Updated August 12, 2009!
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August 14
I SELL THE DEAD (IFC Films; limited)
Director: Glenn McQuaid
Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman, Angus Scrimm, Eileen Colgan, John Speredakos
On the eve of his execution in the 18th century, a young graverobber recalls his exploits involving the dead and the not-quite-dead.
Website: www.isellthedead.com
August 28
THE FINAL DESTINATION (New Line)
Director: David R. Ellis
Stars: Shantel VanSanten, Bobby Campo, Hayley Webb, Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andy Fiscella
This time, it's a race-car accident that a group of teens escape, only to have Death pursue them to tie up loose ends.
Website: http://www.thefinaldestinationmovie.com/
HALLOWEEN II (Dimension)
Director: Rob Zombie
Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Danielle Harris, Brea Grant, Bill Moseley
The sequel to Zombie's remake of HALLOWEEN, continuing the story of Laurie Strode in the aftermath of her encounter with Michael Myers.
Website: www.halloween2-movie.com
September 4
CARRIERS (Paramount Vantage)
Directors: Alex Pastor, David Pastor
Stars: Piper Perabo, Chris Pine, Emily VanCamp, Lou Taylor Pucci, Christopher Meloni
In the midst of a viral outbreak, four friends flee the pandemic and fall victim to their own fear and paranoia.
Website: http://www.carriersmovie.com/
September 11
SORORITY ROW (Summit)
Director: Stewart Hendler
Stars: Briana Evigan, Julian Morris, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher, Jamie Chung, Audrina Patridge
Remake of the 1982 slasher film THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW, in which college girls who accidentally kill their housemother are stalked by a vengeful killer.
Website: www.thetapi-ordie.com
September 18
JENNIFER'S BODY (Fox Atomic)
Director: Karyn Kusama
Stars: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris
A high-school girl tries to stop her best friend, who has become a demonic, boy-killing cannibal after an encounter with a Satanic rock band.
Website: http://www.jennifersbody.com/
PANDORUM (Overture)
Director: Christian Alvart
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Norman Reedus, Cung Le
After waking up in their spacecraft with no memory of their identities or mission, astronauts are confronted by a deadly presence.
Website: www.pandorummovie.com
October 2
October 9
NIGHT OF THE DEMONS (Seven Arts)
Director: Adam Gierasch
Stars: Edward Furlong, Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Bobbi Sue Luther, Tiffany Shepis, Diora Baird
Remake of the 1988 chiller in which a group of friends holding a Halloween party in a haunted house wind up raising all kinds of literal hell.
ZOMBIELAND (Columbia)
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Amber Heard
When the living dead take over the world, one frightened man seeking redemption is among the survivors struggling to survive.
Website: http://www.zombieland.com
October 16
THE ROAD (Dimension)
Director: John Hillcoat
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Kodi Smit-McPhee
From the novel by Cormac McCarthy: In a postapocalyptic America, a father tries to lead his son to safety through a landscape inhabited by diseased killers.
Website: www.theroad-movie.com
THE STEPFATHER (Screen Gems)
Director: Nelson McCormick
Stars: Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Christopher Meloni, Sherry Stringfield
Remake of the 1987 chiller about a man obsessed with the perfect family who marries single mothers with children, then murders them when they don't measure up.
Website: http://www.welcometothefamily.com/
October 23
SAW VI (Lionsgate)
Director: Kevin Greutert
Stars: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Shawnee Smith
As the FBI closes in on Detective Hoffman, Jigsaw's successor, he is forced to put one more lethal game into action.
Website: http://www.saw6film.com/
Stars: John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Josh Hutcherson, Patrick Fugit, Jane Krakowski, Ken Watanabe
From Darren Shan's novel: a teenaged boy falls in with a traveling carnival in which the freak show turns out to be populated by real vampires and other creatures.
