if you're into horror films heres a list what's coming up from now until october 20, 2006 so write those dates down to remember:
Updated September 28, 2005!
Compiled by MICHAEL GINGOLD
Note: Most release dates are tentative and subject to change. Filmmakers/studios: send updates to gingold@starloggroup.com. Entire contents are Copyright 2005 Starlog Entertainment.
Fall
THE ROOST (Vitagraph)
Director: Ti West
Stars: Wil Horneff, Vanessa Horneff, Karl Jacob, Sean Reid, Tom Noonan
Four friends whose car breaks down in the middle of nowhere face a night of terror in an abandoned barn.
Website: www.theroostmovie.com
October 4
SATAN’S LITTLE HELPER (Screen Media; video debut)
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Alexander Brickel, Amanda Plummer, Stephen Graham, Joshua Annex
A young boy helps a costumed devil on his murderous Halloween rounds—unaware at first that "Satan’s" killings are real.
Website: www.satanslittlehelper.com
October 7
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD: RAVE TO THE GRAVE (Freestyle Releasing; limited)
Director: Ellory Elkayem
Stars: Peter Coyote, Aimee-Lynn Chadwick, Cory Hardrict, John Keefe, Jenny Mollen
A college rave goes awry when the partiers partake of a new "drug"—actually a zombifying chemical.
Website: www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.com
October 14
THE FOG (Sony)
Director: Rupert Wainwright
Stars: Selma Blair, Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Rade Serbedzija, Sonja Bennett
Remake of the John Carpenter film about a small town visited by a group of murderous 100-year-old ghosts.
Website: www.escapethefog.com
October 18
*NEW DATE; NEW TITLE* HOUSE OF VOICES (Universal; video debut)
Director: Pascal Laugier
Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Lou Doillon, Catriona MacColl, Dorina Lazar
Formerly SAINT ANGE: A young housecleaner goes to work at a deserted orphanage and finds it still inhabited by one girl—and several ghosts.
Website: none yet
October 21
DOOM (Universal)
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Stars: The Rock, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Ben Daniels
A group of Marines battle monsters spawned by genetic experiments at a Martian scientific facility.
Website: www.doommovie.com
*SITE ADDED* STAY (20th Century Fox)
Director: Marc Forster
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Elizabeth Reaser, Bob Hoskins
A psychiatrist struggles to treat a suicidal young man who may have paranormal abilities.
Website: www.staythemovie.com
October 25
BOO (Ventura; video debut)
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante
Stars: Trish Coren, M. Steven Felty, Jilon Ghai, Josh Holt, Dee Wallace Stone
A group of young people encounter evil spirits of the past in a haunted hospital.
Website: none yet
October 28
SAW II (Lions Gate)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Donnie Wahlberg, Dina Meyer, Glenn Plummer, Beverley Mitchell
Jigsaw returns for more mayhem.
Website: www.saw2.com
THREE…EXTREMES (Lions Gate)
Directors: Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike, Fruit Chan
Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Hye-jeong Kang, Jung-ah Yum, Mitsuru Akaboshi, Bai Ling
A trio of horror stories about a director tormented by a vengeance-seeking stranger, a woman haunted by her dead twin sister and dumplings with a most unusual ingredient.
Website: none yet
October
ZOMBIE HONEYMOON (Hooligan Pictures; limited)
Director: Dave Gebroe
Stars: Tracy Coogan, Graham Sibley, Tonya Cornelisse, David M. Wallace, Neal Jones
A newlywed couple's love is put to the test when the husband is infected by a zombie and begins to transform.
Website: www.zombiehoneymoon.com
Winter
NIGHT WATCH (Fox Searchlight)
Director: Timor Bekmambetov
Stars: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valeri Zolotukhin, Mariya Poroshina, Galina Tyunina
A group of superhuman "Others" protect the world from the forces of darkness—and an ancient prophecy about an all-out war between the two sides may soon be coming true.
Website: www2.foxsearchlight.com/nwnd/
November 11
PULSE (Magnolia; limited)
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo
The original Japanese film in which an Internet site conveys supernatural evil into our plane of existence.
Website: www.pulsefilm.net
November 18
WOLF CREEK (Dimension)
Director: Greg McLean
Stars: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Guy Petersen, Nathan Phillips, Jenny Starwall
Stranded travelers in the Australian outback are given "help" by a local man who proves to be deranged.
