John Hyams

John Hyams’ Alone: Featurette goes behind the scenes of survival thriller

Posted 6 years ago

Back in September, Magnet Releasing gave a theatrical and On Demand to release to director John Hyams' survival thriller Alone (watch it HERE). The film is now available on DVD and Blu-ray (pick up a copy HERE), and to mark...

Trailer released for slasher horror film Alone!

Posted 6 years ago

Director John Hyams – son of director Peter Hyams –  is a renowned filmmaker in his own right, especially in the VOD arena. For instance, he directed the bonkers David Lynchian action flick UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING, that often had...

John Hyams’ survival thriller Alone picked up by Magnet Releasing

Posted 6 years ago

A couple years ago, we shared the news that John Hyams (UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION, UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING) would be directing a remake of the 2011 Swedish film GONE (or FÖRSVUNNEN), and now we know exactly when we'll have the...

It’s the Booze Talkin’; We can’t wait for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Maniac Cop!

Posted 7 years ago

I love movies. In fact, I tend to appreciate all kinds of genres and styles. And of course, I have a massive soft spot for all things horror. There’s something else that I generally connect to; it’s a filmmaker who doesn’t always take...

HBO picks up Maniac Cop series from Nicolas Winding Refn

Posted 7 years ago

After delivering his series TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG this year, filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (DRIVE) is jumping back into another series, this time a reimagining of the 1988 cult classic movie, MANIAC COP. The series has been given the...

HBO picks up Maniac Cop series from Nicolas Winding Refn and John Hyams

Posted 7 years ago

Nicolas Winding Refn and John Hyams have been working on a remake of the William Lustig-directed, Larry Cohen-scripted 1988 classic MANIAC COP for over four years at this point, so a lot of fans have given up hope that it...

Maniac Cop remake will be completely different tonally

Posted 8 years ago

If you're convinced that the remake of William Lustig's 1988 film MANIAC COP is never going to happen, that's totally understandable. There hasn't been a lot of obvious progress made on the project since it was first announced two years...

Netflix orders Z Nation spin-off Black Summer, starring Jaime King

Posted 8 years ago

Actress Jaime King is a genre regular who has appeared in such films as SIN CITY, THE TRIPPER, THEY WAIT, and the remakes MY BLOODY VALENTINE (pictured above), MOTHER'S DAY, and SILENT NIGHT. Now she has signed on to star in...

Creative team is still pushing the Maniac Cop remake forward

Posted 8 years ago

The MANIAC COP remake is a project I have great interest in, as a fan of the original trilogy (well, not of the third film so much, but the first two are awesome). I want to see more of the...

John Hyams to direct thriller Alone, remake of Swedish film Gone

Posted 9 years ago

Back in 2011, Swedish filmmakers Mattias Olsson and Henrik JP Åkesson made their feature directorial debuts with the thriller GONE (or FÖRSVUNNEN), which was written by Olsson. Olsson has now written the screenplay for an English language remake of their...