Director Jeremy Saulnier, who has gone on to direct films like the revenge thriller Blue Ruin, the neo-Nazi horror film Green Room, the mystery thriller Hold the Dark, and the crime thriller Rebel Ridge, as well as episodes of True Detective season 3, made his feature debut back in 2007 with the awesome horror comedy Murder Party (watch it HERE) – and now Murder Party, which was previously only available on DVD when it comes to physical media releases, is finally set to reach Blu-ray!
Variety reports that OCN Distribution, sister company of the genre-centric home video label Vinegar Syndrome, has secured a deal with distributor Magnolia Pictures and their genre imprint Magnet Releasing to bring several of their titles on Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Magnolia and Vinegar Syndrome previously teamed up to bring the 2021 British horror film Censor to Blu-ray, but the first movie to get a Blu-ray release as part of this OCN Distribution deal will be Murder Party.
Written and directed by Saulnier, Murder Party begins when a man gets a random invitation to a Halloween party, and when he arrives he finds he’s the guest of honor at his very own gut-wrenching murder.
Made on a budget somewhere in the $200,000 range, the film stars Chris Sharp, Sandy Barnett, Macon Blair, Paul Goldblatt, William Lacey, Stacy Rock, Skei Saulnier, Bill Tangradi, Beryl Guceri, Beau Sia, and a dog named Puff Snooty.
Saulnier provided the following statement: “It’s a delight to finally answer ‘f*ck yes!’ to fans who’ve been asking for a Murder Party Blu-ray. I’m really stoked about higher resolution video and amazing new art from Chris at Brutal Posters. Working with Justin LaLiberty at Vinegar Syndrome for this release has been exciting and collaborative, and it’s a great comfort to know my first film is in the right genre-loving hands.“
A Magnolia spokesperson added, “Our partnership with Vinegar Syndrome [and OCN Distribution] further opens the door for us to meet the evolving needs of the fans of our films in a way that focuses on heightening the collectability of physical media by celebrating the uniqueness of our illustrious indie film pedigree. This new partnership highlights the importance that physical home video releases still hold for some consumers, and it affords us the opportunity to reinvigorate our catalog in a way that is evocative of the expansive needs of the home entertainment market.“
Vinegar Syndrome / OCN Distribution’s Justin LaLiberty said, “Adding Magnolia to the OCN family only strengthens what we have been building over the past few years, aiming to give the very best physical media presentation to the films that we, and many others, are eager to have on our shelves.” OCN Distribution has also extended an existing deal with IFC Films and Shudder through 2025.
Are you a Jeremy Saulnier fan, and are you glad to hear that Murder Party is getting a Blu-ray release? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I have been a big fan of this movie ever since it was released, so I’m glad to see it finally make its way beyond DVD.
The long wait to find out what director Len Wiseman (Underworld, Total Recall, Sleepy Hollow TV series) and Ana de Armas are cooking up with the John Wick spinoff Ballerina is finally ending. Lionsgate pulled the curtain back on a Ballerina teaser on Wednesday, announcing that a full trailer danced onto the scene on Thursday.
Today’s Ballerina teaser includes a chilling rendition of Beethoven’s “Furelise” playing from a wind-up music box. As the camera slowly pans through a study crowded with books and fancy decor, a porcelain dancer spins beneath a glass dome with the words “Trailer Tomorrow” inscribed at the bottom of the keepsake.
Ballerina stars Ana de Armas as a young woman with killer skills who sets out to get revenge when hitmen kill her family. As the film takes place in the John Wick universe, it will feature appearances from several franchise characters, including Ian McShane as Winston, the owner of the Continental Hotel, the late Lance Reddick as Charon, the Continental’s concierge, and Anjelica Huston as the Director, the head of the Ruska Roma. Other cast members include Keanu Reeves, Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino Mareno, David Byrne, David Castañeda, and more.
