Mar 21, 2012

The first trailer for Chernobyl Diaries was released by Warner Bros. Monday. It’s hard to tell whether this film is supernatural horror, science fiction horror, or just a gross-out torture porn. But judging by its premise, the paranormal pedigree of its creators, and the growling in the trailer, the film looks like it is a genre monster...

Mar 17, 2012

The below video is the first full trailer for the upcoming Ridley Scott film, Prometheus, which started out as a prequel to the Alien series, but morphed into an re-imagining of a first contact story in the universe Scott created in 1979. It was released by the studio today. Scott said that when he made the original Alien and Blade Runner, his concern was a...

Mar 17, 2012

The first trailer for Dark Shadows, the big-screen adaptation of the 1970s campy cult gothic soap opera was released this weekend by Warner Bros. The movie is set to open in the U.S. on May 11. Johnny Depp has coveted playing the role of the romantically doomed vampire Barnabas Collins for years and used his considerable Hollywood heft to get this project green...

Mar 16, 2012

A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus—the demigod son of Zeus—is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity’s lack of devotion, the gods are...

Mar 15, 2012

In a plot that sounds strangely similar to the cult classic, Escape from New York, the official synopsis of Lockout describes it as: Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent, whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President’s daughter from rioting convicts at an outer...

Mar 15, 2012

Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a...