Fear Film Forecast
Updated
August 23, 2007!
Compiled
by MICHAEL GINGOLD and JENNIFER MORROW
Note: Most
release dates are tentative and subject to change. Filmmakers/studios:
send updates to gingold@starloggroup.com.
Entire contents are copyright 2007 Starlog Entertainment.
August 31
HALLOWEEN (Dimension)
Director: Rob Zombie
Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler
Mane, Brad Dourif, Daeg Faerch, Danielle Harris, Kristina Klebe
A reimagining of John Carpenter's 1978 classic about young
psycho Michael Myers and his All Hallow's Eve rampage of
murder.
Website: www.halloween-themovie.com
September
7
HATCHET (Anchor
Bay)
Director: Adam Green
Stars: Joel Moore, Tamara Feldman, Deon Richmond,
Mercedes McNab, Kane Hodder, Robert Englund, Tony Todd
A haunted swamp tour in New Orleans turns deadly when the
participants are stalked by a murderous monster.
Website: www.hatchetmovie.com
September 14
*NEW DATE* D-WAR (Freestyle Releasing)
Director: Shim Hyung-rae
Stars: Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, Aimee Garcia, Chris Mulkey
An ancient race of dragons threatens to decimate modern-day Los Angeles.
Website: www.dragon-wars.com
September
19
THE LAST WINTER
(IFC Films; limited)
Director: Larry Fessenden
Stars: Ron Perlman, James LeGros, Connie Britton,
Kevin Corrigan, Jamie Harrold
An advance team working for an oil company fall victim to
madness and death in the icy wilds of North Alaska.
Website: www.thelastwinter.net
September
21
RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (Screen Gems)
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain
Glen, Mike Epps
This time, the zombies created by the Umbrella Corp. terrorize
the survivors traveling across the desert from Raccoon City
to Alaska.
Website: www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevilextinction
October 12
*NEW DATE* ROGUE
(Dimension)
Director: Greg McLean
Stars: Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, John Jarratt,
Sam Worthington, Caitlin Stasey, Stephen Curry
An American travel writer and others on a tour through the
wilds of Australia are terrorized by a gigantic crocodile.
Website: www.roguecrocodile.com
October 19
30 DAYS OF
NIGHT (Sony)
Director: David Slade
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Ben Foster,
Danny Huston, Mark Boone Junior
Vampires descend on an Alaskan town that sees no sunlight
for a full month, and the local husband-and-wife sheriff
team must decide whether to fight or flee.
Website: www.30daysofnight.com
October 26
*NEW DATE* FUNNY GAMES (Warner Independent)
Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady
Corbet, Siobhan Fallon
English-language remake of Haneke’s own 1997 film in
which two psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their
vacation cabin.
Website: none yet
*ENTRY UPDATED* SAW IV (Lionsgate)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Tobin Bell, Lyriq Bent, Scott Patterson, Justin Louis, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Shawnee Smith
While detectives and the FBI sort out Jigsaw's legacy, a SWAT commander is kidnapped and forced to run a new gauntlet of deadly traps.
Website: www.saw4.com (coming soon)
*NEW DATE* THE SIGNAL (Magnolia; limited)
Directors: David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush
Stars: Tracy Martin, Scott Poythress, Robert Sterling,
Steve Warren
When a mysterious signal is broadcast through a city’s electronic
equipment, its residents go homicidally insane.
Website: www.myspace.com/theterminussignal
November 9
AFTER DARK
HORRORFEST 2 (After Dark)
Directors: TBA
Stars: TBA
Another long weekend of alternating independent horror movies
on the big screen.
Website: none yet
*NEW ENTRY* P2 (Summit Ent.)
Director: Franck Khalfoun
Stars: Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley, Simon Reynolds
Stranded in an underground parking garage, a young woman is approached by a security guard who at first seems helpful but soon proves to be deranged.
Website: none yet
November 21
THE MIST (Dimension)
Director: Frank Darabont
Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden, William Sadler
From Stephen King’s novella: A strange fog brings with it
an invasion of bizarre creatures that trap a group of survivors
in a rural supermarket.
Website: none yet
December 14
I AM LEGEND (Warner Bros.)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Stars: Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Alice Braga,
Charlie Tahan
New filmization of Richard Matheson's classic novel of vampires
overrunning the Earth, and (here) the handful of survivors
fighting for their lives against the undead plague.
Website: www.iamlegend.com
December 21
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (Dreamworks/Warner
Bros.)
