Opening: October 19th
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
What’s the story? We don’t know. But what we do know is… “All the activity has led to this.”
Early Thoughts: I’m always hopeful. With the exception of Paranormal Activity 2, I’ve rather enjoyed the films for what they are – funhouse-style thrills. As for the direction they’re taking this next film’s story, I’m not even going to begin to speculate since I’ve been wrong in the past, but they’re clearly moving forward and not backward.
- October 23rd: Wrong Turn 5, 247°F
Opening: October 26th
Director: Michael J. Bassett
Starring: Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger, Carrie-Anne Moss, Malcolm McDowell
What’s the story? For years, Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn’t fully understand. Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by terrifying nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she’s not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her in Silent Hill forever.
Early Thoughts: The first film was a visual mindf*ck with great atmosphere (duh, it’s Silent Hill) and score. Story-wise? It was a bit of a mess that teetered on something so abstract and puzzling it would have made Lucio Fulci grin, I think. If Bassett delivers a better story and the same visuals, I think we’ve got a keeper.
- Also on October 26th: Citadel, Sleep Tight
- October 30th: Excision
Opening: November 2nd
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Andy Stahl, Lauren Colin, Christopher Denham, Stephen Kunken, Kether Donohue, Brandon Hanson
What’s the story? The film chronicles an unprecedented biological disaster unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay – an isopod parasite, carrying a horrific untreatable disease, that jumps from fish to human hosts. The true horror and scope of the event unfolds on footage captured on home videos and the internet by the town’s victims.
Early Thoughts: Blumhouse, the producing team behind Paranormal Activity, shepherded this “found footage” effort and, as is their nature, they’ve kept the film under tight wraps. Still, parasites, a small town…yeah, sounds like an equation I can get behind.
- Also on November 2nd: Vamps
- November 30th: The Collection
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