Oculus
| studio | FilmDistrict |
| director | Mike Flanagan |
| writer | Mike Flanagan, Jeff Howard |
| starring | Karen Gillan, Katee Sackhoff, Brenton Thwaites, Rory Cochrane, Annalise Basso, Garrett Ryan |
[2013 HORROR MOVIE PREVIEW] SONY/SCREEN GEMS/FILM DISTRICT
While Sony and Screen Gems typically pump out the horror, most of the genre films they release fail to deliver. This is because the heft of their releases are franchises that they hope to (and do) cash in on. Not to mention that many of the Screen Gems titles are made for kids, and not hardcore horror fans. READ MORE
First Look At FilmDistrict’s Haunter ‘Oculus’
“Dr. Who” star Karen Gillan has shared the first ever still from Oculus, FilmDistrict’s newest horror tale from Absentia’s Mike Flanagan. READ MORE
Two More Look Into the Horrific Mirror Of ‘Oculus’
Australian actor Brenton Thwaites (pictured) has signed on for the lead role in Intrepid Pictures’ horror vehicle Oculus Variety reports. READ MORE
Katee Sackhoff’s Horror Resume Grows With ‘Oculus’
Katee Sackhoff‘s genre credits continue to grow – Riddick, Haunting in Georgia, Halloween: Resurrection, White Noise 2 and “Battlestar Galactica” – as she will be joining Karen Gillan (“Dr. Who”) sidekick in Oculus, reports Deadline. READ MORE
“Dr Who” Star Karen Gillan Toplines Supernatural ‘Oculus’
“Dr. Who” and Outcast star Karen Gillan is set to star in the supernatural pic Oculus for Intrepid, Variety reports. READ MORE
FilmDistrict Breaks Haunted ‘Oculus’ Mirror
FilmDistrict (Insidious, Parker, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, and the forthcoming Evil Dead) has acquired Intrepid Pictures’ horror feature Oculus, to be directed by Mike Flanagan (Absentia) from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Howard. READ MORE
[News Bites] Let Me Leave The House Edition! Guillermo Del Toro Checks Into ‘Bloody Benders,’ ‘Absentia Director Tapped For ‘Oculus’ & Asylum Gets Sued!
Guillermo del Toro keeps collecting paycheck after paycheck slapping his name on yet another project. Deadline reports that del Toro’s Necropia Entertainment and Angryfilms’ Susan Montford and Don Murphy are teaming to option The Bloody Benders, a spec script by Adam Robitel. The scribe, a protege of Bryan Singer, based his script on the true story of the Benders, a husband, wife, son and daughter who ran a hotel in Kansas on the outskirts of the prairie in 1873. It might have been a precursor for the Bates Motel: As many as 20 guests checked in, and never checked out. The guests were robbed and murdered by their hosts, and the killers were never punished. Del Toro will not direct. “It is a beautiful and brutal yet poetic story, based on a very famous case, del Toro explained to the site. “If you consider America back then, it was a great transition to modernity, but on the prairie, these were huge landscapes where people traveled and days and weeks on end would pass without communication. So nothing happens, then there is this brutal murder, and then it’s back to pastoral peace and quiet. That rhythm was very attractive to me.” Murphy called the script “the perfect mixture of genres — Western, horror, thriller and love story,” while del Toro added, “It feels like ‘Prometheus’ is a very similar proposition to our film.” READ MORE
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