Website: www.wolfcreekmovie.com
November 22
WEREWOLF HUNTER (Lions Gate; video debut)
Director: Paco Plaza
Stars: Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky, John Sharian, Gary Piquer, David Gant
A.k.a. ROMASANTA: In 1850, a man accused of a series of vicious murders claims he’s the victim of the werewolf’s curse.
Website: www.romasantathemovie.com
December 9
MAREBITO (Tartan; limited)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Stars: Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Miho Ninagawa
A freelance video cameraman uncovers a strange netherworld and an unusual young woman under the streets of Tokyo.
Website: none yet
December 13
CREEP (Lions Gate; video debut)
Director: Christopher Smith
Stars: Franka Potente, Sean Harris, Vas Blackwood, Jeremy Sheffield
A woman is trapped in the London subway tunnels by a mysterious and vicious attacker.
Website: www.creepthemovie.co.uk
December 14
KING KONG (Universal)
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks
Remake of the 1933 classic about a giant ape discovered on an uncharted island who wreaks havoc when brought to civilization.
Website: www.kingkongmovie.com
January 6, 2006
BLOODRAYNE (Romar Entertainment)
Director: Uwe Boll
Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Will Sanderson, Michael Madsen, Udo Kier
A half-woman, half-vampire seeks revenge against other bloodsuckers in 18th-century Romania.
Website: www.bloodrayne-themovie.com
January 13, 2006
R-POINT (Tartan; limited)
Director: Kong Su-chang
Stars: Kam Woo-seong, Son Byung-ho, Oh Tae-kyung, Park Won-sang
During the Vietnam War, a group of Korean soldiers go in search of a missing platoon and stumble upon a site haunted by ghosts.
Website: none yet
January 20, 2006
UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION (Screen Gems)
Director: Len Wiseman
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Derek Jacobi, Shane Brolly, Michael Sheen
The battle between secret societies of vampires and werewolves (or "Lycans") continues.
Website: www.sonypictures.com/movies/underworldevolution
February 3, 2006
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (Screen Gems)
Director: Simon West
Stars: Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy, Kate Jennings Grant
Remake of the Fred Walton hit in which a babysitter is terrorized by a madman who calls and threatens her—from inside the house.
Website: none yet
February 10, 2006
*NEW DATE* FINAL DESTINATION 3 (New Line)
Director: James Wong
Stars: Ryan Merriman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Texas Battle, Alexa Johnson, Sam Easton
In this series entry, a group of people who have barely escaped an amusement park disaster are claimed by Death one by one.
Website: none yet
March 3, 2006
PULSE (Dimension)
Director: Jim Sonzero
Stars: Ian Somerhalder, Kristen Bell, Steve Talley, Christina Milian
Remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's chiller (see below) about a malignant entity released into our world via an Internet site.
Website: none yet
March 10, 2006
THE HILLS HAVE EYES (Fox Searchlight)
Director: Alexandre Aja
Stars: Aaron Stanford, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan
Remake of the Wes Craven shocker in which a family breaks down in the desert and is set upon by a clan of savage mutants.
Website: none yet
March 31, 2006
*NEW DATE* SLITHER (Universal)
Director: James Gunn
Stars: Michael Rooker, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Nathan Fillion, Rheagan Wallace
The alien invasion of a small town leads to infestation, impregnation and worse.
Website: none yet
April 14, 2006
*CAST ADDED* SCARY MOVIE 4 (Dimension)
Director: David Zucker
Stars: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Andre Benjamin, Joanna Krupa
Cindy Campbell returns to face the latest barrage of horror-film parodies.
Website: none yet
April 21, 2006
SILENT HILL (TriStar)
Director: Christophe Gans
Stars: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen
From the hit video game: A woman searches for her missing daughter in the horror-haunted titular town.
Website: none yet
Summer 2006
*CAST ADDED* YOUNG HANNIBAL: BEHIND THE MASK (Weinstein Co.)
Director: Peter Webber
Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Richard Brake, Kevin McKidd
The life of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter is explored at three different ages.
