What's New In Horror

[Jen]

Aug 23, 2008 13:01:01 GMT -5 HNT said:

hy don't they just remake Jaws while they're at it

Don't worry, I'm sure they will get around to that one soon....

From ShockTillYouDrop.com

EXCL: Art Hindle on Ketchum's Offspring

Source: Ryan Rotten


Canadian actor Art Hindle (Black Christmas) takes on cannibals in Offspring, an adaptation of the Jack Ketchum novel which spun off from the grisly Off Season. Directed by Andrew Van Den Houten, and penned by Ketchum, the screen incarnation began rolling earlier this month with Pollyanna McIntosh, Tommy Nelson, Spencer List and Eric Kastel starring. Set in Maine, the story pits a family against feral, hungry savages.

"It's looking fabulous," Hindle tells Shock after introducing a screening of Black Christmas to some newbies at Rue Morgue's Festival of Fear in Toronto. "We've got Bill Miller who has worked with Andrew many times doing the photography. Wonderful locations. We're shooting up in Muskegon, Michigan. Lake Michigan is standing in for the Atlantic Ocean, so we're shooting in the dunes up there. I still have sand coming out of every orifice."

Van Den Houten, as it turns out, chose to adapt Offspring over Off Season because the rights to the latter are tied up with someone else.

"Andrew thinks it's a more interesting filmic experience to do Offspring ," Hindle says. So how does the director bridge his film to the first novel without confusing the audience? "He plays that off through my character George Peters who was in the first story. The cops come to him when the stuff starts happening again, these atrocities. He realizes what's going on and gives them the lowdown with two pages of exposition!" laughs Hindle.

The actor is pleased to report his character mixes it up with the film's tribe of flesh-eaters. "I do get involved. They don't appreciate being followed and they do something about it in a very vicious, gory and gutsy way."

Hindle has two more weeks of shooting before he calls it a wrap on Offspring then it's on to a possible directing gig which will get underway next year for Critical Mass and Anchor Bay. "It'll be an action/sci-fi kind of thing. They've asked me to direct it and I'm quite excited to do it."

[Jen]

From ShockTillYouDrop.com

Where is Hooper's Buick 8?

Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com


Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper tells us a script for From a Buick 8, based on the Stephen King novel, is being turned in sometime next week, assuaging any thoughts that the project has fallen apart.

Actor Johnathon Schaech and Cemetery Dance publisher Richard Chizmar (who, in the past, have penned episodes of Masters of Horror and Fear Itself) are, as previously announced, on adaptation duties. In the story, a mysterious Buick held in a state trooper barracks has become the fixation of a deceased police officer's son.

Mick Garris will produce. Hooper has attached to helm for well over a year.

[Jen]

From ShockTillYouDrop.com

EXCL: The Descent 2's Paul Hyett
Source:Misartress Melanie


It's a sunny day (very rare in the UK) and I'm armed with a book - about evil women, murderers and con-women (getting some tips) - for a tube and bus journey into the depths of Southeast London to hunt down Paul Hyett at his FX workshop.

While meeting with the makers of The Descent 2 (set visit) I had missed out talking to Paul. We arranged a little private visit to hear his words on the upcoming sequel and to learn about the life of the man that heads up the gore in Neil Marshal's films amongst many other UK horrors.

After walking through a housing estate which would probably scare me in the dark of the night, I come across Paul's workshop. I'm early (again). There's a sign above the door, I wonder if I have the right place. Next door there's a guy painting something with gooey black paint that could have escaped from Paul's workshop. The workshop is closed so I get my book and sit in the sun (yes, bad for tattoos) and wait. I see a guy turn up heading towards the workshop, I head over and introduce myself. I have meet Stuart, one of Paul's assistants. He opens up the doors and, to my left, I'm greeted with a life-size resin full body cast, nice. I check the tables to my right and see some wounds in moulds that must have been left to dry over night. I then catch a pile of attacked wolves on the floor. I wonder who was eating them? Then, on top of some boxes, there is the body of a woman who is wearing climbing gear, more Descent 2 leftovers (how exciting!). I wander up to use the restroom and see a few busts about and then mooch downstairs and see that Stuart is setting himself up for a day's work in the main workshop of the arches.

Paul makes an entrance and we decide to make the most of the weather and sit outside to chat about The Descent 2, what else Paul has been recently up to and general horror fan chit-chat.

