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SDCC ’10: Bloody Disgusting Hosts Special San Diego Comic-Con Screening of ‘The Last Exorcism’!
Lionsgate is bringing the terrors of possession to San Diego Comic Con as they’ve got all sorts of events planned around The Last Exorcism, the Eli Roth produced horror pic that concerns an evangelical minister (Reverend Cotton) who turns against religion and decides to participate in a documentary in which he practices his last exorcism. Want to be the first on your block to SEE the movie? Bloody-Disgusting and MySpace are hosting a very special screening — we’ve got (25) individual tickets for some lucky readers to snag — and getting them has never been easier. Details inside.
Event #1: Producer Eli Roth will participate in a signing at the Lionsgate booth #3729 from 3-4pm on Saturday, July 24.
Event #2: Bloody Disgusting and MySpace are hosting a FREE screening of The Last Exorcism on Saturday, July 24 at 7pm at the Reading Gaslamp 15, followed by a Q & A with director Daniel Stamm, and producers Eric Newman and Eli Roth.
GET TICKETS! Bloody Disgusting has (25) individual tickets available, so act fast. CLICK HERE to RSVP and guarantee admitance to one of the biggest horror events at this year’s San Diego Comic Con!
“When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy.
Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus’ own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell – and themselves – before it is too late.
THE LAST EXORCISM is written by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland, directed by Daniel Stamm, and produced by Eric Newman, Eli Roth, Marc Abraham and Thomas A. Bliss. Strike Entertainment and STUDIOCANAL present an Arcade Pictures production.”
The Last Exorcism arrives in theaters August 27.
Visit the film’s official website.
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, “Salem”) and Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) penned the script. The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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