Website: none yet
June 6, 2006
OMEN 666 (Fox)
Director: John Moore
Stars: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles
Remake of the 1976 classic in which a couple discover that their young son is the incarnation of the Antichrist.
Website: none yet
July 14, 2006
*NEW DATE* GHOST RIDER (Sony)
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Wes Bentley, Eva Mendes, Matt Long, Sam Elliott
Marvel Comics-based project about a former motorcycle stuntman cursed to ride the night with a flaming skull.
Website: none yet
August 18, 2006
*NEW DATE; NEW TITLE* 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: none yet
SNAKES ON A PLANE (New Line)
Director: David R. Ellis
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Benjamin McKenzie, Nathan Phillips
A.k.a. PACIFIC AIR FLIGHT 121: A trans-Pacific flight is terrorized by venomous snakes intended to kill a key witness traveling to a Mafia trial.
Website: none yet
August 2006
ULTRAVIOLET (Screen Gems)
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, William Fichtner, Sebastien Andrieu
In a future marked by war between humans and genetically created vampires, an infected woman fights to protect a "normal" child.
Website: none yet
September 8, 2006
*NEW ENTRY* THE COVENANT (Screen Gems)
Director: Renny Harlin
Stars: Steven Strait, Laura Ramsey, Toby Hemingway, Chace Crawford, Sebastian Stan
A mysterious stranger spreads terror at a prep school.
Website: none yet
October 6, 2006
*CAST ADDED* TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING (New Line)
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Stars: Jordana Brewster, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey, Taylor Handley, Heather Kafka
A prequel exploring the origins of the saw-swinging Leatherface and the rest of his bloody clan.
Website: none yet
October 20, 2006
THE GRUDGE 2 (Sony)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Stars: to be announced
The deadly curse born of anger returns to claim more victims.
Website: none yet
Undated
*NEW ENTRY* ABOMINABLE (to be announced)
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
ALTERED (Rogue)
Director: Eduardo Sanchez
Stars: Adam Kaufman, Catherine Mangan, Brad William Henke, Mike Williams, Paul McCarthy Boyington, James Gammon
Four men who survived an alien abduction 15 years ago capture one of the creatures and attempt to exact revenge.
Website: www.alteredmovie.net
AN AMERICAN HAUNTING (to be announced)
Director: Courtney Solomon
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D’Arcy, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Another cinematic retelling of the legend of the Bell Witch, a true haunting which occurred in Tennessee in the 1800s.
Website: none yet
BEOWULF & GRENDEL (to be announced)
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
Stars: Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård, Sarah Polley, Ingvar Sigurdsson
New film adaptation of the epic poem about a Norse hero battling a marauding monster.
Website: www.beowulf-movie.com
BLACK CHRISTMAS (to be announced)
Director: Glen Morgan
Stars: to be announced
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
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE (MGM)
Director: Katja von Garnier
Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Olivier Martinez
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
BORDERLAND (Lions Gate)
Director: Zev Berman
Stars: Brian Presley, Rider Strong, Jake Muxworthy, Martha Higareda, Roberto Sosa
A trio of Texas college students become the targets of a blood cult during a trip to Mexico.
Website: none yet
THE BREED (First Look)
Director: Nick Mastandrea
Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Taryn Manning, Oliver Hudson, Hill Harper, Eric Lively
Young people vacationing on a remote island are attacked by vicious, super-intelligent dogs.
Website: none yet
CATACOMBS (Lions Gate)
Director: David Elliott, Tomm Coker
Stars: Shannyn Sossamon, Pink
On a vacation in Paris, an American woman faces terror in limestone caverns lined with human remains.
Website: none yet
THE CRAZIES (Paramount)
Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: to be announced
Remake of the George A. Romero film in which a chemical spill leads to madness among the residents of a small town.
Website: none yet
THE CREATURE OF THE SUNNY SIDE UP TRAILER PARK (to be announced)
Director: Christopher Coppola
Stars: Andre Ware, Steve "Chickenbone" Hedden, Frank Gorshin, Shirley Jones, Bernie Kopell
A.k.a. BLOODHEAD: Two brothers of different races must overcome their differences to uncover a treasure guarded by a monster-worshipping cult.
