Stephen King IT Movie Adaptation finds ‘Mama’ Director

THR is reporting that Andy Muschietti – the filmmaker behind the 2013 supernatural horror film Mama – is in negotiations to direct the new Movie Adaptation of Stephen King IT . The lose of the previous director was over budget concerns, and as Muschietti’s last film cost only $15 million to produce, it’s likely he’ll be able to meet the studio’s demands. Once his deal is finalized, New Line will proceed with a search for a new screenwriter to revise the previous script draft (penned by Fukunaga and his writing partner, Chase Palmer) to suit this latest creative shift.

Paranormal Activity Ghost Dimension trailer now online

Paranormal Activity The Ghost Dimension is the overall sixth – and supposedly final – installment in the low-budget, found-footage, supernatural horror series than got started 2009.

Paranormal Activity Ghost Dimension follows the Fleeges clan – including, dad Ryan (Chris J. Murray), mom Emily (Brit Shaw), and their daughter Leila (Ivy George) – as they move into a new house, only to find themselves seemingly being haunted by supernatural forces. However, upon discovering a box of old video tapes in the garage (along with a camera that can capture paranormal beings on film), the family starts to realize that it was no accident that they ended up in their new home. But can they prevent the terrible fate that’s been laid out for them?

Just for Giggles in case you missed it HUMAN CENTIPEDE 3 trailer

I will never forget seeing the poster for the first human centipede film. I honestly thought it was a joke.

After viewing the films (yes I have watched one and two) All I keep thinking (regarding the series creator Tom Six) is like Gene Hackman said to Will Smith in Enemy of the State….

…He is either incredibly smart, or incredibly stupid….Now I have an itching feeling Tom Six is a demented genius and planned this escapade into debauchery and celluloid degradation all from the start.  I also believe that each film and their obtuse differences in style and tone and production value was also planned years in advance…

The only thing I am unsure about, and its probably one of the greatest mysteries in movie making history, is how he got away with it.  It is rumored that the financiers of the first film did not know all the details until production wrapped/  Where and how did he manage that?

Anyways, check out the trailer for Human Centipede Final Sequence. And for those of you who have never seen any of the films and consider them blasphemy or an abomination to entertainment, relax and be calm, this is the last one, the nightmare is almost over.

Details for ‘Leatherface’ prequel film

At this point to be honest I am not even really sure to which or what this “prequel”  news is referring in respect to the film franchise as there have been like five sequels to the original 1974 film, a 2003 remake which i LOVED to bits, sacrilege I know!  a sequel to that remake and then a prequel and then another sequel (sort of) to that film.  At this point the whole idea of another film is grossly redundant or rhetorical or a word like that. Anyway here are the details on the new upcoming franchise installment..According to Badass Digest, Leatherface will center on four teens who escape a mental hospital and are holding a nurse hostage. Stephen Dorff (Blade) will play the sheriff on their tail, and Angela Bettis (May) will play the matriarch of the disturbed Sawyer family. Based on the site’s description, it sounds like the identity of which escaped mental patient is actually Leatherface is a central mystery in the film.

Lucy Lawless cast in ‘Ash Vs. Evil Dead’ TV Series

Most people know or rather remember Lucy Lawless as Xena warrior princess which aired in syndication from September 4, 1995, until June 18, 2001.
However I remember her (obviously) as Lucretia from the over the top, blood soaked, guts wrenched, violence and nudity filled  – balls to the wall- fun guilty pleasure that was the Starz series; Spartacus:Blood and Sand and it’s  prequel Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and it’s follow up second season Spartacus:Vengeance which ran in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively.
And she has now been added to the cast of the new upcoming Starz series “Ash vs the Evil Dead” which is planned to begin filming later in the spring where Lawless will play a character named Ruby a mysterious figure who is determined to hunt down the source of the recent outbreaks of evil. Unfortunately for Ash, Ruby believes that the outbreaks are his fault. The series will pick up decades after the film “Army of Darkness”  and will consist of 10 one-half hour episodes.

Walking Dead spinoff show gets a teaser trailer and synopsis

While I feel at times that the AMC hit series The Walking Dead, after five seasons, is becoming a bit too much like its namesake, slow, redundent, and a bit mindless, as the unrelentless status quo of “the world has gone to shit and is infested with walking dead things, and you can’t trust anyone” continues and yet it is still interesting enough to keep tuning in each season.

