Fangoria Movie Forecast Through January 2007
From Fangoria.com
October 3
ABOMINABLE (Anchor Bay; DVD debut)
Director: Ryan Schifrin
Stars: Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Jeffrey Combs, Paul Gleason, Rex Linn, Dee Wallace Stone
A paralyzed man residing in a remote cabin tries to protect vacationing college students from a killer Sasquatch.
Website: www.abominablethemovie.com
THE WOODS (Sony; DVD debut)
Director: Lucky McKee
Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Patricia Clarkson, Bruce Campbell, Gordon Currie, Rachel Nichols
A new student at a remote girls’ school discovers the frightening secret behind her classmates’ disappearances.
Website: www.thewoodsmovie.net
October 4
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE ORIGIN (New Line)
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Stars: Jordana Brewster, Diora Baird, Matthew Bomer, Taylor Handley, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey
A prequel exploring the origins of the saw-swinging Leatherface and the rest of his bloody clan.
Website: www.texaschainsawmovie.com
October 13
THE GRUDGE 2 (Sony)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Stars: Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Teresa Palmer, Matthew Knight, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen
The deadly curse born of anger returns to claim more victims, including the sister of the previous film's heroine.
Website: www.sonypictures.com/movies/thegrudge2/site/main.php
October 27
SAW III (Lions Gate)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Bahar Soomekh, Angus Macfadyen
Jigsaw, now assisted by victim-turned-protégé Amanda, kidnaps a doctor and challenges her to keep him alive for as long as it takes the madman's latest captive to escape his deadly trap.
Website: www.saw3.com
November 3
SNOOP DOGG'S HOOD OF HORROR (Xenon)
Director: Stacy Title
Stars: Snoop Dogg, Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Pooch Hall, Anson Mount, Daniella Alonso
The rapper/actor hosts an anthology of terror tales with inner-city settings.
Website: www.xenonpictures.com/FDHOH
November 10
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D (Lux Digital/Midnight Movies)
Director: Jeff Broadstreet
Stars: Brianna Brown, Joshua DesRoches, Johanna Black, Greg Travis, Sid Haig
Visually dimensional remake of the George A. Romero classic about survivors of a zombie plague battling for their lives.
Website: www.nightofthelivingdead3d.com
THE RETURN (Rogue Pictures)
Director: Asif Kapadia
Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Sam Shepard
Formerly REVOLVER: A woman experiences vivid nightmares that lead her to investigate the murder of another woman 25 years in the past.
Website: www.thereturnmovie.net
December 1
TURISTAS (Fox Atomic)
Director: John Stockwell
Stars: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett
A bus accident strands a group of backpackers in the Brazilian jungle, where they're threatened by murderous locals.
Website: none yet
December 25
BLACK CHRISTMAS (Dimension)
Director: Glen Morgan
Stars: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Oliver Hudson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert
A remake of Bob Clark's cult classic about a sorority house plagued by obscene phone calls and worse by a mysterious psychopath.
Website: none yet
December 27
PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (DreamWorks)
Director: Tom Tykwer
Stars: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman
Adaptation of Patrick Süskind's best-selling novel about an 18th-century perfume maker who murders young women to capture their scents.
Website: none yet
December 29
PAN'S LABYRINTH (Picturehouse; platform)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones, Alex Angulo
In repressive post-WWII Spain, a young girl escapes into the garden maze behind her new home and discovers mystical creatures.
Website: www.panslabyrinth.com
January 5, 2007
WHITE NOISE: THE LIGHT (Rogue)
Director: Patrick Lussier
Stars: Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Adrian Holmes, William MacDonald, Kendall Cross, Craig Fairbrass
A man brought back from the brink of death after his family's murder gains to ability to see who among the living is about to die.
Website: none yet
January 19, 2007
THE MESSENGERS (Columbia)
Director: Danny and Oxide Pang
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett
A family moves into a sunflower farm intending to restore it, and instead confront a frightening evil.
Website: www.sonypictures.com/movies/themessengers
January 26, 2007
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE (MGM)
Director: Katja von Garnier
Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Reimann, Bryan Dick, Chris Geere
An Eastern European enclave of werewolves is threatened with exposure when a young female member falls in love with a visiting American.
Website: none yet
THE INVISIBLE (New Line)
Director: David S. Goyer
Stars: Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Chris Marquette
The spirit of a young man trapped in limbo must find his body with the help of the only person who can see him, a neglected teenaged girl.
