The Gate
| release date | May 15 1987 |
| studio | Lionsgate |
| director | Tibor Takács |
| writer | Michael Nankin |
| starring | Christa Denton, Stephen Dorff, Deborah Grover, and Carl Kraines |
| tagline | ... pray it's not too late! |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
‘The Gate’ Finds A Writer, Is Moving Forward
Director Matt Westrup is getting ready to make The Gate, a feature version of his short of the same name. Wayfare Entertainment will be financing and helping him develop the idea and now they’ve found a screenwriter who can tease it out to feature length, Mitchell Akselrad READ MORE
Matt Westrup To Open ‘The Gate’ Up Into A Feature Film
Director Matt Westrup is getting ready to make The Gate, a feature version of his short of the same name. Wayfare Entertainment will be financing and helping him develop the idea and the first step is finding a screenwriter who can tease it out to feature length. READ MORE
Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’ Gets Labor Day VOD Release
Now that writer/director Kevin Smith is nearly finished with his National Red State (review) ripoff tour (where he charged his closest, most devoted fans a whopping $80 to see his latest effort), the comedy director’s first horror entry is entering its next phase of release. READ MORE
Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’ Gets Labor Day VOD Release
Now that writer/director Kevin Smith is nearly finished with his National Red State (review) ripoff tour (where he charged his closest, most devoted fans a whopping $80 to see his latest effort), the comedy director’s first horror entry is entering its next phase of release. READ MORE
TV: ‘True Blood’s Jason Stackhouse Tied Up and Bloody
Continuing to push their forthcoming fourth season of “True Blood”, HBO has released a third “waiting sucks” teaser clip. The other day you saw a shirtless Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and Sam Trammell with the first appearance of Janina Gavankar as Luna, today you get a little Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse. READ MORE
TV: Alexander Skarsgard Featured in First ‘True Blood’ Clipage
“True Blood” fav Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) returns without a shirt in this first ever official clip from the fourth season of HBO’s massively popular vampire drama. The pay cabler did a great job promoting season three with a series of “waiting sucks” clips and posters, I can’t wait to see what they have up their sleeve this year! READ MORE
Time to Vote for This Year’s Reaper Awards
Consumer online voting is now under way for the Second Annual Reaper Awards, honoring the best horror/thriller titles on DVD and Blu-ray. Horror fans can vote for their favorite discs from the past year, as well as vote on which titles they are most looking forward to in the coming months, through October 1st at the official Home Media Magazine website or on the official Reaper Awards website. The awards are presented by Home Media Magazine and Dread Central. More info inside. (more…) READ MORE
TV: Watch 17 Minutes of ABC’s ‘The Gates’!
Premiering this Sunday, June 20th @10|9c on ABC is the new vampire drama “The Gates”, which begins when the Monohan family moves into a new home in an exclusive community called The Gates; things become complicated when the father, the new chief of police, must investigate neighbors in a missing-persons case his first day on the job. ABC is hoping to gain your interest by posting the first 17 minutes of the pilot episode. Watch it below and then tell us what you think. (more…) READ MORE
Actor Frank Grillo Talks ‘Mother’s Day’ & ‘My Soul to Take’!
In our interview with Frank Grillo, star of new summer ABC show “The Gates”, we also spoke with him about two of his highly-anticipated upcoming projects, Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street-sounding My Soul to Take and Darren Lynn Bousman’s update of the 1980 Troma exploitation film Mother’s Day. Read on for his quotes about being directed by horror master Craven, his thoughts on My Soul to Take‘s 3-D conversion, and being scared shitless by sociopathic Mother’s Day momma Rebecca de Mornay (in real life). (more…) READ MORE
Fox Announces Untitled Vampire Spoof Film for This Summer
Vampires are all the craze these days — too bad it’s mostly with the tweenie Twilight fans. Beyond Twilight we’ve seen Liongsate’s Daybreakers, HBO’s “True Blood” drama, WB’s “The Vampire Diaries”, and the forthcoming ABC series “The Gates”. There are multiple films in production ranging from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to The Last Voyage of the Demeter. The possibilities are endless, which is why 20th Century Fox is prepping to release yet another vomit-inducing spoof movie based around the vampire craze. The shocker? It’s coming out on August 18 of this summer. The pic is from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the craptacular duo behind Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie, and Meet the Spartans. A guaranteed “suck”-fest? Yes. It has already been rated PG-13. Earlier this month it was announced that Fully Mooned, a Twilight spoof had entered pre-production. Maybe this is the film? More soon, I’m sure. (more…) READ MORE
TV: Full Trailer for ‘True Blood’, Minisode and Promo for ‘The Gates’