From talking with Paul I got a feel for his great enthusiasm for the special effects makeup industry. He really loves smashing up heads and squirting blood around which can seem ironic coming from a devote vegetarian (like myself). He also gets squeamish around maggots. We shared an appreciation for the Saw films. Without such films as John Carpenter's The Thing and John Landis' An American Werewolf in London Paul wouldn't be doing what he does now. His addiction to DVDs proves that he's still a huge fanboy as well as a hard worker on and off set. In addition to The Descent 2 Paul has recently had his work in The Killing Gene, Eden Lake, Donkey Punch and The Mutant Chronicles, so keep your eyes peeled for his style and name in the credits as your likely to see it popping up more often than you think!

ShockTillYouDrop.com: How has it all been now that you've wrapped on The Descent 2?
Paul Hyett: Yeah, it's been nice to finish up The Descent. Don't get me wrong, it's been really enjoyable, such a lovely job to do. To come back and do a sequel is great. I've always wanted to come back and do a sequel to a film I've done before. So yeah, it's been good. I'm just coming back today to do a stock check and to get back into the workshop. I'm just finishing off a job we are on now called Heartless and I'm prepping for the next one.

Shock: How have the Crawlers evolved in The Descent 2 in comparison to the first Descent?
Hyett: We tried to make them look a bit more bullish, scarred up. A lot of things I wanted to do from the first one but I wanted to make them look a bit harder and nastier. I brought out the bone structure a bit more, gave them more scars, slightly more deformed looking. The teeth were a completely new look, we went for a more multilayered, sharp look, which was more Nosferatu in the first one. This time around it's layers and layers of teeth, so we had Crawlers always drooling. It was quite difficult to speak as it was like having four layers of teeth in your mouth. They were more defined and everyone agreed they looked better than the first ones. For this time around we made the Crawlers from separate pieces so we could mix and match, whereas before they were from one. I didn't want it took look like the same Crawler popping up, so once we killed that one we wanted it to look like a completely different one the next time. Although you don't really tell that on the first one. I had so many different pieces for this one, we made warts and scars and to be honest I don't think there were two that looked the same.

Shock: How many Crawlers did you have in one shot?
Hyett: We had five, including a King Crawler, he was a huge guy about six feet something. It was fun to do; we went through a lot of KY jelly. We were buying vats of it. Every day we'd get them in, do their makeup, get them on set and slime them up. The quickest one we did was in two hours, I don't want to set a benchmark with that. On average it was about three hours with the longest taking about 3 and ½ hours. Which is really good, we did like a production line. We had massive spraying rooms, where they'd stand in like spraying a car, really. We just got it done really quickly as the prosthetics we use now are much quicker to glue on. I designed it so it could be put on as quick as possible because we do early hours and they need to be there at eight in the morning. I don't want to have to put someone through five, six hours of makeup in the morning. I really wanted to make it work with how I wanted them to look like with the least amount of makeup time.

Shock: How big was your team?
Hyett: For this project I had eight people in the workshop and then, on set, I had a team of four. Quite a small team. We were all cut down for budget, but as we had done the first one we knew where we were going. In the first one we had to design everything, then we had to turn that into a reality and do a test. Half my prep was spent designing and getting it up to a point, so all the time I had left was to make them. It was all about what they were going to look like. On this one we knew what they were like. I think we made everything in about six or seven weeks, I didn't even need to test anything. The first day was the first test and we just hit the ground running. It was lovely to have a clear insight of what you were going to do, I didn't have to worry about if they were going to look good under the light. We knew that [production designer] Simon [Bowles'] caves were going to look amazing. I knew how [director of photography] Sam McCurdy was going to light my corners, there was no worries and pressures.

Shock: How was working on Neil's last film Doomsday?
Hyett: Well, I remember thinking "Wow, Neil's doing an action move, I wonder how much I'll have to do in it?" And then I read the script and said to Neil, "You know there's more gore in this than the Descent?" You don't really feel it's that violent though as the effects are pretty spread out in the film whereas The Descent had it all in one go. Doomsday had cows being squashed, bodies being squashed, every day there was something for me to do. I mean what we did to Sean Pertwee's body was really horrible and you only see a little bit of that in the film. We had arms being chopped, heads, it was great fun.

