Hammer Films is still alive and kicking after more than thirty years of hibernation, thanks to the considerable success of its Chloe Moretz-starring vampire remake Let Me In and, more recently, the early 1900s ghost story The Woman in Black, which starred Daniel Radcliffe and surprised at the box office with a massive $127 million haul (Hammer's largest ever). Now, the studio is gearing up for its next act with another period frightfest, The Quiet Ones.
Every adventurous college student is familiar with the walk of shame, to the point where stumbling back to one's dorm in disheveled clothing after a night on the town is considered a rite of passage by many. However, most one night stands don't result in as much trouble as Elizabeth Banks's does, in the appropriately titled Walk of Shame. A first trailer for the film, which you can check out below, gives us a peek at her truly disastrous morning after:
As the deliciously twisted American Horror Story: Coven enters its endgame with just two episodes left, showrunner Ryan Murphy is already teasing where his Emmy-winning horror anthology series will travel in its fourth season, which was officially ordered by FX last November. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Murphy revealed that the next, currently untitled series will take place in the year 1950.
After James Wan's haunted-house frightfest The Conjuring broke out this past summer, both at the box office and with critics (I ranked it #9 on my list of the year's best), New Line quickly realized that they had a potential horror franchise on their hands. Not content just to put a straightforward sequel into development, the studio also announced last November that it was moving forward with Annabelle, a spinoff based around a possessed porcelain doll. Now, we have news that the studio has locked some actors into the two leading roles.
The good news just keeps coming for streaming giant Netflix. Hot on the heels of Sunday's Golden Globes, which saw Robin Wright take home as a statuette for her lead role as scheming politician's wife Claire Underwood in the online streaming service's original series House of Cards, it has been announced that Netflix will expand its already-growing original programming slate with Marco Polo, a series based around the famed explorer.
If any of you have ever seen a Friday the 13th movie, it's common knowledge that Jason Voorhees, the hockey mask-wearing, machete-wielding psycho at the series' center, never stays dead for long. Now, after stewing for a few years as a result of conflicts between Warner Bros. and Paramount (which were resolved last year when WB gave up Friday the 13th in order to co-produce Christopher Nolan's Interstellar), the landmark horror franchise is gearing up for another installment, but that doesn't mean that Jason is out of the woods just yet.
Continuing his rise to the top of the Hollywood A-list, Guardians of the Galaxy actor Chris Pratt has landed the leading role in Universal's upcoming series restarter Jurassic World, according to a tweet from Rush director Ron Howard, who's also the father of Bryce Dallas Howard, another star set to appear in the film.
Premium cable has long been a safe haven for envelope-pushing dramas and comedies. Networks like HBO, Showtime and Cinemax have built an entire brand out of programming that includes explicit sexuality, graphic violence and strong language. Surprisingly, horror has never been a huge genre for any of the premium networks - only HBO's True Blood and Showtime's Dexter come to mind, unless you're counting Netflix, in which case Hemlock Grove would warrant a mention. Luckily, Skyfall writer John Logan is gearing up to inject Showtime with a new jolt of terrifying television, with his new period horror show Penny Dreadful.
Four years after FOX's real-time espionage thriller 24 went off the air in 2010, the network is bringing Counter Terrorism Unit agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) back for the aptly-named 24: Live Another Day, a 12-episode event series that finds the character attempting to thwart a terrorist attack in London. Now, Dexter alumna Yvonne Strahovski has signed on for the series for a key leading role.
Settling in for Fruitvale Station, I already knew where Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan)'s story was headed. Grant's final moments, in the first hours of 2009, facedown on cold pavement with a bullet from the gun of a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer lodged in his back, have been immortalized through the media. The shooting sparked protests across the city of Oakland and made headlines worldwide.
