We're big fans of indie film-making here at Haddonfield Horror so were pleased to get new information from Italian film maker Davide Melini... While we await more news of his newly announced next project "Deep Shock" and the crowdfunding surrounding it, he wanted to share a couple of his other short films with us...The first one... Continue Reading →
Film News – Phantasm V Confirmed with a poster!
Don Coscarelli’s classic horror movie Phantasm is getting a long-awaited new instalment with sequel Phantasm V: Ravager...AICN broke the news and revealed the new poster and more details are now coming out. Coscarelli is supervising the film, but Ravager is written and directed by David Hartman. Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm and Kat Lester return to... Continue Reading →
Music News – movie soundtrack masters GOBLIN set to tour USA
After a phenomenal, sold out North American Tour in 2013, GOBLIN makes their triumphant return to the USA...The legendary Italian masters of the Horror Movie Soundtrack are best known for their collaborations with directors such as George A. Romero and Dario Argento, as well as their seminal album ‘Roller’. Goblin has scored a vast number... Continue Reading →
Film News – Amityville appoints director and casts stars
The latest Amityville Horror remake/sequel/whatever-it-is-now has appointed the director of Maniac Franck Khalfoun to take the reins...The long awaited film is also set to star Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bella Thorne. The screenplay is by Daniel Farrands (Halloween - the Curse of Michael Myers) and Casey La Scala (exec producer on Donnie Darko) and it... Continue Reading →
Film News – Lakewood Kickstarter
At the start of the month we told you about the #FearYourMemories campaign for Danny Allen's Lakewood......and the Kickstarter campaign mentioned in that article launched this past weekend.The film is a feature-length psychological thriller about paranoia, seclusion and bullying that takes the concepts behind "THE SHINING" and 'MEMENTO' and flips them on its head and... Continue Reading →
Film News – behind the scenes of The Raid 2
Take a peek behind the scenes on The Raid 2 with not one but TWO video clips..."Following immediately after the events of THE RAID, RAMA (Iko Uwais) is forced to reinvent himself as an undercover cop in order to provide protection for his wife and child. Working for the anti-corruption taskforce led by the one... Continue Reading →
Film Trailer – The Evil Within (formerly Mine Games)
The Evil Within is the new name for Mine Games, starring Sorority Row and Burning Bright‘s Briana Evigan, Friday the 13th‘s Julianna Guill, Alex Meraz and Joseph Cross and coming to DVD in May.Directed by Richard Gray, here's the official synopsis“A group of friends travel up to a cabin located deep within the forest. Shortly... Continue Reading →
Film News – Brittany Murphy’s Something Wicked coming out
More than four years after her untimely death, the long-awaited final film of the late actress Brittany Murphy will hit cinemas in the US from April 4, 2014....The dark thriller about obsession and young love gone wrong, the story follows a young couple planning their wedding when gruesome secrets from their past meet sinister forces... Continue Reading →
Film Trailer – New TV Spot for Oculus
Relativity Media has aired the first TV spot for Oculus... The Mike Flanagan-directed horror film, released in April in the US, stars Karen Gillan, Katee Sackhoff, Brenton Thwaites, James Lafferty, Rory Cochrane, Annalise Basso, Garretty Ryan, Kate Siegel, Katie Parker and Miguel Sandoval."Ten years ago, tragedy struck the Russell family, leaving the lives of teenage siblings... Continue Reading →
Film Trailer – Proxy
From writer/director Zack Parker and IFC Films comes the incredibly unsettling Proxy...Starring Alexia Rasmussen and Alexa Havins the film enters dark, unnerving territory, playing on the psychology of horror rather than all out gore, as it forces you to question everything you thought you knew.Here's the official synopsis. "Esther (Alexia Rasmussen) feels alone in this... Continue Reading →
Film News – Christmas Slay gets a Teaser Trailer
"All Yule want for Christmas is to live..."Directed by Steve Davis, Kent Independent Film's 100% Fan Funded 'Christmas Slay' is a unique take on the slash and stalk genre, a film inspired by so many great movie such as Black Christmas, Friday 13th, Halloween and so many other cult horror classics of the 1970's and... Continue Reading →
Film News – The Laughing Mask gets a Teaser Trailer
Michael Aguiar's The Laughing Mask gets it's first teaser trailer less than a month after filming wrapped in Florida on 16th February. The indie film stars Ryan Rafferty, Inge Uys, Gabriel Lee, Sheyenne Rivers, Thomas Noel Smith and Matt Ganey and was filmed in under 28 days, not that you can tell from this great trailer. Hopefully there... Continue Reading →
Film Trailer – Fear Clinic
Robert Englund and Corey Taylor can be seen in the new teaser trailer for the upcoming horror movie Fear Clinic...Slipknot frontman Taylor makes his acting debut alongside the Nightmare On Elm Street icon in the film which is based on the popular web series of the same name. Other stars of the film include Fiona... Continue Reading →
Film News – Disney (yes DISNEY!) re-does Something Wicked…
Why are we writing about Disney in a horror website? Because they're having another go at adapting the classic horror book Something Wicked This Way Comes...This time Seth Grahame-Smith has been hired by Disney to direct the new adaptation of the Ray Bradbury classic, marking his directorial debut. The reason he isn't writing the script,... Continue Reading →
Film News – "The Last of Us"
News reaches us that Screen Gems has picked up the rights to the film adaptation of Sony's great Survival Horror game The Last of Us... It's to be produced by Spider-man director Sam Raimi under his Ghost House Pictures label, along with Naughty Dog co-presidents Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra and game director Bruce Straley.The... Continue Reading →
Film News – 13 Sins Red Band Trailer
The horror thriller 13 Sins premiered at the SXSW Festival last Friday in their Midnighter slot...Starring Mark Webber and and co-written and directed by Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism), other cast members include Rutina Wesley, Devon Graye, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Richard Burgi, Tom Bower and Ron Perlman.A cryptic phone call sets off a dangerous game... Continue Reading →
Film Review – Grand Piano
Review by Lisa FremontGrand Piano is a taut thriller starring Elijah Wood as Tom Selznick. Tom is the "brightest piano player of his generation" and he is about to do his first performance in five years. Tom is clearly on edge about this performance, but his wife Emma (Kerry Bishé) is working hard on keeping... Continue Reading →
DVD/Film Review – In Fear
In Fear is out on DVD on Monday - here's the film review by Bill Gordon..."‘In Fear’ is an astute analysis of human fear"How refreshing it is to have a horror that isn’t a remake, a haunted house story or a slasher this year. Don’t get me wrong, I love those other sub-genres, but it’s... Continue Reading →
News – Restored Texas Chainsaw Massacre heading for SXSW
MPI/Dark Sky Films is releasing a restored version of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” in celebration of the film’s 40th anniversary...The South by Southwest Film Festival will unveil the restoration on Monday in Austin, Texas. The new version of the film will be in cinemas this summer with a new 4K transfer... Continue Reading →
News – Film first photo of Cell and new e-books by Stephen King
Here's a first look at a film still from CELL, the adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name from director Tod Williams who did Paranormal Activity 2. Here we see actors Isabelle Fuhrman, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack and Owen Teague ...um.... standing staring. But they're in the midst of a horrendous apocalypse,... Continue Reading →