Happy 2008! Hard to believe another year’s over, and yes… another one has just begun. So are the first theatrical and DVD releases of the new year any indication of what’s to come in 2008? I sure hope not… ONE MISSED CALL hits theaters this Friday, while RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION and SOLSTICE hit DVD. Blah, blah, and more blah. Here’s to hoping 2008 is even better than 2007!
ONE MISSED CALL
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, frightening images, some sexual material and thematic elements.
Directed by Eric Valette
Starring Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon
Run Time: ???.
Beth Raymond is traumatized when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two friends just days apart. Even more disturbing, she knows that both of them had received chilling cell phone messages–actual recordings of their own horrifying last moments. Impossibly, the calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold. The police think Beth is delusional–except for Detective Jack Andrews, whose own sister was killed in a freak accident that bears a strange similarity to the deaths of Beth’s friends. Together, Jack and Beth work feverishly to unravel the mystery behind the ominous calls. But even as they get closer to the truth, Beth’s cell phone begins to ring with an eerie tune, and the readout displays: “One Missed Call.”
Rated: R
Starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Run Time: 94 Min.
Milla Jovovich is back in the third chapter of the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise! This action-packed horror film is set in the Nevada desert and filled with intense special effects and more zombie terror! Las Vegas means fun in the sun. Well, at least the sun is still there. Except for a few rusting landmarks, it looks pretty much like the rest of the desert – or the whole country, for that matter. The crowds are now flesh-eating zombies: the mass undead, the oozing, terrifying sludge of what remains. Here, the newly upgraded Alice, along with her crew (Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Ashanti) will make a final stand against evil – with one goal: to turn the undead dead again.
SOLSTICE
Rated: PG-13
Starring Elisabeth Harnois, R. Lee Ermey, Shawn Ashmore
Directed by Daniel Myrick
From the director of The Blair Witch Project comes another frightening tale of the supernatural. Less than a year after losing her twin sister to suicide, Megan (Elisabeth Harnois, Point Pleasant) and her college-bound friends take one last road trip to the family home out on the Louisiana bayou. When a handsome local (Tyler Hoechlin, 7th Heaven) teaches them the Creole spell of the summer solstice, the group tries to resurrect the sister’s spirit – with deadly results. Also starring Shawn Ashmore (X-Men series), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love) and Hilarie Burton (One Tree Hill), Solstice will scare you all the way to its shocking end.