Shock: How long have you been involved in the special effects monster-making business?
Hyett: Well, basically the first makeup course I did was grease paint in Ealing and that was bout 15 years ago. Most of it is really on the job. I worked with other people, worked with various companies, but mostly self taught to be honest with you. I'd say 90-percent self taught. Doing all the really low budget movies, so many awful low budget films, but these are the ones you can kind of make your mistakes on, where you learn things. It's really good to learn how to do things on the cheap and learn from the ground up. I started working for more people and the jobs that I got grew bigger and bigger, then you're suddenly working on something like The Descent. I'd worked with Sam and Simon quite a bit and they kept saying "You've got to meet Neil, you've got to meet Neil." Then The Descent came up and I met Neil and we got on and we had a good chat about things. I got the job on that one and from then on it's been great working with Neil, which is great as he has an understanding of what I do whereas some directors have no idea. He has an education in the prosthetics.

Shock: So what do you prefer doing? The monsters or the prosthetic gore stuff?
Hyett: That's a hard question, as each job is different. If I do a big huge creature then I think I want to do a character makeup next, then I'll do one and then I got to admit I do love gore. A lot of effects guys say they only do gore as a bread and butter thing, but I love it. Every day I could come on and do a throat getting torn out, blood spurting all over the place. The Descent 2 is pretty much my ideal job, I get to do creatures and some really horrible gore effects.

Shock: How do you feel about the use of CGI in regards to monster and gore?
Hyett: I think CG is wonderful in CG assistance. Digital gore looks like digital gore, but then sometimes I see it and think, "Oh actually that looks really nice." It's good as an enhancement. It works in your Final Destinations and even on Doomsday it has a couple of bits where we had people getting run over by cars, it can be hard to control the blood so it's good to have a bit of blood spray. To be honest with gore I feel it's best to do as much in camera as you can. It's great that we have CG to take away seam lines, any kind of wire effects. I doubt you can get away with a complete CG gore fest as it does look digital. Directors like to do stuff in camera, we all do as you feel that it's really there. I'm not adverse to it, there was a time when Terminator 2 came out and there was that discussion of prosthetics guys being put out of business, which it hasn't and it's so expensive, 80-percent of effects and prosthetics will always be physical.

[Jen]

From ShockTillYouDrop.com

Poltergeist Remake Spooks a Director
Source:The Hollywood Reporter,Bloody-Disgusting


Reported last week by Bloody-Disgusting last week as just rumor, it appears MGM is indeed chasing Vadim Perelman to helm its remake of Poltergeist.

THR confirmed Perelman is currently in negotiations. Screenwriters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White were attached to update the 1982 film last month.

Perelman previously directed House of Sand and Fog and The Life Before Her Eyes. He was once attached to adapt Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman.

[Jen]

From ShockTillYouDrop.com

Date Set for His Name was Jason Documentary
Source:MySpace


ShockTillYouDrop.com has learned His Name Was Jason - the Friday the 13th documentary we we introduced to you here and participated in - is hitting DVD on February 3, 2009. It will be followed by a television premiere on Starz February 13th, the same evening Platinum Dunes' new film hits theaters.

Also, the doc has established a MySpace page. There you'll find behind-the-scene pics and teaser art which features a proper logo, however, the artwork itself is temporary. Friday enthusiasts will note that it's a reworking on the jacket design for Crystal Lake Memories, the exhaustive book covering the franchise. So, what are you waiting for? Add Jason as a friend and keep checking that page for updates!


Here's the link to the Myspace page for those interested: profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=407452789

[Jen]

From Variety

Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017
'Hobbit' director eyes 'Frankenstein,' 'Jekyll'
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Many top film directors have no idea what their next movie is. But Guillermo del Toro is now booked through 2017. And maybe beyond.
Universal — which has a three-year first-look deal with the helmer inked in June ’07 — and del Toro are making a long-term commitment by setting up four directing projects, including remakes of "Frankenstein," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Slaughterhouse-Five."

The fourth project is an adaptation of "Drood," a Dan Simmons novel acquired by U that will be published in February by Little, Brown.

Of course, del Toro’s first priority is New Line and MGM’s "The Hobbit," to which he has committed the next five years. He has begun writing "Hobbit" with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, collaborating via video conferencing and trips to New Zealand every three weeks.

While it’s difficult, if not impossible, to plan projects five years into the future, at this point U execs think "Drood" is the most likely to be del Toro’s first post-"Hobbit" directing vehicle.

