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Blumhouse might have rescued Half to Death from development hell

Posted 10 years ago

Does anyone remember the horror project HALF TO DEATH? Way back in 2007, we reported that it was going to be produced by Platinum Dunes for Rogue Pictures, with Finnish director Antti Jokinen (THE RESIDENT) set to take the helm...

Paramount has delayed Friday the 13th and Rings again

Posted 10 years ago

Paramount Pictures has shuffled dates on their release schedule, resulting in some genre news that was expected in one case and very unexpected in the other. We'll start with the news that most fans saw coming – the next FRIDAY...

See through the planchette in the second trailer for Ouija: Origin of Evil

Posted 10 years ago

OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL looks like it will easily join the pantheon of sequels that greatly improve upon the original films. In this new trailer, not only is the old fashioned song swapped out this time around, we get a...

Mike Flanagan’s Ouija: Origin of Evil gets a lengthy TV spot

Posted 10 years ago

We're less than two months away from the release of HUSH director Mike Flanagan's OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, a prequel to the 2014 film OUIJA that promises to correct the mistakes of that film and redeem the OUIJA franchise, and...

Ouija: Origin of Evil posters warn against talking to the other side

Posted 10 years ago

While the first poster released for Mike Flanagan's OUIJA prequel OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL worked perfectly well for me, the marketing department at Universal has seen fit to release three more posters for the film, two of which feature warnings...

Friday the 13th receives tax credit, might be filming within 180 days

Posted 10 years ago

Last night, we learned that THE CRAZIES remake / THE LAST WITCH HUNTER director Breck Eisner is in talks to take the helm of the next FRIDAY THE 13TH film, which production company Platinum Dunes has been developing at Paramount...

Frank Grillo gets emotional in this clip from The Purge: Election Year

Posted 10 years ago

THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR has dropped a new clip, and though it doesn't feature any high octane action, it shows off Frank Grillo's depth as a badass. He might be able to shoot his way through a crowd of violent...

Universal invokes a trailer for Mike Flanagan’s Ouija: Origin of Evil

Posted 10 years ago

2014's OUIJA was not received with a lot of positivity (for example, The Arrow gave it a 2/10 review), but it was a worldwide box office success, earning nearly $100 million more than its $5 million budget. So it's no surprise that it's...

The next Friday the 13th creates an alternate reality for Jason

Posted 10 years ago

At the end of May, Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller said that PRISONERS screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski's script for the next FRIDAY THE 13TH film goes back to the roots of iconic, hockey mask-wearing slasher Jason Voorhees's back story, starting over...

Politics are front and center in these Purge: Election Year posters

Posted 10 years ago

The satire of the PURGE films has gone from background noise in the original to just plain screaming in your face, even from the title. THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR is the third entry in the franchise, and the intensely politicized horror-thriller flick...

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