Website: none yet
October 3
ABOMINABLE (Anchor Bay; DVD debut)
Director: Ryan Schifrin
Stars: Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Jeffrey Combs, Paul Gleason, Rex Linn, Dee Wallace Stone
A paralyzed man residing in a remote cabin tries to protect vacationing college students from a killer Sasquatch.
Website: www.abominablethemovie.com
THE WOODS (Sony; DVD debut)
Director: Lucky McKee
Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Patricia Clarkson, Bruce Campbell, Gordon Currie, Rachel Nichols
A new student at a remote girls’ school discovers the frightening secret behind her classmates’ disappearances.
Website: www.thewoodsmovie.net
October 4
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE ORIGIN (New Line)
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Stars: Jordana Brewster, Diora Baird, Matthew Bomer, Taylor Handley, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey
A prequel exploring the origins of the saw-swinging Leatherface and the rest of his bloody clan.
Website: www.texaschainsawmovie.com
October 13
THE GRUDGE 2 (Sony)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Stars: Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Teresa Palmer, Matthew Knight, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen
The deadly curse born of anger returns to claim more victims, including the sister of the previous film's heroine.
Website: www.sonypictures.com/movies/thegrudge2/site/main.php
October 27
SAW III (Lions Gate)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Bahar Soomekh, Angus Macfadyen
Jigsaw, now assisted by victim-turned-protégé Amanda, kidnaps a doctor and challenges her to keep him alive for as long as it takes the madman's latest captive to escape his deadly trap.
Website: www.saw3.com
November 3
SNOOP DOGG'S HOOD OF HORROR (Xenon)
Director: Stacy Title
Stars: Snoop Dogg, Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Pooch Hall, Anson Mount, Daniella Alonso
The rapper/actor hosts an anthology of terror tales with inner-city settings.
Website: www.xenonpictures.com/FDHOH
November 10
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D (Lux Digital/Midnight Movies)
Director: Jeff Broadstreet
Stars: Brianna Brown, Joshua DesRoches, Johanna Black, Greg Travis, Sid Haig
Visually dimensional remake of the George A. Romero classic about survivors of a zombie plague battling for their lives.
Website: www.nightofthelivingdead3d.com
THE RETURN (Rogue Pictures)
Director: Asif Kapadia
Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Sam Shepard
Formerly REVOLVER: A woman experiences vivid nightmares that lead her to investigate the murder of another woman 25 years in the past.
Website: www.thereturnmovie.net
December 1
TURISTAS (Fox Atomic)
Director: John Stockwell
Stars: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett
A bus accident strands a group of backpackers in the Brazilian jungle, where they're threatened by murderous locals.
Website: none yet
December 25
BLACK CHRISTMAS (Dimension)
Director: Glen Morgan
Stars: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Oliver Hudson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert
A remake of Bob Clark's cult classic about a sorority house plagued by obscene phone calls and worse by a mysterious psychopath.
Website: none yet
December 27
PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (DreamWorks)
Director: Tom Tykwer
Stars: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman
Adaptation of Patrick Süskind's best-selling novel about an 18th-century perfume maker who murders young women to capture their scents.
Website: none yet
December 29
PAN'S LABYRINTH (Picturehouse; platform)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones, Alex Angulo
In repressive post-WWII Spain, a young girl escapes into the garden maze behind her new home and discovers mystical creatures.
Website: www.panslabyrinth.com
January 5, 2007
WHITE NOISE: THE LIGHT (Rogue)
Director: Patrick Lussier
Stars: Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Adrian Holmes, William MacDonald, Kendall Cross, Craig Fairbrass
A man brought back from the brink of death after his family's murder gains to ability to see who among the living is about to die.
Website: none yet
January 19, 2007
THE MESSENGERS (Columbia)
Director: Danny and Oxide Pang
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett
A family moves into a sunflower farm intending to restore it, and instead confront a frightening evil.
Website: www.sonypictures.com/movies/themessengers
January 26, 2007
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE (MGM)
Director: Katja von Garnier
Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Reimann, Bryan Dick, Chris Geere
An Eastern European enclave of werewolves is threatened with exposure when a young female member falls in love with a visiting American.
Website: none yet
THE INVISIBLE (New Line)
Director: David S. Goyer
Stars: Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Chris Marquette
The spirit of a young man trapped in limbo must find his body with the help of the only person who can see him, a neglected teenaged girl.
Website: none yet