A kind of funny thing happened today, as I come across a title I thought looked rather interesting, Diary of a Vampire Kid, so I decided to check out the trailer, to see what it could be.
As I watched the trailer, it slowly stood clear to me that something wasn’t right. It more looked like a rather cozy and fun comedy, about an ordinary kid, rather than any kind of vampire movie.
Then, I read the title again and it was clear that I must have been stricken with a mild form of dyslexia or some kind of horror damage, since the actual title of the movie was, Diary of a Wimpy Kid; an adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s comic about a wise-cracking junior high school student and his life in middle school.
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In Primal, Josh Reed shows us how brutal and forceful our basic roots can be, literally.
The story plays out in the outback of Australia, where Anja (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) and her friends have followed the young anthropology student, Dace (Wil Traval), in his search for a legendary 12,000 years old rock painting.
The reason for its fame is that no one has seen it, besides a pioneer who wrote about it in his diary, shortly before he slaughtered his family, in a state of complete madness.
The group gets very excited as they do find the painting, but it all turns to the worse, as Mel (Krew Boylan), gets feverish after a bit of skinny dipping, in a pool of stagnant water, near the painting.
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In After.Life, which will creep into the theaters next month on April 9, we’ll see Liam Neeson play Eliot, a funeral director, whom takes care of Anna (Christina Ricci), a young girl who has tragically died in a car accident.
The only problem is, despite of feeling confused and terrified, Anna does feel very much alive and no matter how much Eliot tries to convince her that she’s just in the transition to the afterlife, she doesn’t believe him.
Eliot tells her that he’s able to communicate with the dead and that he’s the only person that can help her now. Anna, trapped inside the funeral home, must conquer her deepest fears and accept that she’s in fact dead.
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Milla Jovovich posted some attention-grabbing news, a few days ago, at her Twitter feed regarding the whereabouts of the next installment of Resident Evil: Afterlife.
She wrote that the teaser trailer for RE4 would be in front of the Nightmare on Elm Street!
I believe that this news alone makes it worth dragging your butt down to the cinema on April 30, as Freddy once again will slash and hack his way through another bunch of ill-fated collage kids, or what do you think?
In Resident Evil: Afterlife, Alice continues her fight against her archenemy the Umbrella Corporation. However, this time she gets some unexpected help from an old friend. Alice and her friend heads to Los Angeles, which they are told to harbor a safe haven, from the undead. However, as they arrive, they soon realize that they are about to step into a deadly trap.
We’ll be able to see how Alice and her friend will cope with that on September 30, this year, but until then we can feast our eyes with the upcoming teaser.
by Ken on February 25, 2010
I found a great clip today that I wanted to share with you, which shows what kind of impact editing, together with the right music, can have to a trailer or movie.
David Baxter, a Staffordshire University student, made this clip for an editing exercise. The goal of the exercise was to alter the genre of an existing movie, by editing it, so that it seemed to be in a completely different genre.
I think that David did an awesome and entertaining work, and if you pretend that you haven’t seen or know the genre of Mrs. Doubtfire; it’s pretty hard to imagine that it’s something else than a thriller, isn’t it?
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by Ken on February 24, 2010
The latest news from Samuel Bayer’s revamp of A Nightmare on Elm Street comes in the form of a titillating poster, featuring Freddy. I think the poster is rather good and I especially like the vicious smile on Freddy’s deformed lips.
Now, the only question that remains, before the premiere on April 30; will Bayer and Jackie Earle Haley manage to top Wes Cravens original?
I don’t think that Haley will let us down, but will Bayer be able to create the same surrealistic and frightful atmosphere that Craven gave us, or will it feel plastic and artificial, as the latest Friday the 13 did?
I really hope that the team behind this chose the Elm Street franchise because they had genuine interest of its core and not just because the title alone.
Anyway, I guess that we’ll be giving some of the answers in the upcoming trailer. However, I will have a hard time staying away from the theaters, so I will certainly end up watching this, regardless. How about you, what’s your feeling regarding this revamp?
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by Ken on February 23, 2010
In September last year, I wrote that Saw director Bousman had started filming his remake of Kaufman‘s classic, Mother’s Day and now he has posted some updates about it, on his blog.
The biggest news is that the movie will probably not come out on Mother’s Day, as it was planned from the beginning, but judging from what he has to say about it, I’m sure it will be worth waiting for.
Among other interesting things, he says that he is very proud of the movie and that every actor and every frame of it is first-class. It seems that his biggest problem is to get it all down to a reasonable length, so that we don’t get 6 hours of this intense story, about a distorted mother and her two sons.
Bousman also revealed that it is the characters and the story that are in the focus of the movie, and that the violence and the gore comes in second. However, he did assure that Mother’s Day is a highly intense and violent, it’s just lurking in the background.
He also talks about Rebecca De Mornay’s performance, which he assures us will be something out of the ordinary, which will make her part in, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, look like Disney in comparison.
As for the release, Bousman says that they haven’t screened the movie for any distributor, but I guess that finding one will not be that hard and hopefully we will see a forceful trailer as soon as they have one.
You can read the whole post about Mother’s Day here, where you’ll also find a couple of interesting shoots from it as well.
by Ken on February 22, 2010
I find the story behind Colin Ferrell’s upcoming fantasy drama, Ondine, to be surprisingly interesting, much thanks to the trailer, which have a rather addictive score attached to it.
I also like the tagline that reads, “The Truth Is Not What You Know. It’s What You Believe”.
Of course, the presently high rating over at IMDB (8.0) also helped to ensnare my attention, a bit.
The story revolves around the fisherman Syraceuse (Ferrell) who one day finds a beautiful woman, caught in his net. Speculation about her origins begins to rise as she transforms and touches the lives of Syraceuse and the people in the small fisher town.
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by Ken on February 13, 2010
An interesting featurette for, Clash of the Titans, has emerged on the net. This clip goes into a little more detail about the plot, characters and creatures behind.
Among other things, we hear Sam Worthington Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson talk about their characters, Perseus, Zeus and Hades and which part they play in this magnificent story.
We also get a short glimpse of Medusa in her cave, as well as a closer look of The Kraken, which is huge in this movie, I can tell you.
Go have a look at this featurette, as I think it provides a tasty morsel, of what we can expect on April 2, when this one will clash into our cinemas.
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by Ken on February 12, 2010
Today, I thought that I should start a post series about the horror movies that both amazed and scared me senseless, as I grew up and got me hooked to this stunning genre.
The first movie that I remember is, The Fifth Floor from 1978, with Bo Hopkins and Diane Hull in the leads. I recall that it prevented me to sleep, visit the basement or the shed on our backyard, for a very long time.
The plot revolves around a young woman, named Kelly McIntyre (Dianne Hull) who collapses at a bar.
Unaware that Kelly has been poisoned, in an attempt to cover up a murder, her doctor and boyfriend assumes that she’s crazy and admits her to the fifth floor, an asylum with heavily disturb patients and questionable nurturers.
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