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Slasher Stalks Bella Thorne in the ‘Keep Watching’ Trailer
Sony Screen Gems was planning on playing a new game with audiences last December: kill or be killed. They had originally planned to release Sean Carter’s Keep Watching (formerly Home Invasion) for release in theaters on December 2, 2016, only it never arrived.
The film follows family imprisoned by intruders must play a terrifying life-and-death game in which the mysterious rules become clear as the night unfolds.
Bella Thorne must be cursed because she not only stars in this shelved movie but also the long-delayed Amityville: The Awakening and The Babysitter. The race is now on to see which movie gets released first. A trailer appearing this morning for Keep Watching is a good sign, especially with “The Walking Dead” returning this fall. Why? This slasher also stars “The Walking Dead” favorite Chandler Riggs, with Natalie Martinez (“Kingdom”), Saw and Insidious‘ Leigh Whannell, and Ioan Gruffudd (The Fantastic Four). Sales agency Voltage Pictures released the trailer, which could also mean they’re looking for a new home. Ouch.
“A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of “Kill, Or Be Killed”. As the night unfolds, the game’s mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to keep watching…not knowing if what they’re seeing is real, or staged.”
Alex Heineman, Andrew Rona, Nicholas Chartier, and Craig J. Flores produce the film penned by Joseph Dembner.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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