Here’s a trailer for a new found footage horror thriller titled Mind Body Spirit, which centers on a yoga influencer who ends up in a dark and sinister situation when she discovers an ancient ritual practice in her house.
In Mind Body Spirit, “Anya, an aspiring yoga influencer, embarks on a ritual practice left behind by her estranged grandmother. She documents the practice on her YouTube channel for the world to watch, allowing her audience intimate access to her journey.
“But what starts as a spiritual self-help guide evolves into something much more sinister. As Anya becomes obsessed with the mysterious power of the practice, she unwittingly unleashes an otherworldly entity that begins to take control of her life – and her videos.
“Now Anya must race to unlock the truth, before her descent into madness threatens to consume her mind, body and spirit. By the time she reveals the true nature of the ritual, will it be too late?”
Mind Body Spirit was written and directed by Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda. It actually looks like a fun little twisted and spooky horror flick!
It stars Sarah J. Bartholomew, Madi Bready, KJ Flahive, Anna Knigge, and Kristi Noory, and was produced by Dan Asma and Jesse McClung.
Mind Body Spirit will be released on Digital on May 7.
Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid is the next classic fairytale to get the twisted horror movie treatment and the trailer has been released.
This new version of The Little Mermaid comes from Grindstone Entertainment Group, and the film is rated “R” for “Language, some violence and brief nudity.”
As you’ll see, this is unlike any version of The Little Mermaid you’ve seen before, and it doesn’t look good.
In the film, “Dr. Eric Prince, an archaeologist, makes a dramatic discovery on a small Caribbean island—proof of an ancient, advanced prehistoric society.
“While his dig is in progress, he meets the mysterious and beautiful Aurora Bey and falls in love. Her arrival coincides with several mermaid sightings and strange disappearances.”
“When Eric’s friend and mentor, Dr. Ashley, arrives on the island, Ashley uncovers the true identity of Aurora and the dangers of the hidden evil inside Eric’s dig site.
“Will Eric heed his friend’s advice, or will he be blinded by love and the power of the siren, allowing the world to fall to the forces of evil?”
The movie comes from director Leigh Scott, and it stars Lydia Helen, Mike Markoff, and Jeff Denton.
The official trailer for Grindstone Entertainment’s R-rated ‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’ movie has been released.
XYZ Films has released a trailer for its upcoming cheerleading film Backspot, which is a serious sports drama that tells a coming of age story.
In the film: “An ambitious cheerleader, Riley (Devery Jacobs), faces new adversity, her increased drive for perfection and triumph, and a demanding head coach (Evan Rachel Wood) when she and her girlfriend are selected for an all-star cheer squad – called the Thunderhawks.
“With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her drive alongside her crippling anxiety, as one wrong move could bring her crashing to the ground…”
With my daughter being a high school cheerleader, I am currently living the cheerleading life. I know all of the drama and the struggles that these girls go through.
While cheerleading can be hardcore, it is nothing like this trailer portrays it. I showed the trailer to my daughter and she just laughed at it. The movie is so serious, that it’s funny. But, the movie is getting good reviews, so we’ll see!
The movie comes from director D.W. Waterson, making their directorial debut, and it also stars Shannyn Sossamon, Kudakwashe Rutendo, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Wendy Crewson. The movie is also executive produced by Elliott Page.
XYZ Films will release Backspot in theaters on May 31st, 2024.
The highly anticipated family film IF has come out with a fun promotion to get fans excited for the upcoming movie. On the film’s social media, a post has listed the movie’s website, which you can go to and create a picture of your own IF (imaginary friend). It then generates something loosely akin to your creation, and leads you to a discounted treat from Baskin Robbins.
The movie is described as “the tale of a man who can see and talk to people’s imaginary friends, befriending those that have been forgotten or discarded.
“However, some imaginary friends, lacking love and friendship, turn to the dark side, and it’s up to Reynolds’ character to save the world from those that become evil.”
Ryan Reynolds stars in the movie with an incredible ensemble that also includes Cailey Fleming, and Fiona Shaw, as well as Steve Carell, Matt Damon, Jon Stewart, Emily Blunt, Maya Rudolph, Sam Rockwell, Sebastian Maniscalco, Christopher Meloni, Richard Jenkins, Awkwafina, Vince Vaughn, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr, Alan S. Kim, and Bobby Moynihan.
Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Paul Walter Hauser (Cobra Kai, Richard Jewell, Black Bird) has had quite a few weeks!
