http://shocktillyoudrop.com Do you know what's coming? en-us Nov 20, 2009 Warner Premiere's upcoming Lost Boys 3: The Thirst has found its leading lady in actress/model Tanit Phoenix. The South African hottie revealed the news via her MySpace page. She'll play Gwen Liebling, a vampire-romance novelist who calls upon Edgar Frog (Corey Feldman) to rescue her son Peter from the vampire known as DJ Dusk (?!). He gathers up a bloodsucker-killing team and heads into battle. Shooting has begun in South Africa with Dario Piana based on a script by Evan Charnov. Give your Google searching skills a test and look up Ms. Phoenix. You won't be disappointed. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12907 Nov 20, 2009 A book entitled "The Complete History of Return of the Living Dead " is in the works and promises to be an exhaustive look at the series, kick-started by Dan O'Bannon in the '80s. The film is a milestone in zombie cinema for countless reasons - from its humorous approach to the introduction that the undead love to eat brains. And it's about time someone was moving ahead with a companion book. Gary Smart, co-writer of this endeavor, dropped us a line seeking help: "The book has support from over 50 (so far) members of the ROTLD franchise who have offered to support the project and give exclusive interviews delving into the productions of some of the most loved movies in zombie cinema. Support has come from: Dan O'Bannon, Brian Yuzna, Ken Weiderhorn, William... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12906 Nov 20, 2009 Fandango has just debuted a brand new trailer for the supernatural thriller Season Of The Witch starring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen Graham and Christopher Lee, directed by Dominic Sena. Check it out here or watch it below! In Season Of The Witch , Nicolas Cage stars as a 14th century Crusader who returns with his comrade (Ron Perlman) to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch (Claire Foy) to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. A priest (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grieving knight (Ulrich Thomsen), an itinerant swindler (Stephen Graham)... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12905 Nov 20, 2009 This week, Shock Till You Drop spoke with producer Don Carmody about a number of projects he has in the pipeline including Resident Evil: Afterlife , the fourth film in Screen Gems' franchise. Carmody co-produced the first entry, as well as Apocalypse . He had to bow out of Extinction for another obligation, but he's hopeful Afterlife will pave the way for a bright future with more Evil films. "Part two made more than one, three made more than two and we're hoping four will make more than three," he said. "It keeps the franchise strong. What we want to avoid is what's happening with the Saw franchise which is going the other way. We're hoping Paul being back in the driver's seat with 3-D and these big action set pieces will keep it going."... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12904 Nov 20, 2009 One of 2009's more bizarre offerings, Blood Creek , is making its way to DVD on January 19. Honestly, I enjoyed the hell out of this film, which was directed by Joel Schumacher and stars Dominic Purcell, Henry Cavill and, briefly, Michael Fassbender. It's a mix of action, the occult, Nazi mayhem, but it's also a creature feature (with zombie f**kin' horses and dogs) and a siege picture in some respects with a dose of EC Comics atmosphere. Totally unexpected. Give it a chance and you might dig it. The disc comes with Schumacher's commentary. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12903 Nov 20, 2009 It appears the light of the full moon has affected something other than Larry Talbot. Universal redesigned the DVD package art for their upcoming Wolf Man Legacy disc. That's the final version below; compare it to this design here . After a slight delay, the studio is dropping the film on shelves February 2. Yep, just in time for the new Wolfman . Click on the aforementioned link for a rundown of special features. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12902 Nov 20, 2009 Here in the States, the holidays bring us... New Moon . Hurray. (Feel my sarcasm.) In England, however, they get The Descent: Part 2 , the sequel to Neil Marshall's creature feature which opens in theaters on December 4. Below you'll find a television spot that has hit the airwaves there. Click here for a full trailer and stills. Check back soon for our coverage of a pretty cool publicity outing our reporter went on in anticipation of the film! http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12901 Nov 20, 2009 A two-and-a-half minute behind-the-scenes featurette has premiered online for Universal Pictures' The Wolfman . Watch the cast - including Benicio Del Toro, who also produces - talk about the making of this remake which is set to hit theaters on February 12. Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving co-star. For more, visit this spot for trailers, photos and posters! http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12900 Nov 20, 2009 A few months back, Danielle Harris revealed via Twitter that she was providing the voice of Barbra in Zebediah de Soto's CG-animated prequel Night of the Living Dead: Origins , which will fill in the backgrounds of some of the characters from Romero's zombie classic. Earlier tonight, ShockTillYouDrop.com had a fun interview with the actress on the set of her new movie, Jim Mickle and Nick Amici's Stake Land (more on that soon), and not only did we learn that she has finished her voicework for the film, but she also revealed that Mos Def and Bill Moseley are joining her in the voice cast. While unconfirmed, early word has it that Mos Def will be voicing Ben, while Moseley will ironically enough be reprising his role as Johnny which he played in Tom Savini's 1990 Night Of The... