TRIANGLE details, HALLOWEEN/HOUSE dates and more DVD/Blu-ray news
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:40 PM | From Fangoria
First Look has set a February 2 street date for TRIANGLE, the latest film from CREEP and SEVERANCE director Christopher Smith. The movie will be issued on DVD in both a limited edition with lenticular packaging (left image below) and a standard edition (right image below, which will also appear on a Blu-ray release).
TRIANGLE stars 30 DAYS OF NIGHTs Melissa George (pictured) as a woman who goes on a yachting trip with a group of friends that is interrupted by a storm in the Bermuda Triangle. They are forced to board a passing ocean liner which appears to be desertedbut of course, its actually inhabited by someone who starts bumping the group off. The movie will be presented in widescreen with 5.1 Digital Surround sound, plus cast and crew interviews. Retail price is $28.98 for each DVD and $29.98 for the Blu-ray; see our advance review of TRIANGLE here.
MPI Media Group will issue Ti Wests superior chiller THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL February 2 on DVD and Blu-ray, while Rob Zombies HALLOWEEN II hits DVD and Blu-ray January 12. Details and cover art on both these titles should arrive soon. Meanwhile, Liberation Entertainment bumped its special edition of Mark Rosmans original THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (see details here) all the way to January 12, while Redemption USA sent along word that it has shifted the releases of I BOUGHT A VAMPIRE MOTORCYCLE and BREAKING NIKKI (see details on those here) as well as THE FIEND to early 2010. Specific dates should be announced shortly. In addition, Mondo Macabro has revealed that its next horror title will be a double-feature disc of movies by Belgian director Jean-Louis Van Belle: the 1971 vampire thriller THE SADIST HAS RED TEETH and 1969s FORBIDDEN PARIS. The filmmaker is working with Mondo on this features, approving the transfers and recording an interview. More details are forthcoming, and in the meantime you can see some screen caps here.
A pair of features by David DeCoteau are coming next February from here! and E1 Entertainment. THE BROTHERHOOD V: ALUMNI, the latest in DeCoteaus long-running series, is about the perpetrators of a prank gone fatally wrong being lured to a reunion where theyre stalked and slain by a vengeful killer, and streets Feb. 9. THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM is the filmmakers take on the Edgar Allan Poe tale, in which students volunteer for experiments in eliminating pain, which turn out to inflict it instead (see previous item here), and arrives Feb. 23. Both movies will be presented in anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks, plus behind-the-scenes footage. Retail price is $24.98 each.
Fox Home Entertainment issued updated cover art for its home releases of JENNIFERS BODY (for which we reported the details here), and last week, New Line Entertainment announced that THE FINAL DESTINATION will hit disc January 5 through Warner Home Video. The fourth in the series, which outgrossed all prior installments at the box office, will be presented in both 2-D and 3-D 2.4:1 widescreen on DVD and Blu-ray (two pairs of glasses included) with Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS-HD Master soundtracks respectively. There will be additional scenes on both discs, and the Blu-ray also includes:
Two alternate endings Body Count: The Deaths of THE FINAL DESTINATION featurette Previsualization and storyboards Digital copy of the movie
Retail price is $28.98 for the DVD, $35.99 for the Blu-ray.
Blue Underground will issue George A. Romeros original THE CRAZIES on Blu-ray Feb. 23, just in time to tie in with Overture Films Breck Eisner-directed remake. The brand new 1.66:1 transfer in full 1080p HD resolution will be accompanied by the extras from the previous DVD:
Audio commentary by Romero The Cult Film Legacy of Lynn Lowry interview featurette Theatrical trailers TV spots
Variety reports that New Films has picked up worldwide rights to the teen-torture flick CHAIN LETTER. The company plans a U.S. release for the movie next year, and sees it as the potential launch of a screen franchise.
Produced by the SAW masterminds at Twisted Pictures and directed by Deon Taylor from a script he wrote with Diana Erwin and Michael J. Pagan, CHAIN LETTER is about a group of high-schoolers who receive the titular messages electronically, and soon learn that failure to pass them on means painful death at the hands of hulking psychopath the Chain Man (THE HILLS HAVE EYES Michael Bailey Smith). The cast also includes the TWILIGHT films Nikki Reed, the SAW sequels Betsy Russell, DEADGIRLs Noah Segan and genre stalwarts Brad Dourif and Keith David; TOOLBOX MURDERS Dean Jones created the makeup FX.
Absurda and Industrial Entertainment have announced that their film MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE has set a debut theatrical-release date. The movie marks the first collaboration between cinematic mavericks Werner Herzog and David Lynch, who directed and executive-produced respectively.
MY SON, MY SON will open Friday, December 11 at New York Citys IFC Center (323 6th Avenue), with playdates in other cities to follow. Though word from early screenings is that its not really a horror film, it does deal with rather twisted subject mattera man (BUGs Michael Shannon) who murders his mother with a sword while acting out a Sophocles playand features a genre-centric cast including ANTICHRISTs Willem Dafoe, SISTERS Chloe Sevigny, Udo Kier (who discussed the movie with us here) and Brad Dourif. You can see the movies official website, with a trailer and more photos, here.
