Updated May 5, 2009!
May 15
BIG MAN JAPAN (Magnet/Magnolia; limited)
Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto
Stars: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Riki Takeuchi, Ua, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Haruka Unabara
The mockumentary saga of what at first appears to be an ordinary Japanese salaryman who turns out to have a very extraordinary job.
Website: www.sixshooterfilmseries.com/bigmanjapan
May 29
DRAG ME TO HELL (Universal)
Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Jessica Lucas, David Paymer, Reggie Lee, Lorna Raver
After a young bank worker angers an old Eastern European woman, she becomes the victim of a supernatural curse.
Website: www.dragmetohell.net
June 12
DEAD SNOW (IFC Films; limited)
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Stars: Charlotte Frogner, Orjan Gamst, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Laursen
Medical students on an Easter-break skiing vacation are forced to fight for their lives when they're confronted by resurrected Nazi zombies.
Website: IFC Films page
June 26
SURVEILLANCE (Magnet/Magnolia; limited)
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Stars: Bill Pullman, Julia Ormond, Pell James, Ryan Simpkins, French Stewart, Cheri Oteri
A pair of FBI agents interview multiple witnesses to a bloody roadside crime, slowly piecing together the shocking truth about what really happened.
Website: www.magnetreleasing.com/surveillance
July 24
ORPHAN (Warner Bros.)
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman
After the death of their baby, a couple adopts a little girl who turns out not to be as sweet as she first appears.
Website: www.orphan-movie.com
July 31
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (Magnolia; limited)
Director: Mark Hartley
A documentary on the Australian exploitation-film explosion of the 1970s and '80s, including numerous horror features as well as sexploitation and action flicks.
Website: www.notquitehollywood.com.au
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
A PERFECT GETAWAY (Rogue)
Director: David Twohy
Stars: Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez, Marley Shelton
A couple on a Hawaiian honeymoon find their vacation going very bad when they're stalked by pair of psychopaths.
Website: none yet
August 28
FINAL DESTINATION: DEATH TRIP (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: none yet
H2: HALLOWEEN 2 (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
Summer
BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE (Samuel Goldwyn)
Director: Chris Nahon
Stars: Gianna Jun, Allison Miller, Andrew Pleavin, Colin Salmon, Masiela Lusha, Liam Cunningham
Live-action remake of the popular anime in which a young vampire hunts demons for the U.S. government at an Air Force base in post-WWII Japan.
Website: www.bloodthelastvampire-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: none yet
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
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: none yet
September
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.
Website: none yet
October 2
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
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.
Website: none yet
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: none yet
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: none yet
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: none yet
October 30
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
November 6
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
November 20
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
January 15, 2010
CIRQUE DU FREAK (Universal)
Directors: Paul Weitz
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
March 19, 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.
Website: none yet
April 16, 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.
Website: none yet
June 30, 2010
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.
Website: none yet
July 9, 2010
PREDATORS (Fox)
Director: TBA
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.
Website: none yet
August 6, 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.
Website: none yet
August 13, 2010
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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
BOOK OF BLOOD (TBA)
Director: John Harrison
Stars: Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Doug Bradley, Simon Bamford
Based on the titular story and "On Jerusalem Street" by Clive Barker, about psychics investigating a haunted house and the ghastly consequences.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
THE DARK COUNTRY (Stage 6)
Director: Thomas Jane
Stars: Thomas Jane, Lauren German, Ron Perlman, Chris Browning
While driving through the desert to their honeymoon, a couple encounter an injured stranger who propels them into a terrifying experience.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
DREAD (TBA)
Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Stars: Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly, Jonathan Readwin
From Clive Barker's story: College students engage in a project researching the fears of others, and wind up being confronted by their own.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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
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: none yet
HELLRAISER (Dimension)
Director: Pascal Laugier
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.
Website: none yet
THE HOLE (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.
Website: none yet
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (TBA)
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.
Website: none yet
IT'S ALIVE (TBA)
Director: Josef Rusnak
Stars: Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Raphael Coleman
Remake of Larry Cohen's film about a mutant baby running amok.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
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
ROB ZOMBIE'S TYRANNOSAURUS REX (Dimension)
Director: Rob Zombie
Stars: TBA
An official storyline for this one hasn't been released yet—but it has something to do with a violent ex-biker who goes by the nickname "T-Rex."
Website: MySpace page
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
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.
Website: none yet
THIRST (Focus)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Stars: Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Kim Ok-bin, Mercedes Cabral
A priest takes part in a medical experiment that turns him into a vampire, and slowly loses his grip on humanity.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
TRICK ’R TREAT (Warner Bros.)
Director: Michael Dougherty
Stars: Dylan Baker, Brian Cox, Leslie Bibb, Anna Paquin, Tahmoh Penikett
Human killers and inhuman entities stalk a small town on Halloween night in this four-part horror anthology.
Website: none yet
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.
Website: none yet
WORLD WAR Z (Paramount)
Director: Marc Forster
Stars: TBA
Adaptation of Max Brooks' novel in which a worldwide zombie conflict is explored from the points of view of numerous human participants.
Website: none yet