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher
Lee, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Stewart Head
Feature version of the grisly Stephen Sondheim musical about
a barber with a lust for murder and a meat-pie-baking accomplice.
Website: none yet
December 25
ALIENS VS. PREDATOR (Fox)
Directors: Colin and Greg Strause
Stars: Reiko Aylesworth, Steven Pasquale, Gina Holden,
John Ortiz, Shareeka Epps
The war between the extraterrestrial species continues on
Earth, this time in a small town where the residents struggle
to survive the battle.
Website: none yet
December 28
*NEW DATE* THE ORPHANAGE (Picturehouse)
Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Belén Rueda, Roger Príncep,
Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin
A woman plans to turn the abandoned orphanage where she
grew up into a home for disabled children, and her son starts
playing there with a mysterious imaginary friend.
Website: none yet
January 4,
2008
ONE MISSED CALL (Warner Bros.)
Director: Eric Vallette
Stars: Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon, Gabriel Byrne,
Ray Wise, Azura Skye
Remake of Takashi Miike's chiller in which young friends
receive cell-phone calls that presage their own deaths.
Website: none yet
January 18,
2008
*NEW ENTRY* Untitled J.J. Abrams Production
(Paramount)
Director: Matt Reeves
Stars: Mike Vogel, Blake Lively, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Stahl-David, Odet Jasmin
Vérité-style saga of a giant-monster attack on New York City, as seen through the eyes of its citizens.
Website: www.1-18-08.com
February 1,
2008
*NEW DATE* THE EYE (Lionsgate)
Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Stars: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey,
Chloe Moretz
Remake of the Asian chiller about a blind young woman whose operation
to restore her sight also gives her the ability to see ghosts.
Website: none yet
February 22,
2008
*NEW DATE* CASE 39 (Paramount)
Director: Christian Alvart
Stars: Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley
Cooper, Ian McShane, Kerry O’Malley
A social worker discovers that what at first seems to be
a child-abuse situation is in fact something far worse.
Website: none yet
*NEW ENTRY* THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES (MGM)
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Samantha Robson, Ivar Brogger, Lou George
Documentary-style study of a serial killer who recorded his murderous exploits on a series of videocassettes.
Website: none yet
March 28, 2008
*NEW DATE* AMUSEMENT
(Picturehouse)
Director: John Simpson
Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Jessica Lucas, Laura Breckinridge,
Tad Hilgenbrink, Keir O’Donnell
Three young women are separately stalked by a killer with
a connection to all of them.
Website: none yet
April 4, 2008
*NEW DATE* THE RUINS (DreamWorks)
Director: Carter B. Smith
Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore
From Scott Smith's novel: Six tourists set off into the
Mexican wilderness to look for a missing friend and encounter
terror in the jungle.
Website: none yet
April 11,
2008
PROM NIGHT (Screen Gems)
Director: Nelson McCormick
Stars: Brittany Snow, Johnathon Schaech, Brianne Davis, Idris Elba, Joshua Leonard, Jessalyn Gilsig, Dana Davis
Remake of the 1980 slasher film in which a high-school dance
is stalked by a vengeance-seeking killer.
Website: none yet
June 13, 2008
THE HAPPENING (Fox)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Spencer Breslin, Betty Buckley
An ecological thriller about a father trying to help his family escape a worldwide crisis in which nature is turning against humanity.
Website: none yet
July 11, 2008
*NEW DATE* HELLBOY II (Universal)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss, John Hurt
When the creatures of myth plot a war against humanity,
Hellboy must step in to prevent them from conquering the
world.
Website: none yet
August 1,
2008
*NEW DATE* THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (Universal)
Director: Rob Cohen
Stars: Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Luke Ford, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh
The O’Connell clan from the first two installments
continues to face down the walking, well-preserved dead,
this time in China.
Website: none yet
October 24,
2008
IGOR (Weinstein Company)
Director: Anthony Leondis
Stars: Voices of Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi,
John Cleese, Jeremy Piven, Jennifer Coolidge, Molly Shannon,
Jay Leno
CG-animated feature in which a mad scientist’s hunchbacked
lab assistant invents his own monster in hopes of winning
the annual Evil Science Fair.
Website: none yet
November 14,
2008
THE WOLF MAN (Universal)
Director: Mark Romanek
Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins
Remake of the 1941 classic about a man with a hairy curse.
