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SCREAM ’09: ‘The Graves’ Writer/Director Brian Pulido
While on the red carpet for the 2009 Spike TV Scream Awards, we caught up with Brian Pulido, writer/director of After Dark Films’ The Graves, one of the 2010 “8 Films to Die For.” Beyond the break you can read about a new viral website being launched to promote the film’s January 29th release, along with potential DVD extra features and his next project, Damnation.In The Graves, two inseparable sisters, Megan and Abby Graves, are taking one last wild road trip before Megan has to start a new job. The journey includes a trip through remote Arizona in search of a kitchy roadside attraction. Instead, Megan and Abby happen on Skull City Mine, a weather-beaten, abandoned mine town converted into a self-guided tour. What seems like a fun day in the sun turns into a mind-bending fight for survival against menaces both human and supernatural.
“GRAVES is coming out January 29th,” Pulido tells Bloody Disgusting breaking the news about a new viral website launching this month. “Sometime right around Halloween we’re going to release a website called SKULLCITYMINE.com and that’s gonna give people a nice inside view of the terrible environment that the girls from the movie end up in,” adding, “that gives people an inside look into the people that run the mine.”
As for extra features, there could be a lot on the DVD. “[It’s] too early to tell. What we’re providing besides the obvious behind-the-scenes, we’re going to provide some visual comics ‘cause it’s related to the movie, we have a little documentary on the strange locations we shot at, all sorts of commentary tracks and a couple other unique things. We tried to make sure it was different.”
“After Dark has been spectacular, I’m having a great time,” he says of After Dark. But after this hits theaters, he’ll be getting behind the camera for a new horror film entitled DAMNATION.
“I’m finishing two more scripts. I have one called DAMNATION that’s about a family of con artists that perform exorcisms in small town American,” he reveals to Bloody Disgusting. “When they go to this particular town, they actually unleash a horde of demons into the town. We shoot that next March again in Arizona.”
Fede Alvarez’s (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) Alien: Romulus will be unleashed in theaters nationwide on August 16, and Entertainment Weekly brings us two new images today.
The first image you’ll find below gives us another fresh look at the film’s Xenomorph, with Alvarez promising the outlet that it’s the most H.R. Giger-faithful Xenomorph of them all.
Entertainment Weekly writes, “… Alvarez promises [the Xenomorph’s design] is closer to H.R. Giger’s original creation than any other iteration.” The late H.R. Giger was of course integral to Ridley Scott’s Alien, designing the iconic monster the franchise is centered on.
The other image you’ll find below gives us a look at two of the human characters from Alien: Romulus, Archie Renaux’s Tyler and Cailee Spaeny’s heroine Rain Carradine.
Head over to Entertainment Weekly for their full preview of the upcoming film.
Here’s the full official plot synopsis for Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, which comes in the wake of Disney reviving the Predator franchise in spectacular fashion with last year’s Prey…
“While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”
Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) leads the cast alongside Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.
Alien: Romulus takes place in between the first two films. It’s been described as “an original standalone feature,” one that “will focus on a group of young people on a distant world.”
Fede Alvarez co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues (Evil Dead). Ridley Scott is on board as producer for the film, the first movie in the franchise to be released by Disney.
Xenomorph in ‘Alien: Romulus’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
(L-R): Archie Renaux as Tyler and Cailee Spaeny as Rain Carradine in ‘Alien: Romulus.’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
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