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Trailer and Exclusive Images from Australian Horror Film ‘The School’
I’m not sure what it is about Australia, but they seem to be really good at making horror films. Whether it’s brutal serial killers a la Wolf Creek or psychologically damaging paranormal features like The Babadook, Aussies just seem to have their finger on the pulse of fear, and the team behind The School are committed to carrying on that terrifying tradition.
Written and directed by Storm Ashwood and produced by Blake Northfield, Jim Robison, et al, the film centers on Dr. Amy Wintercraig (Megan Drury), a neurologist whose son has fallen into a coma after nearly drowning. Despite knowing that it’s improbable and in spite of pressure from her colleagues, Wintercraig is committed to waking her son.
After a particularly difficult night, the doctor wakes to find herself, not in the hospital where she fell asleep, but rather in a demented and derelict school full of nearly feral children and she soon discovers that survival might be the only way to save her son.
“It’s a bit like Silent Hill meets Lord of the Flies,” producer Jim Robison says.
Looking at images from the film, I’d say that description is spot on.
Robison, who spoke to iHorror, also points out that to get just the right atmosphere and look for the film, production took place at Gladesville Mental Hospital, one of the oldest of its kind in Australia that is also considered one of the most haunted places in the world.
Gladesville’s sprawling grounds and derelict buildings have a storied history dating back to 1838 when its doors first opened. Robison reports that there are over 1200 unmarked graves on the property and they found numerous cryptic messages carved into the walls by former patients.
“When we got there, we realized we had the perfect location for this story,” Robison explained. “When the place first opened you could be committed for all kinds of reasons and the people there weren’t treated very well. In some of the rooms we found messages like ‘Look behind you. I’m still here.'”
The film includes an impressive cast of veteran actors like Nicholas Hope alongside newcomers such as Will McDonald, who Robison calls one of the most impressive younger actors with whom he’s had the privilege of working.
The School will make its worldwide debut July 27, 2018 on opening night of Monster Fest Travelling Sideshow, Australia’s premiere traveling horror film festival, and Robison says news of the North American distributor and release dates will be announced in the coming months.
We’ll keep you posted as that news comes available. For now, you can follow The School on Facebook and Instagram for all the latest details and check out the trailer below!
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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