The 28 Years Later trilogy is amassing considerable attention with its latest news—Jack O’Connell, known for Unbroken and Eden Lake, has joined the cast in a pivotal role that will evolve throughout the series. Revisiting the Zombie Franchise Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reunite for this ambitious undertaking that looks to expand and redefine their iconic 28 Days Later universe. Over two decades after the groundbreaking original—which earned over $82 million globally on an $8 million budget—they are back with a trilogy aimed at revitalizing the zombie genre. Exciting New Addition to the Cast The casting of O’Connell is a
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- 5/16/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
James McAvoy (Split) dives back into the horror genre with Speak No Evil, Blumhouse’s English language remake of the critically acclaimed 2022 Danish film Gæsterne. The two-minute trailer shows a married couple immediately regretting their decision to visit old friends while on vacation.
The cast includes Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate) and SAG award-winner Scoot McNairy (Argo) as Louise and Ben Dalton, the couple who chose the wrong place to spend their vacation. Alix West Lefler (The Good Nurse) plays their 11-year-old daughter, Agnes. Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones) stars as Paddy’s (McAvoy) wife, Ciara, and newcomer Dan Hough plays their mute son, Ant.
“When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare,” reads Blumhouse’s synopsis.
James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi...
The cast includes Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate) and SAG award-winner Scoot McNairy (Argo) as Louise and Ben Dalton, the couple who chose the wrong place to spend their vacation. Alix West Lefler (The Good Nurse) plays their 11-year-old daughter, Agnes. Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones) stars as Paddy’s (McAvoy) wife, Ciara, and newcomer Dan Hough plays their mute son, Ant.
“When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare,” reads Blumhouse’s synopsis.
James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi...
- 4/13/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Earlier this year, it was revealed that frequent collaborators Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan – who have worked on Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever together as director and cast member, and have other collaborations that Coogler didn’t direct – have been developing a new project in secret. Coogler has written the script for this project, which is being described as both a genre picture and a period piece that Coogler will be directing and Jordan is attached to star in. The project is set up at Warner Bros., is expected to have a budget of around $90 million, and is scheduled for a theatrical release on March 7, 2025. We still don’t know exactly what this movie is going to be about… but Deadline reports that Jack O’Connell is in talks to play the villain in it.
O’Connell’s previous acting credits include Eden Lake, Harry Brown,...
O’Connell’s previous acting credits include Eden Lake, Harry Brown,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The PG-13 rating, at least for horror, often induces derision or skepticism, like an instant shackle on the horror. A PG-13 rating broadcasts straightaway not to expect any excessive gore, violence, or any of the explicit fun stuff that tends to be horror’s bread and butter. But those things aren’t synonymous with horror’s true aim, which is to scare you silly.
Luckily, PG-13 horror has proven time and time again throughout the decades that it’s more than capable of inducing chills. Especially when it comes to the supernatural.
This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to PG-13 horror movies that bring the terror through ghostly jump scares, ominous atmosphere, and more. That the PG-13 rating means they also double as potential gateway horror for the budding monster kid is a bonus.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks,...
Luckily, PG-13 horror has proven time and time again throughout the decades that it’s more than capable of inducing chills. Especially when it comes to the supernatural.
This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to PG-13 horror movies that bring the terror through ghostly jump scares, ominous atmosphere, and more. That the PG-13 rating means they also double as potential gateway horror for the budding monster kid is a bonus.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks,...
- 2/19/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
James McAvoy has reteamed with his Split and Glass producers at Blumhouse for a psychological thriller called Speak No Evil, which Universal Pictures will be giving a theatrical release later this year. While the film had once been scheduled to reach theatres in August, Deadline reports that it has now shifted back one month, to Friday, September 13th. Yep, this one is getting a Friday the 13th release.
James Watkins, whose previous credits include Eden Lake and The Woman in Black, wrote and directed the film, which centers on a family who takes a dream holiday to an idyllic country house, only to have the vacation turn into a psychological nightmare. Speak No Evil is a remake of a 2022 Danish film called Gæsterne (read our review Here), which was directed by Christian Tafdrup. The director wrote the screenplay for the film with his brother Mads Tafdrup. Gæsterne was nominated for eleven Danish Film Awards,...
James Watkins, whose previous credits include Eden Lake and The Woman in Black, wrote and directed the film, which centers on a family who takes a dream holiday to an idyllic country house, only to have the vacation turn into a psychological nightmare. Speak No Evil is a remake of a 2022 Danish film called Gæsterne (read our review Here), which was directed by Christian Tafdrup. The director wrote the screenplay for the film with his brother Mads Tafdrup. Gæsterne was nominated for eleven Danish Film Awards,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to to Richard Holmes, film producer and inventor about his latest creation: Vox Box sound booth – Foldable, Portable, Storable, Durable, Affordable and “3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life”
The Last Waltz (1978) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) The Producers (1967)
“3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life” is about those films that made you fall in love with film. The guest selects their trio of movies and we talk for 5 minutes, against the clock. When the alarm goes off for five minutes we move on to the next film.
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The Last Waltz (1978) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) The Producers (1967)
“3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life” is about those films that made you fall in love with film. The guest selects their trio of movies and we talk for 5 minutes, against the clock. When the alarm goes off for five minutes we move on to the next film.
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- 9/22/2023
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Last week, it was announced that James McAvoy is reteaming with his Split and Glass producers at Blumhouse for a psychological thriller called Speak No Evil, which Universal Pictures will be giving a theatrical release on August 9, 2024. Now Deadline reports that McAvoy is being joined in the cast by Mackenzie Davis, whose credits include Terminator: Dark Fate, Blade Runner 2049, Black Mirror, Halt and Catch Fire, and Station Eleven. Details on the characters McAvoy and Davis will be playing have not been revealed.
James Watkins, whose previous credits include Eden Lake and The Woman in Black, will be writing and directing the film, which will center on a family who takes a dream holiday to an idyllic country house, only to have the vacation turn into a psychological nightmare. Speak No Evil is a remake of a 2022 Danish film called Gæsterne, which was directed by Christian Tafdrup. The director wrote...
James Watkins, whose previous credits include Eden Lake and The Woman in Black, will be writing and directing the film, which will center on a family who takes a dream holiday to an idyllic country house, only to have the vacation turn into a psychological nightmare. Speak No Evil is a remake of a 2022 Danish film called Gæsterne, which was directed by Christian Tafdrup. The director wrote...
- 4/24/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
James McAvoy is set to reteam with his Split and Glass producers at Blumhouse for a psychological thriller called Speak No Evil, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Universal Pictures has already scheduled the film for an August 9, 2024 theatrical release.
James Watkins, whose previous credits include Eden Lake and The Woman in Black, will be writing and directing the film. It’s said that Speak No Evil will center on a family who takes a dream holiday to an idyllic country house, only to have the vacation turn into a psychological nightmare.
