Alexa Vega, Bill Moseley in "Saw" creator's next "musical"
Alexa Vega (
Spy Kids) has been cast as Shiloh in
Darren Lynn Bousman's (
Saw II, II, IV) horror rock opera
Repo! The Genetic Opera. She will begin shooting her scenes on August 27.
In addition, this past weekend at the HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis it was revealed that horror fav
Bill Moseley (
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects, Halloween) is in final talks to join the cast of
Repo! The Genetic Opera.He will be joining the beautiful
Alexa Vega.
Director
Darren Lynn Bousman made his return to the States recently to talk to journalists about
SAW IV, which wrapped last week in Toronto, Canada. While chatting about Jigsaw’s latest installment,
Bousman also found sometime to plug his next feature film,
REPO!, a horror rock opera/musical which is a move in a completely new direction, “I don't know how different I can get than doing a rock opera – it’s like a side step out of the horror genre.”
He tells that he likes his SAW crew and will continue to work with them as much as possible, “The same crew (as
SAW III and
Saw IV) doing
REPO!... [at least] 95 percent the same crew.”
He also talks about what type of film
REPO! will be and how it will be more violent than
SAW, “[The film is] a rock opera, a musical… it will be more violent than
SAW in every aspect,” he explains, “It’s
ROCKY HORROR [
PICTURE SHOW] on acid.”
What’s shocking is how many original songs will be written for the adaptation of the stage play, “There are 77 songs in
REPO -
RENT only had 19. [There will be] singing from beginning to end,” he explains, “One song might be 20 seconds, another 14 seconds and then one 5 minutes.” Think big, as he compares
REPO! to
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and
TOMMY – only with buckets of blood.
Watch for the film in 2008.
The film is slated to begin filming at the end of August in Canada.
Horror In Your House for this week is More Disappointing
It has been a painful few weeks of Horror In Your House as there really hasn't been anything worth trekking to your local retailers for. Sure there has been a few thing you might want to check out, but man, today is terrible.
Here's a list of what hits stores today, maybe there's something you'll find interesting.
- Bela Lugosi Collection: St. Clair Vision
- includes WHITE ZOMBIE, THE HUMAN MONSTER, ONE BODY TOO MANY, INVISBLE GHOST, THE PHANTOM CREEPS, DEATH KISS, SCARED TO DEATH, BLACK DRAGONS, and THE CORPSE VANISHES. This collection also includes a biography of the actor, a poster gallery, and a trivia quiz for fans.
- Brutal: Lionsgate
- Five Bloody Graves/Nurse Sherri: Retro Shock-O-Rama/POPcinema
- A 2-disc "twin bill" of 1970s cult classic horror exploitation from the legendary ‘B’ movie team of director Al Adamson and producer Sam Sherman.
- Nailed: Trinity
- Shark Attack in the Mediterranean: Image Entertainment
- Vintage Horror Classics: Dracula: Delta Music Inc.
- A 2-disc collection of Dracula-inspired films and documentaries including: BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA DOCUMENTARY, NOSFERATU, THE VAMPIRE BAT, MESSIAH OF EVIL, SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA, GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE and THE THRISTY DEAD.
- Vintage Horror Classics: Frankenstein: Delta Music Inc.
- This 2 disc set includes: MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN DOCUMENTARY, JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN and LADY FRANKENSTEIN.
- Vintage Horror Classics: Werewolves: Delta Music Inc.
- 6 ferocious furry and fearful films about the Werewolf, including: SCREAM OF THE WOLF, MOON OF THE WOLF, WOLFMAN, WEREWOLF IN A GIRL’S DORMITORY, WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON and WEREWOLF VS. VAMPIRE WOMEN.
- Vintage Horror Classics: Zombies—The Living Dead: Delta Music Inc.
- 6 Zombie movies sure to thrill: KING OF THE ZOMBIES, REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES, WHITE ZOMBIE, DEAD MEN WALK, TEENAGE ZOMBIES and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
Fox announces "28 Weeks Later" DVD details
Fox Home Entertainment has announced
28 Weeks Later on DVD, which will be available to own on October 9th and should retail at around $29.98.
The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track.
DVD Extras will include an audio commentary by director
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Co-Writer
Enrique Lopez Lavigne, a Code Red: Making Of
28 Weeks Later Behind-The-Scenes featurette, an Infected Make-Up Effects featurette, a Getting Into The Action featurette, and a
28 Days Later: The Aftermath Flash-Animated Graphic Novel.
Completing the package will be deleted scenes with optional commentary, and the theatrical trailers.
You can view the DVD cover art
here.
Leslie Vernon returns in "Behind The Mask 2"?
One of the best films we saw back in 2006 was Anchor Bay/Starz Entertainment's
Behind the Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon, which just hit DVD a week ago after premiering at SXSW in 2006. Directed by
Scott Glosserman, the film starred
Nathan Baesel, Robert Englund, Matt Bolt, Jenafer Brown, Krissy Carlson, Scott Wilson, Zelda Rubenstein, Angela Goethals and
Kane Hodder.
BEHIND THE MASK screenwriter
David J Stieve recently talked about what would happen to
Leslie Vernon should a
BEHIND THE MASK 2 ever come to fruition. And it’s something the filmmakers have kept in mind this whole time.
“I can tell you that there is a definite idea for what’s going to happen to Leslie Vernon next, that’s been the goal all along.”
“Obviously the focus of that or the metaphor involved there, as it happened with
Nathan as an actor or
Scott as a director, or me as a writer, it’s how do you handle that “freshman phenom/rookie of the year” type thing! That’s the symbolism at play; how does Leslie handle his success? And of course you have the whole genre-specific constructions and conventions of a horror sequel. There’s specific conventions involved with every killer that comes back. How the town reacts, who the people are that survive, and who fills what role coming around again…so there are all these very specific genre expectations for a sequel that are ripe for the picking but there’s obviously the metaphor of how does Leslie as the ‘artist’ handle his fame, does he handle it well, does he burn out too quick, keep himself in check, does he do it right? There’s a very rich soil to till from a storytelling standpoint.”
What would it take to make it happen?
“There are a lot of what-ifs, and things to have to happen right in this business for that to ever come to fruition, but certainly if there’s going to be another horror movie coming from me, my biggest impulse, of course, is to relate what happens to Leslie next. Depending on how the DVD does, etc. that’s the impetus.”
You can read the entire interview with
Stieve here.
Official poster for "Mandy Lane" revealed
Today the official poster was released for Dimension Films'
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which hits theaters July 20.
In the film a group of high schoolers invite Mandy Lane (
Amber Heard), a good girl who became quite hot over the summer, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop quite mysteriously.
You can see this poster
here.
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