campbell Moore, Season finds Cage playing a knight who must transport a suspected witch, accused of starting the Black Plauge, to trial. Along the way they face a mystical and treacherous landscape. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10954 Jun 30, 2009 Amazon.com is offering fans of Fred Dekker's cult classic Night of the Creeps to choose the cover for the upcoming director's cut. You can click here and select from three designs (similar to what Amazon did last year for Sony's Hammer collection). I've definitely got my favorite...what's yours? For full specs on the highly-anticipated October 20th release visit this previous news item . http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10953 Jun 30, 2009 Severin is poised to release Richard Stanley's Hardware on DVD and Blu-Ray on September 29th (or thereabouts). This is the first time the film - starring Dylan McDermott - is being made available in the U.S. Here are the specs: • NTSC All Region • Uncut Uncensored Version! • DD 5.1 Audio • Anamorphic Widescreen • 2 DVD SE • Audio Commentary with Richard Stanley • Sea of Perdition - Short Film • Making of Documentary • Early Super 8 Version of Hardware For a look at the artwork visit this link . Get your pre-order in now! http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10950 Jun 30, 2009 It looks like 30 Days of Night director David Slade is going to be spending his fall with bloodsuckers. Production Weekly reports begins on Eclipse , the Slade-directed third chapter in the Twilight saga, on August 17th. The production schedule will take him through October 31st at Vancouver Film Studios. In "Eclipse," Bella (Kristen Stewart) once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward (Robert Pattison) and her friendship with Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching,... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10951