The Grudge 3 (2009)

Get ready for another "Grudge" of Kayako and Toshio in "The Grudge 3". If you’re a fan of this franchise, you’re in luck, because Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures is putting out “The Grudge 3″, which directly to DVD this time. During Comic Con 06, Sony first officially announced plans of creating the sequel. Takashi Shimizu stated he was offered to direct the sequel but would rather produce the film instead. Moviehole reported that the film was putting out a casting call for new actors to play Kayako and Toshio, since Takako Fuji (Kayako) and Yuya Ozeki (Toshio) have passed on the opportunity.

Here's the plot: A compassionate psychiatrist beaming with intelligence, Dr. Sullivan is in charge of treating Jake, a terribly disturbed boy following the massacre of his family. He vehemently believes that the woman who killed his family will find and kill him as well. Not a superstitious woman, Dr. Sullivan believes it is all in Jake's mind, until she witnesses the unthinkable. Thus begins her research into his family's death and a Japanese curse that she comes to believe is real and very much alive. With Naoko,a Japanese woman, Max, the big brother of her patient Jake and Lisa, a younger sister of Karen and Aubrey, she confronts the ghost of Kayako to save her soul from her impending tragic fate.

Starring Shawnee Smith, Marina Sirtis, Johanna E. Braddy, Beau Mirchoff, Gil McKinney, Aiko Horiuchi, Matthew Knight, and Emi Ikehata. Toby Wilkins (”Splinter”) taking Takashi Shimizu's place to directs. the direct-to-dvd sequel will be released in March 2009, meanwhile the trailer has recently been released and you can check it out below.

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Infected (2009)

From Twitch, here we have a preview for the upcoming directors Niko Pueringor and Sam Gorski’s "Infected" - the scifi horror hybrid feature length debut from the core team behind indie short "Greenside". The film tells the story of a group of researchers sent to a remote island where experimental research has unleashed an anamorphic creature with the ability to move quickly from host to host - hence the film’s title - destroying everything in its path.
The film is also scripted by Simon Boyes (the guy that wrote The Devil's Chair and Blood River). Check the amazing poster below.

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I Sell the Dead

"I Sell the Dead" had been showed at the Sitges Film Festrival and the Toronto After Dark Film Festival recently. But the US release date for the film hasn't announced yet.

The story revolves around body snatchers Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) and Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden), who have pillaged their last grave. With just five hours before Arthur follows Willie to the chopping block, he recounts his life story and it soon becomes clear that they were no ordinary grave robbers and that not all corpses are equal.

The trailer is below...

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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans: First Preview

The war between vampire and werewolf clan is soon will begin again. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is the third installment in the Underworld series which set to be a prequel to Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, this also will covering the origins of some characters.
The prequel will trace the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, a young Lycan named Lucian (Michael Sheen) emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover Sonja (Rhona Mitra) in his battle against the Death Dealer army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.
This film is directed by Patrick Tatopoulos, a visual consultant and long-time creature designer who is making his directorial debut. The screenplay and story have numerous writers attached, with Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain (of the upcoming sci-fi flick Outlander) and Danny McBride (of Underworld and Underworld: Evolution) credited as the primary screenwriters. Sony is debuting Underworld: Rise of the Lycans in theaters everywhere on January 23rd, 2009 next year. Check the trailer below.

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The Unborn: First Preview

Having served as one-third of the writing team for the immensely successful "The Dark Knight," David S. Goyer is moves to his next directorial effort with "The Unborn" that will gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead. This supernatural thriller will follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves.
Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spiritual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop.
With Sendak’s help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany—a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.

"It's one of the things that I think help makes things scary," Goyer said of being coy with the ghost's origins. "We actually don't know where it really came from. The first thing it inhabits is a young child but it kind of hops bodies throughout the movie. If we're fortunate enough to do a sequel I would delve back even further because we don't say were it really originated from."
This film is not based on any other past horror films or books, as this is an entirely original project. Rogue Pictures will bear "The Unborn" on January 9th, 2009 next year!

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Friday the 13th Remake: First Preview

Another remake is on the way, "Friday the 13th" that set for a Friday, February 13, 2009 release, will be a reboot version of the Friday the 13th film series, whose last film was the 2003 crossover film "Freddy vs. Jason." This new version is directed by ex-music video director Marcus Nispel, of another remake 2003's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Pathfinder" previously. The screenplay was penned by writing partners Damian Shannon and Mark Swift of "Freddy vs Jason." Although they said this one is not a sequel, it still technically the 11th film in the franchise. The film stars Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees, with Jared Padalecki and Amanda Righetti portraying the male and female leads, respectively.
For this film, Jason's intelligence and thought processing is more defined. Mears likens the character to John Rambo, Tarzan and the Abominable Snowman from Looney Tunes. Jason is similar to Rambo because the audience will see him setting the other characters up to fall into his traps. Like Rambo, he is more calculated because he feels that he has been wronged and he is fighting back. He is meant to be more sympathetic in this film. It also will take "elements from all three [of the first] movies".