Website: none yet
September
25, 2009
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (Sony)
Directors: Anthony Stacchi, David Feiss
Stars: TBA
CG-animated feature in which Dracula and the rest of the
classic monsters—who have hidden from the scary modern world
for years—face a crisis when their faithful servant/supplier
Renfield dies.
Website: none yet
Undated
ALL THE BOYS
LOVE MANDY LANE (Senator)
Director: Jonathan Levine
Stars: Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Michael Welch, Aaron
Himelstein, Edwin Hodge
Mandy and some boys who want her go for a weekend trip at
a remote ranch, where someone starts bumping them off.
Website: none yet
AN AMERICAN
CRIME (First Look)
Director: Tommy O’Haver
Stars: Catherine Keener, Ellen Page, James Franco,
Hayley McFarland, Evan Peters
Based on a true case from the 1960s: A teenaged girl left
in the care of a woman and her several children is imprisoned
and tortured by them.
Website: none yet
ANIMALS (to be
announced)
Director: Doug Aarniokoski
Stars: Marc Blucas, Nicki Aycox, Eva Amurri, Andy Comeau, Naveen Andrews
From the John Skipp/Craig Spector novel: a divorced steel-town worker is seduced by a femme fatale who turns out to be a werewolf.
Website: none yet
THE ATTIC
(to be announced)
Director: Mary Lambert
Stars: John Savage, Catherine Mary Stewart, Elisabeth
Moss, Tom Malloy
After a family moves into a new home in the woods, the teenaged
daughter becomes tormented by a ghost that looks just like
her.
Website: www.atticmovie.com
AUTOPSY (to be announced)
Director: Adam Gierasch
Stars: Michael Bowen, Jenette Goldstein, Robert Patrick, Jessica Lowndes, Robert LaSardo, Joe Reegan, Ross Kohn
A group of young friends are trapped in a hospital with a staff of evil, experimenting doctors.
Website: none yet
BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE (to be announced)
Director: Chris Nahon
Stars: Ji-hyun Jun, Allison Miller
Live-action remake of the popular anime in which a young vampire hunts demons for the U.S. government at an Air Force base in post-WWII Japan.
Website: none yet
BORDERLAND
(Lionsgate)
Director: Zev Berman
Stars: Brian Presley, Rider Strong, Jake Muxworthy,
Martha Higareda, Roberto Sosa
A trio of Texas college students become the targets of a
blood cult during a trip to Mexico.
Website: www.borderlandonline.com
BORN (to be announced)
Director: Daniel Simpson
Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany
A claymation artist and his pregnant wife move to the British countryside and are terrified when the husband’s stop-motion creations come to life and act out nightmarish scenarios.
Website: none yet
CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER (Lionsgate)
Director: Ti West
Stars: Rider Strong, Giuseppe Andrews, Alexi Wasser, Larry Fessenden, Judah Friedlander, Mark Borchardt, Noah Segan, Marc Senter, Rusty Kelley
The flesheating virus finds its way to a populated area—specifically a high school, where it arrives just in time for the prom.
Website: none yet
CARRIERS (Paramount
Vantage)
Directors: Alex Pastor, David Pastor
Stars: Piper Perabo, Chris Pine, Emily VanCamp, Lou
Taylor Pucci, Christopher Meloni
In the midst of a viral outbreak, four friends flee the
pandemic and fall victim to their own fear and paranoia.
Website: none yet
CASTLEVANIA (Rogue)
Director: Sylvain White
Stars: TBA
From the Konami video game: a battle between the vampire-hunting Belmont family and Vlad the Impaler and his bloodsuckers.
Website: none yet
CATACOMBS
(Lionsgate)
Director: David Elliott, Tomm Coker
Stars: Shannyn Sossamon, Pink, Cain Manoli, Ashleigh
Rains, Cabral Ibaka
On a vacation in Paris, an American woman faces terror in
limestone caverns lined with human remains.
Website: none yet
THE COTTAGE (Screen Gems)
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Stars: Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, Jennifer Ellison, Steve O'Donnell, Doug Bradley
Two brothers botch the kidnapping of a crime lord's daughter and run afoul of a nasty secret out in the country.
Website: none yet
CURANDERO (Miramax)
Director: Eduardo Rodriguez
Stars: Carlos Gallardo, Sergio Acosta, Gizeth Galatea,
Gabriel Pingarrón, José Carlos Ruiz
A man plunges into an underworld of crime and black magic
in Mexico City.
