By Kyle Laugh
News
Jordan Peele In Talks To Produce Candyman Remake
Newbie Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele is sticking with the horror genre post-Get Out and has entered talks to produce a remake of Bernard Rose's cult classic 1992 Clive Barker adaptation, Candyman. Peele is currently shooting his new social thriller Us, but is lending his talents as a producer to several developing genre projects, including CBS All Access' Twilight Zone TV show reboot and HBO's horror-mystery series Lovecraft Country (which Peele co-created with Underground's Misha Green).
Rob Zombie's 13 Nights of Halloween returning to HDNet Movies
This time around, the small screen screaming will commence with Zombie’s own 2012 shocker The Lords of Salem and end on Halloween night itself with Flatliners. Inbetween, Zombie will introduce The Blair Witch Project, Book of Shadows: The Blair Witch 2, Zombie Strippers, The Fourth Kind, Pandorum, Bubba Ho-Tep, The Evil Dead, Natural Born Killers, The Eye, 1972’s The Last House on the Left, and Angel Heart.
Joe Bob Briggs Will Return to Shudder with Holiday Specials, Ongoing Series Planned for 2019
The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs was truly something special for horror fans, recreating the drive-in horror marathon for many people who've never had a chance to experience it. We're so happy that the event was a success, because that means more Joe Bob. Shudder just officially announced that he's back for Thanksgiving and Christmas specials, and there are plans for a regular series next year!
New International Halloween Trailer
The new international version of the Halloween trailer gives us a few additional shots as well as an up close look at one of the “Season Of The Witch” masks.
First Halloween Reactions Have Critics Cheering the Return of Michael Myers
The majority of the first reactions to David Gordon Green's Halloween are positive, with some that are very enthusiastic. Variety film critic Peter Debruge says, "David Gordon Green does horror fans a favor, bringing Michael Myers' slasher-movie saga back to its roots." Many are declaring that the new movie is the best since John Carpenter's original, which is something that the director has even claimed. Fans packed in the theater were cheering and shrieking, according to multiple accounts.
Releases
Dead Night
Release: Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
Format: DVD
James and his wife Casey load up their two teenage kids and head out to a remote cabin in Oregon for a weekend trip. When James heads into the snowy forest in search of firewood, he encounters an enigmatic woman passed out in the snow. Bringing her back to the cabin for help, the family has no way of knowing that the woman's presence is the catalyst for a series of events that will change their lives forever.
Slice
Release: Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
Format: VOD
In a spooky small town, when a slew of pizza delivery boys are slain on the job, two daring survivors (Beetz and Chance the Rapper) set out to catch the culprits behind the cryptic crime spree.
The Predator
Release: Friday, September 14th, 2018
Format: Theatrical
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race
Don`t Leave Home
Release: Friday, September 14th, 2018
Format: VOD
After recently unveiling her new sculptural exhibit on Irish urban legends, artist Melanie Thomas is contacted by Father Alistair Burke, a reclusive Irish priest who, legend has it, once painted the portrait of a young girl who later disappeared on the very day her image vanished from the painting. Now, summoned by Burke and his cohort to the Irish countryside for a special art commission, Melanie eagerly accepts the offer, never stopping to consider that some urban legends might be true.
The Basement
Release: Friday, September 14th, 2018
Format: VOD
Revolves around a Los Angeles serial killer known as The Gemini (Davis), who tortures and ultimately murders his victims in the dungeon-like basement of his San Fernando Valley home. By the time the movie opens, Gemini has already claimed seven victims, all of whom he has horrifyingly maimed and decapitated with a blowtorch; but Craig Owen (Long), the famed musician whom Gemini has chosen for his eighth victim, and Craig’s beautiful wife, Kelly (Barton), prove every bit the killer’s equal in the art of psychological warfare, giving rise to one of the more diabolical plot twists in recent memory.
Mandy
Release: Friday, September 14th, 2018
Format: Limited Theatrical
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Horror At The Box Office
Although “The Meg” is still holding up strong, “The Nun” has taken over the boxoffice. It's not only taken in $53 million domestically , it’s also killing the international market as it’s brought in an additional $79 million bringing its total up to $133 million, $111 million over it’s $22 million dollar budget. It will be a surprise to nobody that a sequel will eventually be made. Just a matter of when it will happen.
Next to that, the following week, we’re looking at “The Predator” which is likely to pull “The Nun” down from the top spot.
New Trailers
Sleep No More
Five graduate students are conducting a study to prove the theory that once you’ve passed 200 hours without sleep, you will never need sleep again. As the hours tick by and their struggle to stay awake intensifies, they each start to have strange and unsettling experiences. Visions from the past, violent impulses and terrifying waking nightmares begin to take hold and turn this experiment into a desperate fight for survival.
Halloween (Trailer 2)
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Extremity
A young woman obsessed with horror, subjects herself to twelve hours of grueling torment in an attempt to confront her own fears and conquer the tragic past which haunts her.
This week on Beyond The Void Horror Podcast they take on the Italian Horror genre again with Fulci’s Zombie 3 & Claudio Fragasso’s Zombie 4 After Death. Lot’s of fun trivia on both the movies as well as their reviews! Check it out! You can listen here or you can Listen/Subscribe on iTunes here!