Pig – First 13 minutes of Adam Mason’s horror

Be warned! Harshness ensues.

Make sure there are no kids around when you watch this and if you are in work, best that you don’t try. Wait until you get home.

Mason has completed an entirely different film during the waiting period for Luster. Shot on the cheap and on the sly, with any word kept carefully out of the press until the film was complete, Pig is a grueling exercise in single-take horror, a savage satire on American gender roles built around a lunatic central performance from Andrew Howard. With the runtime dominated by a single 70+-minute take, this is something entirely new from Mason, a technical experiment that builds on the themes and approach of his earlier work.<

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You can watch the full film at Twitch, Bloody Disgusting and Dread Central for a three hour window only starting at 6pm PST, 9pm EST on 17th April.

A clearer look at Freddy Krueger

Here is a better look at Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen, Human Target) as the new version of Freddy Kreuger in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Still not sure whether it is a cool look for the horror icon or if he just looks goofy.

Source: BD

A Nightmare on Elm Street – New poster tells it like it is

Death and Cremation – Brad Dourif’s new creepy one

You’ve got to love the Dourif. He has played some messed up characters from Dune to Child’s Play and beyond.

This new film by Justin Steele looks like Dourif has another chance to bring his A game of cool freaky weirdness to the screen. It also has this excellent poster which is a lovely bit of art.
A typical American suburb filled with middle class morals, a lonely 59-year-old, Stan, contributes to society by offering cremation services from his basement. In fact, Stan murders neighbors he perceives to be social bullies. Jarod, a fatherless 17-year-old high school outcast, lands an after-school job in Stan’s cremation house and the two develop an unusual working relationship that quickly evolves into a partnership. As detective Matt Fairchild puts together clues from local disappearances, Stan must decide if protecting his newfound trainee is worth killing for.

It also stars Jeremy Sumpter and is due out some time this year.

What did you think of the trailer?

Source: Pajiba

Pig – Cool poster for horror filmed in one 70 minute take

I love the old school feel of the poster. Reminds me of one for The Burning.

Twitch had the poster and info on the film by Adam Mason along with a great review.

Together with frequent collaborator Andrew Howard, Mason has completed an entirely different film during the waiting period for Luster. Shot on the cheap and on the sly, with any word kept carefully out of the press until the film was complete, Pig is a grueling exercise in single-take horror, a savage satire on American gender roles built around a lunatic central performance from Andrew Howard. With the runtime dominated by a single 70+-minute take, this is something entirely new from Mason, a technical experiment that builds on the themes and approach of his earlier work.

The film opens up right into the heart of the gory action, as we follow a bloodied and beaten woman down a lonely dirt road. Soon a truck rolls up on her, and the main protagonist of Pig is revealed to be the old standby of country-bumpkin-white-trash-crazy-freak-o. It’s obvious the woman has escaped, however briefly, from the clutches of this insane psychopath, but isn’t getting away. For her, things are going from bad to worse, and fast. What happens next is text book chase-and-kill stuff, albeit taken to an entirely new level of dread.

You can also watch the full film at Twitch, Bloody Disgusting and Dread Central for a three hour window only starting at 6pm PST, 9pm EST on 17th April.

The Thing – First photo from the prequel

Finally, a first look at the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing. Sure it is just a picture of the Norwegian Camp which we see in the original but it is all burnt up.

Looks good and similar looking snow cat to the original. All depends upon the look of the creature now.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton star in the prequel which shows the events that occurred at the Norwegian station seen destroyed in John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Matthijs van Heijningen is directing and Amalgamated Designs is doing the efects which will be a mix of CGI and practical FX.

What do you think?

Source: /Film

Splice – New trailer for Vincenzo Natali’s genetic horror

Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive(Adrien Brody), two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named “Dren”, the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators – only to have that bond turn deadly.

Still not seen this, but I do like what I see in that trailer.

Bio Slime – Trailer

The story opens in a remote abandoned industrial area, under the cover of night, a drug dealer and his sexy girl friend, Donna, wait for a stranger. When he arrives, the stranger offers a large bag of drugs in exchange for a mysterious briefcase. The drug dealer double crosses the stranger but before he could get away, the dealer is gruesomely killed. Donna panics and drives the car away with the briefcase still in the trunk.

