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Hammer’s ‘Resident’ Finds A Home At Image
While Hammer’s first “new” film in decades (Overture’s Let Me In) didn’t make much of a splash at the box office, a bit of star power (and an original story) should help The Resident fare much better. Image Entertainment seems to think so, since they just picked up the film for US distribution, according to Variety. The movie stars Oscar winner Hilary Swank (trying horror again after The Reaping, Hammer legend Christopher Lee, and the ever awesome Comedian himself, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and concerns a woman (Swank, I assume, though Morgan could pull it off) who moves into a new place and begins to suspect someone else is already living there. So it’s Hider In The House, but with less Busey? I’ll bite. Using terrible grammar and made up words, Variety says the film will hit theaters in the spring.
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R-Rated ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Director’s Cut Gets New Title and Streaming Premiere Date
After a slight delay, Disney has finally announced a new streaming date for the R-Rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to Gizmodo, it’ll also come with a new title.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu on August 14.
The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he teased a much scarier movie he intended.
“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained last year. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“
The director’s cut of the film was initially set to arrive on Disney+ in June, but quietly disappeared from the schedule without a word. Polygon reported the delay was “due to some last-minute adjustments being made to the film.”
The release’s new “Vrach Frankenshteyn” title certainly suggests those adjustments have been made, likely referring to a Frankensteining of bonus footage.
In the film, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient.
When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped, and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics.
The brand new R-rated cut will “faithfully restore the filmmaker’s original vision.”
Look for it on Hulu next month.