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Prepare for ‘Overlord’ With the WW1-set ‘Trench 11’ [Trailer]

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Violence is contagious when Leo Scherman‘s WWI-set shocker Trench 11 arrives in Canadian theaters August 31st via Raven Banner and on Digital HD and VOD platforms here in the States September 4, 2018, via RLJE Films.

In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked tunneller must lead an Allied team into a hidden German base…100 hundred feet below the trenches. The Germans have lost control of a highly contagious biological weapon that turns its victims into deranged killers. The Allies find themselves trapped underground with hordes of the infected, a rapidly spreading disease and a team of German Stormtroopers dispatched to clean up the mess.

The only thing more terrifying than the Western Front… is what lies beneath it.

Trench 11 stars Rossif Sutherland (yes, of the Sutherland clan), along with award-winning French Canadian actress Karine Vanasse (The Forbidden Room), Charlie Carrick (Reign), Shaun Benson (Channel Zero), and Ted Atherton (River).

The film has been an official selection at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Screamfest Horror Film Festival, Morbido Film Fest and Cinepocolypse, among others.

Here’s a brand new trailer that promises a new cult classic and delivers some awesome creepy-crawly practical effects work. It’s also the perfect palette cleaner before Paramount releases Overlord.

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Mike Flanagan in Talks to Direct the Next ‘Exorcist’ Movie

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Recent comments from producer Jason Blum suggested that a retool was in order when last year’s The Exorcist: Believer wasn’t as successful as Blumhouse and Universal hoped. That certainly seems to be the case, as Deadline reports tonight that Mike Flanagan is in talks to direct the next Exorcist movie.

Director David Gordon Green was initially on board to direct an entire trilogy of new movies in the franchise, with The Exorcist: Believer intended to be only the first film in that three-film sequel series. Originally set to hit theaters on April 18, 2025, sequel The Exorcist: Deceiver was delayed when Green left the project.

If talks come to fruition, Flanagan will take over, likely steering the franchise in a new direction.

The first film in the trilogy was released theatrically on October 13, 2023, with Leslie Odom Jr. starring alongside a returning Ellen Burstyn from the original classic.

In Believer, “Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom, Jr.) has raised their daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) on his own.

“But when Angela and her friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum) disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before.”

The final moments of The Exorcist: Believer brought Linda Blair’s Regan MacNeil back into the fold, seeming to suggest that the legacy character could return in future installments.

As for Flanagan, the horror filmmaker has Life of Chuck on the way. Flanagan previously helmed Stephen King adaptations Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game, and he’s also known for titles including Ouija: Origin of Evil and Oculus, along with the Netflix horror shows The Haunting of Hill HouseThe Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

Stay tuned for more as we learn it.

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