October 30
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (LIMITED)
Director: Ti West
Stars: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, A.J. Bowen, Greta Gerwig, Dee Wallace
A college student takes a babysitting job for a family who turn out to be Satanists intending to use her in a dark ritual.
November 6
THE BOX (Warner Bros.)
Director: Richard Kelly
Stars: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Gillian Jacobs, Michele Durrett
A stranger presents a married couple with a mysterious box and tells them that if they push a button on it, they'll receive a large sum of money—but someone they don't know will die.
Website: www.thebox-movie.com
Fact-based thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.
November 20
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (Summit)
Director: Chris Weitz
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli
The sequel to TWILIGHT, in which teenaged Bella and her vampire love Edward Cullen become separated and she becomes closer to the werewolf Jacob Black.
January 8, 2010
DAYBREAKERS (Lionsgate)
Directors: Peter and Michael Speirig
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Vince Colosimo
In a world where most of the populace has been turned into vampires by a plague, a researcher tries to save the surviving humans from being harvested for food.
January 22, 2010
LEGION (Screen Gems)
Director: Scott Charles Stewart
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Kevin Durand, Kate Walsh, Paul Bettany, Tyrese Gibson, Lucas Black
After humanity falls into God's disfavor and He sends His angels to destroy us, a group of survivors in a Southerwestern diner are protected by the archangel Michael in their midst.
January 29, 2010
February 5, 2010
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (Screen Gems)
Director: Drew Goddard
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Kristen Connolly, Jesse Williams, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison
No plot details have been released yet for this Joss Whedon production, but at least we have a pretty good idea where it takes place.
February 12, 2010
THE WOLFMAN (Universal)
Director: Joe Johnston
Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Geraldine Chaplin
Remake of the 1941 classic about a man with a hairy curse.
Website: www.thewolfmanmovie.com
February 26, 2010
THE CRAZIES (Overture)
Director: Breck Eisner
Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson, Preston Bailey
Remake of George A. Romero's 1973 film about a town victimized by both a biological plague and the Army soldiers sent in to contain it.
March 19, 2010
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman
14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.
April 16, 2010
PIRANHA 3-D (Dimension)
Director: Alexandre Aja
Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss
An earthquake releases a prehistoric and very hungry species of flesheating fish into an Arizona lake.
April 30, 2010
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (New Line)
Director: Samuel Bayer
Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Rooney Mara, Kellan Lutz
Remake of Wes Craven's modern classic in which scarred predator Freddy Krueger murders teenagers in their dreams, killing them in real life.
June 18, 2010
JONAH HEX (Warner Bros.)
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Stars: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Shannon, Will Arnett, Michael Fassbender
Based on the comic: Scarred bounty hunter Jonah Hex tries to stop black magician Turnbull from raising an army of zombies in an attempt to liberate the South.
June 30, 2010
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (Summit)
Director: David Slade
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
The third in the TWILIGHT saga, in which Bella must choose between vampire beau Edward and the lycanthropic Jacob, which a series of vicious murders terrorizes Seattle.
July 7, 2010
PREDATORS (Fox)
Director: Nimrod Antal
Stars: TBA
A Robert Rodriguez-scripted revival of the extraterrestrial-hunter franchise; no plot details yet, but it's safe to assume there'll be more than one of the aliens on hand.
August 13, 2010
Stars: Cam Gigandet, Paul Bettany
A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece.
STRAW DOGS (Screen Gems)
Director: Rod Lurie
Stars: James Marsden
Remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 survival shocker in which a writer and his new wife move to a rural home, and the husband resorts to brutal violence to defend them against the vicious locals.
September 17, 2010
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter
The fourth installment in the popular RE franchise.
October 1, 2010
Stars: Cam Gigandet, Leighton Meester
College student Sara finds her safety jeopardized after she's assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate, Rebecca.
October 29, 2010
Stars: Tobin Bell
Jigsaw's Legacy continues... again.