AMC has been so confident about the show that it has already ordered two seasons of the upcoming spinoff series titled “Fear the Walking Dead”  which is planned as a prequel.

As the original series actually began 28 days about a month into the outbreak, the spinoff will fill in the gap and assumably show the earliest days, what led up to the current status quo which I think will be more exciting and entertaining watching the new set of characters discover and come to grips with what is happening while keeping a strong tension due to the audience knowing what is coming.  A lot like what made the Starz Spartacus prequel series “Gods of the Arena”  so good. You knew what was coming just not how and why it will become what already is and what will be.

As far as the plot is concerned – Miranda (Kim Dickens) is a divorced mother of two who works as a guidance counselor at an L.A. high school. She’s currently in a relationship with Sean (Cliff Curtis), another teacher at her school and fellow divorcee. Miranda’s kids are Nick (Frank Dillane), aged 19 and Ashley (Alycia Debnam-Carey), aged 17.

As the series begins, Nick is battling with heroin addiction and Ashley is preparing to graduate high school and go to college. Miranda is doing her best to handle the needs of both her children while still being available to Sean, who is also struggling to maintain a relationship with his own son from a previous marriage.  Check out the teaser trailer below.  The series is scheduled for a late summer/ early fall release.

Ash vs the Evil Dead series trailer now online

There is finally a full length trailer for the upcoming Starz series of Ash vs the Evil Dead, a continuation of the adventures of Bruce Campbell as he fights to rid the world of the plague of “Deadites”

Considering the amount of insane blood guts and gore that was packed into the hard R remake of the Evil Dead, and remembering the heavy adult content of other Starz series (one of my all time favorites, Spartacus) I am very interested to see how the new series will play out.

Stephen King’s IT big screen adaption loses its director

I was just getting excited about all the possibilities of my favorite Stephen King novel being given new life a supposedly two full length hard R feature films.  As long as they would be release within reasonable time from one another, say six months of less

The story is one of the few updated/remakes I was actually looking forward to and not loathing.  Even when of all people, Will Poulter (We’re the Millers) was cast a the wonderfully evil and monsterous killer clown “Pennywise.

But now apparently director Cary Fukunaga who has been attached to the project has left citing a series of creative disputes with New Line Cinema which had recently taken over the project from Warner Bros. Studios.

According to the Wrap issues ranged from everything such as filming locations, Will Poulter’s casting and the desire of New Line to condense the film into a single film which theoretically would have pushed the films running time into the three and a half to four hour mark.While Stephen King himself had publicly expressed support for Fukunaga’s adaptation of the author’s source book, as based on a script co-penned by Fukunaga and his writing partner Chase Palmer. Unfortunately, it seems like the prospects of this film coming to fruition anytime soon is remote, it is sadly more likely it will follow the Dark Tower film adaption and wallow in development hell.

Fear The Walking Dead news – Timeline & Concept

The Walking Dead for me has being a series who’s ability to continue to excite and interest me has become like its name sake, not really alive, just going on aimlessly.  The concepts have been reused too much, look out for walking dead, run away or fight other surviving humans, and back and forth and so on. So the new upcoming prequel’s concept of showing what happening before and up to the zombie apocalypse we now know all too well is a breath of fresh air.According to Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Fear the Walking Dead will be more than just a spinoff or prequel;

 “…If you think about the way a zombie outbreak would happen, it would happen very organically. It would be happening for a while behind the scenes. In pockets of civilization, there would be news stories that didn’t really make sense and didn’t seem connected. And that’s kind of where we pick things up. There are a lot of things on the news, there’s a lot of chatter and paranoia and concern. And yet the vast majority of the population is ignoring these things and talking about their daily lives, and that’s kind of where we pick things up. And things ramp up very quickly from there.”

“I will say that I don’t consider this show to be a prequel to The Walking Dead, because there will be a point where a certain episode of this show will line up with season 2 of The Walking Dead, and a certain episode of this show will line up with season 3 of The Walking Dead. So we will be progressing through time to the point that we do pass the initial days of the outbreak. But how fast it is that we get there? That’s just going to have to remain a mystery.”

 

Green Inferno new trailer now online

Eli Roth’s newest horror gore fest seems to be a homage to the infamous Cannibal Holocaust or maybe it just seems like that since since it’s 1980 notorious debut there have not been any cannibal horror films since (well, there have been but almost all that been foreign films  non as well know and most all due to the genre were banned in many countries and thus remain relatively unknown to the general moviegoer) anyway check out the new trailer for the Green Inferno (yeah I still don’t get the title either)

The Green Inferno will see a domestic release in theaters on September 25th, 2015.