We need more information than that, because that sounds like a whole bunch of movies we’ve seen before. Luckily, there is more information to be found, because this is actually a remake of a 2022 Danish film called Gæsterne, which was directed by Christian Tafdrup. The director wrote the screenplay for the film with his brother Mads Tafdrup – and...
James Watkins, whose previous credits include Eden Lake and The Woman in Black, will be writing and directing the film. It’s said that Speak No Evil will center on a family who takes a dream holiday to an idyllic country house, only to have the vacation turn into a psychological nightmare.
We need more information than that, because that sounds like a whole bunch of movies we’ve seen before. Luckily, there is more information to be found, because this is actually a remake of a 2022 Danish film called Gæsterne, which was directed by Christian Tafdrup. The director wrote the screenplay for the film with his brother Mads Tafdrup – and...
- 4/17/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A remake of last year’s terrifying Danish horror movie, James Watkins (The Woman in Black, Eden Lake) is directing Speak No Evil for Blumhouse and Universal, we’ve learned.
First reported by Deadline, James McAvoy will star.
Universal will release Speak No Evil in theaters on August 9, 2024.
Deadline reminds, “In the original 2022 movie, a Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.”
James Watkins also wrote the script for the Speak No Evil remake.
Jason Blum will produce the upcoming film for Blumhouse, with Paul Ritchie, Christian Tafdrup, Jacob Jarek, and Bea Sequeira serving as Executive Producers.
Directed by Christian Tafdrup, the original Speak No Evil was selected as one of Bloody Disgusting’s 12 Best International Horror Movies of 2022. Daniel Kurland raved about the highly distressing Danish nightmare,...
First reported by Deadline, James McAvoy will star.
Universal will release Speak No Evil in theaters on August 9, 2024.
Deadline reminds, “In the original 2022 movie, a Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.”
James Watkins also wrote the script for the Speak No Evil remake.
Jason Blum will produce the upcoming film for Blumhouse, with Paul Ritchie, Christian Tafdrup, Jacob Jarek, and Bea Sequeira serving as Executive Producers.
Directed by Christian Tafdrup, the original Speak No Evil was selected as one of Bloody Disgusting’s 12 Best International Horror Movies of 2022. Daniel Kurland raved about the highly distressing Danish nightmare,...
- 4/17/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
To mark the release of 10×10 on 27th August, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
After meticulous planning and preparation, Lewis snatches Cathy off the street and takes her to a remote luxury house, locking her away in a soundproofed room measuring 10 feet by 10 feet. His motive: to have Cathy confess a dark secret that she is determined to keep hidden. However, Cathy has no intention of giving up easily, and proves more than a match for her kidnapper.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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After meticulous planning and preparation, Lewis snatches Cathy off the street and takes her to a remote luxury house, locking her away in a soundproofed room measuring 10 feet by 10 feet. His motive: to have Cathy confess a dark secret that she is determined to keep hidden. However, Cathy has no intention of giving up easily, and proves more than a match for her kidnapper.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
a Rafflecopter giveaway
The Small Print
Open to UK residents only The competition will close 30th August 2018 at 23.59 GMT The winner will be picked at random from entries received No cash alternative is available To coincide with Gdpr regulations, competition entry information will not be stored once the competition has ended and the winners have been chosen and prizes sent out.
- 8/20/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bollywood star Anushka Sharma has long been a favorite of mine, and she only grew in my esteem when she turned to producing back in 2015 with her company Clean Slate Films' gritty thriller, NH10. That film was an Indian take on rural revenge stories like Eden Lake, and at the time of its release it was so gritty that it was even delayed due to censor board negotiations and was eventually recut for cinema release. This was around the same time that the Cbfc (Central Board of Film Certification) was in great upheaval following a mass exodus of incumbent members, and NH10 was the first real test of the direction of the country's new arbiters of social propriety on cinema screens. The censoring of...
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- 2/15/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Rob Leane Kirsten Howard Mar 6, 2018
Wondering what to watch? Here’s our rundown of 2018’s new British dramas...
As we surge into 2018, the impressive amount of top-quality dramas emanating from our home-grown channels is showing no signs of decreasing.
See related Luke Cage: making a star of a lesser-known character Jessica Jones season 2: episode titles and fantastic pulp covers released Iron Fist season 2: Alice Eve joins the cast Daredevil season 3: Vincent D’Onofrio teases Fisk's evolution The Punisher season 2 adds Supergirl's Floriana Lima
There are plentiful programmes you’ll want to watch and/or record for later, as Britain’s best broadcasters battle it out for your attention and affections. Here, then, is a big long list of shows to look forward to in 2018...
The Innocents
Guy Pearce stars as a mysterious character currently only known as 'Halvorson' in Netflix's new 8-part supernatural teen...
Wondering what to watch? Here’s our rundown of 2018’s new British dramas...
As we surge into 2018, the impressive amount of top-quality dramas emanating from our home-grown channels is showing no signs of decreasing.
See related Luke Cage: making a star of a lesser-known character Jessica Jones season 2: episode titles and fantastic pulp covers released Iron Fist season 2: Alice Eve joins the cast Daredevil season 3: Vincent D’Onofrio teases Fisk's evolution The Punisher season 2 adds Supergirl's Floriana Lima
There are plentiful programmes you’ll want to watch and/or record for later, as Britain’s best broadcasters battle it out for your attention and affections. Here, then, is a big long list of shows to look forward to in 2018...
The Innocents
Guy Pearce stars as a mysterious character currently only known as 'Halvorson' in Netflix's new 8-part supernatural teen...
- 12/31/2017
- Den of Geek
In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with Stewart Bridle, Channel Manager at the Horror Channel about five of his favourite Great British Horror Films and preview what’s in store for January and February 2018.
28 Days Later (2002) The Descent (2005) Eden Lake (2008) The Dead (2010) Under The Skin (2013)
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28 Days Later (2002) The Descent (2005) Eden Lake (2008) The Dead (2010) Under The Skin (2013)
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- 11/29/2017
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
EuropaCorp
During the 00s, watching a horror movie at your local multiplex was (to paraphrase Julian Rathbone) like wading through a stew with not much meat and occasional pieces of gristle. You kept the faith, soldiering on through movies like Valentine and Halloween: Resurrection, and what was your reward? A remake of Friday The 13th. Thanks, Michael Bay.
Which is not to say the decade was a complete washout at the box office: no world containing The Others, Eden Lake and Trick R Treat is worthy of anybody’s despair. It’s just a shame that audiences seemed to prefer franchise movies.
Then as now, you were better off ignoring the multiplex and focusing your attention on the festival circuit, which had it all: depraved foreign oddities, independently-made gorefests and movies so disturbing that you’d never see them playing against a PG-13 reboot of The Stepfather.
These were the...
