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The Trailer for the ‘Inside’ Remake is Thrilling, Less Bloody
Weirdly, there’s no news on a U.S. release for Kidnapped and Extinction director Miguel Ángel Vivas’ Inside, his remake of Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l’intérieur. The film not only premiered at the 2016 Sitges Film Festival but was also for sale at AFM in November and last month’s Cannes. Yet, we have no clue if it’s ever going to make it to the States. With that said, the release of the Spanish trailer promises an August 18th release…and tons of tension. Vivas looks to have kept the spirit of the French film, only less bloody. I still get that Halloween vibe, but I don’t think Laura Harring is nearly as threatening as Béatrice Dalle was in the original film.And even though it doesn’t quite look like a splatterfest, it does appear to be incredibly suspenseful. Inside is either going to surprise us, or we’re going to look back at this trailer and say, “Man, they fooled us all.”
With screenplay by Jaume Balagueró ([REC]) and Vivas’ usual collaborator Manu Díez, the remake stars Rachel Nichols (The Loop, Tokarev, Fantastic Four) and Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Punisher). It’s an Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls (Nostromo Pictures) production.
Pregnant and depressed, a young widow tries to rebuild her life following the fateful car accident where she lost her husband and partially lost her hearing. Now, about to go into labor, she’s living in a remote house in the suburbs when, one Christmas night, she receives an unexpected visit from another woman with a devastating objective: to rip the child she’s carrying from inside her. But a mother’s fury when it comes to protecting her child should never be underestimated. Rachel Nichols and Laura Harring play the two main roles in this brutal and bloody hand-to-hand combat.
Inside is produced by Nostromo Pictures, a Barcelona-based company that’s behind Rodrigo Cortés’ films Buried and Red Lights; Grand Piano, that opened the 2013 Sitges Film Festival, or the box office sensation Palmeras en la Nieve. It has the thrillers El Guardián Invisible and Contratiempo well under way.
Theo James Krekis‘ short film Jealous People are Ugly People premiered earlier this year at SXSW and has since inspired a massive bidding war for its feature film expansion.
New Line Cinema has emerged victorious in the latest feeding frenzy over next-generation digital horror IP and its creators, Deadline reports.
Krekis will adapt Jealous People are Ugly People, directing from his own script.
In the short film, “Vasilly has become painfully jealous of his best friend, Luke. But things aren’t going so well for Luke. Every time he shares some good news, he starts to suffer from strange and violent repercussions. Disturbed by the uncanny timing, Vasilly recalls his Yiayia’s warnings about the Greek superstition of the evil eye – and starts to believe his own envy might be to blame for Luke’s bad luck.”
SXSW described the short film as ” a darkly comic psychological thriller about male jealousy, inherited superstition, and the corrosive power of repressed ambition.”
Jennifer Monks and Michelle Stein will produce the feature take alongside Isaac Klausner, John Fischer, Ben Levine and Ethan Cappello. Josh Mack and Lauren Botchan are overseeing for New Line.
Jealous People are Ugly People joins New Line’s upcoming horror slate that also includes Santiago Menghini’s The Revenge of La Llorona on February 26, 2027, and The Conjuring: First Communion on September 10, 2027.
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