Here is the Trailer for Vanishing on 7th Street.

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And one for Troll Hunter.

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Survival of the Dead follows a group of people as they escape to Plum Island, off the coast of Delaware – a place they think is safe, where they hope to survive the war between the living and the dead, and try to find a cure to bring their undead relatives back into their natural state.

My first disappointment with Let The Right One In has nothing to do with Alfredson’s film, but rather a remake, titled Let Me In, that Overture Films decided they had the right to do. And secondly, now Magnolia has released a US DVD and Blu-ray version of the film completely lost in translation. Click over to Icons of Fright for the skinny. Snapshots are even included, pouring salt on the wound. And yes, it is horrifying.

John Malkovich, Ron Perlman, Sean Pertwee, Devon Aoki, and Shauna MacDonald star. The plot details have been provided below.

Plot Summary: Earth’s natural resources have been exhausted by mankind and battle rages between the soldiers of four leading Corporations: the Capitol, Bauhaus, Mishima and Imperial.

Mitch Hunter and Nathan Rooker, battle hardened Capitol soldiers, fight a desperate battle against a Bauhaus advance. When an errant shell destroys an ancient stone seal, they find themselves facing a new enemy: hideous necrmutants, with boneblades that grow from their arms. Mithc barely manages to escape. Nathan does not.

The mutants multiply by millions and they destroy all before them. The Corporations’ leader, Constantine, is about to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents to their desperate fate, when he is approached by Brother Samuel, leader of the Brotherhood, and ancient monastic order

Samuel is keep of the Chronicles, a book that prophesies both the rise of the Mutants, and the ‘Deliverer’ that will destroy them. Samuel believes he is that Deliverer destined to journey deep into the earth and destroy the source of the mutant scourge.

He manages to recruit Mitch, along with a handful of like-minded soldiers: Steiner, honor bound Bauhaus officer; sword wielding Severian; street fighter El Jesus; fearless beauty Duval; and stoic warrior Juba.

“Mutant Chronicles” follows Mitch and Samuel’s mission to venture into the very heart of the darkness in an attempt to save the planet from marauding hordes of deathless mutants.

Starring Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, and Tony Curran (Midnight Meat Train), Shuttle will take you for a ride you never wished for. Attempting to return home from a girls-only weekend vacation, Jules and Mel find themselves stranded at the airport, late on a rain-drenched night. Hoping to just get home safe and sound, they board an airport shuttle with a helpful, and seemingly friendly driver behind the wheel, but the peaceful trip turns out to be their worst nightmare.

Starring Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, and Pell James, Surveillance follows an FBI agent on a mission to track down a serial killer with the help of his would-be-victims, all of whom have very different stories of their experiences.

The film has received marks as “one of the most compelling denouements of any genre film” according to one reviewer for Bloody Disgusting. “It’s tragic and brutal and for eagle-eyed fans it is satisfying in that the film hints and pokes and prods the audience toward the conclusion… I don’t think genre fans can ask for more than that when they sit down in a darkened theater, board the Shuttle, and demand to be transported into a terrifying new world.”

Written and directed by Anderson, the film is a story about two friends, “Jules (Cameron Goodman) and Mel (Peyton List) [who] return late at night from a ladies-only vacation. They find themselves at the airport on a rainy night that seems darker than usual. Wanting to get home but with limited options, they board an airport shuttle with a driver (Tony Curran), hoping for a safe and short ride.”

You can head over to Lightning Entertainment to watch the trailer.

Mutant Chronicles is set in the year 2707, on an unrecognizable Earth where a war is raging between four giant corporations who control the planet as they battle over the planet’s dwindling resources. This war is soon rendered irrelevant when an errant bomb shatters an ancient buried seal, releasing a horrific mutant army from its prison deep within the earth. As the mutant scourge threatens human extinction, a squad of ragged soldiers, led by Mitch Hunter (Thomas Jane), descends into the earth in a last ditch effort to destroy the mutants and save mankind.

“Simon Hunter is an exciting cinematic talent who has created a provocative world for Mutant Chronicles,” said producer Edward R. Pressman. “I see in Simon the rare visionary quality that was evident to me when working with Sam Raimi, Alex Proyas, and Brian De Palma on their early films. Mutant Chronicles is just the beginning for him.”

As part of the Wagner/Cuban Companies’ Ultra VOD program, the film will premiere on VOD on Friday, March 27th, 2009, followed by a theatrical release in select cities on Friday, April 24th.

If you are expecting a high tech fast and furious time chase Jet Li fight a la The One or a more sophisticated H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper in Time After Time… this is different.

Don’t get me wrong; different in a good way. In his feature long directorial debut, Nacho Vigalondo doesn’t waste any time on the technology, on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’; the only thing that matters is the people. What an average man would be if he discovered he is part of a twisted time-travel plot that he himself created. What the different ‘instances’ of him are doing at any given time. And how can he fix it? With low budget but high creativity, Vigalondo was able to create not only a believable story but also a compassionate character.

Hector, played by the confused but relentless Karra Eleyade, tries everything in order to bring his life back to some glimce of normalcy, but in doing so he needs to force the events to happen and rely on hope that the result is a positive outcome. The movie soon resignates like a Matrioshka doll, with the same events nested one into each other, forcing the protagonist towards unthinkable decisions and… of course… crimes. The mechanism is twisted and halfway through the story, the plot is artifically forced in order to have all the pieces fit together.

Timecrimes provides for an enjoyable rollercoster ride, however, something that cannot escape the expert eye of a Star Trek fan with an unsurpassed knowledge in temporal anomalies is this movie sheds no new light on the matter of time travel.

–Written by Simone Bartesaghi

Starring Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian Morris, Jay Taylor and Jaime Winstone, the story features a group of young people on a boat, doing what comes naturally: sex, drugs and rock & roll.  On the other hand, things go awry when manslaughter, cover-ups and murder enter the picture.