Crawl or Die aka CRAWL BITCH CRAWL TRAILER

Asked to protect the most valuable thing in human history; trapped in a two  foot tunnel chased by an unknown thing, what do you do?  What do you do?  

Set in a world where a virus has not only made the planet Earth uninhabitable but it has also made women infertile, a group of specially trained soldiers are tasked to protect the most valuable thing in the history of human kind: Protect the last fertile woman.

The mission calls for the team to safely deliver her to mankind's new home dubbed the Blue Planet aka Earth 2. The team sets off thinking that not only is their new home unoccupied but that it is safe. They will, however, they find that belief is wrong, dead wrong, as they are forced to head underground after their arrival on Earth 2. Now left with now options they are forced to maneuver through endless tunnels that decrease in size as they go. All the while chased by a seemingly unstoppable creature that appears immune to the teams bullets and efforts.

Who will survive the deadly cat and mouse game that is Crawl or Die?!





Produced, Written & Directed by Oklahoma Ward starring Nicole Alonso, Crawl or Die is set for a July 2014 release, Crawl or Die (as it is entitled now) is also set to a trilogy.

Until Next Time...

 

Open Windows: Preview

Computer stalking seems too be the new rage in horror and thriller films. And who can blame producers with whole Snowden; NSA, Big Brother scandal that has rocked the world these last few months.

Will replace the ever popular POV style of horror the likes-of-which and the long running "Paranormal Activity" spin-offs? I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Me, however, I think --while some are well done-- can live without the next POV style, found footage flick.

Until next time. Until then check out the trailer for "Open Windows" which stars Sasha Grey and Elijah Wood.

"The Last Exorcism Part 2": The Trailer and Thoughts

The much anticipated sequel to the 2010 faux-documentary film “The Last Exorcism” is finally coming out this March. Love or hate the found-footage genre in horror movies today, it did take a relative simple storyline -that of a lost faith preacher as he tries to prove that the way that people take god is WAY to seriously and that they would follow someone off a cliff who had a good enough spiel (Jim Jones anyone?). The first film -for those of you have not seen it- followed Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) as he tried to “exorcize” a demon from the body of a young girl.

Now the whole first half of the movie paints the picture that this girl, Nell (Ashley Bell), is not in fact possessed, by in reality suffers from metal problems and is possibly being molested, if not by her father, then, definitely her brother if not by both. However, Nell’s father comes off as a confused man living in the backwoods of Louisiana, and suffers his own metal problems, in addition with his deep seated beliefs, as he tries to deal with the death of his wife and raise his family from the evils of the world when he is convinced that his daughter is in fact possessed because she has wild mood swings and has supposedly been eviscerating the live stock on the farm.

As Cotton Marcus goes through the motions, for not only Nell’s father, Louis (Louis Herthum), but for the documentary crew as well, strange things start to unfold leading to the fact that Marcus begins to rediscover his faith as he starts to think that Nell might actually be possessed by the demon, Abalam. As the facts of the case start to unfold we learn of a large conspiracy that involves the local church as well as Nell’s brother, Caleb. Leading to a confrontation of what looks to be actually a demon. The confrontation, as a result, also leads to the death of the crew and possibly Cotton Marcus.

Flash forward now to the sequel entitled: “Last Exorcism 2”, producers Eli Roth and the gang at STRIKE have now dumper the found-footage, POV style of filming and have gone the route of the traditional film as we find Nell somewhat safe and sound living in a halfway house in New Orleans. Nell seems to have limited knowledge (or at least portrays herself that way) of the events that took place and how she got to where she is (according to the trailer), but she knows that she is being perused by forces unknown.

While a lot of the movie goers that saw the first film were less than impresses, I in fact was a fan of the film. I thought that “The Last Exorcism” made good use of a style of filmmaking that has, over the years, been way over done and pretty much thrown into effect for movies that had very poor scripts to begin with. Like somehow using POV/Docu-style filming was going to fix the fact that their scripts sucked or they had a good idea and no money to get real actors that can act. Now I am not saying that they needed big or known names. Just people that had acting chops and not just a buff body or a nice pair of tits.