September 30, 2011
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (Sony)
Directors: Jill Culton
Stars: TBA
CG-animated feature in which Simon Van Helsing, a descendant of the legendary monster hunter, falls in love with Dracula's daughter Mavis, and the two try to broker a truce between their warring families.
Undated
ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (Senator)
Director: Jonathan Levine
Stars: Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Michael Welch, Aaron Himelstein, Edwin Hodge
Mandy and some boys who want her go for a weekend trip at a remote ranch, where someone starts bumping them off.
Website: www.myspace.com/alltheboyslovemandylane
CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER (Lionsgate)
Director: Ti West
Stars: Rider Strong, Giuseppe Andrews, Alexi Wasser, Larry Fessenden, Judah Friedlander, Mark Borchardt, Noah Segan, Marc Senter, Rusty Kelley
The flesheating virus finds its way to a populated area—specifically a high school, where it arrives just in time for the prom.
CASE 39 (Paramount)
Director: Christian Alvart
Stars: Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper, Ian McShane, Kerry O’Malley
A social worker discovers that what at first seems to be a child-abuse situation is in fact something far worse.
CHAIN LETTER (TBA)
Directors: Deon Taylor
Stars: Nikki Reed, Noah Segan, Matthew Cohen, Keith David, Betsy Russell, Michael Bailey Smith
The murderous Chain Man goes after teenagers who have failed to pass on a fateful chain letter as a pair of detectives try to stop him.
CREEK (Lionsgate)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Dominic Purcell, Henry Cavill, Michael Fassbender, Emma Booth
Two brothers become caught up in supernatural experiments originating in the Nazi era.
CURANDERO (Miramax)
Director: Eduardo Rodriguez
Stars: Carlos Gallardo, Sergio Acosta, Gizeth Galatea, Gabriel Pingarrón, José Carlos Ruiz
A man plunges into an underworld of crime and black magic in Mexico City.
THE DESCENT 2 (TBA)
Director: Jon Harris
Stars: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza, Gavan O'Herlihy, Joshua Dallas, Anna Skellern, Douglas Hodge, Krysten Cummings
The sole survivor of a group of friends who died at the claws of subterranean creatures is coerced into returning to the caverns where the terror occurred.
DOLAN'S CADILLAC (TBA)
Director: Jeff Beesley
Stars: Christian Slater, Wes Bentley, Emmanuelle Vaugier
From the Stephen King story: The murder of a woman by a vicious Las Vegas mob boss inspires her husband to wreak a unique revenge.
Stars: Guy Pearce, Katie Holmes
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
DORIAN GRAY (TBA)
Director: Oliver Parker
Stars: Colin Firth, Ben Barnes, Rebecca Hall, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Emilia Fox, Fiona Shaw, Ben Chaplin
New adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel in which a young man's corruption is reflected only in his portrait while he remains young and handsome.
THE ECHO (TBA)
Director: Yam Laranas
Stars: Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner, Carlos Leon, Kevin Durand, Jayne Eastwood
Remake of the Filipino film SIGAW: An ex-con is caught up in a curse when he tries to help the abused mother and daughter who live next door.
Stars: Cam Gigandet, Forrest Whitaker, Maggie Grace, Adrien Brody
26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
FRAGILE (TBA)
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Stars: Calista Flockhart, Yasmin Murphy, Elena Anaya, Gemma Jones, Richard Roxburgh
At a children's hospital on the verge of closing, a nurse tries to protect the young patients from a malevolent presence.
Website: http://movies.filmax.com/fragile
Stars: Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death
GALLOWWALKER (TBA)
Director: Andrew Goth
Stars: Wesley Snipes, Riley Smith, Kevin Howarth, Tanit Phoenix, Steven Elder
A gunfighter's victims return as the vengeance-seeking walking dead.
Website: www.gallowwalker.com
GIALLO (TBA)
Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elsa Pataky, Robert Miano, Silvia Spross
An Italian detective tries to help an American flight attendant rescue the latter's sister, who has been kidnapped by a vicious serial killer known as "Yellow."
