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Update #3: A Very Revealing New ‘Paranormal Activity 2’ Clip
Update #3: A third clip has been added beyond the break. Update #2: Read BC’s review here. Update #1: The sequel scared up $6.3m on 1,800 screen. It set the record for highest ever R-rated midnight take EVER. I was pretty much done talking about Paramount Pictures’ Paranormal Activity 2 (now in theaters everywhere), but Yahoo! decided to run two new clips to kick off the release. Inside you’ll find a look at Katie Featherston’s return that is quite central to the sequel’s plot. Check back here at 4PM for another clip that will be added to this news story. Don’t forget to return here to write your own review and tell all of Bloody Disgusting what YOU thought. You’ll find our review by clicking here or the title above. We’ll also return to give you an update on the boxoffice take, which is tracking through the roof. Horror could return in a BIG way.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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