Anticipation for Ballerina is high, as fans who provided the studio with their smartphone information received a message about the trailer’s release earlier today. In the beginning, Ballerina was separate from the John Wick franchise, but filmmakers reworked the project to take place in the world of The Continental. To help preserve the John Wick franchise’s legacy, Ian McShane and Chad Stahelski boarded the upcoming film.
In November, reports of a script for a direct follow-up to John Wick: Chapter 4 started making the rounds. While John Wick: Chapter 4 has a definitive ending, the boogieman is too iconic to slip into the shadows when more money waits in the wings. The franchise may move beyond Reeves’ Baba Yaga at some point, but that time is not now.
Are you excited to watch the Ballerina trailer tomorrow? What do you think about the teaser? Did you get the text message? Let us know in the comments section below.
For more than thirty years (and more than thirty novels), author James Patterson has been writing stories about Metropolitan Police Department detective Alex Cross, a character who was played by Morgan Freeman in the films Kiss the Girls (1997) and Along Came a Spider (2001), and by Tyler Perry in the 2012 film Alex Cross. The latest actor take on the role is Aldis Hodge, whose credits include Die Hard with a Vengeance, A Good Day to Die Hard, Straight Outta Compton, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Hidden Figures, The Invisible Man, One Night in Miami, and Black Adam. Hodge will be playing Cross in the Prime Video series Cross, which is set to premiere on November 14th. All eight episodes of the show’s first season will be available to watch on that date – and Prime Video has already ordered a second season. With the premiere date not far off, a trailer for Cross has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.
Produced by Amazon MGM Studios, CBS Studios, and Skydance Television, Cross centers on a detective and forensic psychologist who’s uniquely capable of digging into the minds of killers and victims in order to identify and catch them. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
Hodge is joined in the cast by Isaiah Mustafa (It: Chapter Two), Juanita Jennings (Runaway Jury), Alona Tal (Supernatural), Samantha Walkes (Murdoch Mysteries), Caleb Elijah (True Story), Melody Hurd (Them), Jennifer Wigmore (Malory Towers), Eloise Mumford (The Right Stuff), and Ryan Eggold (New Amsterdam).
Ben Watkins developed the series for television and serves as showrunner. Watkins also executive produces under his Blue Monday Productions banner. Sam Ernst, Jim Dunn, and Craig Siebels also executive produce, as do Patterson, Bill Robinson, and Patrick Santa for James Patterson Entertainment. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Bill Bost executive produce for Skydance Television.
What did you think of the Cross trailer? Are you a fan of the Alex Cross character, and will you be watching this show on Prime Video? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
PLOT: A ride-share turns into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse after it follows a car fitting the description of an AMBER ALERT.
REVIEW: As you can probably guess by the title, Amber Alert is going to be tough viewing for any parent. The sheer idea of the abduction of a child is rough subject matter. And when the film is taking a more grounded approach, it can be quite uncomfortable. And as much as the movie seems to want to make a salient point about kidnapping, it devolves into standard tropes at every turn. Despite releasing in 2024, Amber Alert feels like a narrative straight out of the 90’s.
The story follows Jaq and her rideshare driver Shane as they’re following a car described in an Amber Alert. Despite being strangers, they clearly have strong morals. Hayden Panettiere and Tyler James Williams play the concerned citizens and they have decent chemistry. There are times where it feels like they’re trying to spark a romance between the two, which feels very inappropriate given the situation. Thankfully it doesn’t lean into it further but it does make for a strange dynamic. But I was most impressed with Katie McClellan who plays the mother of the abducted girl. She sells the trauma and earns every bit of audience sympathy.
Amber Alert is the kind of film that you really have to check your brain at the door and just watch it strictly for entertainment. The more you pick it apart, the more absurd it gets. But I still found myself along for the ride. It’s an intriguing tale about child abduction. In an effort to keep the story going for an entire runtime, there are some really boneheaded story decisions. I understand that it’s very difficult to try and keep this kind of story going in a logical manner but it just results in Jaq and Shane looking really stupid.
