New Hi-Res Photo Gallery For It's Alive

Bloody Disgusting has gotten their hands on a bunch of high resolution pics from the upcoming It's Alive remake. You can check them all out here.

Here's a synopsis straight from Bloody Disgusting:

"The film is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film and follows Lenore (Bijou Phillips, Choke, Hostel: Part 2), a young mother who’s newborn is suspiciously connected to a string of incredibly violent and inexplicable murders.

When a Lenore learns that she is pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the monster responsible for the gruesome murders?"

New Trailer For It's Alive Remake

A red band trailer has hit the net for the upcoming It's Alive remake, which will finally see the light of day on DVD October 6th in both rated and unrated editions. The film is being put out through First Look Pictures and was produced by the new Amicus production company.

Here's a synopsis straight from Bloody Disgusting:

"The film is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film and follows Lenore (Bijou Phillips, Choke, Hostel: Part 2), a young mother who’s newborn is suspiciously connected to a string of incredibly violent and inexplicable murders.

When a Lenore learns that she is pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the monster responsible for the gruesome murders?"

The Land That Time Forgot Remake Review

Here's the review I wrote of The Land That Time Forgot remake for my movie news website. Thought some of you might enjoy it or be interested. Here you go:

It is very hard for me to write this review of the remake / revision / new version / whatever of The Land That Time Forgot. I go into a viewing of a straight-to-DVD movie with certain expectations. This one did not meet them almost at all. How dare they? How dare a reliably cheesy company like The Asylum put something out that is actually pretty decent. There was barely any of the cheese I have come to expect from Asylum films. Nowhere near the amount of bad acting that is necessary for one of these flicks. And the special effects? While not Oscar-worthy or even close to ILM or WETA standards, they actually were tolerable. And there was a story. An actual story that actually made sense. Now don't get me wrong. You still had to stretch your suspension of belief, but there was a story. All of this is absolutely inexcusable.

As stated earlier, the special effects were not flawless by any means. They still looked pretty animated. But they were no worse than what you see in those Journey to the Center of the Earth or Lost World movies you see on the SyFy Channel on Saturday nights. I guess that's good, though, since that's where these movies are going to end up after their DVD run. There were a couple good scenes of people being eaten. There's one scene of a guy getting bitten in half and it actually doesn't look too bad. There are also scenes of a German submarine that was washed up onshore that look very believable.

The acting was pretty good, too. The actors actually looked like they cared about the material and gave pretty good performances. You had Pony Boy C. Thomas Howell himself playing the lead role in a film he also directed. Then, of course there was the veteran supporting actor and relatively well-known Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Land of the Lost, That's My Bush!) that they always stick in these movies to drum up their viewership and "legitimacy." Mr. Bottoms did play his role at times like a drunken hippie, but it suited him just fine. Even the actors who played the Germans were relatively convincing.

Was it better than the original Amicus produced film from 1975? I would say no. That one just has a classic and epic feeling to it that I don't think this one ever will. That one also has more elements to it's story. This one, while not in a bad way, really just focuses on the characters trying to get off the island. I do have to say that Howell really did a good job directing this. You can tell he really did care about the film and did his best with what he was given budgetwise and such. If you're looking for a good time-waster on a Saturday night and you actually don't hate the SyFy original movies, you should give some thought into picking this up at the video store. Or you can wait until it's actually on SyFy. You decide. (Review by Eric Shirey)

It's Alive Hitting DVD On October 6th!

The remake of It's Alive is finally hitting DVD in the United States on October 6th. The film had already been released in several other countries, but for some reason never got a solid date until now in the States.

In the remake of It's Alive, a baby born to a human couple turns out to be a mutant monster with an appetite to kill when scared. It was originally supposed to be released over a year ago, but for some reason got held up. The movie is based on the cult classic of the same name from 1974 that was directed by genre director Larry Cohen (Q, A Return to Salem's Lot, It Lives Again, It's Alive III: Island of the Alive, Masters of Horror).

The DVD is listed as being the Unrated version and stars Bijou Phillips, Skye Bennett, Raphaël Coleman, Sigal Diamant, and Arkie Reece. It's directed by Josef Rusnak (The Thirteenth Floor, The Art of War II: Betrayal).

To order it through Amazon, just go here.

King's Buick 8 still looking for more financing

Fangoria Radio's Tony Timpone reported this among his scoops:

"While co-writer Johnathon Schaech’s FROM A BUICK 8 Stephen King adaptation still looks for financing, he and co-writer Richard Chizmar are continuing to tweak the script for the Tobe Hooper film. 'We’ve done 15 rewrites,' Schaech said of the project, 'and Stephen King loves it. He says it’s a great screenplay, which is sort of THE GREEN MILE meets STAND BY ME meets FRIDAY THE 13TH.'”

You can also go to the Fangoria Podcast page on iTunes and download an interview with Johnathon Schaech, whre he discusses the screenplay.