If both sides have their way, the helmer will belong to Universal after "The Hobbit" wraps.

In addition to the four pics, the studio still has its sights set on del Toro’s pet project, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s "At the Mountains of Madness."

As if that is not enough to keep him busy, U also has on the horizon an adaptation of David Moody’s apocalyptic novel "Hater" that del Toro will produce with Mark Johnson but not direct, and "Crimson Peak," a gothic romance spec script by del Toro and his "Mimic" collaborator Matthew Robbins, which del Toro will produce but not direct.

While he busies himself with "Hobbit," del Toro will outline the other projects and hire writers. The pics will be supervised at del Toro Prods. by his manager, Gary Ungar, who’ll be exec producer of the films and will oversee the slate with development director Russell Ackerman and U exec Scott Bernstein.

"No one expected ‘The Hobbit’ to come about; it was the most marvelous monkey wrench tossed into my life," del Toro said. "I consider (the new deals) the renewal of my marital vows with Universal."

U production prexy Donna Langley said the helmer’s "Hobbit" hiatus will only delay plans to dive into the del Toro business.

"We came out the other side of some tough conversations with a stronger bond and sense of long-term commitment," Langley said. "Guillermo is in the most prolific time of his life … Joe Johnston on ‘The Wolf Man’ showed us the importance of entrusting the Universal franchise monsters to experienced filmmakers with voices. That was a big impetus for our decision to go with Guillermo to put his creative stamp on these properties."

Langley said she is intrigued by "Drood," in which Simmons supposes that survival from a catastrophic train crash changed author Charles Dickens, plunging him into the depths of London depravity and possibly turning him to murder before he wrote his final novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."

"It’s the fantasy and gothic horror world Guillermo finds comfortable," Langley said. "It feels like a great fit for where (we expect) Guillermo will have evolved as a filmmaker five years from now."

Frankenstein represents a longtime fascination for del Toro, who has made his home a memorabilia shrine to the Karloff monster from the 1931 U film.

"To me, Frankenstein represents the essential human question: ‘Why did my creator throw me here, unprotected, unguided, unaided and lost?’ " del Toro said. "With that one, they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands to prevent me from directing it."

On "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," del Toro wants to stick more closely to Robert Louis Stevenson’s prose and explore the addictive high the repressed Jekyll experienced as his murderous alter ego.

Del Toro plans to provide a more literal interpretation of "Slaughterhouse-Five" than in the 1972 film adaptation, hewing closely to the Vonnegut novel about a prisoner in a German WWII POW camp who travels through time and space.

"There are ways that Vonnegut plays with and juxtaposes time that was perhaps too edgy to be tackled on film at that time," del Toro said.

Meanwhile, del Toro is awaiting word on whether U will embrace a follow-up to "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army." The big-budget film opened in the heat of summer and fell short of blockbuster status in the U.S. but has performed well overseas.

"I think they’ll decide when the last euro hits the piggybank," del Toro said. "We laid the groundwork to have a magnificent third act. I’d like to return to an action franchise with 60-year-old actor Ron Perlman, because he’ll be scratching at that age when I get to it."

Langley said the studio is interested and may work with del Toro to add a TV series and online segments to broaden the following before making the series finale.

Del Toro is repped by Endeavor and Exile.

[Jen]

From ShockTillYouDrop.com


Horrorfest '09 Announces New Film
Source:After Dark Films


After Dark Films has acquired From Within, a new thriller which recently played to FrightFest UK audiences.

Directed by Phedon Papamichael, and written by Brad Keene, the film surrounds a rash of suicides plaguing a small town. Thomas Dekker and Elizabeth Rice star.

From Within is the latest entry in After Dark's 2009 Horrorfest which will run January 2-9. The other films announced so far are Broken, Butterfly Effect: Revelation, Perkins' 14, Slaughter.

[Jen]

From ShockTillYouDrop.com

Adrien Brody on Dario Argento's Giallo
Source:Edward Douglas


Legendary Italian horror director Dario Argento has had somewhat of a resurgence in recent years thanks to constant name-checking by the new breed of horror director that's surfaced in the last five years - the likes of James Wan and Eli Roth to name two.