During the 00s, watching a horror movie at your local multiplex was (to paraphrase Julian Rathbone) like wading through a stew with not much meat and occasional pieces of gristle. You kept the faith, soldiering on through movies like Valentine and Halloween: Resurrection, and what was your reward? A remake of Friday The 13th. Thanks, Michael Bay.
Which is not to say the decade was a complete washout at the box office: no world containing The Others, Eden Lake and Trick R Treat is worthy of anybody’s despair. It’s just a shame that audiences seemed to prefer franchise movies.
Then as now, you were better off ignoring the multiplex and focusing your attention on the festival circuit, which had it all: depraved foreign oddities, independently-made gorefests and movies so disturbing that you’d never see them playing against a PG-13 reboot of The Stepfather.
These were the...
- 3/16/2016
- by Ian Watson
- Obsessed with Film
It’s cowboys vs the wolfman in this bloody horror-western. Re-imaging the werewolf as the Native Americans’ mythical “skinwalker”, the film sees a stagecoach of passengers, gunslingers and outlaws terrorized by the bloodthirsty beast. With a great cast, fun prosthetic effects, it’s a true horror and weird western gem.
Blood Moon is out on DVD from 5th October 2015, and to celebrate we have a cool horror bundle to giveaway – featuring Blood Moon, Evil Dead, Eden Lake, Wyrmwood, Clown and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.
To win this horror bundle just answer the following question:
Blood Moon is the first western filmed in the UK since which film? Was it:
a) Carry on Cowboy
b) The Man With No Name
c) Alone in the Dark
Email your answer to NerdlyComps@gmail.com, making sure to include your name and address. You can also leave your answer on our Facebook page,...
Blood Moon is out on DVD from 5th October 2015, and to celebrate we have a cool horror bundle to giveaway – featuring Blood Moon, Evil Dead, Eden Lake, Wyrmwood, Clown and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.
To win this horror bundle just answer the following question:
Blood Moon is the first western filmed in the UK since which film? Was it:
a) Carry on Cowboy
b) The Man With No Name
c) Alone in the Dark
Email your answer to NerdlyComps@gmail.com, making sure to include your name and address. You can also leave your answer on our Facebook page,...
- 10/20/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
United Artists
When it comes to British horror films, you’ve hopefully already seen the likes of 28 Days Later, The Descent and Mum & Dad. Maybe you’ve watched The Zombie Diaries, Eden Lake and Panic Button (if you haven’t, you should address that immediately).
As anyone of a certain vintage will inform you, Britain has a rich horror heritage, and there’s much more to the genre than Dracula and Frankenstein. There’s Witchfinder General, with Vincent Price as Matthew Hopkins, a real-life prosecutor of witches, plus The Blood On Satan’s Claw, about 17th Century devil worshippers. And that’s just for starters.
Even if we eschewed Hammer and restricted ourselves to the “old school” horror actors (Price, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasance), the list would include Madhouse, Death Line, Theatre Of Blood and House Of The Long Shadows, among others. Again, not too shabby.
There are, of course,...
When it comes to British horror films, you’ve hopefully already seen the likes of 28 Days Later, The Descent and Mum & Dad. Maybe you’ve watched The Zombie Diaries, Eden Lake and Panic Button (if you haven’t, you should address that immediately).
As anyone of a certain vintage will inform you, Britain has a rich horror heritage, and there’s much more to the genre than Dracula and Frankenstein. There’s Witchfinder General, with Vincent Price as Matthew Hopkins, a real-life prosecutor of witches, plus The Blood On Satan’s Claw, about 17th Century devil worshippers. And that’s just for starters.
Even if we eschewed Hammer and restricted ourselves to the “old school” horror actors (Price, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasance), the list would include Madhouse, Death Line, Theatre Of Blood and House Of The Long Shadows, among others. Again, not too shabby.
There are, of course,...
- 8/10/2015
- by Ian Watson
- Obsessed with Film
Stars: Wrenn Schmidt, Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton, Cody Saintgnue, Michael Chacon, Nick Saso | Written and Directed by Christopher Denham
A camping trip for newlyweds Mike and Wit takes an unexpected turn when they are joined by Mike’s brother, Sean, a former marine. When their tent is stolen overnight and they are left without food or water, the brothers turn on each other. A random act of violence becomes a game of cat and mouse. A weekend in the woods becomes survival of the fittest. A young couple must survive their failing marriage. An Iraq veteran must survive his violent past. And Wit must outsmart the predators hunting their prey.
Right off the bat, the first thing that strikes you about Preservation is the soundtrack. From the opening tune, the soundtrack is very reminiscent of early the work of John Carpenter – very much synth driven with that slightly off-key, off-kilter...
A camping trip for newlyweds Mike and Wit takes an unexpected turn when they are joined by Mike’s brother, Sean, a former marine. When their tent is stolen overnight and they are left without food or water, the brothers turn on each other. A random act of violence becomes a game of cat and mouse. A weekend in the woods becomes survival of the fittest. A young couple must survive their failing marriage. An Iraq veteran must survive his violent past. And Wit must outsmart the predators hunting their prey.
Right off the bat, the first thing that strikes you about Preservation is the soundtrack. From the opening tune, the soundtrack is very reminiscent of early the work of John Carpenter – very much synth driven with that slightly off-key, off-kilter...
- 6/3/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Amityville, the Black Hills of Maryland, Eden Lake… Enfield? Okay, the sleepy north London suburb isn’t as synonymous with horror as those other locales, but residents might beg to differ. The Enfield Haunting, a Sky Living drama capturing the spooky goings-on that took place in the Hodgson household in 1977, will, judging by these first-look stills, be both clammily scary and full of outlandish ‘70s fashions. Any malign presence undeterred by Timothy Spall’s demonic shirt/jacket/tie combo immediately has our fear and respect.Spall stars as Maurice Grosse, a newcomer to the world of paranormal research and a man recovering from recent tragedy. He finds himself drawn in by the strange events of Green Street, EN3. Before you can say “Don’t go there!”, Britain’s answer to Peter Venkman begins investigating the poltergeisty phenomonon, as his wife, Betty (Juliet Stevenson), finds out to her increasing dismay.The...
- 1/30/2015
- EmpireOnline
Alex Hess quivers at the sight of a slasher flick that swaps self-consciousness for societal fears and sadistic gore
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I’ve seen a fair few horror movies in my time. I’ve sat through Hellraiser, haunted houses and Hannibal Lecter – but it was hoodies that scared me the most.
I had no idea what was coming. The first – and only – time I watched Eden Lake was on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer. I was back home during my university holidays and working hard at perfecting the student’s art of lounging about with nowt to do. The football season had just ended and thrown me into my annual existential crisis, the weekends suddenly robbed of all meaning and purpose.
