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‘Haunted’ Grand Prize Winner Announced!
“The Beast is forbidden to ever enter the human world – only a mortal son could invite him. So the beast created one.”
It was announced today by the film’s producer Charles Agron that Steve Pattee from Maryland USA has won the Grand Prize in the Haunted “Be An Extra” Sweepstakes! Agron phoned the winner to congratulate him on being selected to receive the offer to visit the set of Haunted this week. Pattee will also be sent a comprehensive Haunted merchandise winner’s pack. Prize packs will also be going out to the friends that Steve recruited via Facebook.
Haunted, directed by Victor Salva, produced by Charles Agron Productions in Association with Blue Horse productions completes principal photography this week. Principal cast includes Tobin Bell (Saw films), Lesley-Anne Down (Rosewood Lane), Luke Kleintank, Max Gail, Lacey Anzelc, Anthony Rey Perez, Alex McKenna, Ethan S. Smith, Zack Ward. Salva reunites with director of photography Don E. FauntLeRoy for the thriller. Haunted is written by Agron and Salva from a story by Charles Agron and is produced by Agron, Salva and FauntLeRoy. The film is slated for a 2012 release.
Get more info on the film’s official website or become a fan on Facebook. “The film tells the chilling story of Nick Di Santo , who is tormented by his ability to touch someone and see exactly how they will die. On his 23rd birthday Nick is summoned by his mother (Leslie-Anne Down) to the asylum where she has been institutionalized since his childhood. Hoping that her request to see him is a sign of improvement, Nick is stunned by her revelation that the father he thought was dead is really alive. He is alive and may know the origin of Nick’s terrible gift. Nick sets out to find his father with his best friend Ryan (Anthony Rey Perez) and girlfriend Eve (Alex McKenna). The trio are soon frightened and alarmed as every road they take on the journey leads them back to the same abandoned mansion – a house that only existed in Nick’s childhood imagination or so he thought. A house in a town that no map connects. Finally succumbing to the will of the house, Nick becomes embroiled in a battle with a dark figure (Tobin Bell). What started as a simple road trip soon turns into a terror-filled journey, full of horrifying twists and brutal surprise.”
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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.