His most recent movie Mother of Tears was recently released on DVD but the 68 year old director has not rested on his laurels, jumping right into his next movie called Giallo, which teams him with actors Adrien Brody and Emmanuelle Seigner

Brody was in Toronto for the premiere of Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom and he talked with ShockTillYouDrop.com about the new Argento movie, which he executive produced as well as starred in, sharing what appealed to him about working with one of the most controversial and provocative masters of horror. "That again was finding something that was extremely different, it was a genre that I'd never done and something that I enjoy,", he told us. "This is a bit harder I think and darker (than The Jacket), that was more psychological, and this is more along Dario's...but I'm a fan of Dario's work, I'm a friend of his daughter, it was an opportunity to explore something different. There were a number of reasons I was attracted to that. It's a thriller basically about a girl… in the main storyline, there's a taxi driver abducting women and I play a detective to find and save them."

Giallo opens overseas sometime in 2009.

[Jen]

From ShockTillYouDrop.com

The Rotten Truth: This is Halloween?
Source:Ryan Rotten


Something about this fall scares me.

It's not the San Fernando Valley temperatures climbing into the 90s (which makes me feel nostalgic for the New England weather I grew up with). It doesn't have to do with Beverly Hills Chihuahua (although that is a cause for alarm, especially the slugs who go see it). Nor is it the grinning skeleton and pumpkin decorations I'm beginning to see flood the stores (that, in fact, gets me more anxious than anything).

No, what's making me leap out of my skin is the minimal amount of wide theatrical horror releases to get excited about in the next two months.

You can write off September - unless Igor, kiddie fare at best, is something you're particularly jazzed about. October, meanwhile, has Quarantine (on the 10th) and Saw V (on the 24th). That's two - count 'em two - large platform releases. On the limited tip, if you live near a major city there's a good chance you'll have the choice of seeing Let the Right One In or Splinter. Then there's The Haunting of Molly Hartley which will likely get a modest debut. Distributor Freestyle Releasing knows its audience, especially with Chace Crawford co-starring.

Looking at that rundown, sure, you got some options not counting the DVD releases coming this month and next. But is it too much to ask for more?

Although it was a dismal Halloween horror movie season, 2005 had seven genre pics playing in multiplexes throughout September and October. The following year, there were five. Last year, three, not counting limited runs of Hatchet and The Girl Next Door. What gives? Why is Halloween 2008 so painfully dry?

I don't blame Saw. Still a lucrative franchise, I can't believe competing studios are afraid to pit their horror offerings against Jigsaw. Instead, I immediately thought of the '07 WGA strike and its ripple effect. One studio insider disagrees with that theory and tells me, "The strike has zero to do with it. I think what you're seeing is the aftermath of the glut of horror. Low budget horror comes back, makes bank for a couple years, the market gets flooded. Hostel 2 and 28 Weeks Later both fail box office-wise and studios say, What else besides horror?"

Another producer I spoke with says it's a "combo of a bunch of things - the writers strike, the actors strike...and horror not doing as well." One Missed Call, Mirrors and Shutter are fine examples of 2008 duds, but it's not like the future is completely devoid of genre flicks.

After October, Lionsgate drops Repo! The Genetic Opera into a limited release. Then there's Twilight (less scary and more lovey-dovey anyway). Lionsgate already screwed the pooch with Midnight Meat Train's release, so I'm not even going to question what they're doing to Repo! and why. And Twilight's unveiling is all part of Summit's strategy. But take a look at January 2009. Plenty of horror there thanks in part to After Dark's Horrorfest. You've also got The Uninvited, Dreamworks' Tale of Two Sisters redo that's been completed for some time now. Why doesn't the studio release that film next month and try to cash in on the fact that people want to see spooky thrills? The same applies to Paramount's Case 39, another film in the can and stuck in a release date tug-o-war, and Amusement.

Regardless of how good or how shitty they are, it just seems to me that films like this at least have a chance in September/October when audiences are in the mood. Instead, the studios find them awkward slots in the winter and/or spring then wonder why they did so poorly.

"Look at the glut of them in that span over the last few years," one source explained to me. "They want to space them out."

Maybe so. But that doesn't explain why Warner Bros.' Trick 'r Treat was denied a theatrical run last October and is finally working its way onto a larger festival circuit next month. How will the rest of the country see it? Not in wide release during this Halloween, sadly.

Further perplexing is the actual Halloween day release of Splinter and The Haunting of Molly Hartley, however large or small they might be. Halloween day, though? Really? You know what I'm going to be doing on October 31st? Not stepping into a movie theater. I'm heading out. Over the weekend...slim chance. Personally, I like the build-up to Halloween and with it, I like taking in a scare pic or two or four at the theater.

