Terror Tidbits

Posted by bob in Films, News on April 23rd, 2008

The wonderful chameleon of an actor Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) will star in The Darkest Evil, based on H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”. Shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana the film is from director Leigh Scott’s (Beast of Bray Road) Bullet Films. Griff Furst (Ghost Image) and Sarah Lieving (The Apocalypse) also star.

With the growth of the DTV (direct to video) market, it’s little surprise the studios are ravaging their vaults to see who and what might make for a good (and cheap). Sony apparently is exploring a revival of the Universal Soldier. Once a 1992 vehicle for action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, there were two theatrical films plus 1998’s Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business which was a telefilm using leftover pieces. A full-fledged third installment will likely bring Van Damme back from the brink of obscurity. He’ll once more become the super-soldier who violates his programming and goes on the run from his masters.

The Uninvited, DreamWorks’ remake of A Tale of Two Sisters, has been announced as coming January 30, 2009. The film stars Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge 2) and Emily Browning (Darkness Falls) as sisters who come home after their released from a mental institution. A wicked stepmother and a ghost make their time at home less than relaxing.

Happy Birthday to Me is joining the remake parade. Originally released in 1981, it starred Melissa Sue Anderson (Little House on the Prairie) and was directed b J. Lee Thomson (Messenger of Death). No details on the new version but we have to ask, when will the madness stop?