The roughly 11-minute short is set in the world of cyberbullying and eventually includes supernatural elements. In fact, the story could be described as being reminiscent of The Grudge or The Ring, but primed for the current generation that uses smart phones and Facebook as extensions of themselves.
Warners has released yet, yet, yet, another viral image for Guillermo del Toro’s (apparently awesome) Pacific Rim. This one beckons for engineers to join the war effort.
In the film, “When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.”
Head inside to check it out. Pacific Rim crests July 12th. READ MORE
There’s an apparent (unconfirmed) viral video floating around for The Host 2, the sequel to Bong Joon-Ho’s amazing The Host. Actually, even if it isn’t “official” it still qualifies as viral promotion, doesn’t it? Perhaps even more so? Anyway it takes a look at the events of the first film through a semi-documentary lens that sort of reminds me of people trying to prove the Loch Ness Monster exists.
The Host 2 has been written by Im Pil-sung and will be directed by Park Myung-chun, who will be making his feature debut. There will be TWO monsters in the movie.
It’s expected out in early summer 2014. READ MORE
Warners has released another viral image for Guillermo del Toro’s (apparently awesome) Pacific Rim, this time creating a propaganda style poster to recruit people into the Jaeger (giant robot) training program.
In the film, “When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.”
Head inside to check it out. Pacific Rim crests July 12th. READ MORE
Warners has released even more “viral” marketing for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, this time warning of Kaiju in Japanese. Still want to see the movie, still unmoved by the campaign. I can’t wait for the Wondercon footage.
In the film, “When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.”
Head inside to check it out. Pacific Rim crests July 12th. READ MORE
The FBI estimates there are currently over 300 active serial killers in the United States. What would happen if these killers had a way of communicating and connecting with each other? What if they were able to work together and form alliances across the country? What if one brilliant psychotic serial killer was able to bring them all together and activate a following? Check out several viral videos that tease the mess the killer left.
Welcome to “The Following”, the terrifying new thriller from creator/executive producer Kevin Williamson (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Dawson’s Creek,” the Scream franchise) and director Marcos Siega (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Dexter”)! Check out a pair of new promo leasing up to the hotly anticipated new series.
“The Following” premieres January 21, 2013 on Fox. READ MORE
The viral fun has officially begun for Guillermo del Toro’s giant robot/monster movie Pacific Rim!
In theaters July 12, “Set in a future in which malevolent creatures threaten the earth, the planet must band together and use highly advanced technology to eradicate the growing menace.”
The first viral, a video, shares the “Kaiju Emergency Alert System”. This is what you’d see interrupting the latest “American Horror Story” episode. In addition, there’s also a leaked memo from the Pan Pacific Defense Corps that gives a little bit of new information. If you’re after more information, you can now head to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps official website.
Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Robert Kazinsky, Ron Perlman, Max Martini, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Diego Klattenhoff and Brad William Henke all star. READ MORE
Paramount Pictures’ latest Paranormal Activity 4 viral promotion has me scratching my head a bit. I mean I know the blond girl is Kathryn Newton’s character, but not the other. I’ve seen the movie and I still can’t tell you who it is. Someone from PA2? That’s possible because PA2 barely exists to me anymore. PA3 for lyyyyffee (I seriously do like PA3)! The pic comes from the twitter account of Jacob Degloshi.
In theaters this Friday, October 19 from Catfish duo Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the cast is said to feature Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Brady Allen, Alisha Boe and Tommy Miranda.
In the sequel, “It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.”
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It’s a super slow news morning so why not experience Sarah Murphy’s fear first hand as she finds herself sealed in her family’s secluded lake house with We All Have Secrets, the chilling new Facebook App for upcoming horror thriller Silent House (review), starring Elizabeth Olsen.
What skeletons are you hiding in your closet? Are you prepared to face them? Anonymously share your deepest, darkest secrets and read the confessions people have shared across the internet, all in one place: we-all-have-secrets.com.
“‘Silent House’ is a uniquely unsettling horror thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family’s secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house.”
Directed by Open Water filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, Silent House uses meticulous camera choreography to take the audience on a tension-filled, real time journey, experienced in a single uninterrupted shot. It premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. READ MORE
Taking cues from every exorcism flick in existence, Paramount Insurge has released a new clip from The Devil Inside that depicts the possessed women speaking in four different languages. Been there, done that, always kinda cool…
In addition, the studio has released an iPhone app for the Brent Bell-directed exorcism flick that can be downloaded on iTunes. It asks “Is the Devil inside you?” Find out if you’re possessed with the app.
