Return of the Living Dead (remake)

When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.

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Shout! Factory Lands ‘Halloween II’ Inspired Norwegian Slasher ‘Cold Prey II’

Already out for nearly 3 years internationally, Shout! Factory is finally bringing the Norwegian Cold Prey II (read our review) to the States. Anchor Bay released the first film from Roar Uthaug.

Riffing on John Carpenter’s Halloween sequel, the slasher will arrive on home video April 22.

Starring popular international actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and directed by Mats Stenberg, Cold Prey II continues the tension from the original smash hit Cold Prey, and delivers spine-tingling suspense and blood-curdling terror sure to appeal to horror fans and world cinema enthusiasts.

During the winter in 2006 four youth faced a brutal death in the Norwergian mountains of Jotunheimen. Only one woman named survived. Frozen and weak, Jannicke is brought to the local hospital, along with the body of the vicious mountain man whom she’d killed. But when she wakes up in the hospital, the building is dark and deserted…and she soon realizes that her nightmare is not yet over.

A third film is already released internationally. No word on a U.S. release for that. READ MORE

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‘Cold Prey’ Director’s New Film Will ‘Escape’ To The US

Flukt (Escape) is the new Norwegian action-horror film from Cold Prey director Roar Uthaug and star Ingrid Bolso Berdal. It’s still filming but it looks like you’ll get a chance to see it this year since it’s picking up distribution all over the place at Cannes.

Per Screendaily, “TrustNordisk’s in demand action-adventure Escape has sold to eOne for US and Rialto Distribution for Australia. Market deals were previously struck with Momentum (UK), Koch Media (Germany), Aurum Producciones (Spain), Film Europe (Czech Republic and Slovakia) and Middle East’s Gulf Film with buyers hungry for the film off promo.

In the film, “Ten years after the Black Death ravaged the country, a poor family is on a journey to find better living conditions. On a deserted mountain pass, they are attacked by a gang of ruthless outlaws. They only spare the life of the nineteen year old Signe. She is taken captive and the gang takes her back to their camp. Here she learns that she is intended a fate worse than death. Signe understands that the only solution is to escape.

Hallvard Holmen, Tobias Santelman, Martin Slaatto and Hans Jacob Sand also star. Check out the first two stills and sales trailer inside. READ MORE