British writer/director Johnny Kevorkian, who has only forayed into the world of short films, teams up with first time writer Neil Murphy for his debut feature length film entitled The Disappeared.  The IFC Films project, which sees a young man being tormented by what could be the ghost of his disappeared brother, is set to hit the on-demand circuit this month.  And judging by the look of the trailer, it just might be damn worth checking out.  As one of the better debuting films at last years Screamfest, The Disappeared stars a roster of unknown talent, including Harry Tredaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings, Tom Felton and Georgia Groom.  Fix your eyes on the creepy trailer below!

 

 

Though technically codified as a war film, Quentin Tarantino's 6th feature film is morbidly macabre enough to garner a little love here at OMGHorror.  In case you don't already know, the flick finds a coterie of Jewish American soldiers dropped into Nazi occupied France in order to quake fear in the hearts and minds of the Third Riech.  How, you may ask? By savagely scalping Nazi's, as many as they can, with as little compunction as they can.  Brad Pitt takes the lead, supported by Eli Roth, Mike Myers, Til Schweiger, Daniel Bruhl, Michael Fassbender, Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger.  Feel free to catch a peek at the new international trailer below!

 

   

Happy summertime says Frog Baby, as I am back to share with you all yet another underrated horror gem. This time out I’m turning to a prime example of sleazy sci-fi hilarity, a b-movie hunk of cheese known as the pre-Robocop 1986 thriller The Vindicator. When I happened on this film the other night, I can’t lie, I thought I was hallucinating. Sure it’s painfully dated, the effects b-side companions to flicks like Terminator before it, or even dreck like Cyborg after it. No matter though, as awful as it seems at times, this movie is flat out entertaining. When a scientist is killed by his superior in order to reanimate as a subservient cyborg, a glitch in the robot’s control chip ensues, and instead of being an obedient automaton, the robot goes on a kill crazy rampage to avenge those who ended his human life. He tries to visit is wife and reconcile a rocky relationship, all the while being tracked by a bounty hunter (the smokin’ post-Foxy Brown Pam Grier) and various hired guns.

 




 

Dimension Films, writer/director John Landis has confirmed, has attained the rights to remake the 1981 comedic horror favorite The American Werewolf in London. Aside from being an exemplary fusion of horror and comedy, Landis’ film proved historic as it was the first film that the AMPAS recognized in an official category for Best Makeup (for make-up/effects maven Rick Baker). Whether or not the film will be set in the titular city of London or be relocated to another site (as in the ill-fated American Werewolf in Paris) is yet to be known. And it seems Landis has few qualms if any, essentially using this as an apt advert for his blu-ray edition of the original due out this summer. “I was afraid the digital cleaning of the negative would result in too clear a picture and hurt Baker’s makup, when in fact the incredibly crisp detail makes Rick’s stuff look even better” He adds about the idea of a new version, “perhaps someone will make a brilliant movie out of it.” Of course we have our doubts of remaking any horror classic, but we’ll reserve critique until later, like when we know who is cast. Stay tuned.

 

  

After their 2003 release of Undead, the German brothers Spierig (Michael and Peter) are poised to release their new film Daybreakers early next year.  The flick, which stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, is about a 2019 future world where every human has been transmutated into a vampire.  As the amount of untainted blood wanes, it's up to a small band of unaffected scientists to rally and preserve the human race.  As alluded to, the flick is aiming for a January 8, 2010 release.  Cop a dose of the trailer below!  

Sophomore jinx for one Brendan Foley it seems, who after his debut Riddle, turns to a bottom of the barrel creature feature that equally fails to both entertain and frighten. Personally, I love it when a film is appositely titled for its own deficiencies. As a film, Legend of the Bog is certainly eons a way from being any sort of legend. That’s not to say it isn’t legendarily bogged by thoroughly amateurish filmmaking on every level. Bogged down by its derivation, its utter lack of creativity, bogged down by insolent subject matter and inability to capitalize on any of the talent associated within the production. In sum, Legend of the Bog is undeniable b-movie twaddle that should be quarantined for fear of mass contagion.  


 

After the cryptic, at times brilliant debut feature Donni Darko back in 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly befuddled audiences with his follow up satirical apocalypse flick Southland Tales.  Well, now than man is turning to PG-13 studio fare for his third effort, the Richard Matheson inspired tale entitled The Box.  Based on a short story by Matheson called "Button, Button", once integrated into a Twilight Zone plot back in 1986, the flick finds a quaint suburban couple caught in a moral quandry.  When a mysterious man (Langella) shows up on their doorstep, he claims by accepting "the box", two things will happen.  First, a person somewhere in the world, completely estranged from the couple, will die.  On the flip side, the couple will receive $1 million each and every time the button is pushed.  After a delayed release date, The Box is finally poised to open on October 30, 2009.  Have a gander at the trailer below!

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With 2 months and 5 days away from pillaging theaters, Rob Zombie's new flick Halloween has a fresh and final trailer for all of us to pine over. And you know what? It actually looks pretty damn core! In it, a reinvented Michael Myers continues his savage bout of butchery on a crop of fresh faced teenagers. As alluded to, the flick opens wide on August 28, and features Scout Taylor Compton, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Malcolm McDowell and Brad Dourif, among others. Take a look at the new trailer below!

 

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As if you needed any extra incentive to scope a film with Bill Murray in it, add to the mix a zombie pandemic and you have yourself a proven track record for comedic horror success.  Such is the case with the flick called Zombieland, the Ruben Fliescher directed tale of a pair of what some would deem under-achievers who are confronted with saving the world from a ghastly zombie takeover.  Set for an October 9 release, Zombieland also features Amber Heard, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin and the always awesome Woody Harrelson.  Catch a peek at the trailer below!

After some well spent time exploring the depths of Italian giallo cinema, we’re pretty enthralled to spend a June in France.  That’s right, this time out for Foreign Fear Friday we’re bestowing a little love to a contemporary horror filmmaker, one Alexandre Aja.  Born in Paris on August 7, 1978 – the 30 year old writer/director was born into a family of film enthusiasts.  His father, Alexandre Arcady, is (still) a director of such French Nationalist films known as pied-noir (mainly subjected upon French invasion/colonialism in Algeria).  Aja’s mother, Marie Jo-Jouan, is/was a well known French film critic, so it comes as no real surprise that Aja would foster such an interest in the craft from an early age.  In fact, even his wife, Laila Marrakchi, is a Moroccan filmmaker with a handful of flicks under her belt (a few shorts and a full feature, albeit non-horror).  As you can see, it’s no real wonder why Aja became a Cannes Golden Palm Award winner for his short film Over the Rainbow at age 18.