In theaters January 6, “Her entire life, Isabella Torelli believed her mother brutally murdered three people because she was clinically insane. After being told the murders occurred during an exorcism she sets out to discover the truth. While documenting her experience with a film crew in Italy, she becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms.” READ MORE
Paramount Insurge has given MTV a kinda stupid holiday greeting card for Brent Bell’s The Devil Inside, their exorcism flick opening in theaters January 6, 2012. The video plays like a video greeting card with a screaming woman at the end. The concept appeared to be heading in the right direction, but kind of missed their own sentiment that if God exists, so does the Devil. Whatever, the movie looks cool and that chick is all kinds of crazy creepy.
“In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria. Many have been possessed by one; only one has been possessed by many.” READ MORE
![BagBones120211 [Review] Ryan Daley Says Bag of Bones Has No Bite](http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/photosizer/upload/BagBones120211.jpg "[Review] Ryan Daley Says Bag of Bones Has No Bite")
Heed our warning….
There just wasn’t a whole lotta hype behind A&E’s
Bag of Bones, their miniseries adapted from a Stephen King novella and directed by king regular Mick Garris. Even I didn’t set my dvr. Ryan Daley turned it off halfway through and picked up a rerun in order to tough through for the following review.
“Let’s be honest, there no way that even the juiciest of gore was ever gonna save an endeavor as silly as ‘Bag of Bones’, an adaptation that was destined to be weak sauce from the very beginning. It’s one of those King movies that’s all bark and no bite. And it never really had any bark to begin with.”
Click the title above to read his review or to write your own. READ MORE
Sony Screen Gems has picked up rights to a creepy student-made short entitled Viral with the plan of spinning it into a feature, reports Heat Vision.
The pickup is a coup for Tim Shechmeister, a recent UCLA film school grad who directed the short and co-wrote it with his brother, Matt Shechmeister, as part of a thesis project. The Shechmeisters will co-write the feature and Tim would direct the big-screen version.
“The roughly 11-minute short is set in the world of cyberbullying and eventually includes supernatural elements.” In fact, the story could be described as being reminiscent of The Grudge or The Ring, but primed for the current generation that uses smart phones and Facebook as extensions of themselves.
The Grudge reference is apt because that movie’s writer, Stephen Susco, discovered the short at a screenwriting event this past summer. Tim Shechmeister, who is also a fan of Japanese horror (AKA J-Horror), gave Susco his business card with a link to the short, which the scribe checked out and loved. Susco brought it to Grudge producer Roy Lee who, along with Lawrence Grey, took it to Screen Gems. The trio will now produce. John Middleton will exec produce. READ MORE
A&E Network has launched an online narrative prequel, “Dark Score Stories,” to “Stephen King’s Bag of Bones,” a four-hour epic miniseries (airing on Sunday, December 11 and Monday, December 12) based on The New York Times #1 bestselling novel, and featuring Pierce Brosnan’s return to television. Dark Score Stories is a visual and interactive exploration of the setting and characters of “Bag of Bones” through a series of eerie, animated images, striking black-and-white still photographs and audio interviews.
In ‘Dark Score Stories,’ characters from the upcoming miniseries (including those played by stars Pierce Brosnan, Annabeth Gish and Melissa George) come to life in seven striking, photojournalistic portraits and oral histories. Each vignette will provide a glimpse into every day life at Dark Score Lake, “Bag of Bones” setting, and is introduced with an animated still – a unique visual technique with subtle, mysterious movements hinting at the dark secrets bubbling beneath the surface of each tale. Visitors to the site will find a series of secrets hidden in the rich detail of each image, recognizable especially to Stephen King fans. READ MORE
CBS Films has launched a pretty lame Halloween viral for The Woman in Black that uses motion capture technology as part of the experience. It’s very “one note”.
WhatDidTheySee.com invites users to take a look inside Eel Marsh House and discover the answer to “What did they see?” Visitors have only a partially obscured view, just enough to see through the doorway and into this young girl’s room. By using motion recognition with the computer’s webcam, visitors to the site can shift their perspective within the room by simply moving right & left in front of their own computer to see what lurks behind the door and in the shadows. No matter how scared you get (and you totally won’t), expect to receive your own customized photo, compliments of The Woman in Black.
You can see my honest reaction above. READ MORE
![[OMFG] Paramount Uses Paranormal As Launchpad for Creepy New Franchise: The Devil Inside!!](/photosizer/upload/2devilinside101411.jpg "[OMFG] Paramount Uses Paranormal As Launchpad for Creepy New Franchise: The Devil Inside!!")