Brad Dourif Returns as Chucky for Childs Play Remake
MistressofHorror emailed in to share word that Brad Dourif will once again return for Childs Play and voice the killer doll Chucky. The creator told AICN;
who would you get that’s better? I mean with Chucky so much of it… and David [Kirschner, the producer] and I talk about this a lot, that because he’s a puppet, there’s an aspect of him that feels like he’s an animate...
Plummer, Dourif and Amick join the cast of PRIEST
Friday, September 18, 2009 2:49 PM | From GeekTyrant
Legion director Scott Stewart announced through his Twitter Page that Christopher Plummer and character actor Brad Dourif(Halloween 1 & 2) have joined the cast for his upcoming post-apocalyptic thriller, Priest. Variety also reported yesterday that Californication’s Mädchen Amick will also star.
The trio joins Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Stephen Moyer and Lily Collins.
An adaptation [...]
Amick, Dourif, and Plummer Lose Their Religion for Priest
Three more actors are losing their religion for Scott Stewart adaptation of the graphic novel, ‘Priest.’ According to Variety, Madchen Amick, last seen on the sinking ship that was “My Own Worst Enemy,” has jumped on board the film. She will be playing the mother of the girl Paul Bettany’s vampire hunting clergyman sets out to find.
Also coming aboard are Brad Dourif and Christopher Plummer. This bit of news comes straight from Stewart’s mouthTwitter page. Stewart only divulged that the two were joining the cast. He gave no indication what roles they would be playing.
The three join a cast list…
Priest adds three
Friday, September 18, 2009 10:56 AM | From Joblo.Com
Three new actors have been added to Paul Bettany's PRIEST graphic novel adaptation. They include LOTR and DEADWOOD's Brad Dourif, Dr. Parnassus himself, Christopher Plummer and TV actress Madchen Amick, who’s been in everything from "Californication" to “Twin Peaks.”
These new additions round out an already impressive cast, which besides Bettany as the titular priest in search...
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Three More Join Priest
Friday, September 18, 2009 6:00 AM | From FilmShaft
Madchen Amick, Christopher Plummer and Brad Dourif have joined the ...
Priest Adds Three: Christopher Plummer, Brad Dourif and Madchen Amick
Between the fact that he founded effects house The Orphanage, the work that outfit subsequently produced and what I've seen of his directorial debut Legion, I'm ready to see more work from Scott Stewart. If it is forward-thinking stuff, great. If it's good, solid genre filmmaking, great. We always want every new guy behind the camera to be some sort of genius, but I'm always happy to see someone making genre films that can work as entertainment. That may be Stwewart's role, and if he transcends it, wonderful. If nothing else, he's been roping in some great actors, and his adaptation of the Tokyo Pop graphic novel Priest just got three wonderful new faces.
I'd already seen Variety's report about Madchen Amick joining the cast (which is headed by Legion star Paul Bettany) when Devin at CHUD alerted me to the fact that Stewart is on Twitter, where he was the ...
Christopher Plummer & Others Join the Growing Cast of Priest
Although I'm not excited for former visual effects artist Scott Stewart's directorial debut, Legion, I am actually looking forward to his follow-up, Priest. Somehow Stewart lined-up two features back-to-back, both starring Paul Bettany, both using lots of visual effects. The former is an original story, however, the latter is based on a Japanese manga. We've been hearing casting announcements for a while, but one big name has popped up today that I just can't pass up. According to Stewart's own Twitter, the legendary Christopher Plummer is joining the cast along with Brad Dourif and hottie Madchen Amick.
In addition to those three, and Paul Bettany who plays the lead, the cast for Priest includes Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily Collins, Stephen Moyer, and Karl Urban as the villain. We don't know what roles Plummer or Dourif will be playing, but Variety does tell us who Amick will be playing. The "Californication" ...
First Look has set a February 2 street date for TRIANGLE, the latest film from CREEP and SEVERANCE director Christopher Smith. The movie will be issued on DVD in both a limited edition with lenticular packaging (left image below) and a standard edition (right image below, which will also appear on a Blu-ray release).
Retail price is $28.98 for the DVD, $35.99 for the Blu-ray.
Variety reports that New Films has picked up worldwide rights to the teen-torture flick CHAIN LETTER. The company plans a U.S. release for the movie next year, and sees it as the potential launch of a screen franchise.
Absurda and Industrial Entertainment have announced that their film MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE has set a debut theatrical-release date. The movie marks the first collaboration between cinematic mavericks Werner Herzog and David Lynch, who directed and executive-produced respectively.
Three new actors have been added to Paul Bettany's PRIEST graphic novel adaptation. They include LOTR and DEADWOOD's Brad Dourif, Dr. Parnassus himself, Christopher Plummer and TV actress Madchen Amick, who’s been in everything from "Californication" to “Twin Peaks.”
These new additions round out an already impressive cast, which besides Bettany as the titular priest in search...
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