It’s also very strange that they have this whole subplot with Shane missing his son’s birthday. They treat it like he’s clearly messed up before and this is par for the course. Yet all he has to do is just say that he’s helping the police out and that should completely clear up the confusion. Instead, because this is a movie and we need conflict, he just doesn’t say anything and instead leaves his son thinking he skipped out on his birthday. Williams is a very charismatic actor but stuff like this made Shane really difficult to like.
One of the dumbest moments comes when the authorities issue a falsely submitted Amber Alert update. This would never happen because, like highlighted in the film, it will cause other trails to go cold. This shows why you don’t send out plates for a non-100% confirmed sighting. Yet the film acts like there aren’t standard procedures in place to prevent this exact thing from happening, thus allowing another dramatic hurdle to overcome in the narrative. Comes across as sloppy writing. And I love that Shane and Jaq are the best option and are closer than any cop in the area. Outside of the call areas, the police may as well be nonexistent as they track this car for miles without police intervention.
Oddly enough, Amber Alert is actually a remake of a 2012 film from the same filmmaking team. So this is clearly a story that means a lot to them and they do treat it with care in its execution. The acting, editing, and cinematography are all fine. There are just too many logic leaps and silly moments contrasting with serious ones to not criticize the story. But it’s clearly got its head in the right place with its messaging. If only they’d let reality dictate the script versus the script dictating a false reality.
AMBER ALERT will release in select theaters and on demand this Friday, September 27th.
Deadpool & Wolverine, the movie that restored the Marvel Cinematic Universe for many, is coming home to digital platforms and physical media in October! The R-rated, fourth-wall-breaking celebration of all things in Marvel cinema becomes available to rent/purchase on digital platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV+ on October 1, with 4K Blu-ray and DVD formats to follow on October 22.
Like the movie, the digital and physical releases of Deadpool & Wolverine are chock full of extras, giving fans more reasons to want to bring the Assassin in the Red Pyjamas and the cantankerous Canadian home for the whole family. Well, maybe not the kids. It depends on how you feel about them getting exposed to foul language. Extras for the home release include “Finding Madonna: Making the Oner,” featuring director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds for a breakdown of the now-iconic slow-walk scene; “Practical Approach: Celebrating the Art of Ray Chan,” which pays tribute to the longtime Marvel contributor; “Loose Ends: The Legacy Heroes,” for exploring the film’s shocking cameos, and a gag reel to add more laughs to a movie already overstuffed with jokes, jabs, and joyous carnage.
If exclusive extras make your pants tight, you could check out Prime Video’s digital release, which includes exclusive features like Deadpool doodles, pros and cons of the film, and fact-checking trivia for hardcore Marvel fans. Physical release plans include limited edition steelbooks with exclusive art and packaging. Owning the steelbook versions could inspire double-dipping, as there’s a Deadpool version and a Wolverine version to collect.
With $1,317,503,647 earned at the worldwide box office, Deadpool & Wolverine is a record-breaking success and one of the best MCU movies in recent memory. With Marvel slowing its roll regarding feature film releases, the next film in the franchise, Captain America: Brave New World, doesn’t arrive in theaters until February 14, 2025. Thankfully, we’ve got Agatha All Along to tide us over, with Kathryn Hahn chewing scenery like a pro and Aubrey Plaza lighting up the screen with her dark-hearted witchiness.
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Back in February of 2023, it was announced that Jordana Brewster (The Faculty, the Fast and the Furious franchise), Scott Speedman (The Strangers, Crimes of the Future), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, John Wick: Chapter 2), and Addison Timlin (Like Me, Depraved) had signed on to star in the latest thriller from Terminal and Inheritance director Vaughn Stein, a project that was known as The Offer at that time. The Offer has since made its way through production and been retitled Cellar Door – and Lionsgate will be giving it a theatrical and VOD release on November 1st. With that date just five weeks away, a trailer for the film has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.