The next morning in a rundown building downtown LA, Troy – an artist and a drunk, is rudely awakened to find out that the building has sold and he has to move out the next day. On top of that, his niece has just gotten beaten up by her boyfriend and is on her way over to seek comfort. Furthermore, his friend Jack, a pothead, is cooking meth in the next room and an irate landlord is coming collects overdue rent.

Donna arrives, carrying the mysterious briefcase . She runs into Jack, telling him about last night incident. Jack went to investigate the car. Donna overcome by her temptation, opens the case … releasing a strange mass of slime … It consumes her.

As the day goes, more and more people end up in Troy’s apartment, fighting amongst themselves oblivious to the deathly threat. Only when a group of people filming an adult video were attacked by the slime monster that they realized the extent of their predicament. Trapped in a room with only one door and no windows. With no cell phones reception and no way to calls for help, the group of seven people is under siege as the shape shifting creature tries to seep inside. They are picked off one by one. A plan is hatched to retrieve the briefcase for any clue to destroy the Slime monster.

Check out the official site.

George A Romero’s Survival of the Dead – Another Red Band Trailer

Saw VI, 2009 – Movie Review

Director: Kevin Greutert
Starring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, William Easton, Samantha Lemole

This review by Ashleigh Walmsley

In 2004, writer and director Leigh Whannell and James Wan created Jigsaw, the inexplicable ‘saviour’ of all those who’ve taken their lives for granted. Little did they know, this creation would become one of films most memorable, and successful horror icons, spawning five sequels, a rollercoaster and merchandise to fulfil a horror fan’s wet dream. Five years down the line, and we have ‘Saw VI’ – helmed by editor-turned-director Kevin Greutert.

Picking up where the fifth left, ‘Saw VI’ follows Detective Hoffman (Mandylor), now rid of Special Agent Strahm and the only supposed successor to Jigsaw’s legacy, setting up – once again – a trap which will test the lives of certain hopefuls, all the while dealing with the FBI who, unbeknownst to him, have grown suspicious.

Being a fairly big fan of horror films – ranging from those raw classics released in the 70’s to the undeniably unoriginal dumbed-down remakes we’ve grown so accustomed to -, I’ve followed the ‘Saw’ franchise from the very beginning. I’ve watched it go from strength-to-strength-to-mediocre, and then hit the stumbling block, forcing the franchise to turn into a nonsensical array of brutal sequences, with almost no plot development – leaving the never-ending wrath of Jigsaw unexplained. The fifth was, undoubtedly, one of the most pointless horror films I’ve ever had a chance to come across. As far as I’m concerned, it’s not a typical ‘Saw’ film. So I, like many fans of the franchise, had lost all hope for the sixth entry, and to my surprise, it actually turned out rather good.

Despite it’s rather implausible premise, ‘Saw VI’ tackles Jigsaw’s latest ‘outing’ with a firm grip, opening the film with a memorable and sincerely sick sequence, and doesn’t let go until the final act where not all, but a partial piece of the plot from films one to four is explained. As Detective Hoffman deals with the FBI, we’re left with the poor souls stuck in the traps they’ve been left in, which – brilliantly – are some of the most creative and demented of the series (The Carousel Trap, especially, taking a more personal approach). Similar to the previous entries, the sequences involving Jigsaw’s cleverly thought traps are fantastically shot, building the intensity with every scream, all thanks to director Greutert. His clear enthusiasm, and understanding, of the franchise without a doubt helped ‘Saw VI’ – unlike David Hackl who, to me, had the potential to ruin it with the fifth entry.

I was also very surprised at the fairly unknown actors who starred. Costas Mandylor, William Easton, Samantha Lemole, and, of course, Tobin Bell (Despite his character, Jigsaw, having died three films ago). Despite suffering from a sometimes-undeveloped script, they each carried the film well. There’s even a surprise cameo by a ‘Saw’ favourite.

By no means am I saying the film is perfect, it’s not at all. But coming from how ‘Saw V’ left of, ‘Saw VI’ is a vast improvement. Returning to it’s original roots, Kevin Greutert has given us an entry into the series so promising that I’m surprisingly glad a seventh has been announced – and in eye-popping 3D! Lets hope Dr. Gordon makes an appearance in the, so-called, final chapter.