Website: none yet
DAYBREAKERS (Lionsgate)
Directors: Peter and Michael Speirig
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Vince Colosimo
In a world where most of the populace has been turned into vampires by a plague, a researcher tries to save the surviving humans from being harvested for food.
Website: none yet
DIARY OF THE
DEAD (to be announced)
Director: George A. Romero
Stars: Shawn Roberts, Megan Park, Tatiana Maslany,
Chris Violette, Amy Ciupak Lalonde
A group of young filmmakers struggle to survive a zombie
plague while one documents their experiences on video.
Website: none yet
DOOMSDAY (Rogue)
Director: Neil Marshall
Stars: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Alexander Siddig,
Adrian Lester, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone
A team of specialists face assorted horrors when they venture
into a quarantined city to find a cure for a lethal virus.
Website: none yet
THE ECHO (to be announced)
Director: Yam Laranas
Stars: Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner, Carlos Leon, Kevin Durand, Jayne Eastwood
Remake of the Filipino film SIGAW: An ex-con is caught up in a curse when he tries to help the abused mother and daughter who live next door.
Website: none yet
FRAGILE (Bauer
Martinez Distribution/MGM)
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Stars: Calista Flockhart, Yasmin Murphy, Elena Anaya,
Gemma Jones, Richard Roxburgh
At a children's hospital on the verge of closing, a nurse
tries to protect the young patients from a malevolent presence.
Website: http://movies.filmax.com/fragile
New FRIDAY
THE 13TH (New Line)
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Stars: TBA
A re-exploration of Jason Voorhees' origins—and a new round
of victims for him to slaughter.
Website: none yet
GALLOWWALKER (to be announced)
Director: Andrew Goth
Stars: Wesley Snipes, Riley Smith, Kevin Howarth, Tanit Phoenix, Steven Elder
A gunfighter's victims return as the vengeance-seeking walking dead.
Website: www.gallowwalker.com
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (to be announced)
Director: Gregory Wilson
Stars: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Blanche Baker, Graham Patrick Martin, Benjamin Ross Kaplan, Austin Williams
From the Jack Ketchum novel: a teenaged girl is imprisoned and tortured in the basement of a suburban home.
Website: www.thegirlnextdoorfilm.com
GRIMM LOVE
(Strand)
Director: Martin Weisz
Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas Huber, Keri Russell
Fact-based story of two men who come together via the Internet
for a cannibalistic experience.
Website: none yet
HEART-SHAPED BOX (Warner Bros.)
Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: TBA
From the Joe Hill novel: an aging rock star buys a ghost off of eBay and discovers that it's frighteningly hard to contain.
Website: none yet
THE HORSEMEN (to be announced)
Director: Jonas Akerlund
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Peter Stormare,
Neil McDonough, Barry Shabaka Henley, Patrick Fugit
A detective investigates a series of killings inspired by
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Website: none yet
INSIDE (Weinstein Company)
Directors: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
Stars: Alysson Paradis, Béatrice Dalle, Nathalie Roussel, Frencois-Régis Marchasson
The pregnant survivor of a car accident is attacked by a strange woman who wants to cut her baby out of her womb.
Website: none yet
IT'S ALIVE (to be announced)
Director: Josef Rusnak
Stars: Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Raphael Coleman
Remake of Larry Cohen's film about a mutant baby running amok.
Website: none yet
KILLER PAD (to be announced)
Director: Robert Englund
Stars: Daniel Franzese, Eric Jungmann, Shane McRae
Horror/comedy in which three best friends move into a haunted house in the Hollywood Hills.
Website: www.killerpadmovie.com
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (Rogue)
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Stars: TBA
Remake of the Wes Craven film about a gang of rapist/murderers who unwittingly take shelter in the home of one victim's parents.
Website: none yet
THE LOST (to
be announced)
Director: Chris Sivertson
Stars: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Robin Sydney, Justin
Stone, Ruby La Rocca, Erin Brown
From Jack Ketchum's novel: A cocky young man who got away
with murder four years ago is pushed over the edge and goes
on a new rampage.
Website: www.thelostmovie.net
THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (Lionsgate)
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones, Leslie Bibb, Roger Bart, Tony Curran
From Clive Barker’s story: A photographer tracks a brutal
killer stalking the New York City subways.
Website: none yet
MIRRORS (Fox)
Director: Alexandre Aja
Star: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng, Ezra Buzzington, John Shrapnel, Julian Glover
An ex-cop who works security at a mall discovers something
frighteningly awry in the mirrors of a department store.