Sam Scott wrote the initial screenplay, which then received revisions from Lori Evans Taylor, who recently wrote and directed the supernatural thriller Bed Rest (starring Melissa Barrera of the Scream franchise) and co-wrote the upcoming horror sequel Final Destination 6, a.k.a. Final Destination: Bloodlines. Cellar Door has the following synopsis: Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage, a couple (Brewster and Speedman) find themselves being gifted the house of their dreams from a wealthy homeowner (Fishburne) with one caveat – they can never open the cellar door. Whether they can live without knowing triggers shocking consequences.
The title on Scott’s script was Cellar Door, so it’s good to see that the project eventually circled back around to the original title after switching over to the more generic title The Offer for a while. Sure, there have been other projects titled Cellar Door as well, but that title seems to fit the story quite well. And besides, Drew Barrymore’s character in Donnie Darko talks about “cellar door” being the most beautiful combination of words, so the title would definitely meet her approval.
Vaughn Stein’s Cellar Door was produced by Tom Butterfield, Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, and John Papsidera.
What did you think of the trailer for Cellar Door? Will you be watching this movie when it reaches theatres and VOD in November? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
INTRO: When you’re a hugely successful bodybuilder from a small village in Austria, and you’ve not only managed to successfully make the transition from pumping iron to pumping lead pipes into Aussie bad guys, the world is seemingly very much your oyster. Or so they say. As you’ll no doubt know nothing was standing in the Austrian Oak’s way when he set his mind to prove people wrong. Nobody, especially the studios, were convinced that he could win audiences over as a believable comedy performer, yet his unlikely partnership with the diminutive and awesome Danny DeVito in Twins proved that not only could Arnie bring the gags, but that he could also bring the box-office numbers to satiate the stuffy studio heads.
So, just where did his career go next? Now that Arnie had proved to people that he was box office gold for comedy, as well as action and sci-fi, did he opt to further his acting abilities even further? Maybe a musical? Perhaps he’d make a great Jean Valjean with the help of a vocal coach and some auto-tuning, I mean, it almost worked for Russel Crowe. Or, did he go down the Rom-com route and team up with somebody like Julia Roberts, who was also box office gold at the time for that female-skewed demographic? No, don’t be daft. As funny as it would be seeing Arnie playing a rich entrepreneur, who falls for a plucky prostitute, his next movie saw the star back on familiar ground with the 1990 sci-fi flick, Total Recall. Arnie had form for the genre with the amazing action, sci-fi and horror classic, The Terminator so he knew what audiences wanted from those kinds of movies. However, could a trip to Mars with a visionary director and ladies with three breasts turn out to be the right move for the Austrian Oak? Let’s find out right here, on Arnie Revisited!
SET-UP: 1990 was a seminal year for this movie fan. I wasn’t quite old enough to get into the movie theatres the traditional way, so me, my brother and my pals had to be creative when it came to catching the movies we were desperate to see. The world of horror saw great films like Tremors, Misery, Night of the Living Dead, IT, Bride of Re-Animator, Gremlins 2, and Arachnophobia. OK, I know that one isn’t necessarily horror per se, but it was one of the only movies I could actually legitimately pay to get in the cinema to see, and I loved the spider-infested flick, especially John Goodman’s over-the-top exterminator Delbert McClintock. We were also treated to fun Sci-Fi movies such as Predator 2, Robocop 2, Back to the Future III and Dark Angel. I mention both the horror and sci-fi genres as, although Total Recall arguably falls more into the former, you can argue that it has some gory roots in the horror genre also.
Total Recall is based on the short story, We Can’t Remember It Wholesale by Philip K. Dick, whose other mind-bending work has been adapted into movies such as Blade Runner and A Scanner Darkly. The screenplay was written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon and Gary Goldman. It was way back in 1974 that Shusett bought the rights to Dick’s short story but the vast scope of the project kept it in the dreaded development hell at various studios for over sixteen years. Over this time forty scripts, seven different directors and multiple actors were cast as the main protagonist, Quaid. Yet, the project kept stalling. It wasn’t until Arnold Schwarzenegger convinced the great Carolco Pictures to buy the rights and make him the movie’s star, that the project finally gained some traction.