Review: Insidious 3

The trailers suggested this installment in the insidious series would “go back to the beginning” – in theory that would have logically ment a story about the dad as a boy and the ghost of the old woman – however apparently back to the beginning  apparently is simply having a title card with the words

“…A few years before the Lambert haunting…”

And while the film did have a few loose connections to the other two, (basically the introduction of the further, the psychic, and the silly introduction of the two idiots and then the old woman spirit, thrown in if only to make the connection – the were just that, very loose, simple connections, nothing more..in fact it would have been better to just stay with the old woman spirit or explained her character, given her a back story – rather than introduce another different evil spirit (though I will say the character of “the man who could not breathe” was rather disturbing, visually, but nothing else, we never get any understanding of why he wants the girl or what his motivation or backstory is. They really should have finished the fathers story it would have been a perfect “completion” to the previous installments. /its almost as bad as the underworld 4 in regards to non continuity/ – and the loose connections seemed only for the purpose of making connections to the previous films and subject to the already established history, and in that regard i dare say insidious 3 was as poor a film prequel as the texas chainsaw 2013 remake prequel, all the connections were pre determined and “just because…”

The film also used the cliché of having their lead tormented character disabled for most of the film to try and manufacture a sense of vulnerability and helplessness which the audience can then identify with as well as create a sense and tone of fear and panic due to the helplessness of the main character.  very similar to the horror film Jessebelle or Monkey Shines

The film itself did actually have a number of intense and surprisingly effective “jump scares” mostly though only effective because of the now classic insidious music accompanying each scare.

And then losing any built up credibility of being a decent horror movie by having one of the worst horror film endings of all time.

How bad you ask? Remember poltergeist 2, remember the last fifteen minutes of the film? It was very similar to that, that’s how bad. The old woman psychic actually ends up physically fighting the evil spirits (going as far as the actually head butt one of them) while in “the further” only to have the girl saved by the spirit of her mother, nearly identical to Carrie-Ann being saved b y her grandmother’s ghost in the “other side” in Poltergist 2.

Then to finally humiliate itself the old woman psychic give the most generic “psychic” speech ever and then laughs with the two idiots before deciding to all go into business together… the end… and prayfully the last in the series.

Review: the Descent (2005)

The Descent is a decent horror flick about a group of women who go on an annual cave diving expedition, end up lost and abandoned and then find they are not alone in the deep dark but are in fact being hunted by underground albino, blind, humanoid monsters.  The film works very well a terrifying it’s audience because it has many different, yet equally frightening tools of fear within its near two hour running time.  The first is a unique one, an all female cast, even though that fact is in my opinion as a horror aficionado also one of its most annoying flaws.  It is an unspoken rule in the realm of the horror film genre for at least one scene of gratuitous nudity, and yet in this film, even with a cast of five different female characters, there is none, not even a quick underwear or show scene.  Now I understand why, the director wanted to create and maintain five strong female role model Ellen Riply like characters, facing an alien monster unknown threat without diminishing their independent, strong willed characters, by showing unnecessary skin.  I get it but even still I consider the lack of any exposed flesh a dubious flaw just on principle.

The second major error in the film is actually the use of the blind humanoid monsters near the end of the film.  The whole movie masterfully uses the fear, isolation and danger inherent in cave diving mixed with the female cast emotionally driven character to creat an almost overwhelming, nail biting, claustrophobia of unrelenting dread and terror.  Once the monster finally appear in the last twenty minutes of the film, they are almost an after throught and, except for creating antagonists for a sequel are a bit underwhelming and seem only to be added for the sake of traditional scares and gore.  Not to say I did not enjoy them, they work well, they just caused the film to go from a slick unique psychological horror film and revert it into a traditional monster movie gore fest.  The film would have been fine even if they had only showed up in the last ten minutes only, the suspense and pounds of terror created simply by the female cast and the horror of their situation, lost and alone miles underground was enough in and of itself.  Check out this clip and tell me you don’t start to hold your breath and dig you fingers into your seat…

teaser trailer for Fox’s upcoming anthology “Scream Queens”

I love horror anthology.  From the more recent television series such as Fear Itself (2008) Masters of Horror (2005 -07) to the older classics such as Night Visions(2001) and Monsters (1988-91) to the films such as Creepshow 2 (1987) Tales from the Darkside (1990) Body Bags (1993) and Trilogy of Terror 2 (1996) NIghtmares and Dreamscapes (2006) and V/H/S/2.