Unfortunately this year, I'm going to have to seek out other plans after I've seen Quarantine and whatever Jigsaw has up his sleeve. That won't be hard, but I like to have a lot of choices, seeing a newly-released horror movie in a theater being one of them.

[Jen]

The Burrowers Trailer HERE

And From ShockTillYouDrop.com

Wide Release Plans for The Burrowers
Source:ShockTillYouDrop.com


ShockTillYouDrop.com has received official word J.T. Petty's The Burrowers is going to premiere on DVD in April 2009 following its fall '08 festival run, confirming some of the rumblings we heard in the midst of the Midnight Meat Train's release plans backlash in July.

Lionsgate is distributing the western/creature starring Doug Hutchison, Clancy Brown and William Mapother.

The Burrowers makes its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this week and then it's U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin on September 21st followed by a run at Screamfest.

[Jen]

From BloodyDisgusting.com


The Evil Dead Musical in 3-D!

By: SpookyDan

SpookyDan stumbled on some big news at this week's TIFF. The Evil Dead Musical is coming to theaters in 3-D, according to Screen Daily! Creators Christopher Bond and choreographer Hinton Battle are set to co-direct the amazing adaptation of the stage play that has been running here in Toronto for a while. The film should go in front of the cameras in Toronto sometime next spring. "I got a change to see it last weekend," says Spooky. "For fans of the film, it's amazing, for non-fans, it’s a blood soaked comedy with some great music. The highlight song is called 'What the Fuck Was That?' " Watch for more details as they come in.

[Jen]

From ShockTillYouDrop.com

Universal, Focus Have Got a Thirst...
Source:Variety


Universal Pictures and Focus Features have boarded Oldboy director Park Chan-wook's in-production vampire movie Thirst, reports Variety.

Universal and Focus will invest in and co-produce the film, which has so far been steered by Korean major CJ Entertainment.

Thirst stars Song Kang-ho (The Host) and Shin Ha-kyun (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance). Involving unusually risqué elements, the film also stars Kim Ok-bi (Dasepo Naughty Girls) as leading lady.

The film is about a priest who participates in a medical experiment to find a cure for a deadly disease with traumatic repercussions.

It is scheduled to be completed in time for a festival premiere in mid-2009.

[Jen]

From Film Fanaddict

Film Fanaddict News : Argento's Mother of Tears hits DVD 9/23!
Posted by David Carter

Oh mio dio! Evil will be redefined this year by the much anticipated horror film, MOTHER OF TEARS, which arrives on unrated DVD September 23rd. Genius Products and The Weinstein Company introduce another gem under the Dimension Extreme label – the final installment from “The Three Mothers” trilogy by the infamous Italian director Dario Argento.

Set in Rome, Italy, an unassuming American art student accidentally resurrects a wicked witch, Mater Lachrymarum, from her grave and awakens the city to utter turmoil and destruction. In order to restore peace and put an end to this evil power for good, the student must use her own supernatural abilities to save the city from Mater Lachrymarum’s wrath.

MOTHER OF TEARS is one of the most intense films from Argento’s amazing body of work. He brings to it his renowned cinematic style and unique approach to thrill and terror. Argento’s reputation as the “Italian Hitchcock” is no way an exaggeration - the admiration he has earned by great directors such as Brian DePalma and George A. Romero, proves that he not only develops a special beauty in his work but he also brings new meaning and insight to this genre.

[Jen]

Film Fanaddict News : SHIVER coming to DVD 10/28!
Posted by Film Fanaddict

From producer Alvaro Augustin of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage fame, Shiver tells the creepy tale of Santi, a lonely teenager who suffers from photophobia. Santi has excessive sensitivity to light, so he is forced to move with his Mother to a far-off village in the mountains to avoid sunlight. Soon after they arrive, locals and livestock start turning up butchered and Santi becomes the main suspect. The only way to prove his innocence to the town will be to unearth the terrible secret that’s hidden deep in the woods.

A new trailer for the film has been unveiled at www.ShiverTheFilm.com and will be available on DVD for the first time in Spanish with English subtitles in addition to an English language track option and will retail for $24.98.

Additionally, Shiver will playing all across North America at special fan screenings throughout September and October, before it’s released on DVD on October 28th.

[Jen]

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