Opening in theaters January 6, 2012 is Paramount Pictures’ latest micro-budget franchise starter, The Devil Inside, which comes from director and co-writer William Brent Bell (Stay Alive). Using Paranormal Activity 3 as a launchpad, Bloody Disgusting scored your first ever look at the creepy as f*ck lip-splitting teaser one sheet (standard and “living” version), along with an even more disturbing viral video. The video plays a call to 911 where a woman confesses to murdering three people and asks for them to send help. It reminds me of when the zombies called for “more ambulances” in Return of the Living Dead. The trailer will premiere online this coming Monday. Become a fan on Facebook.
“Her entire life, Isabella Torelli believed her mother brutally murdered three people because she was clinically insane. After being told the murders occurred during an exorcism she sets out to discover the truth. While documenting her experience with a film crew in Italy, she becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms.” Bonnie Morgan, Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Preston James Hillier, Evan Helmuth, Suzan Crowley, D.T. Carney, and Ionut Grama all star.
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“American Horror Story,” the new original drama series premiering on FX October 5, is making its final viral push before its airdate. If you click on over to the library of our own personal room in the house you’ll find new artifacts unlocking some time tomorrow. It’s also your last call to upload your artifacts.
The link takes you to the digital house tour with a twist, this campaign brings to life some of the secret history behind the psychosexual series. Fans will go behind closed doors to explore the house’s hidden rooms and discover the mind-bending artifacts that reveal the intimate details that fueled six decades of murder, lust, perversion and betrayal.
This high-concept engagement campaign, from FX and New York-based agency Campfire, is designed to ignite influential fan cultures and communities, build buzz and drive viewers to tune into “American Horror Story.” In the weeks leading up to the show’s October 5 premiere, fans in these partner communities will receive creepy keepsakes, artifacts and clues and then will work as a team, piecing fragments of a story together to unlock exclusive rewards. All will culminate in the release of exclusive “American Horror Story” content that fans will be able to share.
Just getting back to my hotel at TIFF, sitting in front of my door was package featuring a creepy postcard with a symbolic pin driven through a horse’s head, alongside a clip. Looking through the genre films at the fest, it became clear to me that the viral goodies were from Lovely Molly, Blair Witch Project co-creator Eduardo Sanchez’s horror film starring Johnny Lewis and Alexandra Holden. Inside you’ll find the clip that appears to discover a lair where the worship of Baphomet had taken place. Baphomet is an imagined pagan deity, revived in the 19th century as a figure of occultism and Satanism.
“When newlywed Molly Reynolds returns to her long-abandoned family home, frightful reminders of a nightmarish childhood begin seeping into her new life. She soon begins an inexorable descent into evil that blurs the lines between psychosis and possession.”
Miles Fisher, star of various online shorts (including “Pinkberry: The Movie”), scored the leading role in Warner Bros. and New Line’s forthcoming Final Destination 5, arriving in theaters August 12.
Even with his big screen debut just weeks away, Fisher is continuing with his love for parodies delivering “New Romance,” a Final Destination 5 viral video that spoofs the classic ’80s kids show “Saved By the Bell”. The short comes from American Psycho producer Jake Avnet and director Dave Green.
Make sure you stick with it because the deaths begin about halfway through…
Twentieth Century Fox has launched of viral video campaign with conjunction to their forthcoming Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which opens August 5. The first video can be enjoyed below with more over at the official YouTube Channel. The footage is pretty rad as it shows what happens when a group of soldiers give a little money an AK-47. Even more disturbing are the comments that imply some of the viewers believe it to be real (even on Fox’s own YouTube channel).
Described as an origin story, “ ‘Apes’ is set in present day San Francisco and deals with the aftermath of man’s experiments with genetic engineering that lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.” James Franco will play a driven scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes.
Portal 2′s release is just around the corner. The corner that is this weekend. Let me ask you, do you like boots? What about super boots? Well the video below shows you some super awesome boots that basically make you like a cat.
I’m very much looking forward to the games release, as I am also looking forward to getting super nerdy and showing off my puzzle solving skills to a certain Mr. Adam Dodd. Portal 2 releases on April 19th for the PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360. READ MORE
With the release only a week away, Dark Sky Films has kicked off the apocalypse.
Inside you’ll find the official poster, along with two character clips from Jim Mickle’s Stake Land.
“In the aftermath of a vampire epidemic, a teen is taken in by a grizzled vampire hunter on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic America, battling both the bloodsuckers and a fundamentalist militia that interprets the plague as the Lord’s work.”
Starring Danielle Harris, Kelly McGillis, and Conor Paolo, Dark Sky Films will release in limited theaters on April 22. Mickle is best known for directing Mulberry Street.
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