Going back to the 1970s, there’s a whole subset of zombie
movies that involve Nazis. (My personal favorite subset of this subset is the Nazi-zombies-emerging-from-bodies-of-water
sub-subgenre.) Recent installments like the Dead Snow movies
have taken a swing at this and now J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robots are having
their say with Overlord. The first trailer has emerged from
the mystery box and it’s a wild time for sure. Check it out after the jump.
If you’ve always wanted to watch a movie that explores what
Denzel Washington’s life would be like as a Lyft driver, you’re in luck,
because that comprises the bulk of The Equalizer 2’s
bloated, 121-minute runtime. And yes, it’s as dull as that sounds.
It hits South Korean theater in just over a week, but we’ve
been wondering when the rest of us might see Illang: The Wolf Brigade, Kim Jee-woon’s live-action adaptation of Jin-Roh:
The Wolf Brigade. While we don’t have a precise date, it now has a
home outside of its native land, as Netflix acquired the international rights,
or at least most of them.
Indie auteur Jim Jarmusch isn’t usually associated with
horror. Sure, he made a vampire movie with Only Lovers LeftAlive, which I love, but it is, as expected, an artsy, existential
love story that just happens to feature immortal, blood-sucking rockers. But
apparently he has a secret zombie film on the way called The Dead Don’t
Die, and it stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, and Selena
Gomez.
Why not? I’ll watch a one-legged Dwayne Johnson dangle off
of a burning building with Neve Campbell for 102 minutes. Sure, there’s more to
Skyscraper than that, but not much. And that’s all that matters
in what’s a serviceable, at times goofily over-the-top entertaining, at times
dreadful and dreary Die-Hard-meets-Towering-Inferno
riff. And I’m fairly certain the entire film was bankrolled by the Chinese duct
tape industry. Seriously, the silver-backed tape has a much more significant
presence than it has any right to.
Oh, sweet Baby Jesus, today is a good day! If you’re not
familiar with The FP, you really should rectify that
situation. When I reviewed it in 2012, I said it was “like watching the
hyper-active, sugar-fueled bastard child of The Warriors,
Japanese pop culture, and a hillbilly bounce all over the screen.” And I stand
by that. I’ve been tracking the sequel, Beats of Rage for
some time, and now it’s reportedly in the can, set to make a film festival
debut this fall, and mastermind Jason Trost just dropped this new trailer and we
gotta Beat-Beat this out.
Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto may have taken a detour
into action ass-kickery recently with Headshot. He also has
another actioner in the pipe—The Night Comes for Us with Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, and Julie Estelle—which I’m suitably jacked up for. But one
half of the duo known as the Mo Brothers (along with Kimo Stamboel), his heart
lies in horror. Before that drops, he’s set to deliver May the Devil Take You. Another horror joint, it has an unsettling new trailer,
complete with a floating woman holding what appears to be a severed goat head.
You know, just in case the title didn’t tip you off to the evil lurking within.
Check it out below.