Website: www.bloodhead.com
THE DARK (to be announced)
Director: John Fawcett
Stars: Sean Bean, Maria Bello, Maurice Roëves, Abigail Stone, Sophie Stuckey
A newly arrived family in a small Welsh town discovers that an "infection" afflicting the local animals is spreading to people.
Website: www.whatisannwyn.com
DARK RIDE (Lions Gate)
Director: Craig Singer
Stars: Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Patrick Renna, Alex Solowitz, David Rogers, Jennifer Kelly Tisdale
Road-tripping college students are terrorized by a killer inside a haunted attraction at an abandoned amusement park.
Website: none yet
DEAD SERIOUS (to be announced)
Director: Joe Sullivan
Stars: Felissa Rose, Carson Grant, Michael Weingartner, Paul Coughlan
An anti-homosexual terrorist cult find themselves tangling with vampires after they take over a gay bar.
Website: none yet
THE DESCENT (to be announced)
Director: Neil Marshall
Stars: Myanna Buring, Craig Conway, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Shauna MacDonald, Oliver Milburn, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, Alex Reid
Six female friends must fight for their lives against subterranean monsters they encounter during a caving trip.
Website: www.thedescentthemovie.co.uk
DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? (Marvista)
Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Elio Germano, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Chiara Conti, Cristina Brondo
Three film students get caught up in a web of murder, double-crosses and deceit inspired by the works of Alfred Hitchcock.
Website: none yet
*NEW DATE* FEAST (Dimension)
Director: John Gulager
Stars: Navi Rawat, Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty, Josh Zuckerman, Henry Rollins
A group of people trapped in an isolated diner fight for their lives against a flock of flesheating creatures.
Website: none yet
FIDO (Lions Gate)
Director: Andrew Currie
Stars: Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, Henry Czerny, Carrie-Anne Moss, Peter Stormare, Tim Blake Nelson
In a world where zombies have been domesticated, a young boy tries to stop one household ghoul from reverting to its old flesheating ways.
Website: none yet
*NEW DATE* THE GATHERING (Weinstein Co.)
Director: Brian Gilbert
Stars: Christina Ricci, Iaon Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Kerry Fox, Simon Russell Beale
An injured American tourist takes shelter in a small British town and becomes caught up in strange events surrounding the unearthing of an ancient church.
Website: none yet
THE GRAVEDANCERS (to be announced)
Director: Mike Mendez
Stars: Dominic Purcell, Josie Maran, Clare Kramer, Tcheky Karyo
Three friends desecrate three graves and find themselves on the run from three very angry ghosts.
Website: none yet
*NEW DATE* GRIND HOUSE (Dimension)
Directors: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Stars: none yet
A pair of one-hour horror movies separated by original trailers and short material in the grindhouse double-feature tradition.
Website: none yet
*NEW DATE* HARD CANDY (Lions Gate)
Director: David Slade
Stars: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Holmes
A man in his 30s brings home a teenaged girl he has met on the Internet, but she violently turns the tables on him.
Website: www.hardcandymovie.com
HATCHET (to be announced)
Director: Adam Green
Stars: Joel Moore, Tamara Feldman, Deon Richmond, Mercedes McNab, Kane Hodder, Robert Englund, Tony Todd
A haunted swamp tour in New Orleans turns deadly when the participants are stalked by a murderous monster.
Website: www.hatchetmovie.com
HEADSPACE (to be announced)
Director: Andrew van den Houten
Stars: Christopher Denham, William Atherton, Olivia Hussey, Udo Kier, Dee Wallace Stone
A young man's intellect begins to mysteriously expand, leading to waking nightmares and real-life murders.
Website: www.headspacethemovie.com
THE HITCHER (Rogue Pictures)
Director: Dave Meyers
Stars: to be announced
Remake of the 1986 film in which a young man picks up an evil hitchhiker who frames him for a series of brutal murders.
Website: none yet
HOME SICK (Anchor Bay)
Director: Adam Wingard
Stars: Lindley Evans, Bill Moseley, Tiffany Shepis, Forrest Pitts, Will Akers
A young girl returns to her home town to confront her past, only to see her party crashed by a murderous motivational speaker.
Website: www.sonicmonkeyfilms.com
HOSTEL (Screen Gems)
Director: Eli Roth
Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Barbora Nedeljakova, Jan Vlasak, Jennifer Lim
A young man on vacation overseas encounters grotesque horrors.