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I’ve seen a fair few horror movies in my time. I’ve sat through Hellraiser, haunted houses and Hannibal Lecter – but it was hoodies that scared me the most.
I had no idea what was coming. The first – and only – time I watched Eden Lake was on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer. I was back home during my university holidays and working hard at perfecting the student’s art of lounging about with nowt to do. The football season had just ended and thrown me into my annual existential crisis, the weekends suddenly robbed of all meaning and purpose.
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- 10/29/2014
- by Alex Hess
- The Guardian - Film News
Alex Hess quivers at the sight of a slasher flick that swaps self-consciousness for societal fears and sadistic gore
More from our Film that frightened me most series
I’ve seen a fair few horror movies in my time. I’ve sat through Hellraiser, haunted houses and Hannibal Lecter – but it was hoodies that scared me the most.
I had no idea what was coming. The first – and only – time I watched Eden Lake was on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer. I was back home during my university holidays and working hard at perfecting the student’s art of lounging about with nowt to do. The football season had just ended and thrown me into my annual existential crisis, the weekends suddenly robbed of all meaning and purpose.
Continue reading...
More from our Film that frightened me most series
I’ve seen a fair few horror movies in my time. I’ve sat through Hellraiser, haunted houses and Hannibal Lecter – but it was hoodies that scared me the most.
I had no idea what was coming. The first – and only – time I watched Eden Lake was on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer. I was back home during my university holidays and working hard at perfecting the student’s art of lounging about with nowt to do. The football season had just ended and thrown me into my annual existential crisis, the weekends suddenly robbed of all meaning and purpose.
Continue reading...
- 10/29/2014
- by Alex Hess
- The Guardian - Film News
Picking the best movies that come out in any given year is no easy feat. For film fans, a quality feature can come out at any time, from any one, and discovering an enjoyable and well-crafted feature is truly a pleasure. As we reach the halfway point of the year, many excellent films have already made their way to theatres, films that are well worth a watch. Below, you shall find the list of the top 30 films of 2014 to date, a list that ranges from science fiction thrillers to period dramas.
A few notes to keep in mind when reading our entry: Certain films from our 2013 list make a second appearance on this list. This is because the movies, while technically released this year, were seen by a select few in time for last year’s list, due to the benefit of film festivals and press screenings. The list itself is in no particular order,...
A few notes to keep in mind when reading our entry: Certain films from our 2013 list make a second appearance on this list. This is because the movies, while technically released this year, were seen by a select few in time for last year’s list, due to the benefit of film festivals and press screenings. The list itself is in no particular order,...
- 7/1/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
UK thriller White Settlers is heading to Cannes, and Notanumber Productions have unveiled their international sales poster for the film, which will be screened to prospective distributors on May 16th.
White Settlers, directed by the Grimmfest film festival's head honcho Simeon Halligan, is a tense, nightmarish tale of a couple who escape from the fast-paced life of London to live in a remote cottage in Scotland. But, as they soon find out, they are far from welcome.
Written by Ian Fenton and starring Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman) and Lee Williams ("The Tudors") with a supporting appearance by Joanne Mitchell (Before Dawn), the film will be sold internationally by Metrodome.
An assured follow-up to Halligan's previous Brit horror Splintered, this new film should go down really well when it hits the festival circuit later this year.
Director Halligan said when providing us with the artwork, "Here's the first look at the...
White Settlers, directed by the Grimmfest film festival's head honcho Simeon Halligan, is a tense, nightmarish tale of a couple who escape from the fast-paced life of London to live in a remote cottage in Scotland. But, as they soon find out, they are far from welcome.
Written by Ian Fenton and starring Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman) and Lee Williams ("The Tudors") with a supporting appearance by Joanne Mitchell (Before Dawn), the film will be sold internationally by Metrodome.
An assured follow-up to Halligan's previous Brit horror Splintered, this new film should go down really well when it hits the festival circuit later this year.
Director Halligan said when providing us with the artwork, "Here's the first look at the...
- 5/1/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
You know when you look at something and you say to yourself... "Self, I know I've seen that before." Such is the case with this latest bit of artwork for the upcoming indie flick Eden Lodge. Check it out below alongside the artwork for 2009's Eden Lake.
Maybe Eden is home to some kind of psycho lurking in the woods vacation package? We'll find out soon enough!
The flick from writer-director Andreas Prodromou is currently making the rounds at this year's Efm.
Eden Lodge stars Aggy Kukawka, Cyd Casados, Ivy Corbin and Ben Gardner Gray. According to the logline:
A young family are stranded at the Eden Lodge. The people they meet are being killed one by one. They must fight to save their marriage, their family, and most of all their lives.
What people? The ones who hide behind trees of course.
More on this one as it comes.
Maybe Eden is home to some kind of psycho lurking in the woods vacation package? We'll find out soon enough!
The flick from writer-director Andreas Prodromou is currently making the rounds at this year's Efm.
Eden Lodge stars Aggy Kukawka, Cyd Casados, Ivy Corbin and Ben Gardner Gray. According to the logline:
A young family are stranded at the Eden Lodge. The people they meet are being killed one by one. They must fight to save their marriage, their family, and most of all their lives.
What people? The ones who hide behind trees of course.
More on this one as it comes.
- 2/10/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
In Fear is one of those the-less-you-know-the-better films. In the spirit of preserving its deeper mysteries, let's just say that it's a film about a boy and a girl driving around the Irish countryside and bad things happen in it. Very bad things. Oh, and it's got a nifty new poster we're delighted to be sharing.What else can be said without spoiling the ride? Well, despite its Irish setting, this taps into that Brit horror tradition of things going seriously pear-shaped out in the boondocks. Recent chillers like Eden Lake and Wake Wood and, of course, classics such as The Wicker Man and Straw Dogs have all taken a similar fish-out-water approach to scaring the wits out of their protagonists. That's where this one starts before it heads off in a very different direction.The film's two leads, Agents Of Shield's Iain De Caestecker and Beautiful Creatures' Alice Englert,...
- 10/3/2013
- EmpireOnline
One thing you can’t expect from a small scale, independent film, is a visual spectacle, given the modest sized budget and means to achieve a distinguishable aesthetic. However what you can hope for, is a good story, as a creative mind and intelligent narrative costs nothing. Yet surprisingly director Ciaran Foy has presented quite the opposite in his feature length debut Citadel, as a film that although bearing a brilliantly dark and gloomy setting, struggles within its mediocre and unfulfilling premise.
Aneurin Barnard takes on the role of Tommy, a single father, suffering with a severe case of agoraphobia following the brutal murder of his wife at the hands of a group of disturbed and savage youths. Confiding in nurse Marie (Wunmi Mosaku) and a renegade priest (James Cosmo), Tommy seeks in overcoming his anxiety disorder, however whenever he leaves his home, he is targeted by the same group of feral kids,...