Two pieces of television news in one post as HBO released the FULL trailer for their forthcoming third season of “True Blood” which will reveal what happened to vampire Bill Compton. In addition, below you’ll find ABC’s first promo for “The Gates”. Written by Richard Hatem and Grant Scharbo, “Gates” centers on a big-city cop (Grillo) who becomes chief of police in a seemingly sleepy planned community only to discover there’s much more to the residents than meets the eye. The series is being eyed for a summer launch. Mably (“The Prince and Me”) will play one of the residents, a cardiologist who is a vampirelike creature. Gavankar (“The L Word”) will play a local cop with a dark secret. West (“90210″) will play the owner of a tea shop. The project is slated to begin production in late March in Louisiana. (more…) READ MORE
Feel ‘The Wraith’ of This Week’s Horror In Your House
Getting back on track with our Horror In Your House, Tex Massacre has a list of films that will now be available on DVD and Blu-ray as of tomorrow morning. The highlight is Lionsgate’s loving re-release of The Wraith, with Fox kicking ass and taking names with hot chick violence in Bitch Slap. (more…) READ MORE
Hot Chick Casting Alert: Devanny Pinn Joins ’15 Till Midnight’
Any excuse to post a picture of a hot chick we will. New casting has come down for writer-director and star Brandon Slagle’s indie feature 15 Till Midnight, which goes behind the camera next spring from New York based Rotten Apple Productions. Most notably starring is beauty Devanny Pinn (Piranha 3-D, Scream Queen Campfire, Orgy of Blood). You’ll find the full info beyond the break. (more…) READ MORE
‘The Gate 3D’ Concept Art, H.R. Giger Designing Creature!!
Monster news regarding Alex Winter’s The Gate 3D remake as we got our hands on some early concept art, along with pages, upon pages of details regarding the pic. One of the most interesting tid-bits is that the creatures for the remake were designed by three-time Academy Award winning FX guru Randall William Cook (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong), and new creature design will be done by H.R. Giger (Alien, Species)!! (more…) READ MORE
UPDATE: ‘The Gate: Monstrous Special Edition’ Coming to DVD!
Update: DVD cover art below. If only Lionsgate could bring us Blu-rays, they’d be on my best friend list. Today Lionsgate Home Entertainment hit us up with the breaking news that The Gate debuts in a Special Edition DVD on October 6 from Lionsgate. Starring Stephen Dorff (Public Enemies), Kelly Rowan (TV’s “The O.C.”) and Jennifer Irwin (HBO’s “Eastbound & Down”), the film is a terrifying tale about three children who accidently open a gate to hell which releases demons from an ancient civilization. The Gate: Monstrous Special Edition is loaded with new special features, including audio commentary with the director, interviews with the cast and crew, a stills gallery and the original theatrical trailer. (more…) READ MORE
Trailer and Teaser Poster For ‘The Message’ (or two?)
Over at BDTV you can check out the trailer for a new religious-themed horror film by the name of The Message. Starring Erica Leerhsen (Blair Witch 2, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), a young wife and mother of two children is challenged to overcome her passive beliefs on religion after a serious car accident. Receiving haunting images of her past she is forced to make a decision that will decide her fate. Searching for the true meaning of our existence she comes to the end of her journey and believes she has only two choices in the eyes of God; do not have faith and die or have faith and….die. In addition, we received an e-mail this morning from Rapidfire Productions (The Gates of Hell) who sent us their teaser poster for their upcoming feature also titled The Message. What are the f*cking odds? You can check that out inside. (more…) READ MORE
Ron Perlman Toplines ‘Gatekeeper’, Crime Spree in ‘Visceral’
Two very vague films were teased this week over at Production Weekly. The mag reports that production is being set up for a horror/comedy by the name of The Gatekeeper, which will star Ron Perlman of Hellboy fame. In addition, they report on a new film scripted by Brant Hughes entitled Visceral, which is described as a dark action-thriller and follows a student that is forced by his schizophrenic professor into a seemingly random crime spree. No other details were revealed. (more…) READ MORE
Bill S. Preston, Esq. to Direct 3D Remake of ‘The Gate’
Now here’s some random news that’s either excellent or completely bogus. Alex Winter has been tapped to director a 3D remake of the 1987 horror film The Gate, according to Production Weekly. You might remember Winter as Bill S. Preston, Esq. from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey), and Marko from The Lost Boys. He replaces Randall William Cook behind the camera. The original, which starred Stephen Dorff, followed three young children who accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth. (more…) READ MORE
Screamfest ’08: Full Film Line-Up Revealed to BD!
The Screamfest Horror Film Festival is only weeks away and we’ve got an exclusive look at the entire film line-up, which can be found inside. Playing from October 10-19 at the Grauman’s Manns Chinese 6 Theraters in Hollywood are films like TRICK ‘R TREAT, FEAST 2: SLOPPY SECONDS, ACOLYTES, THE BURROWERS, DANTE 01, DANCE OF THE DEAD, among dozens others! (more…) READ MORE
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