And now fresh off the season close of the latest American Horror Story anthology chapter, show creator Ryan Murphy is again teasing the horror afficinado culture dwellers with a new horror anthology entitled “Scream Queens”  which has already cast a number of stars including Lea Michele, (Glee) Jamie Lee Curtis, (no introduction needed) Emma Roberts, (AHS:coven, Scream 4, WSe’re the Millers) Joe Manganiello, (True Blood)and even Abigail Breslin,(pictured below in Little Miss Sunshine 2006) as series regulars.

Crimson Peak trailer now online

I think that Guillermo del Toro is to true anthentic horror movies as Stephen King was to horror literature in the eighties and early ninties. But his new upcoming film Crimson Peak is, at least from the trailer, well, curious.

The film takes place in 19th century England and stars Mia Wasikowska as Edith Cushing, a young woman who falls hard for a mysterious, handsome, fellow by the name of Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston).

Thomas thereafter brings Edith to his childhood home – a crumbling mansion “atop a mountain of blood-red clay” that has secrets that will forever haunt Edith, as the official Crimson Peak synopsis puts it. Jessica Chasten costars in del Toro’s haunted house feature as Thomas’ sister, Lady Lucille Sharpe, while Charlie Hunnam (fresh off collaborating with del Toro on Pacific Rim) rounds out the main cast as Dr. Alan McMichael: Edith’s longtime friend, who is wary of the mysterious Sharpes from the get-go.

Review – the Quiet Ones (2014)

This movie was one of the most disappointing  horror films with one of the best teaser trailers, (review is below the teaser trailer)

it was only good in the horror genre conventional sense in the last 30 minutes, before then it used ever cheap trick in the book, even going as far as to use a pinhole frame silhouette for some of its night scenes, loud thumps and noises, boring characters jumping out from beyond the fame for no reason… it was like going to Busch Gardens for their annual Hollow-Scream, the general scares are not that great but the end of the trip, the roller coasters are the best…let me be clear – this is a decent horror flick, but only during the last 45-30 minutes of the film, you have to endure the previous almost hour and a half in order to see it….there are revelations only discovered in the last 1/4th of the film which are surprising and exhilarating and much anticipatedbut the travel to get there is pure horror in the most boring and sublime sense of the words…the editing… oh dear god… it was as bad as the “last exorcist 2″ intense scenes cut off abruptly for no reason, giving way to scenes that had no conscious or purpose.  Even the star Olivia Cooke who had become endeared to us as an audience due to her role as the vulnerable character Emma Decody in the at first sublime A&E series Bates Motel was a washed as a pale greasy haired victim of circumstance – even the use of a inner mouth/gum brand of evil – as used in another fatally bad film two years prior the Devil Inside was a show piece attempt at divulging shock and horror, even the quiet, decent controlled acting of Jared Harris would not hold the attention of this viewer.That being stated though, again I must stress, the last one-fourth of the film and the surprises and revelations uncovered are worth sitting through the menial attempts at simple scares. It is the destination and what it holds in the end, not the journey that makes this horror film enjoyable.

Review: “It follows” (2015)

It Follows is a 2014 American supernatural horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, and starring Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, and Jake Weary. The plot follows a young girl who is pursued by an indeterminate supernatural force I first heard about the film after it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014 to critical praise.

Just from the poster one can immediately realize or at least assume the metaphor and secret behind the films plot, shared with such as “the hook man urban legend” or the 2007 black comedy horror film Teeth.

However the scares and genuine terror the film is able to create is a steady and consistent crescendo of fear and tension, which the basic premise in the end is really just a bad came of tag (your it) with an allegorical context which in the end is so obvious and simple, that i will not say it here to maintain silence on possibly spoiling any of the film by oversimplifying the film into a parable. That being said the terror of the film comes from its soundtrack which consistently builds a pulse pounding repetitive beat of tension reminiscent of what made movies like the original Halloween, and Sinister (2012) so effective and memorable. which has been described as disasterpeace. (you can listen to select pieces of the soundtrack streaming here.)

