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Death Note Trailer – Adam Wingard takes on the classic manga with Nat Wolff & Willem Dafoe

June 29, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Back in 2014 it looked like we might be getting an adaptation of the classic Japanese Manga Death Note, directed by Good Will Hunting and Milk’s Gus Van Sant. That never happened, but now we’re getting one from Adam Wingard, the man behind You’re Next, The Guest, Blair Witch and the upcoming Godzilla vs. Kong.

However, it’s already stirred controversy for changing the ethnicity and cultural origins of the characters, with petitions and calls for a boycott against the film.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.

‘The Netflix original film is directed by Adam Wingard (Blair Witch, You’re Next) and stars Nat Wolff (Paper Towns), Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out), Paul Nakauchi (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End), Shea Whigham (American Hustle) and Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) as the voice of Ryuk.’

The film will debut exclusively on Netflix on August 25th. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Nat Wolff, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley DIRECTORS: Adam Wingard

Blair Witch’s Adam Wingard To Direct Godzilla vs. Kong

May 31, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Adam Wingard quickly got an impressive reputation in horror circles with A Horrible Way To Die, You’re Next and The Guest, before going a little more mainstream with last year’s Blair Witch. However, he’s not planning to jump massively up the budget scale, with by far his biggest movie yet, as THR reports that he’s just signed on to helm Godzilla vs. Kong.

The film is part of Warner/Legendary’s attempts to build a massive monster universe. This year’s King Kong tale, Skull Island, will be followed by Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019, with the behemoth coming together on the screen in 2010 with Godzilla vs. Kong.

A writers room led by Pirates Of The Carribean scribe Terry Rossio is now working on the film’s screenplay, but no plot details have been released. It’ll be in cinemas May 2020.

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Blair Witch (Blu-ray Review) – Back into the supernatural Black Hills woods for more found footage

January 22, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Brandon Scott, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, James Allen McCune, Wes Robinson
Director: Adam Wingard
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: January 23rd 2017 (UK)

When it was announced at Comic Con that Adam Wingard’s The Woods (which already had a bit of hype about it even though no one knew much about it) was actually a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, it seemed a bit of a masterstroke of marketing. Immediately a movie that might otherwise have elicited shrugs and accusations of cashing in on a dead franchise, instead jumped to the top of horror fanboys interest lists.

Now though it’s starting to seem like it might have worked a little too well, as it raised the hype level so high that unless the actual movie turned out to be a surprising and zeitgeist-capturing as the original 1999 film, it was bound to be seen as disappointing. And that’s just what happened when it was released in cinemas, with most people seeing it as more of remake than a sequel – and it was actually outgrossed by the almost universally derided earlier follow-up, Book Of Shadows. [Read more…]

The Woods Trailer – Is Adam Wingard’s film the ‘scariest movie in decades’?

May 11, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s certainly a bold (if short) synopsis to say a movie is ‘One of the scariest movies in decades, THE WOODS reinvents horror with a completely fresh and terrifying take on the genre.’ However, that’s the claim being made for Adam Wingard’s latest.

The director has shown he has talent with the likes of You’re Next and The Guest, but reinventing horror with one of the scariest film in decades is quite a claim. However, it seems they’re intent on keep the exact details of the plot a secret, as the synopsis gives little away and the trailer that’s now arrived mainly tries to set a creepy and intense tone.

Take a look at the trailer and poster below. Callie Hernandez, James Allen McCune, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson, and Corbin Reid star in the movie, which is due out in the UK in September. [Read more…]

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New The Guest Trailer – Dan Stevens may be the world’s sexiest home invader

August 6, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Dan Stevens may be the bad guy in The Guest, but boy is he looking good. Indeed, if I had to have a a possible killer in my house, at least he’d make a pretty one. To show us just what that would be like, a new trailer for the has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Still struggling over the loss of their oldest son, Caleb, to the war in Afghanistan, the Peterson family finds some solace when an unexpected visitor knocks on its door. David, a steely eyed and charismatic soldier who was recently discharged, is welcomed into their home when he comes to fulfill a promise he made to his fallen comrade. Siblings Anna and Luke are at first reluctant to accept David’s presence, but he soon wins them over by scoring kegs for Anna’s friends and roughing up some bullies from Luke’s school. Though he appears to be the perfect houseguest, a mysterious and sinister chain of events causes Anna to question whether David is actually whom he claims to be.’

The film will screen at London’s Frightfest later this month and be in cinemas later this year. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Dan Steven DIRECTORS: Adam Wingard FILMS: The Guest

Downton’s Dan Stevens Is Going Dark For The Guest

June 12, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Dan Stevens had huge success with Downton Abbey, and now he’s trying to segue from that to film stardom. He’s got Summer In February hitting UK cinemas this Friday, and we should be able to see him in the Wikileaks flick The Fifth Estate and the Liam Neeson starrer A Walk Among The Tombstones in the next few months.

Now he’s booked a new role, with Variety reporting that he’s set to star in Adam Wingard’s indie movie, The Guest. It’s apparently a much darker role than we’ve previously seen from Stevens. The film ‘follows a family who befriends a man who has just returned from a tour of duty unaware he is not the man he is letting on to be’.

Simon Barrett came up with the script. Adam Wingard has gained quite a few fans in horror circles thanks to the likes of A Horrible Way To Die and You’re Next, so this is likely to be pretty intense too. Shooting should start later this summer.

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ACTORS: Dan Stevens DIRECTORS: Adam Wingard

Adam Wingard To Direct Dead Spy Running

September 17, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Adam Wingard has definitely been showing off his directorial cred with low budget thrillers such as A Horrible Way to Die and You’re Next, which have caught the attention of Hollywood. Now Deadline reports that Warner Bros. has tapped Wingard for their languishing spy thriller Dead Spy Running, with screenwriter Simon Barrett hired to take a stab at the script.

The project is based on the Jon Stock book of the same name, which is the the first in a trilogy. The story follows Daniel Marchant, a young DJ who is framed for the murder of his father, a disgraced MI6 agent. He goes on the run with a beautiful secret agent to uncover his father’s past and clear his name for good.

Warners first picked up the book back in October 2008, with McG was attached to direct. Simon Barrett will rewrite the original adapted script by Stephen Gaghan and Jamie Moss. McG is still involved but only as a producer.

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A Horrible Way To Die (DVD)

March 19, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg
Director: Adam Wingard
Running Time: 84 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: March 19th, 2012

If a film is called A Horrible Way To Die, you’d expect it to mainly be about dying in horrible ways. However compared to a lot of horror movies, there’s comparatively little dying in this film, and what death there is, is more of the rather unpleasant kind than the truly horrible. However, while the title is unnecessarily generic and doesn’t really match the movie itself, it doesn’t mean the film is completely without merit.

Sarah (Amy Seimetz) is a young woman trying to rebuild her life after a disastrous relationship and a descent into alcoholism. However she’s now going to AA and seems to be getting back on the right track and is even thinking of getting back in the dating game with fellow AA member Kevin (Joe Swanberg). Meanwhile vicious serial killer Garrick Turrell (AJ Bowen) has escaped prison and is cutting a swathe through the local population, killing anyone who gets in his way. What will happen when his path crosses with Sarah’s? [Read more…]