31 Days of Halloween: Nightmare City
31 Days of Halloween
Nightmare City (1980)
Directed by: Umberto Lenzi
Written by: Antonio Cesare Corti, Luis María Delgado and Piero Regnoli
Starring: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter and Maria...
31 Days of Halloween: Red State
31 Days of Halloween
Red State (2011)
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Written by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo and John Goodman
Religion can be scary. In that sense, Kevin...
31 Days of Halloween: The Beyond
31 Days of Halloween
The Beyond (1981)
Directed by: Lucio Fulci
Written by: Dardano Sacchetti
Starring: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck and Cinzia Monreale
Ah, Fulci gore. Just what I...
31 Days of Halloween: Scream 4
31 Days of Halloween
Scream 4 (2011)
Directed by: Wes Craven
Written by: Kevin Williamson
Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette
What's happened to Wes Craven?!
The...
31 Days of Halloween: Paranormal Activity 2
31 Days of Halloween
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Directed by: Tod Williams
Written by: Michael R. Perry, Christopher B. Landon
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat and Molly Ephraim
The...
I’m really looking forward to District 9. This is just the teaser, make sure you view the short film that inspired the feature length movie: Alive in Joburg.
Plot Synopsis:
District 9 depicts a fictional world where extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa.
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release: August 14, 2009
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Writer: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Cast: William Allen Young, Jason Cope, Sharlto Copley, Robert Hobbs, Kenneth Nkosi
The trailer for District 9 will be attached to Wolverine in theaters. I’ll be posting it on the site later today, but for now you can see it via Slashfilm. (Or watch the trailer in HD on Apple.com).
Above is the short film, Alive in Joburg directed by Neill Blomkamp. This inspired the full length feature District 9. It’s pretty amazing. Check it out.
2009 looks like a pretty good year for Science Fiction! District 9 will hit theaters on August 14th 2009.
I am a sucker for Science Fiction. Sam Rockwell looks like he’s giving the best performance of his career in Moon, directed by Duncan Jones.
Synopsis:
Moon follows Sam Bell, an astronaut assigned by Lunar Industries to a three-year mission mining Helium 3 on the moon, the earth’s new energy source. As his contract comes to an end and Sam’s health starts to deteriorate, painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident. While recuperating, Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three- year contract Sam started all those years ago
Hunter Prey follows a team of special forces commandos who must recapture an escaped alien prisoner after the military transport ship carrying it crashes on a desolate and hostile planet.
In the year 2707, war rages between earth’s four giant corporations as they battle over the planet’s dwindling resources. In an era marked by warfare and social regression, the earth is on the verge of ruin, destruction is everywhere; battles explode on every ravaged continent. Amidst heavy combat, an errant shell shatters an ancient buried seal releasing a horrific mutant army from its eternal prison deep within the earth. As the mutant scourge threatens human extinction, a single squad of soldiers descends into the earth to fulfill the ages-old prophesy of the Mutant Chronicles and save mankind.
You can check out the full flick today on Video On Demand or try and catch it during its limited theatrical run on April 24th, 2009. Or, just wait until the DVD release.
I’m told this is a cross between Event Horizon and I Am Legend. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not. But, I’m a sucker for “Horror In Space” So, I’m looking forward to checking this out.
From the creators of the Resident Evil film franchise comes Pandorum, a terrifying thriller in which two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they’ve been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they’re actually not alone — and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
Guillermo del Toro is the man. Recently I found out he’s producing a really interesting sounding Science Fiction film called Splice . Kind of an Alien meets Frankenstein type story, but these images turned my head in a huge way.
Directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube) and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, Splice is the story of two rogue scientists who decide to take genetic splicing to the next level. Basically, all hell then breaks loose.
It’s the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, an idyllic family grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But the normal monotony of rounding up shopping carts and settling out the cash drawers is broken at 11:07pm, just before closing when a group of masked and armed-to-the-teeth militants invades the store, immediately killing several of the employees and shoppers and holding the rest hostage.
Though the hostage-takers at first appear to be robbers or terrorists, they reveal themselves to be a cadre of rogue scientists that has discovered and tracked an alien infestation to this store on this night, and they are determined to find out which of the survivors are extraterrestrials and end the invasion at any cost. (Trailer Addict)
Review:
So, the award for the lamest title of a good movie goes to … Alien Raiders. I mean, seriously, this is where studio intervention is a bad thing. Originally titled Supermarket (I know, not much of a better title), Alien Raiders is a movie that is way better than the title suggests. When I first heard of this movie, I was thinking it would be a low-grade Sci Fi Channel original crap-fest. But, then I started hearing some good things and decided to check it out. Alien Raiders has no right to be as good as it is. It’s a blast.