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Exclusive: ‘Devil’s Due’ One-Sheet Gives Birth to Fear!!
Channeling Rosemary’s Baby, Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive poster premiere for Twentieth Century Fox’s Devil’s Due, starring “Terra Nova’s” Allison Miller and “Friday Night Lights'” Zach Gilford.
The film comes from Radio Silence, who collectively delivered the final short on our V/H/S anthology from last year. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett directed Devil’s Due for the team.
Penned by Lindsay Devlin, “After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off to nerves, but, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.”
Hoping to capitalize on the success of The Devil Inside‘s beginning of the year release, Devil’s Due will bow in theaters everywhere January 17, 2014.
Let’s take a quick look at the teaser poster, shall we?
What I love about it is how striking it is, on all fronts. The font immediately pops, and the way it’s framed makes your eyes go immediately to the pregnant woman and baby’s crib. I love that there’s an actual photo being used, as opposed to some ugly photoshopped art. Lastly, the best way to embed an image in someone’s head is symbolism, and the creepy etching on the floor was immediately engrained in my brain. And while the audience for Devil’s Due may be for the younger crowd, the visuals will grab the attention of the older demographic who grew up terrified by Rosemary’s Baby. In short, this poster is easily a top 10 of the year for me!
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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