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My Bloody Valentine: First Preview

My Bloody Valentine 3D is a 2009 remake of the 1981 Canadian slasher film of the same name. The film will be directed and edited by Patrick Lussier, a long-time horror editor and director of "Dracula 2000" also "White Noise 2: The Light". the film stars Jensen Ackles (Supernatural), Jaime King with Kerr Smith, will have a 3-D theatrical release on January 16, 2009. The story is revolves around Tom Hanniger (Ackles), who returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, however, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame (King) is the only one will believes he's innocent.

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Some Horror Choices for Halloween

In Theatres:

“Saw V”
Entering its fifth annual show this year, “Saw V” will explain what happened to Corbett, the daughter of Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart, by following the ending of the third film that left her in danger. The origins of Billy the puppet and his red tricycle also will be further explained here after having the story's roots planted in the last episode. On one interview with Jigsaw’s actor, Tobin Bell, he even teased that he would not be surprised if the character of Cecil made a reappearance, and that the pieces of flesh taken from the victims in the form of a jigsaw puzzle might be explained. For everyone who loves the deadlicious traps in the film, you will happy enough coz there will be a total of seven traps in this film, which mean there will be more bloods spilling all over the show.

Saw V begin to torture your Halloween at Oct 24.

“The Haunting of Molly Hartley”
Another teen horror flick that will tell a story of Molly (Haley Bennett), a 17 year old girl who has physically recovered from a stab wound inflicted by her mother, but the psychological scars that remain run deep. To help her begin a new life after her trauma, her father has moved her into a new school. With her eighteenth birthday approaching, Molly is haunted by nightmares of her mother's attack upon her while dealing with the stress of being the new girl in school. Symptoms of psychosis that seem to be affecting her seem to foreshadow an onset of the mental illness that took control of her mother's life, but of several different explanations for her distress, the most unforeseen and terrifying is revealed as the truth. Ultimately, Molly discovers that her mother and others who share her mother's concerns want her killed in order to save her from a preordained life as a servant of the Devil.

Let’s find who knows about what Molly did last Halloween at Oct 31.

“Coming Soon”
Thai horror also didn’t want to loose Halloween momentum with releasing “Coming Soon,” a spooky supernatural story that has something to do with a haunted cinema. The film apparently will deal with this concept: "What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was actually a ghost all along? But none of this compares to the feeling of arriving home alone and suddenly being stuck by a feeling of dj vu that you are reenacting the very same scenes in the horror movie you just saw! This movie will scare you from the second you step inside the movie theatre. It will get you wondering if Something or Someone might be waiting for you to let your guard down. The horror movie that you just saw is about to happen to you in real life! Coming Soon."

It will come soon enough to you at Oct 31.

In Home Cinema Experience:

“Diary of the Dead”
George Romero has always come up with new ways of treating his zombies, and Diary of the Dead is no exception: Romero keeps his dead fresh, with an original approach to the undying subject. This one purports to be the video record of a group of young people who are shooting a low-budget horror movie when the terror strikes: corpses begin re-animating, intent on chewing the living. Our heroes trek across Pennsylvania, encountering the staggering zombies as they go. Other pieces of video are incorporated, which gives Romero a chance at some great set-pieces, including the brilliant opening sequence, a live local-TV feed that goes horribly, horribly wrong, and a home-video tape from a family birthday party, where the party clown turns out to be a dead ringer. All of Romero's Dead films are political, and this one's no exception, with a stark view of the way things are today; it doesn't offer the Hawksian heroics of the survivors in Dawn of the Dead or Land of the Dead for comfort, just a group of bickering, shocked youths. There's too much talk about the detachment of watching things through a lens, but in general this is a bracing, intelligent movie. Plus, there's some excellent splatter. --Robert Horton
Blu-ray disc release: October 21, 2008

“Halloween”
The two-disc Unrated Director's Cut offers a full disc's worth of extras that should please Zombie fans; chief among the supplemental features is his commentary, which details the film's shooting history and the numerous edits required to deliver the theatrical version. A making-of featurette offers further details of Zombie's vision for the film, and there are featurettes on his cast choices and the many masks that Myers makes while incarcerated. Seventeen deleted scenes (two of which feature Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Towles) and an alternate ending (all with Zombie's commentary) are also provided, as well as footage from the casting sessions. A blooper reel, which is highlighted by unchecked mischief by McDowell and Dourif, offers the set's sole moment of levity. -- Paul Gaita
Blu-ray disc release: October 21, 2008