Website: none yet
MOTEL HELL (MGM)
Director: TBA
Stars: TBA
Remake of the 1980 cult film about a maker of smoked meats
who uses kidnapped humans as part of his recipe.
Website: none yet
MUTANT CHRONICLES
(to be announced)
Director: Simon Hunter
Stars: Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, John
Malkovich, Shauna Macdonald
On a 23rd-century Earth, soldiers battle an army of rebellious
NecroMutants.
Website: www.mutantchroniclesthemovie.com
MY NAME IS BRUCE (Lionsgate/Image)
Director: Bruce Campbell
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Ted Raimi, Janelle Farber
Oregon townspeople summon horror star Bruce Campbell to help them fight off a real monster.
Website: none yet
NEIGHBORHOOD
WATCH (to be announced)
Director: Graeme Whifler
Stars: Jack Huston, Pell James, Nick Searcy, Terry
Becker, Anina Lincoln
A young couple move into a new suburban home and run afoul
of an extremely disturbed man who lives on their block.
Website: www.neighborhoodwatchthefilm.com
THE OBJECTIVE (to be announced)
Director: Daniel Myrick
Stars: Jonas Ball, Michael C. Williams, Jon Huertas, P. David Miller
A group of Special Ops soldiers face a supernatural terror in Afghanistan.
Website: none yet
THE OCEAN (to be announced)
Director: Dante Tomaselli
Stars: Dee Wallace
A psychic travels to the beachfront home of her estranged daughter and receives signs of a great evil emanating from the surrounding sea.
Website: www.theoceanmovie.com
100 FEET (to be announced)
Director: Eric Red
Stars: Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré, John Fallon
A woman under house arrest is tormented by the spirit of
the abusive husband she killed.
Website: www.myspace.com/100feetmovie
OUTLANDER (Weinstein Company)
Director: Howard McCain
Stars: James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman, John Hurt
A spaceman crashes on Viking-era Earth, bringing with him an alien monster which he and the Vikings must then defeat.
Website: none yet
THE POKER CLUB (to be announced)
Director: Tim McCann
Stars: Johnathon Schaech, Johnny Messner, Loren Dean, Michael Risley, Lori Heuring, Judy Reyes, Jana Kramer
A group of friends accidentally kill a burglar who interrupts their weekly poker game, and are targeted by their victim’s vengeful partner as they try to hide their crime from the police.
Website: none yet
PRIEST (Screen
Gems)
Director: TBA
Stars: Gerard Butler, Steven Strait
Adaptation of the manga in which a man of the cloth
goes against the church to seek and destroy the vampires
who have abducted his niece.
Website: none yet
REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA (Lionsgate)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Paul Sorvino, Alexa Vega, Paris Hilton, Tobin Bell
Based on a 2002 stage play, a musical depicting a twisted
future of corporate organ harvesting and repo men who show
up when the new recipients can’t pay.
Website: none yet
RETURN TO
SLEEPAWAY CAMP (to be announced)
Director: Robert Hiltzik
Stars: Vincent Pastore, Jonathan Tierston, Paul DeAngelo,
Isaac Hayes, Adam Wylie
Two decades later, the camp is plagued by more killings,
and a camper-turned-counselor is convinced the murderous
Angela has returned.
Website: www.sleepawaycampmovies.com
SCAR (to be
announced)
Director: Jed Weintrob
Stars: Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Devon
Graye, Ben Cotton, Christopher Titus
3-D story of a young woman who survived abduction by a serial
killer years ago, and returns to her hometown as another
series of slayings begins.
Website: none yet
SEED (Freestyle Releasing)
Director: Uwe Boll
Stars: Michael Paré, William Sanderson, Ralf Moeller, Thea Gill, Jodelle Ferland, Andrew Jackson
After surviving his electrocution, a hulking serial killer embarks on a vengeful rampage of murder.
Website: www.seed-themovie.com
THE SEED (New Line)
Director: Rock Shaink Jr.
Stars: Radha Mitchell, Neal McDonough
Remake of THE HIDDEN in which a young detective revisits
the grisly case that took her mother’s life.
Website: none yet
SHUTTER (Fox)
Director: Masayuki Ochiai
Stars: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, David Denman, Jonathan Hensley, Maya Hazen, Jay Kayson Lee, Megumi Okina
A malevolent ghost begins turning up in the pictures of a photographer who fled a hit-and-run accident.