His career is barreling forward with incredible force, as he first signed on to play actor and comedian Chris Farley in the Josh Gad-directed biopic about Farley’s life.
Then it was announced that he is taking on the role of Captain Ed in the untitled Naked Gun reboot from Paramount Pictures. Now it has been revealed that Hauser has joined the ensemble cast of Marvel’s highly anticipated The Fantastic Four.
Hauser’s role in the superhero flick is under wraps, as is its plot. As previously reported, the film’s core cast includes Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic); Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm (aka the Invisible Woman); Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch); and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm (aka the Thing). Most recently, Julia Garner came aboard to play Shalla-Bal, a version of Silver Surfer.
Matt Shakman (WandaVision) is directing from a script by Eric Pearson, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer. Peter Cameron (WandaVision) has also done some writing on the project. Production will begin this summer, with the film slated to hit theaters on July 25, 2025.
Who do you think Hauser is going to play in the film?
While we wait for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apesto be released on the big screen, the director of the film, Wes Ball, is already revealing his plans for the home entertainment release.
In an interview with Ape Nation, the Ball revealed that the film’s Blu-ray will feature a copy of the entire movie without any of the CGI. This will give fans the ability to see the actors’ performances in the mo-cap suits pre-VFX.
The filmmaker revealed: “I’m doing a little thing for the DVD where you can watch the movie – the entire movie – with the raw dailies.”
He said: “I’m working on that, where you’ll be able to watch and see both the final [cut] and the raw dailies. You can see how close they get, what they do, and how they stitch everything together. It’s amazing, and you can just sit there and enjoy it.”
Ball added: “I’ll do some commentary over it with Erik [Winquist], our VFX [supervisor]. I think it’s gonna be great. For geeks like us, it’s gonna be a first. They’ve never seen this kind of thing.”
Ball continued: “Some of the hardest stuff in VFX is how you get CG characters to interact with others. So we have a human girl hugging a CG ape and it’s like, ‘How do you do that?'”
I love that the director is doing this! I’ve always thought it would be cool to watch a full movie like this with all of the VFX work stripped away so that we can watch the actors doing their thing and Ball is doing it! That’s so cool!
The movie is set “several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows.
“As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.”
The cast includes Owen Teague (It), Freya Allen(The Witcher), and Peter Macon(The Orville). The script for the film comes from Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), and Patrick Aison (Prey).
It also co-stars Travis Jeffery (Unbroken), Neil Sandilands (Sweet Tooth), Sara Wiseman (One Of Us Is Lying), Ras-Samuel Welda’abzgi (The Clearing), Lydia Peckham (Cowboy Bebop), and Kevin Durand.
Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Paul Walter Hauser (Cobra Kai, Richard Jewell, Black Bird) has joined the cast of Paramount’s rebooted comedy feature, The Naked Gun. He joins Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, as previously announced. He’ll take on the role of Captain Ed, inhabited in prior Naked Gun films by George Kennedy, and in the preceding series Police Squad! by Alan North.
Akiva Schaffer is directing and exec producing the comedy, slated for release in theaters on July 18, 2025. Dan Gregor and Doug Mand wrote the draft script along with Schaffer, with whom they partnered on the Emmy-winning film Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing via Fuzzy Door, with Daniel M. Stillman also serving as EP.
Known for their absurd scenarios and slapstick humor, past Naked Gun films centered on the misadventures of Frank Drebin, the clueless and bumbling police detective played by Leslie Nielsen, who also starred in Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker’s Police Squad!.
Coming off of Emmy, Critics Choice and Golden Globe wins for his haunting turn as serial killer Larry Hall in Apple’s crime drama Black Bird, Hauser was also recently seen in the second season of Apple’s hit comedy The Afterparty from Lord & Miller. On June 14, he’ll be heard voicing the character of Embarrassment in the long-awaited Inside Out 2. Other upcoming projects include Tony Tost’s directorial debut Americana with Sydney Sweeney, which was recently acquired by Lionsgate, and Doug Liman’s Apple Original The Instigators, which has him starring opposite Matt Damon. Hauser also recently signed on to play Chris Farley in a biopic that will be directed by Josh Gad.
The first season of Apple TV+’s sci-fi mystery series Silo was a spectacular series. The creative team behind the development of that show did such an awesome job bringing that story to life, and it sounds like Season 2 is going to be even better!
Rebecca Ferguson recently revealed that Silo Season 2 had completed filming, and the author of the Silo novel series, which is titled the “Wool” series, Hugh Howey, has seen it, and he shared his thoughts on it, which are sure to get fans excited.
