In more news to make you envy those SXSW attendees, the first image from Gareth Edwards’ Monsters has emerged. The film will be making its premiere at the Austin film festival–featured in the Midnighters lineup and feels vaguely like District-9. The story revolves around a journalist leading a tourist through an infected zone between Mexico and the United States. The infected are people who have come into contact with a crashed NASA space probe six years ago. Do we have some extra-terrestrials on our hands?
There isn’t a lot floating around yet about Monsters, but the image shows a traveler looking …read more

Here is part two of my interview with Lance Henriksen. Part 1 can be found here and part 3 will be posted soon.
Alison: You reunited with Aliens co-stars Bill Paxton and Jenette Goldstein for Near Dark…
Lance: God, that was fun.
Alison: I could tell! [Both laugh] I’ve always thought it was less about vampires and more about a Romeo and Juliet family/romantic rival theme. Do you agree?
Lance: Sure I do. After that movie was done, I went to the producers and wanted to do a prequel to that movie. The critical question he asked me was, ‘Lance, why would anyone want …read more

Lance Henriksen’s filmography is a mile long and he always has a dozen projects in the works at any given time. Like many of the characters he has portrayed throughout his career, his energy is fierce and unyielding. Cool confidence and the wisdom of age cannot betray his passion for the challenges of acting and of life. The gravel of his voice is more soothing than distressing; words are impressed upon you with the solemnity of a person who is sharing some secret knowledge only you are privy to. The deep creases of a weathered brow might be evidence of …read more

Carnivàle writer Tracy Torme will be behind Escape Artists’ new feature, Go to Hell, according to Bloody-Disgusting. Rumor has it the film is due out 2011 and there is currently no director attached to the project.
The film follows a hostage negotiator who is near death after a plane crash, but stays alive as his body becomes frozen in the cold water. While frozen, he visits Hell until he is revived by doctors and is then charged with the task of revisiting Hell to rescue someone trapped there.
Torme is also behind the 1993 alien abduction flick Fire in the Sky, starring …read more

When the TV series V hit the air in 1983, it quickly established itself as the thinking man’s sci-fi–an allegorical and creative imagining that combined suspense, action and philosophical drama (with a nice helping of cheese thrown in for good measure). It was easy to ignore the low production value for a great story that at its heart was very human despite the alien theme. This is the very reason I feel confident posting an ultimately sci-fi themed topic on a horror website.
Aside from being smart and seriously entertaining, there are many reasons that the show appealed to horror audiences. …read more

Even though I want to avoid the hype before seeing it, I’ve been anxious to find out more details about Oren Peli’s alien flick Area 51. Bloody-Disgusting reported today that Room 101, Solana Films and Blumhouse Productions will be producing Peli’s new flick, starring Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg and Ben Rovne. The film is currently in production and is expected to hit theaters sometime in 2010. Not much is being said yet about the film other than Peli using ‘found footage’ to tell the story of three teenagers who discover the elusive Area 51 Air Force base in the Nevada desert.
Perhaps …read more

On the tail of the new abduction thriller, The Fourth Kind, is Victor Bornia’s Darkening Sky–an indie horror-thriller currently in post-production. The film stars Rider Strong (Cabin Fever, Cabin Fever 2), Ezra Buzzington (Halloween 2, The Hills Have Eyes), Charley Rossman (Superbad, CSI) and Sally Berman (Angels and Demons). Danica Stewart, Suzanne Ford, Tim Winters, Bella Difiore and Maitland McConnell also star. Darkening Sky is scheduled for a 2010 release.
In the tense psychological thriller set against a twisted, sci-fi backdrop, Strong plays Eric Rainer, a troubled grad student searching for his girlfriend who has mysteriously vanished. Desperate for answers, he …read more

I was able to catch an early screening of Universal Pictures’ The Fourth Kind in New York City last weekend and have been avoiding writing my review since then. There were parts of the movie that I found absolutely frightening but the film’s gimmicky technique was completely distracting which left me annoyed and disappointed.
‘The fourth kind’ is a term used to describe an alien abduction. The film is set in modern day Nome, Alaska where supposedly since the 1960’s, a large number of the population is reported missing every year. Milla Jovovich plays psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler who began videotaping sessions with traumatized …read more

If you haven’t seen Paranormal Activity yet there’s always Area 51 to look forward to! Writer-director Oren Peli is set to start production next week on his follow-up to the supernatural success. Not much is being said yet, but the story is centered around three teenagers who discover the elusive Area 51 Air Force base in the Nevada desert. Like Paranormal Activity, the film will use the ‘found footage’ angle but the budget will be bigger than a few thousand. He plans on using ‘unknowns’ for his cast which I think worked quite well in Paranormal Activity.
Here’s what the crew has …read more

What do you guys think of the brand spanking new one sheet for The Fourth Kind?

The fourth kind is a term used to describe an alien abduction. The film is set in modern day Nome, Alaska where supposedly since the 1960s, a large number of the population is reported missing every year. I haven’t researched this yet so if there are any readers in Alaska who can comment on this, please do. Milla Jovovich plays psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler who began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and discovered evidence of alien abduction in the process. Supposedly this footage is integrated into …read more