Shawn Rasmussen

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Elijah: Alexandre Aja boards disturbing horror film for Searchlight Pictures

After making alligators more terrifying than they already are with his 2019 thriller Crawl, Alexandre Aja has signed on to direct ELIJAH for Searchlight Pictures. The original pitch for the horror feature was presented by The Last Witch Hunter scribe Cory Goodman,...

Posted 5 years ago

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Alexandre Aja to direct an interactive haunted house movie for Amblin

Posted 6 years ago

Are you prepared to sit down in the theater and whip out your smart-phone for a choose-your-own-adventure film? That just might be in our futures as Collider has reported that Alexandre Aja has signed on to direct an interactive haunted...

Raimi and the Rasmussens move on from Crawl to new horror projects

Posted 6 years ago

Not even three weeks have passed since the alligator horror film CRAWL (pictured above) reached theatres, and we already know what genre projects are next for the director, producer, and screenwriters. While director Alexandre Aja focuses on turning the manga Tomie...

Crawl reactions say it’s a nail-biting, ferocious summer creature-feature

Posted 7 years ago

Movies like THE SHALLOWS, 47 METERS DOWN, and last year’s THE MEG have been getting people to the theaters the last few summers so they can witness some shark-munching terror, but this year things are getting switched up. Getting rid...

Hungry gators terrorize Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper in Crawl trailer

Posted 7 years ago

Movies about sharks terrorizing poor humans have been on the rise recently, with THE SHALLOWS, 47 METERS DOWN and THE MEG becoming bona fide hits. But sharks can’t be doing all the heavy lifting, and when they need a siesta...

The Inhabitants, from the writers of The Ward, comes home in January

Posted 10 years ago

Here's an early Christmas present for scribes Michael and Shawn Rasmussen, the fellows who wrote JOHN CARPENTER'S THE WARD. FilmRise has acquired North American home media rights to THE INHABITANTS, which the brothers wrote and directed. FilmRise will distribute on Blu-ray/DVD...

The Inhabitants coming from the writers of John Carpenter’s The Ward

Posted 11 years ago

Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen, the screenwriters behind John Carpenter's THE WARD, made their directorial debut with the haunted psychiatric hospital movie DARK FEED, and are now following that up with the Salem, Massachusetts-set horror film THE INHABITANTS. THE INHABITANTS...

New trailer and release date for Dark Feed, from the writers of The Ward

Posted 13 years ago

Michael Rasmussen & Shawn Rasmussen, the scribes behind John Carpenter’s THE WARD, return to a spooky sanitarium with DARK FEED (which we’ve been writing up since Summer of ’11). The brothers wrote and directed the thriller, which Lionsgate will release...