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5 Projects to Watch Out For From Frontières
Story by Jonny Bunning
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival opened on Tuesday with Joe Dante’s Burying The Ex. While the Belgian audiences are enjoying 13 days of the best new horror movies, genre filmmakers from across the world have converged on the city for the second Frontières International Co-Production Market.
This Mecca for the macabre sees hand picked projects in development make presentations to industry professionals.
Here are the most exciting movies you will be seeing in the near future.
78/52: Horror documentaries are hot in the wake of Jodo’s Dune, Room 237 and Doc of the Dead. The team behind the latter are back with one about the most famous wet moment in cinematic history (No not the pool scene from Wild Things). The shower scene from Psycho will be the the subject being discussed by present days film aficionados to Hitchcock’s own granddaughter. Get ready to want Elijah Wood making the stabbing music sounds as a message alert.
Döner: Imagine the falafel eating bonus scene from Avengers with an added mafia massacre. Set in Paris expect a side order of guns with your late night snack.
Jessie’s Demons: The producer of Turbo Kid that took you to an apocalyptic 1997 are back with a different kind of trip. Voodoo & narcotics fuel the titular party girl as she researches rituals.
Seems like hospital horrors are hot again with the success of The Void‘s Indiegogo campaign. One Drop is another healing location about to get impregnated with “hitchhikers from the otherside” via the human womb.
Skin & Bones: It’s not just the cold of Canada that is causing teeth to chatter. Something is chewing up locals in this fur trade period piece. Frozen blood popsicle anyone?
Sinners: Imagine the West Borough Baptists Church set in Scotland with a more deadly female disciple doing more than picketing funerals for fun & games.
In the spirit of being transparent I’d consider myself a friend of the makers of Sinners from attending their film festival, Mayhem in Nottingham UK. I have previously worked with the director of Skin & Bones and might be helping out with the Canadian release of Turbo Kid.
I’m genuinely excited by all of the projects being pitched.
These were my personal highlights regardless of industry connections.
The Wayans are out to cancel the Cancel Culture with Scary Movie, and the cast assures it will do just that.
“They sort of have an across-the-board style,” Anna Faris tells EW. “It’s always been a part of the Wayans Brothers, their electricity. ‘Can we offend you? Will you still love us? Come on, you still love us, don’t you?'”
Regina Hall concurs, promising the “boundary-pushing” sixth installment in the horror parody franchise will “offend everyone.”
EW has shared a batch of behind-the-scenes images from Scary Movie, which hits theaters June 5 via Paramount.
Faris and Hall are joined by fellow franchise favorites Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, and Jon Abrahams in the legacy sequel.
The ensemble includes Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Benny Zielke, Cameron Scott Roberts, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Sydney Park, Kenan Thompson, and Felissa Rose.
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) directs from a script by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, original Scary Movie director Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans (Scary Movie 2), and Rick Alvarez (A Haunted House).
The film will slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final.
Scary Movie launched in 2000, followed by Scary Movie 2 in 2001. The Wayans’ involvement ended there, but the series continued with 2003’s Scary Movie 3, 2006’s Scary Movie 4, and 2013’s Scary Movie 5.
Regina Hall & Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans & Regina Hall on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Michael Tiddes & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Regina Hall & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
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