Website: none yet
*NEW ENTRY* 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
THE LAST WINTER (to be announced)
Director: Larry Fessenden
Stars: Ron Perlman, James LeGros, Connie Britton, Kevin Corrigan, Jamie Harrold
An advance team working for an oil company fall victim to madness and death in the wilds of North Alaska.
Website: www.glasseyepix.com/html/lastwin.html
THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES (to be announced)
Director: John Stimpson
Stars: Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux, Brooke Adams, Mark Boone Junior, Cassidy Hinkle
A family moves into a New England home haunted by the disappearance of a young girl 250 years before.
Website: www.lucykeyes.com
LIVE FEED (to be announced)
Director: Ryan Nicholson
Stars: Kevan Ohtsji, Taayla Markell, Stephen Chang
Young tourists in a foreign country wind up experiencing a vacation in hell.
Website: www.plotdigger.com
THE LOST (to be announced)
Director: Chris Sivertson
Stars: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Robin Sydney, Justin Stone, Ruby La Rocca, Erin Brown
From Jack Ketchum's novel: A cocky young man who got away with murder four years ago is pushed over the edge and goes on a new rampage.
Website: none yet
MORTUARY (to be announced)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Stars: Denise Crosby, Daniel Byrd, Courtney Peldon, Alexandra Adi, Bug Hall
A family takes over the running of an old mortuary, unaware at first of the ancient evil residing in the nearby cemetery.
Website: www.mortuarythemovie.com
THE ORDEAL (Palm Pictures; limited release)
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Stars: Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Luc Couchard, Brigitte Lahaie
A.k.a. CALVAIRE: A singer whose van breaks down in the middle of nowhere is terrorized by a group of brutal locals.
Website: none yet
PERFECT CREATURE (20th Century Fox)
Director: Glenn Standring
Stars: Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Leo Gregory, Stuart Wilson, Scott Wills
A human cop and a vampire cop team up to stop another bloodsucker seeking to foment a war between their races.
Website: none yet
*NEW ENTRY* THE PLAGUE (to be announced)
Director: Hal Masonberg
Stars: James Van Der Beek, Ivana Milicevic, Brad Hunt, Dee Wallace Stone
Ten years after the world's children all slipped into comas due to a strange disease, they reawaken with a murderous bent.
Website: none yet
*CAST ADDED* THE REAPING (Warner Bros.)
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Stars: Hilary Swank, William Ragsdale, Idris Elba, David Morrissey, Annasophia Robb
A woman who specializes in debunking "miracles" and similar phenomena is called to a small town that seems to be suffering the Biblical 10 plagues.
Website: none yet
REEKER (to be announced)
Director: Dave Payne
Stars: Devon Gummersall, Derek Richardson, Tina Illman, Scott Whyte, Arielle Kebbel
A group of friends stranded at a desert motel/restaurant are attacked by a creature that is heralded by the stench of death.
Website: www.reekermovie.com
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD: NECROPOLIS (Freestyle Releasing; limited)
Director: Ellory Elkayem
Stars: Peter Coyote, Aimee-Lynn Chadwick, Cory Hardrict, John Keefe, Jana Kramer
A group of teenagers run afoul of the military's plan to use the undead as weapons.
Website: www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.com
RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP (to be announced)
Director: Robert Hiltzik
Stars: Vincent Pastore, Jonathan Tierston, Paul DeAngelo, Isaac Hayes, Adam Wylie
Two decades later, the camp is plagued by more killings, and a camper-turned-counselor is convinced the murderous Angela has returned.
Website: www.sleepawaycampmovies.com
RISE (to be announced)
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Stars: Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, James D'Arcy, Mako, Marilyn Manson
A reporter wakes up dead in a morgue and vows revenge against the vampires who put her there.
Website: none yet
RITUAL (Dimension)
Director: Avi Nesher
Stars: Jennifer Grey, Angie Fielder, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Lapaine, Tim Curry
A doctor visiting Jamaica discovers that a series of local murders are the result of voodoo practices.
Website: none yet
*NEW ENTRY* ROGUE (Dimension)
Director: Greg McLean
Stars: to be announced
An American travel writer and others on a tour through the wilds of Australia are terrorized by a gigantic crocodile.
