“Poltergeist” Remake

According to The Hollywood Reporter, MGM hired screenwriting team Stiles White and Juliet Snowden (”Boogeymen”) to write the screenplay for their “Poltergeist” remake.

White and Snowden penned “The Birds” remake produced by Universal, and also “Knowing,” which stars Nicolas Cage.

Variety reports the studio is currently looking for a director for the remake.

The classic horror flick was released in 1982, original story centers on a family who move into a new suburban home, not realizing it’s been built on an Indian burial ground. They begin to be terrorized by ghosts shortly after.

The film was directed by Tobe Hooper from a script co-written by Steven Spielberg and miraculously skirted an R rating despite its children-in-constant-peril, toy clown-strangling, face-peeling, skeleton-swimming medley of horrors. The MGM/UA release grossed $122 million worldwide and earned Oscar nominations for its ILM-designed visual effects, sound effects and score. Read the rest of this entry

Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in “Antichrist”

Willem Dafoe has signed to star with Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist.” WIlem gone from Jesus Christ (The Last Temptation Of Christ) to Antichrist in just twenty years !

Variety reports the film was written by von Trier and Anders Thomas Jensen.

The film is described as a psychological thriller that slowly turns into a horror film and follows the story of a couple that move to an isolated cabin in the woods shortly after the death of their only child.

“Antichrist” is set to start production this month with shooting taking place in Germany. It is being produced by Meta Louise Foldager. It has an $11 million budget.

“Mirrors” Featurette and New Photos

Fox has released a behind-the-scenes video featurette from the upcoming supernatural horror film “Mirrors“, starring Kiefer Sutherland (TV’s 24) and directed by French helmer Alexandre Aja (High Tension).

In “Mirrors,” Sutherland will play an ex-cop who works security at a mall and discovers something awry in the mirrors of a department store. He tries to discover the origin of the evil. In addition to Sutherland, the film also stars Paula Patton, who will play the guard’s soon-to-be ex-wife, a coroner who has a hard time believing her husband’s claims, at least initially.

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Hellraiser Remake?

Another reboot, remake or re-something is imagined for the Hellraiser series, reports Shock Til You Drop. The Weinstein Company have hired two new screenwriters, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, to adapt a new big screen series for the classic horror franchise. Production will begin shortly planned for an early 2009 release.

Plot Summary: First released in 1987, Hellraiser centers on a man who finds he is given more than he bargains for when he solves the puzzle of the Lament Configuration - a doorway to hell. But his ex-lover has found a way of bringing him back, and his niece, Kirsty Lawrence, finds herself bargaining with the Cenobites, angels to some, demons to others, whose greatest pleasure is the greatest pain.

Clive Barker Presents Hellraiser will hit theaters Jan. 9, 2009.

First Stills From ‘Standard Operating Procedure’

Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America’s image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence? Of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aberrant behaviour of a few “bad apples”?

We set out to examine the context of these photographs. Why were they taken? What was happening outside the frame? We talked directly to the soldiers who took the photographs and who were in the photographs. Who are these people? What were they thinking? Over two years of investigation, we amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs.

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‘The Dark Lurking’ Movie Trailer

Something has gone terribly wrong at Outpost 30, a secret international research facility some five hundred meters beneath the snow blown arctic wilderness. All communications are gone, all means of escape destroyed and an extremely dangerous horde of ancient creatures is on the loose after a doorway to an unspeakable evil has been unleashed.

Eight survivors, two former research patients, three SOCOM Troops, two research technicians and a cleaner barricade themselves inside a remote area of the facility with little food, almost no ammunition and little hope of rescue. Their one possible escape route is through thirteen levels of terror that will lead them to the surface. And one of them is not who they seem to be, the darkness itself which has taken human form.

‘The Dark Lurking‘ Trailer

After jump you may watch ‘The Dark Lurking Weapons Locker‘ 

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Now the ‘Circque du Freak’ will, er, Walk Hard!

Salma Hayek will join funny man John C.Reilly in the horror-drama “Cirque du Freak”.

Paul Weitz (“American Pie”) is directing the film, which is based on the bestselling 12-book children’s series by Darren Shan, saysVariety.

Reilly will play a vampire who drafts a 14-year-old to serve as his assistant. The youth is turned into a half-vampire and becomes the catalyst in a battle between vampires and the rival Vampanese. Hayek will play Madame Truska, the bearded lady.