Archive for May, 2008
Perkins 14 Cast Revealed
Today After Dark Film’s Perkins’ 14 have announced who will be playing the lead and supporting roles in the film. Playing the male lead is Josh Davidson who will be seen in Gary Ugarek’s upcoming film Deadlands 2: Trapped. The male supporting role goes to Trey Farley. The female lead and supporting roles go to Katherine Pawlak and Heather Tocquigny respectfully.
Perkins’ 14 will be directed by Craig Singer (Dark Ride) and will be a part of the After Dark Horrorfest 2008. The film is about one Mr. Perkins whom as a child witnesses the brutal murder of his parents. When he reaches adulthood he kidnaps 14 people to build his own personal army to defend himself against the killers who took his parents. However his paranoid delusions drive him further into insanity and he unleashes his army on the small town of Brownsville.
Outpost Trailer
Set in war-torn Eastern Europe, a band of battle-worn mercenaries undertake a dangerous mission into a no-man’s land at the behest of a mysterious businessman. When they locate and secure a disused military bunker, they also discover a terrifying secret that has laid buried for half a century–and which they’ll have to fight to survive.
Cirque du Freak Enlists Dafoe
Today STYD has learned that yet another big name has been thrown into the fold. One of my personal favorite actors, Willem Dafoe. He has proved himself a great actor in everything he does whether it is a bit role in a small indie film or a huge blockbuster like Spider-Man. In this film Dafoe will play Gavner Purl, a vampire. Oddly enough he is pretty familiar with playing vampires having done so in Daybreakers and Shadow of the Vampire.
Cirque Du Freak tells the frightening tale of a boy who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.
Criterion Rereleases Salò Full Details
The folks over at The Criterion Collection has made some of the finest DVDs of foreign and domestic classics. The average price tag of about $40-$50 is certainly worth it. For any horror fan, their DVD of Cronenberg’s Videodrome is definitely worth a buy. About two years ago, Criterion announced it would rerelease the controversial film Salò, Or The 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Pablo Pasolini. Criterion once was distributing the film, but due to some legal stuff they lost the rights and have now gained them back.
Satana Cast in El Superbeasto
Rob Zombie has just announced from his official blog that Tura Satana will reprise her role as Varla in The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. Varla is the role that Satana is most well known for in Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!. So how could you possibly make this film any cooler?
Seeley Talks Re-Animator Hack/Slash Crossover
Awhile back we mentioned that Devils Due was planning on doing a crossover with their comic franchise Hack/Slash and Re-Animator’s Herbert West. Today Newsarama spoke with writer/artist on the comic, Tim Seeley, about how Herbert West was going to fit into the world of Cassie Hack.
Rogue Trailer
An American travel writer working on a piece in the Australian outback puts him on the menu for an oversized crocodile who stalks the scribe on a river cruise.
Black House Review
It’s been a while since I last reviewed an Asian film, mostly because there’s just so many out there now, and it’s hard to keep up with’em. When I first started gettin’ into Asian horror, I had to get my flicks imported, as they weren’t easily accessible in the US. Now, thanks to companies like Genius Entertainment, there’s a new one on DVD each week. I suppose that’s a good thing (imports are usually around $30 bucks), but that doesn’t necessarily mean everything distributed here is worth a watch.
Midnight Meat Train Trailer
When Leon Kaufman’s latest body of work–a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants–earns the struggling photographer interest from prominent art gallerist Susan Hoff, she propels him to get grittier and show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space. Believing he’s finally on track for success, Leon’s obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany, the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters–ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable. With his concerned girlfriend Maya fearing for his life, Leon’s relentless fascination with Mahogany lures him further and further into the bowels of the subways and ultimately into an abyss of pure evil–inadvertently pulling Maya right along with him.
Ghost Town Review
Here’s a movie that I remember passing up numerous times while renting flicks growing up. I’m not quite sure why I never rented it. So, now that I’ve seen it, I can say that I probably wouldn’t have appreciated it as much growing up as I do now. The horror and western genres haven’t been combined much over the years since it’s hard to actually make a decent story come out of the two, but occasionally there’s a film that gets it right. Ghost Town is more of a western than anything, since these undead gunslingers use their guns and aren’t trying to take a bite out of you. Nope, aside from the fact that they’re all dead, this is pretty much a western.
