Tag: John Carpenter
THE THING Restricted Trailer Debuts
Universal and IGN have released a new restricted trailer for the sci-fi thriller The Thing.
Set in the days prior to the events of John Carpenter‘s 1982 classic, the prequel centers on a team of Norwegian scientists working in Antarctica. After the group unearths a deadly alien creature from a ship buried in ice, they must band together to survive.
The Thing Trailer and 6 New Photos!
Universal Pictures has released the full-length trailer for Matthis van Heijningen Jr.’s “The Thing“, a prequel to the John Carpeter horror classic.
Hit the jump to read film’s synopsis and check out the trailer and new photos.
Brand New THE THING Poster
Check out the new poster for the upcoming horror movie The Thing, which is being described as a prelude to John Carpenter‘s classic 1982 remake.
Hit the jump to read film’s synopsis and check out the poster.
New The Ward Poster and Release Date
Echo Lake Productions and North by Northwest Entertainment just released a new poster for the upcoming John Carpenter’s horror / thriller film “The Ward, starring Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, and Mamie Gummer.
Heard plays a young woman who wakes up in a mental institution with no memory of who she is or why she is there, only to find herself terrorised by a ghost. Gummer plays a troubled patient who becomes an ally to Heard’s character.
Matt Reeves to Write/Direct Thriller Based on Sci-fi Short Story 8 O’Clock in the Morning
Director Matt Reeves has signed with Universal to direct the film based on Ray Nelson‘s 1963 short story 8 O’Clock In The Morning, which was the foundation for John Carpenter‘s 1988 film They Live, one of the best straight to tape B movies of all time.
The story focuses on a nameless drifter who turns up in LA, and thanks to the discovery of a pair of magic sunglasses, he discovers that advertisements are sending out rather unsubtle subliminal messages, and perhaps more worryingly, that aliens are walking among us in disguise.
Action Movie DMZ Finds Writers
The writing team of Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabrizio have been hired by producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to pen the script for an action thriller called DMZ.
The film will be a type of political action movie, set in the tense sector between North and South Korea. The picture also has an added aspect: a task force sent into the zone finds out something rather than the influence of a senseless father-son dictator team.
Story centers on a U.S. satellite crashed in the Korean Demilitarized Zone and a dissimilar international troop of soldiers who unite to get back the satellite even though the imminent risk of unfavorable North Korean soldiers. The unlike heroes soon learn that there is something much more lethal in the DMZ than Korean soldiers.
Rob Zombie to Direct The Lords of Salem This Spring
Rob Zombie will be sitting in the director’s seat for The Lords of Salem, and a planed date to begin shooting is early this spring.
This is the third title from the Haunted Movies banner (the first, a house thriller Insidious will be released this April and the second one is a still shooting Sci-fi The Bay), a partnership between the U.K.’s Alliance Films and Paranormal Activity producers Jason Blum, Oren Peli and Steven Schneider. Announcement lined up for the European Film Market in Berlin.
The thriller takes place in a present-day Salem, Massachusetts, where the residents are disturbed by a satanic gathering of 300-year old witches. Zombie will write the script while on his upcoming concert tour, and will film next year. He originally marked the Salem several years ago, but started again when he changed his plan to direct a remake of The Blob. He made the deal with Haunted Films because he liked the autonomy.
What excited me most was Jason saying, you can have total control over the script, casting and final cut. I said I’m in.”
The Ward Trailer and Poster
Echo Lake Productions and North by Northwest Entertainment have released the the first trailer and poster for the upcoming horror film The Ward, the first John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, The Mouth of Madness) -directed film to hit movie theaters since 2001’s Ghosts Of Mars!
Synopsis: John Carpenter’s The Ward, a psychological thriller about a young woman locked in a mysterious mental institution in the 1960s, marks iconic horror master John Carpenter’s first feature film in over seven years.
Kristen (Amber Heard), a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised, cut, drugged, and held against her will in a remote ward of a psychiatric hospital. She is completely disoriented, with no idea why she was brought to this place and no memory of her life before being admitted. All she knows is that she isn’t safe.
The Thing Prequel to Film in March
Universal Pictures’ prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 cult classic thriller “The Thing” is due to begin filming March and continue filming through June.
Netherlands producer Matthias van Heijningen Jr. will direct from a script by Ronald D. Moore (the TV remake of Battlestar Galactica) and Eric Heisserer (the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street). No casting announcements have appeared, we will bring you more info on this film as it becomes available!