The plot of the film outside of its subtext is very similar to an episode of the 1986 horror, science fiction anthology series Amazing Stories, named Mirror, Mirror which was based itself on an ideal by StephenSpeilberg who executively produced the series.

In the end It Follows is a strong, refreshing horror flick, that works due to it’s unforgiving simplicity.

The Vatican Tapes trailer now online

From the decent religious supernatural horror films such as the 1999 film “Stigmata”, and the “Last Exorcism” to the dual prequels of the original 1972 “Exorcist”, and then “The Rite” starring Anthony Hopkins, then to the  more absurd  under achiving supernatural horror films such as “Deliver Us From Evil” and “The Last Exorcism 2″ to the more surprisingly good films such “The Devil Inside” and the 2000 film  “Lost Souls”

I am a pathetic fool for the religious supernatural horror film subgenre.  And the ironic thing about the upcoming film “The Vatican Tapes” or at least it’s trailer is that it offers only what we have seen before, each scene appears to mimic a scene from each of the films listed above, nothing new can be found.  It’s almost like a memory game to try and see if you can match the scenes in the trailer for the film scheduled to be released on May 22nd with the film scene of what came before.   Watch the trailer and test you memory…

Damien tv series trailer now online

Executive produced by former Walking Dead and Shield producer Glen Mazzara, the new Omen inspired series will pick-up 25 years after the events of the original film that see a 30-year-old Damien begin coming to terms with his true destiny as the one and only antichrist.

And as for the show’s “content,” Mazzara claimed:

I think ‘Damien’ is cutting-edge material. It’s trying to push the boundaries as far as violence and horror go. There’s a lot of really great drama on TV and that was not the case in 1976 when the film came out. So the bar is set so high given other great horror shows that are on TV. We have our work cut out for us; everybody is really interested in pushing the boundaries. I think we’ve got a few episodes that people are going to be talking about

The Conjuring 2 update

There is a bit of a divide of opinion on if James Wan is a good horror movie creator or if his films are just full of cheap scares.  I personally think he is brilliant.  He recently gave an interview to Collider regarding his upcoming return to horror with the Conjuring 2 which premieres June 10th 2016…

“I’ve been working very heavily on the script, and the idea of continuing the saga of Ed and Lorraine Warren [played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga] is actually very exciting. So the idea of going back to kind of nurture my baby that I created is part of the reason why I’m going back to do The Conjuring 2. And in some ways it’ll be like a holiday break for me after this film [re: ‘Furious 7′].”

Green Inferno Eli Roth’s Cannibal horror film gets a release date

Eli Roth’s body of work has been a very mixed bag.  While the sleeper hit Hostel was undoubtedly a success in terms of box office, the film itself, while having the distinction (along with Saw) of creating its own self exposed  sub genre, was not the greatest of horror flick even if the premise was somewhat unique. (I felt Hostel 2 was a much better film.)

Jump ahead ten years and Eli Roth’s newest upcoming gore fest is a cannibal horror film called Green Inferno (yeah, I don’t get the title either)   which is scheduled to be released this September 25th.  The film was originally debuted back in 2013 at the horror festival circuit and now finally has found distribution by Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions the production force behind lucrative horror franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge and Sinister.

Now any horror movie  aficionado will immediately see the similarities to the original, grandfather of the Cannibal horror genre – the infamous “Cannibal Holocaust” Now this is either due to a lack of originality on his part or a unsubtle tribute to the 1980 italian film directed by Ruggero Deodato, it is probably the latter.  Anyway check out the trailer for Green Inferno below:

Review: The Skin I Live In (2011) – cine-matt.com

Murder, rape,secrets, lies, sex, illegal surgical procedures, incest, kidnapping, more rape, imprisonment, psychological torture, sexual assault, medical experimentation, revenge, mad scientists,  , FORCED gender reassignment, lust, hate….

Any one of these subjects would be enough for an american psychological thriller film, but the spanish film “The Skin I Live In”  has all of them.The film star written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, and Roberto Álamois based on Thierry Jonquet’s novel Mygale, first published in French and then in English under the title Tarantula.The film premiered in May 2011 in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, and won Best Film Not in the English Language at the 65th British Academy Film Awards.
Almodóvar has described the film as “a horror story without screams or frights”

The movie is about a surgeon who  has also conducted illegal transgenetic experiments on humans, he is forbidden to continue with his research, meanwhile he is secretly keeping a young woman named Vera captive, a woman who has been forced into a bizarre unrequitted relationship with the doctor.  Both of them carry dark personal secrets which is the main focus of the extremely unconventional narrative of the story within which all of the aforementioned subjects, and actions, their reasons and the motives are revealed in one of the best and ultimately oddest films of the last decade, foreign or not.  To say anything more specific would sour the surprises. I highly recommend this underrated gem.

