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    'The Pyramid' Trailer: Basically 'Alien' Meets 'The Mummy'

    By Russ Fischer August 26th, 2014

    In December, Fox will release a found-footage horror film that looks basically like "Alien in a pyramid," with a ravenous mummy standing in for the xenomorph. The film comes from producer Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes) and director Gregory Levasseur (who wrote those two films of Aja's), and follows a group of archaeologists as…

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  • Watch Frodo Kill In The First Six Minutes Of Franck Khalfoun's 'Maniac' Remake

    By Angie Han December 28th, 2012

    Elijah Wood remains best known as sweet, brave Frodo from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, but the actor's never shied away from tackling weirder roles. Just a couple of years after Return of the King hit theaters, he appeared as creepy, murderous Kevin in Sin City. Now, with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey still…

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  • Second Bloody Red-Band 'Maniac' Trailer Goes For Unsettling Intensity

    By Russ Fischer November 6th, 2012

    Yesterday, when writing up Silent Night, I mentioned the new version of Maniac that has been doing festival rounds. In this remake of William Lustig's super-creepy '80s exploitation classic, Elijah Wood plays the title character, a photographer who has some very violent problems with women. This version is set in LA, rather than NYC, but…

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  • Daniel Radcliffe Sports Horns In The First Image From... 'Horns'

    By Russ Fischer October 3rd, 2012

    It's fun watching Daniel Radcliffe try out strange roles in the wake of Harry Potter's finale. His latest is Horns, from director Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes), based on the book by Joe Hill. Radcliffe's character is Ignatiaus "Ig" Perrish, accused of the rape and murder of his girlfriend. That's a bad…

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  • Alexandre Aja To Direct Horror-Hangover Story 'Horns'

    By Germain Lussier December 9th, 2011

    What would happen if you woke up after a big night of partying with a massive hangover, a dead girlfriend and two horns on your head? We'll soon find out when Stephen King's son, Joe Hill's, novel Horns is brought for the big screen by Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja. Adapted by screenwriter Scott Bunin,…

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  • Elijah Wood To Play A 'Maniac'

    By Germain Lussier November 4th, 2011

    Most people think of Elijah Wood as a sweet and noble character, both because he was the hero of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy but also because he began acting so young. Combining his younger roles with Frodo Baggins seemingly paints a picture of Wood's wheelhouse however, on occasion, he goes the totally opposite…

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  • Alexandre Aja Could Remake Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary'

    By Germain Lussier August 2nd, 2011

    Earlier this year, word came down that Paramount was thinking of dipping back into the Stephen King oeuvre and remaking Pet Sematary, which was originally published in 1983 and made into a movie in 1989. Since then things have been quiet on the reanimated kids front, but now it seems that Alexandre Aja, a director…

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  • David Cronenberg's 'Scanners' May Be Reborn As A TV Show

    By Russ Fischer July 25th, 2011

    The once-proposed theatrical remake of David Cronenberg's Scanners is evidently turning into a TV show. The 1981 film most famous for its exploding head opening (and less famous for Stephen Lack's toneless but oddly appropriate performance) has already spawned a couple of shoddy sequels. So this isn't quite the unwelcome spin-off that, for instance, a…

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  • Piranha 3D Sequel Announced, Might Be Set In Thailand

    By Peter Sciretta August 23rd, 2010

    Piranha 3D didn't make a huge splash at the box office this weekend -- $10 million and the #6 place. But the money that was made is enough to ensure the film will recoup the film's estimated $24 million budget. The film is likely to make at least $30 million theatrically, and a bunch more…

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    Piranha 3D - What Did You Think?

    By David Chen August 21st, 2010

    Director Alexander Aja gets tension. I thought his Hills Have Eyes remake was great and even High Tension, despite its ridiculous twist ending, had some decent scares (just watching the latter's trailer still gives me chills). Aja's newest film, Piranha 3D, is out in theaters today, and promises to take 3D back to its gimmicky…

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  • Movie Trailer: The Splat Pack

    By Peter Sciretta July 12th, 2010

    WYRD Studios is releasing a documentary titled The Splat Pack, directed by Mark Henry and Frank H. Woodward. The movie takes "a look back at the first decade of 21st Century horror films and the filmmakers that re-energized the genre." The documentary features new interviews with Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Darren Lynn Bousman (the Saw…

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  • Pirnaha 3D Movie Trailer

    By Brendon Connelly January 20th, 2010

    While there's still not an official online release of the Piranha 3D trailer, the latest version to pop up across the web at least takes us past the shaky-cam bootleg that was doing the rounds last week. You can see the new, stable version embedded after the break. The original Piranha was hardly the most…

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