Aneurin Barnard takes on the role of Tommy, a single father, suffering with a severe case of agoraphobia following the brutal murder of his wife at the hands of a group of disturbed and savage youths. Confiding in nurse Marie (Wunmi Mosaku) and a renegade priest (James Cosmo), Tommy seeks in overcoming his anxiety disorder, however whenever he leaves his home, he is targeted by the same group of feral kids,...
- 7/9/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Currently in production and flying the flag for cream of the crop independent horror is Simeon Halligan's White Settlers, starring genre fave Pollyanna Mcintosh – with whom most of you are more than likely familiar due to her spectacular performance in the titular role in Lucky Mckee's The Woman.
Also starring fellow up-and-coming British talent Lee Williams ("The Tudors") and produced by the people behind Manchester horror festival Grimmfest, not to mention penned by BAFTA nominated writer Ian Fenton, White Settlers looks like it could be the much awaited breath of life that British horror needs.
While working on set, Pollyanna was gracious enough to take some time to speak with us between takes and let us all know what horrors lie in store in this tale of a young couple trying for an idyllic life in the country that soon find themselves besieged by unspeakable terrors...
Aaron Williams...
Also starring fellow up-and-coming British talent Lee Williams ("The Tudors") and produced by the people behind Manchester horror festival Grimmfest, not to mention penned by BAFTA nominated writer Ian Fenton, White Settlers looks like it could be the much awaited breath of life that British horror needs.
While working on set, Pollyanna was gracious enough to take some time to speak with us between takes and let us all know what horrors lie in store in this tale of a young couple trying for an idyllic life in the country that soon find themselves besieged by unspeakable terrors...
Aaron Williams...
- 7/5/2013
- by Aaron Williams
- DreadCentral.com
The Killer Kid sub-genre is a favorite amongst many horror fans. There is something especially amusing about a pint-sized sociopath knocking off victims twice their size. One of the reasons we like the genre may be that we tend to get a slightly better look in to the psyche of killer children than we do in horror films with full grown behemoths like Jason Voorhees or Leatherface who are beyond reach for making much rhyme or reason of their behavior. Today, we are taking a walk down memory lane and revisiting ten of the most shocking on-screen deaths at the hands of killer children. Not all of our selections are shocking because of blood and gore. Some of our choices are shocking because they broke new ground for the time the film was released, or because of the filmmaker’s willingness to explore the taboo around portraying an individual not...
- 5/10/2013
- by Tyler Doupe
- FEARnet
Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson, Amy Shiels | Written and Directed by Ciaran Foy
Horror has always had its finger of the pulse of the nation, be it the nuclear terror of the 50s which led to films such as The Blob or the racial tensions in 60s America that permeated George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The horror genre has always somehow managed to manifest our biggest cultural fears in its tales of ghouls, ghosts and serial killers. Borne out of the generational gap between old and young and the fears arising from the growth a benefit-scrounging underclass, a stereotype perpetuated by the mainstream media seemingly on a daily basis, the latest genre trend is the “hoodie horror”. Having already spawned films such as Harry Brown, Eden Lake and Johannes Roberts’ superb F, the latest entry in this growing sub-genre is Citadel. Part the...
Horror has always had its finger of the pulse of the nation, be it the nuclear terror of the 50s which led to films such as The Blob or the racial tensions in 60s America that permeated George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The horror genre has always somehow managed to manifest our biggest cultural fears in its tales of ghouls, ghosts and serial killers. Borne out of the generational gap between old and young and the fears arising from the growth a benefit-scrounging underclass, a stereotype perpetuated by the mainstream media seemingly on a daily basis, the latest genre trend is the “hoodie horror”. Having already spawned films such as Harry Brown, Eden Lake and Johannes Roberts’ superb F, the latest entry in this growing sub-genre is Citadel. Part the...
- 4/15/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Setting back society by demonizing the working classes all over again is writer/director Jason Ford and his film Community, which is definitely not to be confused with the feel good Us series now in its fourth season. Ford’s film is another attack on a country where the gulf between the haves and have not’s has never been higher with the middle classes all but eradicated.
The problem is if this had come out ten years ago then it would have felt timely and clever but now after the likes of Eden Lake and Them (Ills) it feels like it’s too little too late and in a way it feels cruel and borderline irresponsible and is a little too specific with regards to who it’s targeting.
If Eden Lake was the suburban England Texas Chainsaw Massacre then Community is an Essex set The Hills Have Eyes...
The problem is if this had come out ten years ago then it would have felt timely and clever but now after the likes of Eden Lake and Them (Ills) it feels like it’s too little too late and in a way it feels cruel and borderline irresponsible and is a little too specific with regards to who it’s targeting.
If Eden Lake was the suburban England Texas Chainsaw Massacre then Community is an Essex set The Hills Have Eyes...
- 3/11/2013
- by Chris Holt
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Despite the title and the bumpers used within the trailer itself, the new thriller Black Rock is not some sort of "Lost" spin-off. However, the film from director Katie Aselton does feel like it's some sort of blend of Eden Lake and Last House on the Left as Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and Aselton herself attempt to reconnect on a camping trip to a deserted island only to find it not-so-deserted. Though they get friendly with some men on the island hunting, it's anything but a good time. We missed this at Sundance, but it doesn't look like that will be a regret as this seems generic, even with script help from Mark Duplass. Watch! Here's the first trailer for Katie Aselton's Black Rock, originally from Yahoo: In Black Rock, three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off...
- 11/28/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Citadel
Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson, Amy Shiels | Written and Directed by Ciaran Foy
Horror has always had it’s finger of the pulse of the nation, be it the nuclear terror of the 50s which led to films such as The Blob or the racial tensions in 60s America that permeated George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The horror genre has always somehow managed to manifest our biggest cultural fears in its tales of ghouls, ghosts and serial killers. Borne out of the generational gap between old and young and the fears arising from the growth a benefit-scrounging underclass, a stereotype perpetuated by the mainstream media seemingly on a daily basis, the latest genre trend is the “hoodie horror”. Having already spawned films such as Harry Brown, Eden Lake and Johannes Roberts’ superb F, the latest entry in this growing sub-genre is Citadel.
Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson, Amy Shiels | Written and Directed by Ciaran Foy
Horror has always had it’s finger of the pulse of the nation, be it the nuclear terror of the 50s which led to films such as The Blob or the racial tensions in 60s America that permeated George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The horror genre has always somehow managed to manifest our biggest cultural fears in its tales of ghouls, ghosts and serial killers. Borne out of the generational gap between old and young and the fears arising from the growth a benefit-scrounging underclass, a stereotype perpetuated by the mainstream media seemingly on a daily basis, the latest genre trend is the “hoodie horror”. Having already spawned films such as Harry Brown, Eden Lake and Johannes Roberts’ superb F, the latest entry in this growing sub-genre is Citadel.
