Early signs indicate that this October's American Horror Story: Freak Show, the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy's acclaimed FX anthology series, may be the show's strangest, creepiest and downright freakiest to date. In the mix this year are conjoined twins, a clown killer named Twisty, a "dark tormentor" looking for revenge on one of the performers, a collector of freaks and even the world's actual smallest woman. It's going to be one hell of a season, that's for sure.
This October, Warner Bros. will unveil Annabelle, a prequel to The Conjuring that tells the horrifying story of the titular doll before she ever came into the possession of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Seeing as C0njuring cinematographer John R. Leonetti is sitting behind the camera here, working from a script by Gary Dauberman (who did uncredited rewrites on A Nightmare on Elm Street), we're expecting great and terrifying things from this flick.
Daniel Radcliffe starrer The Woman in Black rescued the long-dormant Hammer Film Productions with a stellar $20.9 million opening weekend back in 2012, which more than earned the period chiller a sequel. Now, whether or not fans actually wanted The Woman in Black: Angel of Death is up for discussion, but the original movie's key role in kickstarting a new era of Hammer Horror can't be overstated, so it's only to be expected that the studio would try to turn the flick into a franchise.
His directing career may have taken a serious blow with the travesty that was Winter's Tale, but Akiva Goldsman is still killing it in Hollywood as a writer and producer. He recently did a rewrite of the next Divergent film, titled Insurgent, and upcoming projects that he's producing include Guy Ritchie's King Arthur series starter and a planned follow-up to I Am Legend. Now, it appears that Goldsman is going back to the horror genre (he exec-produced the first three Paranormal Activity entries) for his next gig - rewriting Paramount's The Ring 3D.
Is Katie Holmes the most unlikely vigilante yet? In Miss Meadows, which premiered at Tribeca earlier this year and will be arriving in theaters this November, the Batman Begins actress steps up to fight some crime herself - albeit while clad in tap shoes and garishly flowery dresses. The first trailer for the pic paints it as a bizarre cross between Mary Poppins and Hobo with a Shotgun - though the thriller doesn't totally appear to have mastered that tonally bizarre combo.
Is there any rhyme or reason to the filmography of Nicolas Cage? We know the actor is talented, but some of the projects he's been appearing in lately are just such bizarre choices that it almost makes you forget he has an Oscar stashed away somewhere. Case in point: Outcast, a battle epic set in ancient China that seems notable only in that it will give the actor more material to add to the next clip reel of him losing his shit.
We're still very much in the midst of August, but Universal is already taking steps to ensure that Ouija will be a familiar name by the time October rolls around. A new TV spot for the upcoming horror title has landed online, tightening footage we already saw in the first theatrical preview into a concise, if less scary teaser.
A film adaptation of Capcom's popular survival horror video game franchise Dead Rising is shambling steadily forward, with news that Legendary Pictures’ new Legendary Digital Media division has set Leprechaun: Origins director Zach Lipovsky to helm the film, which will exclusively debut on Crackle before hitting Blu-Ray, TV and VOD services.
Nine years after the first Sin City materialized at the multiplex like a breath of unexpected fresh air, what reasons do directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have for finally returning to their smoke-filled, black-and-white den of iniquity? If I wanted to pithily sum up what this follow-up brings to the table, I could do it in just two words: Eva Green. Her sexy, scheming Ava Lord is a truly hypnotic creation, and alone worth delving back into Rodriguez and Miller's noir-drenched world. Excitingly, though, there's more to Sin City: A Dame To Kill For than just the devious femme fatale of its title.
Perhaps fittingly for a film about a comatose teen, If I Stay has only the faintest of narrative pulses. But it wouldn't have mattered even if the movie had suddenly flatlined, the screen abruptly cutting to a permanent black, in front of my very eyes - its dismayingly lazy writing and clinically detached direction had caused my eyes to glaze over and my mind to wander before even half an hour had passed.