Paranormal Activity Ghost Dimension trailer now online

Paranormal Activity The Ghost Dimension is the overall sixth – and supposedly final – installment in the low-budget, found-footage, supernatural horror series than got started 2009.

Paranormal Activity Ghost Dimension follows the Fleeges clan – including, dad Ryan (Chris J. Murray), mom Emily (Brit Shaw), and their daughter Leila (Ivy George) – as they move into a new house, only to find themselves seemingly being haunted by supernatural forces. However, upon discovering a box of old video tapes in the garage (along with a camera that can capture paranormal beings on film), the family starts to realize that it was no accident that they ended up in their new home. But can they prevent the terrible fate that’s been laid out for them?

The Ring 3 not a prequel to the original film

The upcoming ‘new’ chapter in the horror franchise ‘the Ring’ which had been adapted from a japanese novel and then, to a (japanese) television series and then a (japanese) film series, and then into an american film and a sequel follows a video tape (VHS)  which is possessed or cursed by a vengeful spirit name Samara Morgan.
Who, after you watch her VHS tape kills you in 7 days unless you can make a copy and get someone else to watch it for you. After two successful american films the third installment was at one time rumor to be 3d and then rumored to be a prequel, now details have emerged that the new film titled ‘Rings’ which is scheduled to be release in November of 2015 will not in fact be an origin story but will take place 13 years after the events of the first (american) 2002 film.  Unfortunately other than that no (confirmed) details has surfaced.

Samuel L Jackson joins cast in Blob remake

Samuel L Jackson has been a very busy person. Playing the leading role in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming murder mystery western The Hateful Eight which is scheduled to come out later this year. The Oscar-nominee has also completed (or will soon complete) filming for roles in a variety of big screen productions of  2016 releases including : Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children an adaption of the children novel of the same name and Harry Potter director David Yates’ Tarzan and more recently on a film adaption of theStephen King novel adaptation Cell, a horror-esque film which involves a signal which infects cellphones and when heard transforms people into monsters which is due to reach theaters later this year.

Now THR reported the news about Jackson signing up for The Bob, which is being produced by Richard Saperstein and Brian Witten.

Regarding the Blob remake the director was interviewed by Geek of Den and said:

“The blob itself will be more sophisticated, more along the lines of Alien and Predator and things like that – much more science-based, the way Jurassic Park made you believe you could bring back dinosaurs with a bit of DNA from a mosquito. This will be much more explained on where the blob comes from and how it works. It’ll be a much more sophisticated creature – because it is a monster movie rather than a horror in that sense.”

Friday the 13th reboot updates – budget, plot details, more

Originally the rumor was that the upcoming installment of Slasher Jason Voorhees was to be a shaky camera “Found Footage”  style film, Paramount apparently hoping to out do New Line in terms of investment vs returns by keeping the budget small as they have done with a few of their recent films like The Purge and Project Almanac and hoping to ride the long ago crested wave that was the sub-genre.  Personally I thought that it done correctly it might have been something interesting, or at the least something different in contrast to the rest of the franchise.  But now it has been officially announced that both earlier rumors are not true.  The film will not be found footage and will not have a micro budget, like The Purge (less than four million) but probably not more than Platinum Dune’s general budget maximum of around twenty million.

In story plot news  according to horror movie reboot master producer Bradley Fuller  the next film version may delve into the how and whys of Jason’s immortality which seems like it would immediately, if true would kill what I thought made the 2009 film which ironically Fuller also produced such a decent fresh film.  I find it rather surprising that David Bruckner, a director with such a small career (he has only directed single segments “Crazy in Love” in The Signal 2007 and “Amature Night” in V/H/S 2012) as able to convince Fuller to immediately jump into the concept of Jason’s supernatural enigma.

Friday the 13th is scheduled for release on May 13th 2016.

Produced by Bradley Fuller (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003, Amnityville Horror 2005, The Hitcher 2007, The Purge, Purge:Anarchy, Ouija, Project Almanac)