He said on social media: “I’ve seen season two and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen.” That’s some epic hype right there and I couldn’t be more excited to watch it!
The series is based on Howey’s trilogy of dystopian novels, and it tells the story of the “last ten thousand people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and any who try to find out face fatal consequences.”
After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette, who is played by Rebecca Ferguson, “seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will. She starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.”
Ferguson talked about the future of the series, saying: “I believe that the show has an ending, and I know when that is. So, that’s the answer. You will find out when the show is done.”
She added: “To be honest, I don’t think it’s a secret. The books are the books. It’s three books, and the three books are divided into four seasons. So, I believe, unless any Apple person is gonna jump on, I think we’re absolutely fine with saying Season 1, we’ve done. Season 2 is shot and coming out, and we’re now looking at green-lighting Seasons 3 and 4. And I think we would film them maybe together, and that would be the end.”
When previously talking about Season 2, Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+ said in a statement: “It has been enormously fulfilling to see the engrossing, atmospheric and beautifully crafted sci-fi epic Silo quickly become Apple’s number one drama series.”
He added: “As audiences around the world have become gripped by the mysteries and conspiracies buried within this fascinating subterranean world, viewership only continues to climb, and we are so excited for more secrets of the silo to be revealed in season two.”
The series was created and written by Graham Yost (Band of Brothers, Justified), and he shared: “We cannot wait for audiences around the world to immerse themselves in the epic world we have created to bring Hugh Howey’s novels to life.”
He continued: “Apple has believed in our vision from day one and it’s an honor to have the opportunity to dig deeper into this story and peel back the layers to our characters in the Silo.”
Ferguson is joined in the series by a great ensemble cast that includes Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, David Oyelowo, Rashida Jones and Tim Robbins.
ICF Films has released a new trailer for the upcoming slasher horror thriller In a Violent Nature. This unique horror movie is told from the perspective of the evil killer.
In the film, “When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it.
“The undead golem hones in on the group of vacationing teens responsible for the theft and proceeds to methodically slaughter them one by one in his mission to get it back – along with anyone in his way.”
While I’ve heard the film can be boring at times because there’s a lot of walking. But, when the murder does kill people, they are brutally savage!
You can read our review of the film here. Corrin said: Literally, a comically large portion of this film is the camera following our slasher as he trudges through the woods. This made the pacing kind of inconsistent, with a lot of momentum lost in between kills.”
She added: “And speaking of, there are some of the most grotesque and over-the-top kills I’ve ever seen in this movie! Really gory stuff that I won’t describe because I really don’t want to spoil them for anyone. The moments where the slasher is doing his classic slashing were the parts that I thought worked best.”
The film was picked up by Shudder, and it follows “the enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness.”
The movie was written and directed by Chris Nas, and it stars Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, Charlotte Creaghan, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Sam Roulston, Alexander Oliver, and Lauren Taylor.
Shudder’s vice president of programming said in a statement: “In a Violent Nature is a tremendous new slasher. We’re thrilled for you to meet Johnny, whose reign of terror honors the iconic subgenre while taking audiences on a singular and brutal new journey within it.”
He added: “Chris Nash’s bold perspective represents the best of Shudder, marrying the genre’s traditions with its exhilarating next steps.”
The movie will be released on May 31st, 2024.
An unrelenting horror experience that will shake you to the bone. After terrorizing Sundance audiences, minimalist slasher IN A VIOLENT NATURE hits theaters May 31! https://t.co/qsbU7CZ0YNpic.twitter.com/D63rGGUJNs
Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Fast X) is set to direct and produce the sci-fi horror film 11817. The script is written by Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying).
In the story, “Inexplicable forces trap a family of four inside their house indefinitely. As both modern luxuries and life or death essentials begin to run out, the family must learn how to be resourceful to survive and outsmart who — or what — is keeping them trapped…”
Well, that sounds like a crazy and F’ed up nightmarish situation! Leterrier said is a statement: “Directing projects where the audience gets behind the characters has always been my focus. However complex, flawed, heroic, we identify with them as we live through their journey.”
He added: “It’s what excites me about 11817‘s wholly original concept and the family at the heart of our story. This is an experience that movie audiences won’t forget.”
The project is currently in the middle of casting, but no one has officially been set to star. It sounds like an interesting story concept, though. Judging from what we do know, it seems like the movie will have some Twilight Zone tone qualities to it.
It’ll be interesting to see what this movie ends up becoming.
