Second Trailer for Season Of The Witch [-->full article]
Nov 20, 2009
Fandango has just debuted a brand new trailer for the supernatural thriller Season Of The Witch starring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen Graham and Christopher Lee, directed by Dominic Sena. Check it out here or watch it below! In Season Of The Witch , Nicolas Cage stars as a 14th century Crusader who returns with his comrade (Ron Perlman) to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery th...

More Hints at Valentine in Resident Evil: Afterlife [-->full article]
Nov 20, 2009
This week, Shock Till You Drop spoke with producer Don Carmody about a number of projects he has in the pipeline including Resident Evil: Afterlife , the fourth film in Screen Gems' franchise. Carmody co-produced the first entry, as well as Apocalypse . He had to bow out of Extinction for another obligation, but he's hopeful Afterlife will pave the way for a bright future with more Evil films. "Part two made more than one, three made more than two and we're hoping four will make more...

Blood Creek DVD Art Washes In [-->full article]
Nov 20, 2009
One of 2009's more bizarre offerings, Blood Creek , is making its way to DVD on January 19. Honestly, I enjoyed the hell out of this film, which was directed by Joel Schumacher and stars Dominic Purcell, Henry Cavill and, briefly, Michael Fassbender. It's a mix of action, the occult, Nazi mayhem, but it's also a creature feature (with zombie f**kin' horses and dogs) and a siege picture in some respects with a dose of EC Comics atmosphere. Totally unexpected. Give it a chance and you might d...

Wolf Man Legacy DVD Art Revised [-->full article]
Nov 20, 2009
It appears the light of the full moon has affected something other than Larry Talbot. Universal redesigned the DVD package art for their upcoming Wolf Man Legacy disc. That's the final version below; compare it to this design here . After a slight delay, the studio is dropping the film on shelves February 2. Yep, just in time for the new Wolfman . Click on the aforementioned link for a rundown of special features.

Watch a Descent: Part 2 TV Spot [-->full article]
Nov 20, 2009
Here in the States, the holidays bring us... New Moon . Hurray. (Feel my sarcasm.) In England, however, they get The Descent: Part 2 , the sequel to Neil Marshall's creature feature which opens in theaters on December 4. Below you'll find a television spot that has hit the airwaves there. Click here for a full trailer and stills. Check back soon for our coverage of a pretty cool publicity outing our reporter went on in anticipation of the film!

The Making of The Wolfman Featurette [-->full article]
Nov 20, 2009
A two-and-a-half minute behind-the-scenes featurette has premiered online for Universal Pictures' The Wolfman . Watch the cast - including Benicio Del Toro, who also produces - talk about the making of this remake which is set to hit theaters on February 12. Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving co-star. For more, visit this spot for trailers, photos and posters!

Mos Def, Bill Moseley Join Living Dead Voice Cast [-->full article]
Nov 20, 2009
A few months back, Danielle Harris revealed via Twitter that she was providing the voice of Barbra in Zebediah de Soto's CG-animated prequel Night of the Living Dead: Origins , which will fill in the backgrounds of some of the characters from Romero's zombie classic. Earlier tonight, ShockTillYouDrop.com had a fun interview with the actress on the set of her new movie, Jim Mickle and Nick Amici's Stake Land (more on that soon), and not only did we learn that she has finished her voicewor...

Indie Flick Butchered Lands Distribution [-->full article]
Nov 19, 2009
Just last week, we mentioned the movie Butchered in our Indie Horror Corner Roundup column right here . Now comes official word of US distribution. Eleven Bravo Productions is proud to announce Anthem Pictures (who also put out 100 Tears , Dead Air and Zombie Dearest ) has acquired the domestic distribution rights to 11B's first feature film, Butchered . The DVD streets on February 9th, 2010. In Butchered , a group of teens take a small charter boat to an isolated island for one l...

Spielberg and King Team For Under The Dome TV Series [-->full article]
Nov 19, 2009
Variety reports that Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are joining forces to develop a limited series based on King's just-released new supernatural thriller Under the Dome . DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable. (King mentioned HBO in our previous news post here .) Spielberg, King and Stacey Snider will exec produce along with DreamWorks TV chiefs Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Under The Dome revolves around the drama that u...

Writer Tapped For Underworld 4 [-->full article]
Nov 19, 2009
The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog reports that John Hlavin (who worked on FX's The Shield ) has been hired to write the script for Underworld 4 for Screen Gems/Lakeshore Entertainment. Here are the facts we know - Len Wiseman, who directed the first two films in the vampire-vs.-werewolf saga, is producing with Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg and Richard Wright of Lakeshore. No director is attached as of yet. Kate Beckinsale, who starred in the first two movies, has not cut a deal to r...

Where is Dark Castle's John Cusack Thriller The Factory ? [-->full article]
Nov 19, 2009
Dark Castle's serial killer thriller The Factory is supposed to be a grim piece of work. It was written by Paul Leyden, an Australian actor-producer-director, and Morgan O'Neill. O'Neill also directed placing John Cusack into the role of a Buffalo, New York cop who's on the trail of an area serial killer. His case takes a turn for the worse when his daughter ( Nights in Rodanthe 's Mae Whitman) is kidnapped by the maniac forcing him to delve into some emotionally dark places to get her bac...

20 Minutes of Legion Seen: What Did We Think? [-->full article]
Nov 19, 2009
This week, Shock Till You Drop visited the Sony Pictures lot. Our reason was two-fold. We sat in for a day's-worth of shooting on Priest - an action-horror and sci-fi creation from director Scott Stewart starring Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Maggie Q, Stephen Moyer and Christopher Plummer. And, we got a chance to watch 20 minutes of Legion , Stewart's apocalyptic thriller, again starring Bettany, not as an ass-kicking man of the cloth but the archangel Michael. It's Michael's mission in the...

EXCL: Producer Updates Us on Silent Hill 2 [-->full article]
Nov 19, 2009
Silent Hill 2 's future was looking pretty foggy. After grossing nearly $100 million in worldwide box office receipts, there was the question of whether a follow-up to Christophe Gans' 2006 adaptation of the Silent Hill video game was even going to happen. After all, it was met with a mixed audience reaction. Some were dissatisfied with the story; others appreciated the familiar villains and brutal violence. Then, in September, Davis Films officially announced Roger Avary ( Pulp Fiction ...

Universal DVD Courts She-Wolf of London [-->full article]
Nov 19, 2009
Just in time for Universal's February release of The Wolfman , the studio's DVD division is prepping the release of the complete season of She-Wolf of London which ran in 1990. Beautiful American grad student Randi Wallace (Kate Hodge, "Fringe") never suspected that traveling to England to study with handsome mythology professor Ian Matheson (Neil Dickson, Beowulf ) would change her life forever. While conducting research on the misty and mysterious English moors, Randi is attacked and bit...

Railroad Jack Takes 'Em Down One By One [-->full article]
Nov 19, 2009
Railroad Jack is the name of the horror baddie in One By One , a new teen horror picture coming from Kilo Entertainment. Douglas Tait, Tony Todd, Sally Kirkland, Alexandra Holder, Amber Zion, Hope James, Grace Jiyoung Park, Jay Gillespie, Richardson Chery, Andrew Olson, Tyler Wolfe, Jemal David and Christopher Raff star. Directed by Kimberly Seilhamer, the film, according to THR, "follows a villain named Railroad Jack the Reaper and his carnival of destruction called Death's Door. When a bus ...