The trailer for “The Last Exorcism 2” has me interested to see where they can take this storyline. While the message boards do not really care for the “Christian” and religious horror films that use good and evil in the subtext of angels and demons -they may be right on some occasions- but some of the best horror films -in my mind- have used religion very effectively in the way they have created a real feel of dread in the theater. (“Omen”, “The Exorcist”, “Hellraiser” just to name few).

The fact is the horror genre will always fall on one two types of movies: The religious angle or that of the masked villain (ie Freddy, Jason, Leatherface). While both styles have been WAY over used they can and are still affective if done the right way. But each to their own.

Until next time….

The "Evil Dead" remake: REDBAND Trailer; Thoughts of It

Okay. I admit it. I was not a fan of Hollywood remaking “Evil Dead”. Not even with the fact that Raimi had something to do with it. However, I am now eating those words after watching the REDBAND trailer for it.

The original “Evil Dead” (the Bruce Campbell ones) I found, while shot on a low budget, pure masterful. Even though they were of more a dark comedy than actual horror (especially 2 & 3) per say. And when I heard the rumor mills start with Hollywood looking to remake the classic from my teen years I was appalled. Because lets face it. Most of the remakes, especially of the horror variety, have pretty much sucked balls. Then they went and attached Diablo Cody’s name to the new version & I was ready to jump out a window. Now its not like Cody is a bad writer and all (I found “Juno” quite good, and I even defended her at times when people talked shit about her), I do believe that she is slightly overrated especially when she talked about being such a huge horror fan and that how she really wanted to do a horror film then gave us the god-awful “Jennifer’s Body” I felt that she should have been taken out and flogged. A little extreme I know, but I really disliked that movie that I had such high hopes for. When I heard Cody’s name pop up with he rewrite for “Evil Dead” I was really starting to think that this remake was going give us tremendous levels suckage.

But all is starting to be forgiven. And I’ll admit that I will be more than happy to eat any amount of crow for thinking and bitching the way I did about the remake of “Evil Dead” if it lives up to what the trailer is promising.

"World War Z" Trailer and Thoughts

Holy shit, time to break out your Zombie Survival Handbooks because here it is, the trailer for the big screen adaptation of Max Brooks’ “World War Z”

Don’t worry if haven’t read the novel because from the first looks of it, “World War Z” is going to be nothing (even more than the “Walking Dead”) like the book. Which really is not a bad thng. In case you don’t know the novel, that version of the story is set 10 years after the great war with the undead as Agent Brooks of the United Nations Post War Commission travels around the world gathering information and facts from the years of battle to reclaim the Earth. Whereas the big screen version from Brad Pitt’s production company (Plan B Entertainment) takes us what is sure to be wild ride as UN agent Gerry Lane (Pitt) searches the globe of what the origin is that has brought of this onslaught of the dead and for a way stop it from destroying the world.

Originally set for release at the end of 2012 (because, hell, who doesn’t like death, destruction and the end of the world during the holiday season) “World War Z” seemed to be plagued (pun untended) with problems from almost the start. Everything from production shutdowns to being WAY over budget. Then there were the rumors that the ending was a complete disaster in its own right. Causing the Studio to have Pitt hire a new screen writer to re-write the end and re-film. When I heard that and how the movie was pushed from the Christmas release list I had figured this movie to be a dead issue, maybe finding the light of day either in movie Purgatory of January (that seems to be the time when studios that have little faith in their projects and since most people are recovering from the holiday season they are not typically heading to the movies, so usually there is little or no quality films be put so a movie like this would find no competition and perhaps might make some of it’s budget back) or just dumped on DVD. But with a movie this size and amount to produce the latter would be unlikely with out a big screen release. Then there comes the fact that the “Hobbit” looked slated to be released, if not on the same weekend, then, relatively close to “World War Z” which did not bode well either. So either from genus marketing or perhaps they have actually fixed whatever problems they have, “World War Z” is finally going to find it’s way to the theaters. And right in time for the summer blockbuster season, and reportedly going up against the revamped Superman franchise: “Man of Steel.”

Should be interesting, because the trailer makes it look pretty fucking awesome. However, I do have to note the zombie purists will not be happy as we have returned to the fast moving, rabid eater type zombies.