Website: none yet
ROMAN (to be announced)
Director: Angela Bettis
Stars: Lucky McKee, Kristen Bell, Jennifer Carpenter
A sort of reverse of the McKee-directed, Bettis-starring MAY in which a sociopathic guy's obsession with a young woman goes horribly wrong.
Website: none yet
SATAN’S PLAYGROUND (Anchor Bay)
Director: Dante Tomaselli
Stars: Felissa Rose, Ellen Sandweiss, Edwin Neal, Irma St. Paule, Danny Lopes
A family gets lost in the Pine Barrens and is victimized by the crazy inhabitants of an isolated house.
Website: www.satansplaygroundthemovie.com
*CAST ADDED* SEE NO EVIL (Lions Gate)
Director: Gregory Dark
Stars: Kane, Steven Vidler, Glen Jacobs, Michael J. Pagan, Samantha Noble, Christina Vidal and Craig Horner
A.k.a. GOODNIGHT and EYE SCREAM MAN: A group of youths from a juvenile detention facility assigned to renovate an old hotel are murdered one by one by a maniac lurking there.
Website: none yet
SHADOW: DEAD RIOT (Fever Dreams)
Director: Derek Wan
Stars: Tony Todd, Carla Greene, Nina Hodoruk, Andrea Langi, Tatiana Butler, Ruby LaRocca
The spirit of a supernatural killer reawakens and raises an army of zombies at the prison where he was executed 20 years before.
Website: www.deadriot.com
*NEW ENTRY* SISTERS (to be announced)
Director: Douglas Buck
Stars: Asia Argento, David Cronenberg
Remake of the Brian De Palma chiller about a reporter who discovers that one of two separated Siamese twins is a homicidal maniac.
Website: none yet
*CAST ADDED* SKINWALKERS (Lions Gate)
Director: Jim Isaac
Stars: Jason Behr, Natassia Malthe, Shawn Roberts, Elias Koteas, Sarah Carter, Rhona Mitra, Kim Coates
A 12-year-old boy finds himself caught in the middle of a battle between opposing werewolf clans.
Website: none yet
SOLACE (New Line)
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Stars: Bruce Willis
A psychic brought in to track down a serial killer discovers that his quarry also possesses extrasensory abilities.
Website: none yet
STAY ALIVE (to be announced)
Director: Brent Bell
Stars: Frankie Muniz, Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Steve Zahn
A group of friends who play an on-line horror game discover that its villain is manifesting—and killing—in the real world.
Website: none yet
THE STORYTELLER (to be announced)
Director: Andrew Getty
Stars: Michael Berryman, Frederick Koehler, Dina Meyer, Sean Patrick Flanery
A young man’s sleep is haunted by a horrific figure called The Cadaver, who compels him to deadly acts.
Website: none yet
TAMARA (Lions Gate)
Director: Jeremy Haft
Stars: Jenna Dewan, Chad Faust, Katie Stuart, Matthew Marsden, Gil Hacohen
An abused high-school outcast dies in a prank gone wrong and returns from the dead as a seductive, avenging vixen.
Website: none yet
2001 MANIACS (Lions Gate)
Director: Tim Sullivan
Stars: Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Giuseppe Andrews, Jay Gillespie, Marla Malcolm
A group of young people on a road trip find themselves in an old-fashioned Southern town whose residents are insane killers.
Website: none yet
UNTITLED SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR FILM (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: none yet
WHISPER (Universal)
Director: Stewart Hendler
Stars: Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Dulé Hill
A group of kidnappers get more than they bargained for when the boy they abduct turns out to be evil.
Website: none yet
THE WICKER MAN (to be announced)
Director: Neil LaBute
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker, Kate Beahan
Remake of Robin Hardy's classic about a policeman investigating the disappearance of a young girl and getting caught up in a pagan cult.
Website: none yet
WILD COUNTRY (to be announced)
Director: Craig Strachan
Stars: Peter Capaldi, Martin Compston, Samantha Shields, Nicola Muldoon, Kevin and Jamie Quinn, Alan McHugh
Five teenaged hikers are stalked and slaughtered by a werewolf on the Scottish highlands.
Website: none yet
THE WOODS (Screen Gems)
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.mgm.com/ua/thewoods