- 11/15/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Late-night radio doc, Sonny Blake, is haunted by her past. We know this because Rosewood Lane has great chunks of its svelte 92 minute runtime devoted to telling us so.
She has Daddy-demons and bad-boyfriend demons and, potentially/possibly/maybe, a demon-demon to battle. That’s a lot of demons. Fortunately, life as the 21st Century Jack Killian has armed her well. Doctor Sonny believes there is no such thing as an accident. She tells her callers this – often. And she’s going back to the ‘burbs to confront her past. Nothing scares Sonny – she’s a can-do kind of gal.
Flash-forward a day, and a quick unpack, and Sonny (Rose McGowan) is scared of her scary paperboy (Daniel Ross Owens). We know he is scary because her next door neighbor tells us so. And dogs chase his bike down the street. That the only concrete scary thing about the paperboy,...
She has Daddy-demons and bad-boyfriend demons and, potentially/possibly/maybe, a demon-demon to battle. That’s a lot of demons. Fortunately, life as the 21st Century Jack Killian has armed her well. Doctor Sonny believes there is no such thing as an accident. She tells her callers this – often. And she’s going back to the ‘burbs to confront her past. Nothing scares Sonny – she’s a can-do kind of gal.
Flash-forward a day, and a quick unpack, and Sonny (Rose McGowan) is scared of her scary paperboy (Daniel Ross Owens). We know he is scary because her next door neighbor tells us so. And dogs chase his bike down the street. That the only concrete scary thing about the paperboy,...
- 10/17/2012
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual horror fest Scary Movies returns for its 6th edition featuring a collection of first-time New York City screenings of highly anticipated horror films and thrillers, genre rarities and fan favorites.
Gavin Smith, Film Comment magazine's editor-in-chief and co-curator of Scary Movies, said, "This year's Scary Movies lineup delivers what we feel have become hallmarks of this series: Must-see new films like American Mary, Stitches, and Maniac, some underappreciated gems like The Believers and Eden Lake, and the rediscovery of great work by masters of horror - with Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth and Wes Craven's Deadly Blessings nicely filling the bill."
Scary Movies 6 Films, descriptions and schedule can be found inside...
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Gavin Smith, Film Comment magazine's editor-in-chief and co-curator of Scary Movies, said, "This year's Scary Movies lineup delivers what we feel have become hallmarks of this series: Must-see new films like American Mary, Stitches, and Maniac, some underappreciated gems like The Believers and Eden Lake, and the rediscovery of great work by masters of horror - with Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth and Wes Craven's Deadly Blessings nicely filling the bill."
Scary Movies 6 Films, descriptions and schedule can be found inside...
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- 10/12/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Jack O’Connell ("Skins," "Eden Lake") is attached to star in the new prison drama "Starred Up" at Sigma Films, Film4 and Creative Scotland says Screen Daily.
The story deals with a 17-year-old boy who meets his father for the first time since he was a toddler when he is transferred from a young offender’s institute to an adult prison where his dad is serving time.
"Perfect Sense" and "Young Adam" director David Mackenzie helms the project from a script by poet and psychologist Jonathan Asser. Shooting kicks off early 2013 in the Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.
The story deals with a 17-year-old boy who meets his father for the first time since he was a toddler when he is transferred from a young offender’s institute to an adult prison where his dad is serving time.
"Perfect Sense" and "Young Adam" director David Mackenzie helms the project from a script by poet and psychologist Jonathan Asser. Shooting kicks off early 2013 in the Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast.
- 10/8/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Today is the day that both the press screenings and public ticket booking system goes live. If you want to book tickets to the festival, you can click right here to start booking. Our Lff coverage is already well underway and you can see all the posts relating to the 2012 Lff right here. We thought it may be nice to let you know what we’re interested in seeing so below is a list from some of the chaps who let you know what they want to see and why.
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Dave Roper
My own film tastes tend to be too populist for me to have much in the way of insight into the majority of films that do the festival circuit. Having looked at the list of what’s showing at the Lff, there seems to be a lot there that is likely to be very interesting, but the one...
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Dave Roper
My own film tastes tend to be too populist for me to have much in the way of insight into the majority of films that do the festival circuit. Having looked at the list of what’s showing at the Lff, there seems to be a lot there that is likely to be very interesting, but the one...
- 9/24/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
British action-thriller Tower Block made its UK debut as the closing film of the Film4 FrightFest over the weekend, and went down brilliantly.
We caught the first poster back in July, and with its release here now less than a month away, Lionsgate have released the excellent first trailer.
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. When Jimmy is brutally murdered by two hooded figures, Becky, Kurtis, Neville and the other residents of the Serenity House tower block are witnesses to the killing but, fearing retribution, are too scared to give detectives any information and the police investigation is going nowhere.
One year later, someone has decided to take justice into their own hands. Picked off one by one, the tenants of Serenity House are under threat from a mystery sniper who has set deadly traps throughout the building keeping them prisoners in their own homes.
Unsure of why they have been targeted,...
We caught the first poster back in July, and with its release here now less than a month away, Lionsgate have released the excellent first trailer.
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. When Jimmy is brutally murdered by two hooded figures, Becky, Kurtis, Neville and the other residents of the Serenity House tower block are witnesses to the killing but, fearing retribution, are too scared to give detectives any information and the police investigation is going nowhere.
One year later, someone has decided to take justice into their own hands. Picked off one by one, the tenants of Serenity House are under threat from a mystery sniper who has set deadly traps throughout the building keeping them prisoners in their own homes.
Unsure of why they have been targeted,...
- 8/29/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If there’s one genre we do better than most in the UK, it’s the thriller.
The good thing about them: You don’t need $200m. to make them. (There aren’t any bad things about them.)
Tower Block hits the big screen this September, starring the brilliant Sheridan Smith (Two Pints of Lager), Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake, the upcoming 300: Battle of Artemisia), Russell Tovey (Being Human), and newcomer Kane Robinson, and we’ve been sent the first UK quad poster.
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. When Jimmy is brutally murdered by two hooded figures, Becky, Kurtis, Neville and the other residents of the Serenity House tower block are witnesses to the killing but, fearing retribution, are too scared to give detectives any information and the police investigation is going nowhere.
One year later, someone has decided to take justice into their own hands.
The good thing about them: You don’t need $200m. to make them. (There aren’t any bad things about them.)
Tower Block hits the big screen this September, starring the brilliant Sheridan Smith (Two Pints of Lager), Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake, the upcoming 300: Battle of Artemisia), Russell Tovey (Being Human), and newcomer Kane Robinson, and we’ve been sent the first UK quad poster.
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. When Jimmy is brutally murdered by two hooded figures, Becky, Kurtis, Neville and the other residents of the Serenity House tower block are witnesses to the killing but, fearing retribution, are too scared to give detectives any information and the police investigation is going nowhere.
One year later, someone has decided to take justice into their own hands.
