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Two Events for Competitive ‘Scream’ Documentaries
For those of you keeping tabs, there are a pair of Scream documentaries arriving this year.
The first, “Scream: The Inside Story” will air on A&E’s Bio 8pm ET/5pm PT on Wednesday, April 6th. Director Dan Farrands, and writer Thommy Hutson, will be joining Dread Central for a live chat-enabled commentary during the documentary’s television premiere.
On the other spectrum, Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective, Ryan Turek’s feature-length documentary on the Scream trilogy, will be holding its world premiere at the Sunset 5 in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 14 at 10pm. You’re all invited.
“A lot of people involved in the series sat down for me to talk about the ups and downs of making the films, including Neve, Wes, Jamie, Arquette, Ehren Kruger, Parker Posey, etc. and I tossed in a few surprises,” says Turek. “This thing digs a bit into the series’ themes, the origins, the script problems, the conflicts with Dimension, the MPAA, the Santa Rosa school board and more.”
Inside you’ll find the official trailer debut, but if you want to be a guest at the world premiere all you have to do is RSVP to stillscreamingrsvp@gmail.com. Seating will be on a first come first serve basis, so even if you receive confirmation that you are on the list, make sure you get there early to secure your seat!
Barbarian director Zach Cregger is sending Austin Abrams on a nonstop survival roller coaster in Resident Evil, and a fresh image from Empire introduces just one of many monstrous encounters ahead.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
In the fresh image, Abrams’ character appears trapped with an infected passenger.
“The concept here is that we’re following an idiot,” Cregger tells Empire. “Not that he’s stupid, but he’s not your typical game character, with no combat skills whatsoever and completely inept at survival. Bryan is very much an everyman who happens to be burdened with this kind of sacred mission that’s going to take him into the heart of everything. It’s kind of like Frodo going into Mordor.”
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.
Cregger directs from a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapters 3 & 4).
“It feels like one gigantic sequence,” he said of the film’s structure. “Things pop off about five minutes in, and it basically stays like that until the end. What I love about the games is that you move from set-piece to set-piece. Every location has a unique challenge. So again, I’m borrowing from the games directly in that rhythm, where you’re just running through a gauntlet.”
What’s noteworthy about this particular image, though, is that Cregger previously warned that there would be very few actual zombies in his film. Instead, expect a revolving door of T-virus mutants: “This movie doesn’t utilize zombies that much. It’s much more focused on the weird creature stuff than the zombies. There’s really only two scenes, maybe three, where there’s proper zombie stuff going on. And two of those three are in the trailer.”
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