Movies

There’s a Guy on Fire in the Latest ‘Pet’ Trailer

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7 years ago

November 5, 2016

A new trailer for the abduction thriller/horror film Pet has been released and there’s a brief shot of a guy on fire. Like, not just his arm has a few flames on it. Nope, this motherfucker is engulfed in flames to the point that you could roast some marshmallows off of him for some s’mores. Is that insensitive? Maybe. Probably. I’m too busy stuffing my face with s’mores to really care.

The film stars Dominic Monaghan (“Lost”, The Lord of the Rings series), Ksenia Solo (In Search of Fellini, “Turn”), and Jennette McCurdy (“iCarly, Sam”, “Cat”), and had its World Premiere at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin.

In the vein of HARD CANDY and GONE GIRL, PET is a psychological thriller that deals with the themes of identity, loneliness, selflessness and what it means to truly belong to another. It’s told through the prism of two isolated people, Seth and Holly, seemingly different yet more similar than they even knew. PET is at its heart a dark love story that examines how much one is willing to sacrifice in the name of love.

Trace explained in his review that “Pet is best viewed as a wacky horror romance filled with enough gallows humor to satiate the Coen Brothers.”

Torrens tells Bloody Disgusting:

“PET’s a very twisted suspense thriller with quite a bit of dark humor and romance. Though dealing with some very dark material, we’ve approached it in a very accessible way, and hope it can be enjoyed by mature audiences everywhere.”

Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the film in U.S. theaters and on demand on December 2, 2016, and it will be available on DVD on December 27.

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Movies

New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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13 hours ago

April 22, 2024

John Squires

Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.