- 7/13/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Low-budget horror flick Elfie Hopkins has little stomach for the terrifying potential of its flesh-eating subject matter
Brit horror flick Elfie Hopkins has found little favour but it does have one thing going for it. Cannibals. Anthropophagy in a present-day Welsh village may seem an impossibly unlikely premise. Not so. The practice is far from confined to primitive tribes in remote regions. It's alive and well in places at least as civilised as the principality. Last month, police in European Russia arrested a 24-year-old who admitted eating people. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a 35-year-old stabbed a drinking companion, cooked and ate part of the body and sold some of the remainder at a local market as pork. Matej Curko was shot dead by Slovakian police after eating perhaps dozens of victims. In 2009, gangsters in Madrid ate someone they'd murdered.
Cannibals aren't just crazed outsiders. In 1981, Issei Sagawa,...
Brit horror flick Elfie Hopkins has found little favour but it does have one thing going for it. Cannibals. Anthropophagy in a present-day Welsh village may seem an impossibly unlikely premise. Not so. The practice is far from confined to primitive tribes in remote regions. It's alive and well in places at least as civilised as the principality. Last month, police in European Russia arrested a 24-year-old who admitted eating people. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a 35-year-old stabbed a drinking companion, cooked and ate part of the body and sold some of the remainder at a local market as pork. Matej Curko was shot dead by Slovakian police after eating perhaps dozens of victims. In 2009, gangsters in Madrid ate someone they'd murdered.
Cannibals aren't just crazed outsiders. In 1981, Issei Sagawa,...
- 4/24/2012
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
Jack O’Connell ("Skins," "Eden Lake") and Alice Englert ("Singularity") are in final negotiations to join the supernatural drama "Beautiful Creatures" at Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures says the trades.
Richard Lagravanese penned the adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's novel which centers on two high school teens who must confront a curse that has haunted the girl's family for generations.
The pair join the already cast Viola Davis in the project which Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Erwin Stoff and Molly Smith are producing.
Richard Lagravanese penned the adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's novel which centers on two high school teens who must confront a curse that has haunted the girl's family for generations.
The pair join the already cast Viola Davis in the project which Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Erwin Stoff and Molly Smith are producing.
- 2/8/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Both last month and this month are shaping up to prove that this time of the year doesn’t only serve as a dumping ground for Mark Wahlberg action movies and another indistinguishable Katherine Heigl horror movie. So far we’re off to a great start for 2012, and I sure hope it continues that way. With another Heigl rom-com nowhere in sight, I believe we’re all clear for now. Honorable Mentions: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (got terrible buzz out of Butt-numb-a-thon, but it’s still got Ciarán Hinds, one of the best actors around, playing the devil) and Chronicle (apparently it’s better than it looks). Wanderlust Opens February 24th. The trailer for Wanderlust was decent enough to not totally damper my excitement for another Paul Rudd and David Wain collaboration. Wet Hot American Summer and Role Models are two of the better comedies of the past decade, and...
- 2/1/2012
- by Jack Giroux
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
A second painted poster for the Daniel Radcliffe spooker The Woman In Black was released today. Love the vintage approach Hammer is taking with this picture! The Woman In Black opens on February 3rd.
In The Woman In Black, Radcliffe plays a lawyer making his way to a village that turns out to be inhabited by more than local flesh and blood. The film is directed by James (Eden Lake) Watkins, and also stars Ciaran (There Will Be Blood) Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger (V For Vendetta) Allum, and Sophie (The Dark) Stuckey.
Take a look at our previous coverage, including trailers, posters, and more.
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In The Woman In Black, Radcliffe plays a lawyer making his way to a village that turns out to be inhabited by more than local flesh and blood. The film is directed by James (Eden Lake) Watkins, and also stars Ciaran (There Will Be Blood) Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger (V For Vendetta) Allum, and Sophie (The Dark) Stuckey.
Take a look at our previous coverage, including trailers, posters, and more.
Click on the thumbnail to see full sized image.
- 1/26/2012
- by Justin
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
28Dla's friends over at Quiet Earth have debuted a second trailer for Community courtesy of High Point Media. In the second clip there is more horror as a hybrid brand of marijuana changes parents into the lackadaisical and their children into killers. The latest movies from the United Kingdom that involve horror have tackled themes of youth run rampant. Eden Lake (2008), Harry Brown (2009) and the recent Attack the Block (2011) show the ills of urban living and the difficult choices therein.
Also, Community stars Elliott Jordan who set Cinemas in Bolton ablaze with another horror effort titled The Toybox. The Toybox was also shot in the United Kingdom and instead of drug dealing hoodies this film dealt with witches and ancient myths. Jordan continues to be one of the standouts in modern British horror with Darren Kent (The Incident) and Terry Bird also starring in Community. Enjoy the second trailer for the film inside.
Also, Community stars Elliott Jordan who set Cinemas in Bolton ablaze with another horror effort titled The Toybox. The Toybox was also shot in the United Kingdom and instead of drug dealing hoodies this film dealt with witches and ancient myths. Jordan continues to be one of the standouts in modern British horror with Darren Kent (The Incident) and Terry Bird also starring in Community. Enjoy the second trailer for the film inside.
- 1/21/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The Woman In Black star Daniel Radcliffe is joined by a few friends in this new foreign poster. Further light shed on this dark release.
in The Woman In Black, Radcliffe plays a lawyer making his way to a village that turns out to be inhabited by more than local flesh and blood. The film is directed by James (Eden Lake) Watkins, and also stars Ciaran (There Will Be Blood) Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger (V For Vendetta) Allum, and Sophie (The Dark) Stuckey.
Take a look at our previous coverage, including trailers, posters, and more.
in The Woman In Black, Radcliffe plays a lawyer making his way to a village that turns out to be inhabited by more than local flesh and blood. The film is directed by James (Eden Lake) Watkins, and also stars Ciaran (There Will Be Blood) Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger (V For Vendetta) Allum, and Sophie (The Dark) Stuckey.
Take a look at our previous coverage, including trailers, posters, and more.
- 1/20/2012
- by Justin
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The Woman In Black, landing on February 3rd from Hammer Films, stars Daniel Radcliffe as a lawyer making his way to a village that turns out to be inhabited by more than local flesh and blood. The film is directed by James (Eden Lake) Watkins, and also stars Ciaran (There Will Be Blood) Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger (V For Vendetta) Allum, and Sophie (The Dark) Stuckey.
The latest clip lends a preview of the moody tension to come, as Radcliffe’s “Arthur Kipps” finds he is not alone in the bedroom.
Take a look at our previous coverage, including trailers, posters, and more.
The latest clip lends a preview of the moody tension to come, as Radcliffe’s “Arthur Kipps” finds he is not alone in the bedroom.
Take a look at our previous coverage, including trailers, posters, and more.