With the rights for the movie sorted and production able to get going the small matter of finding the perfect director to take on the visionary project was underway. Before they went bankrupt, the project had been sold to the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, AKA the DEG, and the legendary producer considered Richard Rush, Lewis Teague, Russell Mulcahy, and Fred Schepisi to direct the film, before finally opting to go with body horror maestro David Cronenberg, in 1984. However, those pesky creative differences that can often derail a movie reared their ugly head, and sadly Cronenberg left the project. His vision was to bring the movie back to the tone of the original short story, whereas the writers and producers had more of a Raiders of the Lost Ark goes to Mars vibe in mind. More heartache was to follow as, despite set construction being underway on the movie and production costs as much as $8 million being spent, the DEG went bankrupt, leaving the crew without work and the sets destroyed.
It was during the mid-eighties that Arnie first heard about the concept for Total Recall, and during filming for Predator, he read the script and agreed to tackle the futuristic mind-bender with producer Joel Silver. However, frustratingly for all involved, the movie was still unable to go ahead due to its prohibitive budget and because Dino De Laurentiis didn’t feel that Arnie was the right action star to lead the movie. Which seems ludicrous looking back now. Arnie had an ace up his sleeve though, that could get the movie back on track, thanks to his old friends at Carolco Pictures. As I mentioned earlier, the star managed to persuade the independent studio to purchase the rights for $3 million including pre-production costs. Caroloco completed the acquisition of the majority of DEG’s assets in April 1989, and with Arnie now having substantial influence over the project, ended up taking a reported salary of between $10 – $11 million, plus a cut of the film’s profits.
Ultimately, directing duties went to Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven, who had already shown Hollywood that he could master visionary sci-fi filmmaking with the amazing Robocop from 1987. Much like the plot of Total Recall, which basically sees a totalitarian government colonizing a planet, Verhoeven was taking the next step in his own colonization of Hollywood, and through his own first-hand experiences, often crafted his movies around life under fascism. He had already proven his worth as a provocateur in his native Holland, pre-Robo, by exploring the extremities of violence and sexuality in his films. So, with not only arthouse and big budget projects behind him, he was the perfect fit for the messed-up world of Total Recall.
With the production boasting a great studio to oversee production, a visionary director onboard, plus Hollywood’s greatest action star in the lead, what about the rest of the cast? Joining the Austrian Oak was Sharon Stone, in an ass, and groin-kicking role as Quaid’s wife Lori, Ronny Cox as the governor of the mutant colony, Michael Ironside as Richter plus a melee of great 90s character actors who flesh out an already stellar cast.
REVIEW: From my somewhat hazy recollection of seeing the film for the first time, there were several iconic scenes that lived long in the memory. The three-breasted lady? Yup! I mean, I was a young lad, hormones all over the place so yeah, that was a fun scene. Arnie’s eyes bulging out of their sockets? Loved it. The part where Quaid emerges from his disguise and throws the lady’s head at the armed men before it explodes is also awesome. The VFX still look great, even though they have that wonderfully rubbery 80s look. But that’s part of the charm of the movie. I think the fact that I first watched it courtesy of a grainy VHS copy that was ‘procured’ by my brother’s dodgy friends, also lends some nostalgia to the film for me. I’ve seen it countless times and as you can probably tell, I love it.
The plot centres on Arnie’s protagonist, Douglas Quaid, who’s haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He seeks answers about the dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. who sell implanted memories. However, something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. This leads to an unexpected and somewhat harrowing series of events that makes him question the actual reality of his situation.
Looking back on the movie for this retrospective, it’s actually interesting to think of it as the middle part of Verhoeven’s sci-fi trilogy from the era, sandwiched nicely between Robocop and Starship Troopers. There are more politics in those other great genre movies, and while Total Recall follows similar themes, it’s still an Arnie actioner. So, it’s naturally a hugely exciting, entertaining film, chock full of cartoonish violence, great VFX and yes, cheesy one-liners. The film is so wonderfully iconic that I could talk endlessly about the most memorable scenes for hours: the Johnny-cabs, the walk-through x-ray scanner, the three-breasted mutant call girl, and the scenes on Mars. It’s such a great piece of 90s filmmaking that makes you yearn for Verhoeven to tackle more Hollywood blockbusters nowadays.