Website: http://www.myspace.com/giallomovie
CLIVE BARKER PRESENTS: HELLRAISER (remake) (Dimension)
Director: TBA
Stars: TBA
Remake of Clive Barker's 1987 film in which a woman's desire to restore her dead lover to life leads her to unleash the demons known as Cenobites.
THE HOLE 3-D (TBA)
Director: Joe Dante
Stars: Haley Bennett, Teri Polo, Chris Massoglia, Nathan Gamble, Peter Shinkoda
3-D chiller about two young brothers who discover a strange pit in their basement that proves to be a portal to their worst nightmares.
KILL THEORY (Lionsgate)
Director: Chris Moore
Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Patrick Flueger, Teddy Dunn, Ryanne Duzich, Taryn Manning, Theo Rossi
A group of young friends are victimized at a remote vacation home by a psychopath who forces them to play games in which they must kill each other.
LET ME IN (LET THE RIGHT ONE IN remake) (Overture)
Director: Matt Reeves
Stars: TBA
English-language remake of this year's Swedish favorite about the relationship between a troubled young boy and the vampire girl who moves in next door.
LONG WEEKEND (TBA)
Director: Jamie Blanks
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan
While on a trip through a remote area of Australia, a squabbling couple with a disdain for the environment find it slowly turning against them.
MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? (TBA)
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, Michael Peña
From executive producer David Lynch, the story of a man who, obsessed with a Sophocles play, murders his mother with a sword.
THE NEW DAUGHTER (New Line)
Director: Luiso Berdejo
Stars: Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Gattlin Griffith, Samantha Mathis, Noah Taylor
A newly divorced father moves with his two daughters to a rural farm, where the older girl falls under the sway of an evil force.
POSSESSION (TBA)
Directors: Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist
Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace, Michael Landes, Chelah Horsdal, William B. Davis
After a woman's husband and his recently paroled brother get into a bad car accident, the brother wakes up from a coma claiming to be her spouse.
Website: www.possessionmovie.com
THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES (MGM)
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Samantha Robson, Ivar Brogger, Lou George
Documentary-style study of a serial killer who recorded his murderous exploits on a series of videocassettes.
Website: www.poughkeepsietapes.com
Stars: Jude Law, Forrest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Hilary Swank, Christopher Lee
When a young doctor suspects she may not be alone in her new Brooklyn loft, she learns that her landlord has formed a frightening obsession with her.
SCAR (TBA)
Director: Jed Weintrob
Stars: Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Devon Graye, Ben Cotton, Christopher Titus
3-D story of a young woman who survived abduction by a serial killer years ago, and returns to her hometown as another series of slayings begins.
Website: www.scarthemovie.com
SPLICE (Senator)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, David Hewlett, Amanda Brugel, Delphine Chaneac
A husband-and-wife team of geneticists create a "daughter" via DNA-splicing, and soon discover they've made a creature they can't control.
TELL TALE (TBA)
Director: Michael Cuesta
Stars: Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox, Beatrice Miller, Dallas Roberts, Ulrich Thomsen
Loose update of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart": A man who receives that organ in a transplant begins experiencing frightening visions and becomes compelled to commit violent acts.
TRAIN (Lionsgate)
Director: Gideon Raff
Stars: Thora Birch, Derek Magyar, Paige Peterson, Gideon Emery, Bolt Birch
A group of student athletes face torture and death on a European train ride.
25/8 (Rogue)
Director: Wes Craven
Stars: Max Thieriot, Denzel Whitaker, Zena Grey, Shareeka Epps, Frank Grillo, Trevor St. John
Teenagers who share the same birthday are stalked by a serial killer who was supposedly put to death on that day.
WORLD WAR Z (Paramount)
Director: TBA
Stars: TBA
Adaptation of Max Brooks' novel in which a worldwide zombie conflict is explored from the points of view of numerous human participants.