“The Strangers”
A lean, briskly paced and exceptionally creepy thriller, The Strangers earns its scares the old-fashioned way: through atmosphere, sound design, and a simple yet undeniably upsetting central premise that allows for maximum tension throughout its running time. Attractive young lovers Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are already having a bad day--she's turned down his marriage proposal--before a knock on the door in the middle of the night announces a full-fledged siege on their remote vacation home by a trio of masked assailants. The film's first third delivers the most consistent shivers as the visitors make their presence and intentions known to Tyler; the second half grows more frantic and bloody before a gruesome finale that may leave viewers either rattled to their core or bothered by its empty nihilism. Speedman is fine as the downtrodden male lead (who's seen tucking into a carton of ice cream after being rejected), but it's Tyler who impresses the most by s! houldering the lion's share of the terror. First-time writer/director Bryan Bertino impresses by forsaking the current passion for over-the-top violence (save for the finale) in favor of more traditional means of generating fear, and if his project borrows heavily from other films, most notably the French chiller Them (which shares its "inspired by a true story" origin) and Michael Haneke's Funny Games, at least he's taking from the best. The sound design is among the many technical standouts, and the unsettling score by tomandandy (The Hills Have Eyes) pleasantly evokes Ennio Morricone's fuzztone-heavy work for Dario Argento in the early '70s. On a completely unrelated note, LP fanatics should appreciate how both the film's heroes and villains share an affinity for folk and country music on vinyl. --Paul Gaita
Blu-ray disc release: October 21, 2008

“Dark Shadows: The Beginning, Vol.6”
The Start of a Legend!
Named One of TV s Top 25 Cult Shows by TV Guide
With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, DARK SHADOWS (1966-71, ABC-TV) became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. The character of Barnabas Collins, a guilt-ridden, 175-year-old vampire, brought the show tremendous success. Now, for the first time on DVD, MPI presents the spooky series rare, early episodes before Barnabas.
Dr. Peter Guthrie and Joe Haskell break into Laura Murdoch Stockbridge s crypt at Eagle Hill Cemetery. David Collins informs Victoria Winters that he wants to go away with his mother, Laura. Guthrie arranges to conduct a seance at the Old House to contact Josette Collins ghost. Victoria makes a bizarre discovery that leads her to believe David s life is in jeopardy after Laura summons him to an abandoned fishing shack. Victoria sees Elizabeth Collins Stoddard coming from the mysterious locked room in the Collinwood basement.
A nervous Elizabeth is shocked when Jason McGuire, a devious friend of her missing husband s, arrives in town unexpectedly. He reminids Elizabeth of an old secret that they share. Jason and his traveling companion, a drifter named Willie Loomis, force Elizabeth to let them move into Collinwood. Willie learns that Collins family members have been buried with their jewels and he becomes mesmerized by the portrait of Barnabas Collins hanging in the foyer.
INCLUDES: Episodes 179-209, Originally aired March 2, 1967 - April 14, 1967
BONUSES:
Episode 191 extra footage
Restored Episode 211 (Barnabas arrival) with original 1967 commercials
Syndication Sales Reel & Promos
Dark Shadows Sci-Fi Channel Commercials
Joan Bennett Newsreel Footage
New Interviews
(Amazon)
DVD release: October 28, 2008

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The Uninvited: First Preview

No matter how worst are the Asian horror remakes of 2008, but I never loose my curiosity to watch another one remake again, which now is a remake of Korean's "Tale of Two Sisters," with the title "The Uninvited" that will be release on January 30, 2009 (another unlucky date again, I think). The story is still revolve around two sisters, Anna (Emily Browning) and Alex Rydell(Arielle Kebbel). Anna returns home to her father (David Strathairn) and sister, after spending time in hospital following the tragic death of her mother (Maya Massar). Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father has become engaged to her mother's former nurse, Racheal (Elizabeth Banks). That night, Anna is visited by the ghost of her mother, who warns her of Rachael's intentions. Together, Anna and Alex try to convince their father that his current fiancée is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother. Below is the first trailer of the horrific story embedded from the official movie site.

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Start today, HORRIFICITY blog is born.

Start today, I'll share everything I've known and got about horror films around the world.

Start today, I'll hope you all will enjoy my presentation n share with me everything you've known and got also.

Start today, let's begin this horrific trip.....

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