LEGACY / NOW: Total Recall was released on June 1st 1990 in the US and Canada. It grossed 25.5 million dollars over its opening weekend. It finished as the number one film of the weekend, ahead of Back to the Future Part III, which made $10.3 million, and was in its second weekend of release, and Bird on a Wire, that had taken $6.3 million, in its third week. The film is estimated to have grossed $261.4 million worldwide, making it the fifth highest-grossing film of 1990 behind Dances with Wolves, Pretty Woman, Home Alone and Ghost.
Critically, the movie was met with a mixed reaction, but those who praised the movie were impressed by Arnie’s performance and the production values but were put off by the violence. The Washington Post’s review compared it unfavourably with Stallone’s action film Cobra, saying it was, “disappointing in its overuse of violence and abandonment of cynicism and creativity for machoism and misogyny”. Despite criticism of the film’s violence, The Los Angeles Times was more liberal in their thinking, with their review saying the violence “never seemed to be deliberately sadistic or callous”. Arnie was also largely praised for his performance, and Roger Ebert considered him vital to the movie’s success.
So then, the Austrian Oak’s trip to Mars with its stellar cast and visionary director was a great success and I love the messed up world, mutant prostitutes and all. Naturally, given the success and iconic nature of the movie, a pointless and generic re-imagining, re-make, whatever you want to call it, was released in 2012, and it isn’t great. At all. More importantly, though, what’s YOUR take on the movie? Did Arnie and co. deliver a 90s sci-fi action movie that still holds up well today, or does it belong in an era more fitting of its great but arguably dated VFX and cartoonish violence? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section, and we’ll see you wonderful action fans next time here on Arnie Revisited.
The Deam Team is back! Not the 1989 comedy starring Micheal Keaton and Christopher Lloyd; I’m talking about Brad Pitt and George Clooney! Apple TV+ unveiled another Wolfs trailer on Wednesday, featuring the dynamic duo as cleaners who mix like oil and water when accidentally assigned to the same job. The preview highlights Pitt and Clooney’s brilliant on-screen chemistry, proving the pair hasn’t lost their magic after several years apart.
Wolfs reunites Pitt and Clooney as rival fixers called in to dispose of a corpse by their shadowy employer, only for the corpse to be far from dead and in the possession of a massive amount of drugs. What starts as a routine job quickly escalates into a fight for survival as bullets start flying and henchmen emerge from the shadows.
Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) directed and wrote Wolfs. Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, and Poorna Jagannathan star alongside Clooney and Pitt.
George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped lead Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven and its two sequels, Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen. Pitt’s Rusty Ryan and Clooney’s Danny Ocean light up the screen in the Ocean’s films, with the duo’s comedic timing and clever chemistry elevating the franchise to great heights. The duo can also be seen in 2008’s Burn After Reading, a quirky comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen about mysterious information from a CIA agent ending up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
While Wolfscomes to Apple TV+ on Friday, September 27, our Editor-in-Chief, Chris Bumbray, caught an advanced film screening and said Pitt and Clooney have fun in the contained setting, resulting in a “great hangout flick.” Chris says Wolfs is the duo’s best pairing since Ocean’s Eleven, with lots of laughs and action packed into a tight package.
Apple TV+ is confident in Wolfs appeal, having tapped Jon Watts to direct and write a sequel before the film’s official release. Apple has also switched up the release strategy for the film. Wolfs was originally slated to have a wide theatrical release before launching on Apple TV+. Still, it will now receive a limited theatrical release on September 20 before debuting on the streaming service on September 27.
Today’s Wolfs trailer gives cinephiles more reasons to look forward to the film, especially since Pitt thinks he could be approaching the “ast leg” of his acting career.
