Terror Tidbits
Posted by dominie in Events, Films, News on September 2nd, 2008
Last week we announced that MGM confirmed the greenlight on the remake of Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg’s Poltergiest. The new film, written by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, will be helmed by Vadim Perelman who “delved into similar dynamics in his debut, 2003’s House of Sand and Fog and last year’s The Life Before Her Eyes,” reveals The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety announced that Steven Shell’s Mum & Dad, a British contemporary horror made under Film London’s Microwave scheme, has just been picked up by Revolver Entertainment for UK, Ireland, and US distribution. The synopsis: “Mum and Dad, and their ‘adopted’ children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport’s soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity. Imprisoned in a suburban House of Horrors and designated a ‘Mummy’s Girl’, Lena’s only options appear to be to become part of the family - and join them in their insanity - or die.”
The new poster for His Name Was Jason, a documentary film by Dan Ferrands (Crystal Lake Memories) celebrating the legacy of Friday the 13th has just been revealed. More pictures and details can be found on their MySpace page. Again, the documentary will premiere on Starz! in February 2009 and Anchor Bay will release the DVD soon thereafter.
Exclusive from Bloody-Disgusting, J.T. Petty’s The Burrowers trailer is now available here. The western horror thriller tells the tale of a band of brave men who embark on a crusade to find the killers responsible for a local family massacre—only to discover an evil that lurks below is waiting to feed on them. Doug Hutchison, Clancy Brown, William Mapother, and Sean Patrick Thomas star in the film. The film will premiere during Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