Website: none yet
SISTERS (to
be announced)
Director: Douglas Buck
Stars: Lou Doillon, Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Rea, William
B. Davis, Gabrielle Rose
Remake of the Brian De Palma chiller about a reporter who
discovers that one of two separated Siamese twins is a homicidal
maniac.
Website: none yet
SOLSTICE (to
be announced)
Director: Daniel Myrick
Stars: Elisabeth Harnois, Shawn Ashmore, Tyler Hoechlin,
Amanda Seyfried, Matt O'Leary, R. Lee Ermey
Attempting to recover from her twin sister's suicide, a
young woman and her friends encounter what first appears
to be the dead girl's spirit, but proves to be something
far more frightening.
Website: none yet
STORM WARNING
(Dimension)
Director: Jamie Blanks
Stars: Nadia Fares, Robert Taylor, David Lyons, Mathew
Wilkinson, John Brumpton
Lost in a storm, a husband and wife take refuge in a decrepit
house inhabited by sadistic hillbillies.
Website: www.stormwarningmovie.com
THE STRANGERS
(Rogue)
Director: Bryan Bertino
Stars: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Kip Weeks, Gemma
Ward, Glenn Howerton
When their home is invaded by vicious attackers, a couple
revert to brutality to stay alive.
Website: none yet
STUCK (to be announced)
Director: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard
Based on a real-life incident: A young woman accidentally hits a homeless man with her car and, to protect herself, decides to leave the car in her garage with the dying victim still embedded in her windshield.
Website: none yet
SURVEILLANCE (Arclight)
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Stars: Bill Pullman, Pell James, Julia Ormond, Ryan Simpkins, French Stewart, Cheri Oteri
An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of his surviving victims—all of whom are lying.
Website: none yet
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (DreamWorks)
Directors: Charles Guard and Thomas Guard
Stars: Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn
Remake of the Korean film in which two siblings return home from their stay in an asylum, only to face torment from both their domineering mother and an evil spirit.
Website: none yet
TEETH (Lionsgate/Weinstein
Company)
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Stars: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale
Appleman, Lenny Von Dohlen
A high-school girl who heads her school’s chastity movement
finds she has teeth in a place no man would want to encounter
them.
Website: www.teethmovie.com
TERROR TRAIN (to be announced)
Director: Gideon Raff
Stars: Thora Birch, Derek Magyar, Paige Peterson, Gideon Emery, Bolt Birch
Remake of the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis-starrer: A group of student athletes face horror and death on a European train ride.
Website: none yet
THE THIRD
MOTHER (to be announced)
Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Asia Argento, Udo Kier, Cristian Solimeno,
Daria Nicolodi, Philippe Leroy
A museum worker receives an ancient artifact that leads
to the unleashing of occult forces and the resurrection
of the evil Mother of Tears.
Website: none yet
TOWN CREEK
(Lionsgate)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Dominic Purcell, Henry Cavill, Michael Fassbender, Emma Booth
Two brothers become caught up in supernatural experiments
originating in the Nazi era.
Website: none yet
TRAPPED ASHES
(to be announced)
Directors: Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, Monte
Hellman, John Gaeta, Joe Dante
Stars: Rachel Veltri, Michele-Barbara Pelletier,
Amelia Cooke, Tahmoh Penikett, Lara Harris, John Saxon
A horror anthology that spins tales of witches, parasites
and other ghastly entities.
Website: none yet
*NEW DATE* TRICK ’R TREAT (Warner Bros.)
Director: Michael Dougherty
Stars: Dylan Baker, Brian Cox, Leslie Bibb, Anna
Paquin, Tahmoh Penikett
Human killers and inhuman entities stalk a small town on
Halloween night in this four-part horror anthology.
Website: none yet
2001 MANIACS: BEVERLY HELLBILLYS (to be announced)
Director: Tim Sullivan
Stars: Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Tony Todd, Bill Moseley
Sequel to the 2005 Herschell Gordon Lewis homage showcasing the further murderous adventures of the Pleasant Valley gang.
Website: none yet
WAZ (Weinstein Company)
Director: Tom Shankland
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters, John Sharian
A washed-up detective revisits a dark case from his past when he tries to catch a sadistic killer who’s targeting a notorious local gang.
Website: none yet
WHISPER (Universal)
Director: Stewart Hendler
Stars: Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Blake
Woodruff, Joel Edgerton, Dulé Hill
A.k.a. HELLION: A group of kidnappers get more than they
bargained for when the boy they abduct turns out to be evil.
Website: none yet
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