So check it out and let me know what YOU think.

"Salem's Lot" My Twelfth Pick for the Halloween Season

Vampires Stephen King style, in other words: “Salem’s Lot”. The made for television movie is my twelfth pick for Halloween, made during a time long before bad reality TV shows and -what we are starting to see more of- cutting edge shows of horror variety. Think “American Horror Story”, “Walking Dead”, or even that of “True Blood”.

“Salem’s Lot” sees king use his favorite type protagonist: writer (Ben Mears), as played by David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) as he returns back to his hometown of Salem’s Lot, Maine (another mainstay of the King universe) with the intention to write his newest novel about the ominous old house that sits and over looks the town. The house itself presents a traumatic past as it was home too Hubie Marsten, a bootlegger and suspected child murder. As a young boy, Ben went inside the old, deserted mansion on a dare from friends and the images that his mind had conjured (he believed that not only that he saw the corpse of Hubie Marsten, but good-old-Hubie opened his eyes and looked at him) have haunted him ever since.

So what better way to confront ones fears than trying to rent the house that scares the shit out of you. Unfortunately for Ben someone has beet him to the punch and the house is already rented to a man named Barlow, and who has moved in his man servant, Straker, to get the house ready for his arrival. This fact forces Ben to take up residence in the local boarding house.

Not long after the arrival of Straker, strange occurrences began to hold upon the town of Salem’s Lot. First the disappearance of Ralphie Glick one night as he and his brother Danny cut through the Marsten property. Then the body of another well known towns person is found behind the wheel of his car. After that things rapidly start to come apart in Salem’s Lot. Danny awakens the night of the search for his brother to find Ralphie outside his window. Problem with that is Danny’s room is on the second floor, So Danny being a dumb kid opens the window for his brother and gets a surprise from his younger brother that he was not expecting. Danny is found face first on the floor by his parents. At the hospital things do not bode well for poor Danny-boy as he receives another visit from his dear ol’ brother this time when is found in the morning Danny is dead. But this just the beginning of the bad things that are coming to Salem’s Lot. As more and more townsfolk either are taking “ill” or just disappearing altogether.

At thins point Ben Mears is starting to put the pieces together and begins to think that all of this has something to do with the impending arrival of the mysterious Barlow. But what Ben thinks is by far of the real evil that is taking place in “Salem’s Lot”.

FYI: The TNT remake of “Salem’s Lot” (2004) starring Rob Lowe is actually a very good as well. And stayed a little truer the actual King novel. So think if this post as a two for one deal…

Until next time…

Takashi Miike: Back Where He Belongs: In Horror

The highly prolific and controversial horror director, Takashi Miike, is back behind the camera with “Lesson Of The Evil” and his new film is being touted as his most twisted and gore filled film yet.

You remember him don’t you. And if you are a horror fan -especially of Asian horror- how can you not?

Takashi Miike rose to fame back in 1999, here in America anyway, with his film “Audition” that told the story of a lonely Japanese widower whose friend decides to hold a fictitious audition for a role in an up coming movie so he can find a new love to share his life with. And as fate would have it the widower grows enamored with one girl in-particular but in Japanese fashion not all goes the way it should.

This time around, Miike is directing “Lesson Of Evil” which is adapted from the 2010 best selling novel “AKU NO KYOTEN” by author Yusuke Kishi and is shooting for a November release. Not sure when it’ll make to American shores but I can’t imagine it would be that long as for the large following Miike has in the States.

The plot for “Lesson Of Evil” follows A teacher named Seiji Hasumi who is loved by his students and respected by his peers. However, his outward charm masks his true nature. In reality, Hasumi is a psychopath who is unable to feel empathy for other human beings. Specifically, he has a severe antisocial personality disorder. Because of his mental condition, Hasumi chooses to deal with problems like bullying and overbearing “monster parents” the easy way—by systematically murdering his students.

Other Miike notables are “Ichi the Killer, “Gozu”, Yakuza Demon”, and the Showtime series “Masters of Horror: Imprint”. “Imprint” if you remember was banned from the Showtime broadcast but is available on DVD.