Are you watching Wolfs this weekend? Let us know in the comments section below.
A new live-action vision of Hellboy will be coming to our screens soon – and, as it turns out, it will be available to watch in the comfort of our own homes sooner than expected. Directed by Crank‘s Brian Taylor from a screenplay by Chris Golden and Hellboy comic book creator Mike Mignola, Hellboy: The Crooked Man is foregoing a theatrical run in the United States and jumping right to a digital release. The release date is October 8th and the movie is already available for pre-order on Amazon’s Prime Video, going for the price of $19.99!
The film will be receiving a theatrical release in the UK on September 27th, and in Australia on October 10th.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man will see Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man. In the comic, The Crooked Man was an eighteenth-century miser and war profiteer named Jeremiah Witkins who was hanged for his crimes yet returned from Hell as the region’s resident Devil. The film has been rated R for some violent content, language and nudity.
Hellboy is played by Jack Kesy, who may be best known for playing Black Tom Cassidy in Deadpool 2. Kesy is joined in the cast by Jefferson White of Yellowstone as Tom Ferrell and Adeline Rudolph of the Netflix Resident Evil series as Bobbie Jo Song. According Hellboy.Fandom, Tom Ferrell is a character from the comic books who “was born around 1923 in the Appalachian mountains near the Hurricane (an area locals try to avoid) to a mother we know little of and his father, Charles E. Ferrel, who had a habit of drinking in the back woods. His early misadventures with witchcraft led to a self-imposed exodus.” Tales from the Collection adds that the story will introduce parapsychologist Bobbie Jo Song, who is tasked with delivering a spider to the BPRD but must seek Hellboy’s help when things go awry. Together, they travel to Appalachia to take on the Crooked Man, who has been sent back to Earth to collect souls for the devil.
Millennium Media producer Les Weldon told us this is “a true, dark, DARK, in the style of the comic book take on it. There’s no gloss that any of the other films had. There’s a methodical pace and a real creepiness to it.“
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Two years have gone by since we heard that director Steven C. Miller (Silent Night) was heading into production on a werewolf horror film that, at the time, was going by the title Year 2. That movie is now set to make its way out into the world under the title Werewolves, with Briarcliff Entertainment and The Solution Entertainment Group teaming up to give it a wide theatrical release in the United States on December 6th – and with that release date just a couple of months away, the Motion Picture Association ratings board has revealed that the movie has secured an R rating for violence, some gore, and language.
Starring Frank Grillo of the Purge and Captain America franchises, Werewolves will show us that a supermoon event triggered a latent gene in every human on the planet, turning anyone who entered the moonlight into a werewolf for that one night. Chaos ensued and close to a billion people died. Now, a year later, the Supermoon is back.
Grillo is joined in the cast by Katrina Law (NCIS), Ilfenesh Hadera (Godfather Of Harlem), James Michael Cummings (City On The Hill) and Lou Diamond Phillips (Young Guns). Miller directed from a screenplay by Matthew Kennedy (Inheritance).
An image of one of the film’s werewolves can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Miller also produced Werewolves with Myles Nestel, The Solution’s Craig Chapman, Monty the Dog’s James Michael Cummings and Jim Cardwell, Pimiente Films’ Luillo Ruiz, and Sevier Crespo. Grillo serves as executive producer alongside Tom Ortenberg, The Solution’s Lisa Wilson, Rainmaker Films’ Clay Pecorin and Russell Geyser, Burke Management’s Victor Burke and Vanzil Burke, and Sherborne Media’s Gary Raskin and Alastair Burlingham.
Nestel, who is co-CEO of The Solution, provided the following statement: “We are super excited to be releasing Werewolves later this year, exclusively in theatres. Our cast is incredible, from the amazing Frank Grillo to powerhouse performances from Katrina Law and Ilfenesh Hadera. The use of practical werewolves designed and built by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr (known from the Alien and Predator series) takes the genre back to its roots in a fresh and exciting way. We hope audiences will have as much fun experiencing the film in theatres as we had making it!“
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