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12897 Nov 19, 2009 Just last week, we mentioned the movie Butchered in our Indie Horror Corner Roundup column right here . Now comes official word of US distribution. Eleven Bravo Productions is proud to announce Anthem Pictures (who also put out 100 Tears , Dead Air and Zombie Dearest ) has acquired the domestic distribution rights to 11B's first feature film, Butchered . The DVD streets on February 9th, 2010. In Butchered , a group of teens take a small charter boat to an isolated island for one last party and to say their goodbyes before college - they have no idea that a convicted serial killer has escaped from the Maximum Security Prisons Death Row, taking cover on the very same island. With no working cell phones, no weapons and no way off the island, they must fight to survive... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12896 Nov 19, 2009 Variety reports that Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are joining forces to develop a limited series based on King's just-released new supernatural thriller Under the Dome . DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable. (King mentioned HBO in our previous news post here .) Spielberg, King and Stacey Snider will exec produce along with DreamWorks TV chiefs Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Under The Dome revolves around the drama that unfolds after an invisible force field suddenly descends on a small vacation town in Maine. As the locals fight for their survival, the town descends into warring factions led by enigmatic characters. (See the trailer for the novel here .) This isn't the first time that Steven and Stephen... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12895 Nov 19, 2009 The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog reports that John Hlavin (who worked on FX's The Shield ) has been hired to write the script for Underworld 4 for Screen Gems/Lakeshore Entertainment. Here are the facts we know - Len Wiseman, who directed the first two films in the vampire-vs.-werewolf saga, is producing with Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg and Richard Wright of Lakeshore. No director is attached as of yet. Kate Beckinsale, who starred in the first two movies, has not cut a deal to return to the series. However, she did say "I think if they came up with an amazing script I wouldn't be adverse to it," in our previous news story here . No word on if Rhona Mitra, who fronted the third film, a prequel will return either. While details are being kept... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12894 Nov 19, 2009 Dark Castle's serial killer thriller The Factory is supposed to be a grim piece of work. It was written by Paul Leyden, an Australian actor-producer-director, and Morgan O'Neill. O'Neill also directed placing John Cusack into the role of a Buffalo, New York cop who's on the trail of an area serial killer. His case takes a turn for the worse when his daughter ( Nights in Rodanthe 's Mae Whitman) is kidnapped by the maniac forcing him to delve into some emotionally dark places to get her back. Cusack was attached in 2007 and principal photography followed shortly after in 2008. But you're not going to see it this year or even next year. "The main thing is the ending and the beginning, which is a flashback sequence that needed to be shot in different weather,"... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12893 Nov 19, 2009 This week, Shock Till You Drop visited the Sony Pictures lot. Our reason was two-fold. We sat in for a day's-worth of shooting on Priest - an action-horror and sci-fi creation from director Scott Stewart starring Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Maggie Q, Stephen Moyer and Christopher Plummer. And, we got a chance to watch 20 minutes of Legion , Stewart's apocalyptic thriller, again starring Bettany, not as an ass-kicking man of the cloth but the archangel Michael. It's Michael's mission in the film to protect the unborn child of Adrianne Palicki who might just be the savior of the human race when God decides to send his angels to earth to wipe us clean off of the planet. The 20 minutes shown were selected clips highlighting some of the main themes of the film. They also introduce... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12892 Nov 19, 2009 Silent Hill 2 's future was looking pretty foggy. After grossing nearly $100 million in worldwide box office receipts, there was the question of whether a follow-up to Christophe Gans' 2006 adaptation of the Silent Hill video game was even going to happen. After all, it was met with a mixed audience reaction. Some were dissatisfied with the story; others appreciated the familiar villains and brutal violence. Then, in September, Davis Films officially announced Roger Avary ( Pulp Fiction ) was returning to pen the next entry and production was to rev up shortly after Resident Evil: Afterlife wrapped in Toronto, Canada. Avary, however, was sentenced to prison for a year in the weeks following this news, leaving the status of the sequel up in the air. "Well, we... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12891 Nov 19, 2009 Just in time for Universal's February release of The Wolfman , the studio's DVD division is prepping the release of the complete season of She-Wolf of London which ran in 1990. Beautiful American grad student Randi Wallace (Kate Hodge, "Fringe") never suspected that traveling to England to study with handsome mythology professor Ian Matheson (Neil Dickson, Beowulf ) would change her life forever. While conducting research on the misty and mysterious English moors, Randi is attacked and bitten by a werewolf. Now cursed to transform into a bloodthirsty werewolf during every full moon, the two must find a way to save her. Follow their adventures from London to L.A. as they search for a cure, battle supernatural forces and the romantic feelings they have for one another.... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12890 Nov 19, 2009 Railroad Jack is the name of the horror baddie in One By One , a new teen horror picture coming from Kilo Entertainment. Douglas Tait, Tony Todd, Sally Kirkland, Alexandra Holder, Amber Zion, Hope James, Grace Jiyoung Park, Jay Gillespie, Richardson Chery, Andrew Olson, Tyler Wolfe, Jemal David and Christopher Raff star. Directed by Kimberly Seilhamer, the film, according to THR, "follows a villain named Railroad Jack the Reaper and his carnival of destruction called Death's Door. When a bus carrying a group of teens crashes on a deserted highway, Railroad Jack picks them off one by one." Production begins this weekend. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12889 Nov 19, 2009 Valve, the studio behind this week's awesome Left 4 Dead 2 release, is up to something. We're not sure what, but word is spreading quick about this. Apparently, they've registered Midnight-Riders.com , the real-life southern rock band who, in L4D2 have a stage being set up during the "Dark Carnival" campaign. At the site you see the below image, nothing more. We may be playing as the Riders soon... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12888 Nov 19, 2009 Platinum Studios' graphic novel "Nightfall" is being groomed for the big screen and introduces yet another spin on the vampire genre. Here, a convict realizes the prison he is in just got tougher when it is taken over by bloodsuckers. The story was penned by Scott O. Brown; Ferran Xalabarder illustrated. Aurora Productions is teaming with Platinum in the feature film endeavor. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12887 Nov 19, 2009 Big Joe Egan, the former Irish Heavyweight Champion hailed by Mike Tyson as "the toughest white man on the planet," has joined the cast of Deadtime , a title we first reported on here . He'll join Terry Christian for this story of the Birmingham-based goth/metal band Love Meets Murder who, during their "deadtime," hole up in an old run down studio for a weekend to record a new song and video. Locked in, they will not emerge until they've successfully come up with something great. Tensions arise and once one of their entourage is found murdered, dark secrets begin to unfold and a series of grisly murder, each more depraved than the last, turns the whole enterprise into a grim battle for survival. Director Tony Jopia begins shooting the film in two days. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12886 Nov 19, 2009 True Blood star Stephen Moyer and Brittany Murphy are set to star in The Caller for director Matthew Parkhill. Shooting begins tomorrow. Read on below for a full synopsis. When troubled divorcee, Mary Kee, begins to receive mysterious phone calls from an unknown caller she quickly begins to feel haunted in her own home. When she discovers that the person is calling from the past, Mary realizes that she will have to kill her in order to survive but how do you kill someone living in the past and what will happen if she fails. Moyer recently wrapped Priest . You'll find Murphy next in Deadline . The Caller begins shooting in Puerto Rico tomorrow. http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12885 Nov 19, 2009 Scream Queens 2 will take a new cadre of 10 aspiring actresses and give them the chance to win a breakthrough role in Saw VII (3D). The reality competition series is produced by Lionsgate and Joke Productions, Inc. and is slated to premiere in 2010. Season one winner Tanedra Howard was featured in the coveted and iconic "opening trap" scene in Saw VI , playing the character "Simone." Due to her breakout performance and significant storyline, she is also expected to appear in future Lionsgate productions, a major coup for the previously undiscovered actress. This season's cast will once again be put through a horror film boot camp with intense physical challenges, learning how to work with creatures, gore, and stunts, while also building their acting... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12884 Nov 18, 2009 Back in August, we reported that filmmaker Larry Fessenden was attached to direct the American remake of The Orphanage , a project he'd co-written with producer Guillermo Del Toro. (Which quite frankly was a really good match in this writer's humble opinion.) Sadly, it looks like we not get to see Fessenden's take on the material. Arrow In The Head reports from the set of Stake Land , (a flick that Fessenden is producing) that the director is off the project. "The Orphanage was two years of waiting," explains Fessenden. "Working on the script with Guillermo was a very exciting experience, but then I got into a casting miasma and that's where the thing is; I think they're gonna do it another way, actually. So I think I'm out of it. Hopefully they'll still... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12883 Nov 18, 2009 Don't act too surprised... Simius Films has released details for their first production Paranormal Effect , the supernatural feature film about one of the most famous Japanese curses. Visiting her native Japan with her American boyfriend Darren, Reiko is disappointed to see him spend most of his time filming local stereotypes. Already upset, Reiko draws the line when Darren walks into a forbidden cave, which, according to local beliefs, enshrines shinto gods since the dawn of time. From then, Reiko and Darren start witnessing strange things happening around them, some of which they manage to catch on camera. Will they have time to understand what is upon them before it is too late? Found (?) and edited by the 2 Japanese producers Ryuichi Asano and Teruo Ito, the video footage... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12882 Nov 18, 2009 Empire Online just debuted the new UK quad poster for Daybreakers , which opens here in the states on January 9th. Directed by the Spierig Bros.,' the vampire flick stars Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill and Willem Dafoe. In the year 2017, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the dominant plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save the human race. You can check out the latest TV spot at our previous news post here . http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12881 Nov 18, 2009 Cory Goodman, screenwriter of next year's horror-actioner Priest , tells us the remake of David Cronenberg's The Brood that he is penning is alive and well. In fact, the producing team at Spyglass Entertainment has a director circling the project that he's excited about and an announcement is coming soon. Goodman added that he's taking another pass at the script which contemporizes Cronenberg's story. And, of course, it will feature malevolent tykes. In the original 1979 flick which starred Oliver Reed, Art Hindle and Samantha Eggar, a man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation. (It's a real sicko... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12880 Nov 18, 2009 Last weekend, Shock Till You Drop co-hosted a special midnight screening of Re-Animator at the New Beverly theater with costume designer Robin Lewis-West, director Stuart Gordon and star Jeffrey Combs all in attendance! Before the screening, Shock hosted a Q & A session and while we don't have the entire transcript available, we do have have four highlighted clips below, as well as a few pictures for those that couldn't make it down. Check it out! Hit up the New Bev website right here and hope to see you at the next screening! In this clip, Combs and Gordon talk Edgar Allan Poe show Nevermore ! In this clip, Stuart Gordon talks rating issues and costume design. In this clip, Combs talks about playing Herbert West. In... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12879 Nov 18, 2009 While this is definitely more for the sci-fi buffs as opposed to horror fans, I couldn't help but share the DVD news on Anchor Bay Entertainment's Inalienable , especially after looking at the cover art (pictured left) and reading the following description: "In the film, scientist Eric Norris (Richard Hatch, Battlestar Galatica ) discovers his body is host to a parasite from another world. With the shocking revelation that this microscopic intruder also carries his DNA, Norris confronts the possibility that he might "give birth" to a new son to replace the one lost in a tragic accident years earlier. But will this birth represent a new fusion of human and alien – or spell doom for the entire human race?" Inalienable , written by Star Trek's Walter Koenig... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12878 Nov 18, 2009 In our recent chat with director David DeCoteau about his latest Puppet Master film for Full Moon, we discovered that his film production company Rapid Heart Pictures just celebrated it's 10th year. Some of the outfit's movies include The Brotherhood , Leeches! and Beastly Boyz , as well as reworkings of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and The Pit and The Pendulum . Below is the full press release and you can hit up the official website right here . Be on the lookout for our full exclusive Puppet Master interview with DeCoteau later this week. "Launched in November, 1999 by prolific filmmaker David DeCoteau, Rapid Heart Pictures Ltd. has gone on to create over 30 successful, commercially-driven genre feature films for the worldwide market. It has become the... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12877 Nov 18, 2009 Stuart Gordon hinted at the possibility of taking Nevermore , his one man Edgar Allan Poe show on the road in our interview with him here , but now comes official word that it'll definitely be making one pit stop come next year. At last weekend's midnight Re-Animator screening at the New Beverly in Los Angeles, (co-hosted by Shock Till You Drop) the director revealed that he and actor Jeffrey Combs have been invited to bring the show to The Goodman Theatre in Chicago, IL for October of 2010. No other potential venues or locations are locked as of yet, but they're in talks with several places to do a tour. In Nevermore: An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe , Jeffrey Combs channels Poe in a recreation of the live readings the writer would do of his work during the last year of his... http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=12876