- 1/18/2012
- by Justin
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The Woman In Black, landing on February 3rd from Hammer Films, stars Daniel Radcliffe as a lawyer making his way to a village that turns out to be inhabited by more than local flesh and blood. The film is directed by James (Eden Lake) Watkins, and also stars Ciaran (There Will Be Blood) Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger (V For Vendetta) Allum, and Sophie (The Dark) Stuckey.
Take a look at stills and trailers we have shared, and check out the UK theater poster below.
(Image courtesy Hammer Films)
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Take a look at stills and trailers we have shared, and check out the UK theater poster below.
(Image courtesy Hammer Films)
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- 1/11/2012
- by Justin
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The franchises are over. What's in store for the liberated stars of these blockbuster series?
Harry Potter has bitten the dust; the Twilight Saga is staggering to a close. While the film industry gets used to the idea that two of its biggest cash cows will no longer be delivering, 2012 marks the moment that a clutch of very rich, very famous actors, all in their late teens and early 20s, will be let loose on the cinematic world, to run their careers as they like.
Three of the most bankable names on the planet are Potter graduates: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint. Another three are from Twilight: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. The Potter kids have been locked into their series for longer, and have had to negotiate a very public adolescence.
Radcliffe may be a lantern-jawed 22-year-old leading man, and Watson a 21-year-old fashion maven,...
Harry Potter has bitten the dust; the Twilight Saga is staggering to a close. While the film industry gets used to the idea that two of its biggest cash cows will no longer be delivering, 2012 marks the moment that a clutch of very rich, very famous actors, all in their late teens and early 20s, will be let loose on the cinematic world, to run their careers as they like.
Three of the most bankable names on the planet are Potter graduates: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint. Another three are from Twilight: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. The Potter kids have been locked into their series for longer, and have had to negotiate a very public adolescence.
Radcliffe may be a lantern-jawed 22-year-old leading man, and Watson a 21-year-old fashion maven,...
- 1/3/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
2012 is really shaping up to be a stellar year in cinema, and near the top of our list sits The Woman In Black, landing on February 3rd from Hammer Films. Daniel Radcliffe sheds his robe in favor of more dour threads in the James (Eden Lake) Watkins-directed spookshow about a lawyer (Radcliffe) making his way to a village that turns out to be inhabited by more than local flesh and blood. The film also stars Ciaran (There Will Be Blood) Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger (V For Vendetta) Allum, and Sophie (The Dark) Stuckey.
Take a look at some creepy new stills sure to get the blood pumping, and pique your interest in what looks to be the rejuvenated studio’s most ambitiously, deliciously, dark contemporary outing yet.
(All images courtesy Hammer Films)...
Take a look at some creepy new stills sure to get the blood pumping, and pique your interest in what looks to be the rejuvenated studio’s most ambitiously, deliciously, dark contemporary outing yet.
(All images courtesy Hammer Films)...
- 12/27/2011
- by Justin
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Director: Robert Hall.
Writers: Robert Hall and Kevin Bocarde.
Cast: Nick Principe, and Angelina Armani.
Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 is the sequel to the 2009 film Laid to Rest. Both films were directed by special effects artist Robert Hall and this latest title sees Chromeskull back from near death. This latest film picked up right where the last one left off, with a few new characters introduced. Most notably, Brian Austin Green plays a central role in this film along with Danielle Harris. Harris has been in a number of thrillers recently e.g. Hatchet II, Stake Land and she seems to be comfortable with her title of Scream Queen. Recently released on At&T's video-on-demand service, Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 again shows the make up skills of Hall and his company Almost Human, Inc. (Anything Horror). The body count is high, but so is the excitement.
Hall is...
Writers: Robert Hall and Kevin Bocarde.
Cast: Nick Principe, and Angelina Armani.
Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 is the sequel to the 2009 film Laid to Rest. Both films were directed by special effects artist Robert Hall and this latest title sees Chromeskull back from near death. This latest film picked up right where the last one left off, with a few new characters introduced. Most notably, Brian Austin Green plays a central role in this film along with Danielle Harris. Harris has been in a number of thrillers recently e.g. Hatchet II, Stake Land and she seems to be comfortable with her title of Scream Queen. Recently released on At&T's video-on-demand service, Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 again shows the make up skills of Hall and his company Almost Human, Inc. (Anything Horror). The body count is high, but so is the excitement.
Hall is...
- 9/1/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
What can be said of the British horror film in recent years? Resigned largely to straight-to-video doom, those few lucky films deemed good enough to make it to a theatrical release have typically been shot with a low budget and big ideas; observe recent hits like Monsters and Eden Lake, mindful iterations of thorough genre works, shot on a shoestring, but successful because of their self-assured, go-for-broke attitude. Kill List, the sophomore feature from Ben Wheatley – whose ultra low-budget debut Down Terrace was a major hit on the festival circuit – joins the ranks of the aforementioned films as an extremely confident, ecnomical, well-crafted horror feature that in the least deserves your attention and just might be audacious enough to kickstart a New Wave of British horror.
Essentially three films for the price of one, Kill List begins as an authentic kitchen sink drama, with ex-soldier and...
What can be said of the British horror film in recent years? Resigned largely to straight-to-video doom, those few lucky films deemed good enough to make it to a theatrical release have typically been shot with a low budget and big ideas; observe recent hits like Monsters and Eden Lake, mindful iterations of thorough genre works, shot on a shoestring, but successful because of their self-assured, go-for-broke attitude. Kill List, the sophomore feature from Ben Wheatley – whose ultra low-budget debut Down Terrace was a major hit on the festival circuit – joins the ranks of the aforementioned films as an extremely confident, ecnomical, well-crafted horror feature that in the least deserves your attention and just might be audacious enough to kickstart a New Wave of British horror.
Essentially three films for the price of one, Kill List begins as an authentic kitchen sink drama, with ex-soldier and...
- 8/31/2011
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
The ninth film in the Hellraiser film series is set to move to DVD shelves October 18th and now the first trailer for this feature is available. Actor Doug Bradley has played Pinhead, the central antagonist, in the previous eight films, but he declined to participate in this latest film, titled Hellraiser: Revelations, after reading the script (Bradley). The short shoot time of two weeks also signals a possible rush to complete the film by Puzzlebox Films, which has no other titles attached to its name. Horror fans and Hellraiser fans can take a look at the clip here, which involves a late night at a bar, a bum, a box, and a bumbling line or two.
As well, Dimension Extreme will distribute this title. Other films released from this American film distributor include several sequels such as Feast II: Sloppy Seconds, Feast III: The Happy Finish, Pulse 2: Afterlife,...
As well, Dimension Extreme will distribute this title. Other films released from this American film distributor include several sequels such as Feast II: Sloppy Seconds, Feast III: The Happy Finish, Pulse 2: Afterlife,...
- 8/20/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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