Crafty Sequels, Last-Minute Reshoots and Orphaned Horror Flicks
Filed under: Horror
Not a whole lot of juicy new happenings have fallen out of the horror machine recently, so (since I'm bored and they pay me to blog) I thought I'd just share a couple of small-sized exclusives from the Bloody-Disgusting boys.1. Brace yourselves: Sony's slapping together another direct-to-video semi-sequel. This time it's The Craft that gets the unwanted little sister. Yep, that flick about teenage witches who do very little with their evil powers besides torture boys, color their hair and fight with one another. No word yet on whether Fairuza Balk will be returning to play "that creepy witch girl who lives down the street," but I'm guessing she might.
2. More word from Sonyville's Horror Department: Apparently there's all sorts of problems with the mildly-anticipated The Grudge 2, and also big buckets of reshoots being done on The Pang Brothers' The Messengers as well. (Y'know, between Ghost House (The Grudge, Boogeyman) and Dark Castle (Gothika, House of Wax) I don't think they've put together one completely solid horror movie yet. What gives?)
3. Speaking of Dark Castle movies that probably aren't any good, WB rescheduled The Reaping's release for next March. Oh, and (as mentioned earlier) both Lucky McKee's The Woods and John Gulager's Feast have earned DVD dates, cover art and copious supplemental doo-hickeys.
Thanks to BD.com and Dread Central for the terrifiying tidbits.












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8-21-2006 @ 6:10PM
Chuck Bowen said...
Of the various titles mentioned here, I think that "The Woods" has a shot at being good. The studios didn't really show any love for "May" either.
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8-21-2006 @ 8:18PM
Casey Criswell said...
I'll agree with Chuck. Out of all the titles listed there, Lucky McKee's the Woods is the only one I've been looking forward too.
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8-21-2006 @ 8:27PM
Geoff said...
Once upon a time, I liked The Craft. Then I hit fifteen. Tried to watch it again recently (now that I'm even older), and it was utter pap. Only good thing about it was the soundtrack, and then only for Elastica.
A sequel... dear Christ. No.
On the upside, I guess, it can't be any worse than the original.
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8-22-2006 @ 1:07AM
B.W. said...
Someone should probably follow Fairuza Balk around with a dvdcam for a few days.What gets captured on disc will far outweigh any scares a "Craft" sequel may manage to drum up.That's one creepy looking broad.
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