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Earlier this year, it was announced that actor Jay Hernandez, whose credits include Magnum P.I., Hostel, and Suicide Squad, would be making his feature directorial debut with with the survival horror thriller Night Comes, working from a screenplay he wrote with Jason Bourque and Nancy Isaak. The film stars Dafne Keen and Samantha Lorraine – and now an image from the Night Comes production has been unveiled, giving us our first look at the characters played by Keen and Lorraine. That image can be found at the bottom of this article.

Coming our way from Impossible Dream Entertainment and the production and financing outfit Big Picture Cinema Group, Night Comes will unfold against the backdrop of a cataclysmic event that threatens to engulf humanity. Two sisters manage to escape the horror only find themselves thrust into a perilous struggle for survival, tasked with a mission that holds the fate of mankind in the balance.

As Terrifier 3 prepares to hit theaters this Friday, it’s already stirring up intense controversy, having received a rare ban in France. This under-18 restriction hasn’t been imposed on a horror film there since Saw 3 in 2006. Known for its extreme violence and gruesome content, the Terrifier franchise, led by Art the Clown, is no stranger to pushing boundaries. Early screenings have even reported fainting and walkouts, sparking the latest conversation about what makes a horror film go too far?

But Terrifier 3 is hardly the first film to face the wrath of censors. Horror, as a genre, has a long history of crossing the line, provoking moral outrage, and—unsurprisingly—being banned in various countries. Let’s take a look at some of the most infamous horror films that got slapped with bans and delve into why certain subgenres, like video nasties and torture porn, seem to...

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Here in the US, James Watkins’ directorial debut Eden Lake went straight to DVD and was distributed by Dimension Films. Of all the titles to fly under the Dimension Extreme banner though, this one was the most deserving. The movie turned out to be more of an endurance test than I could have ever anticipated. Eden Lake also manages to be both acclaimed and despised. Anyone who knows what became of Michael Fassbender and Kelly Reilly’s characters very well understands the mixed sentiments surrounding this movie.

British horror was struggling to hold on after the original closure of Hammer and the Video Nasties period, yet by the early 2000s, a revival had begun. It was as if the reluctance to do genre movies had been replaced with a kind of fever. Dog Soldiers, My Little Eye, Deathwatch, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Creep, The Descent. There was...

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announces Full 2024 Program: "The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (Bhff) announces today the full program for its 2024 incarnation, running October 17-24 with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park locations. Audiences are in for an unworldly lineup of films and events, including a special screening of Larry Fessenden’s Habit with the Leviathan Award Ceremony, honoring his film career.

The Opening Night film is the NY premiere of Dead Mail from directors Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy. The 2024 festival boasts the North American Premieres of exciting new films: Tiago Teixeira’s unsettling body horror film Custom; a new documentary on horror at the turn of the millennium from Phillip Escott and Sarah Appleton, Generation Terror; and New Zealand director Sasha Rainbow’s film Grafted.

The festival will feature the world premieres of Izzy Lee's first feature, House Of Ashes; the atmospheric ghost story,...

Exclusive: Joe Hipps has stepped down as President of TV at Fifth Season after more than seven years at the indie studio. He will continue to work as a producer developing and overseeing several projects while consulting with the Fifth Season leadership during the transition as a search for a new President of Television gets under way.

“It has been an awesome seven year run and we are excited to support Joe as he makes the transition to a producer,” Fifth Season’s Co-CEO’s Chris Rice and Graham Taylor said.

Hipps joined Fifth Season’s predecessor Endeavor Content in 2017 as EVP, Television. He was promoted to President, TV Development and Production, in 2022. Hipps’ tenure included steering the company’s TV creative team through a pandemic and a dual Hollywood strikes.

Since the end of the strikes, Fifth Season has sold a number of TV projects, including limited series The Good Daughter,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film at Lincoln Center

An essential retrospective of Brazil’s L.C. Barreto Productions begins.

Roxy Cinema

Another Woman and The Lords of Flatbush play on 35mm.

Museum of the Moving Image

A retrospective of the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden begins; The Gleaners and I plays on Saturday; Speed Racer shows on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives

An honestly titled retrospective, “Essential/Unessential Warhol,” begins.

Film Forum

A Spielberg retrospective begins, featuring E.T. on 35mm; Army of Shadows continues and West Side Story plays on Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

“Paramount in the 1970s” includes films by Warren Beatty, Elaine May, and Peter Bogdanovich.

IFC Center

Rosemary’s Baby and a 40th-anniversary restoration of Paris, Texas play daily; Caligula: The Ultimate Cut and The Conversation continue; Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Hostel, The Goonies, Mute Witness, and The Vanishing play late.

Metrograph

The Seventh Seal,...

“Borderlands” is an action movie starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart. With Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt and Florian Munteanu. It is directed by Eli Roth.

When you have the likes of Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Jamie Lee Curtis leading the charge in a film, you’re assured a certain level of excellence in the production. At the very least, you can expect the movie to exude quality. “Borderlands” is an exuberant spectacle of high-caliber mischief, boasting impressive visual effects and a script that doesn’t overcomplicate itself. It’s a wild, unbridled, and utterly entertaining ride.

This comedy quickly abandons any pretense of serious storytelling within the first five minutes, opting instead to revel in its fresh, carefree, and anarchic style. Despite its chaotic nature, it carries that unmistakable Jack Black flair: a film that pushes boundaries just enough to be provocative while remaining suitable for all audiences,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research

My screening series Amnesiascope partners again with Rohmer Fits for an encore presentation of Éric Rohmer shorts on Sunday.

Paris Theater

“Big & Loud!” returns with 70mm prints of Vertigo, Phantom Thread, and Boogie Nights, along with The Abyss, Close Encounters, and films by Don Hertzfeldt.

Bam

The controversial, remarkable The Spook Who Sat By the Door continues in a new restoration.

Roxy Cinema

Amalia Ulman has programmed prints of If… and The Holy Girl; “Explosive Cinema” offers First Reformed and The Battle of Algiers.

Film at Lincoln Center

As an essential restoration of Shinji Somai’s Moving continues, The Stranger and the Fog begins a run.

Museum of the Moving Image

Speed Racer and A Silent Voice have screenings.

Anthology Film Archives

Films by Buñuel, Chaplin, and Cocteau screen in “Essential Cinema“; Funeral Parade of Roses shows this Friday.

Earlier this year, it was announced that actor Jay Hernandez, whose credits include Magnum P.I., Hostel, and Suicide Squad, would be making his feature directorial debut with with the survival horror thriller Night Comes, working from a screenplay he wrote with Jason Bourque and Nancy Isaak. At the time, it was said that the film would star Dafne Keen and Samantha Lorraine. Now it has been revealed that Alexander Ludwig (The Hunger Games, Bad Boys for Life, Vikings) is also in the cast.

Coming our way from Impossible Dream Entertainment and the production and financing outfit Big Picture Cinema Group, Night Comes will unfold against the backdrop of a cataclysmic event that threatens to engulf humanity. Two sisters manage to escape the horror only find themselves thrust into a perilous struggle for survival, tasked with a mission that holds the fate of mankind in the balance. Drawing inspiration from...

UTA has signed Canada-based production and financing company Big Picture Cinema Group for broad representation encompassing financing, packaging, sales and distribution and advisory services.

UTA Independent Film Group, which specializes in global film finance, worldwide sales and distribution, the festival marketplace as well as advising clients and financiers on scripted and unscripted content, will be the primary partner to Big Picture inside the agency.

Big Picture is a team of producers and financiers with proven track records in film and television. The leadership team includes Jayce Barreiro, Jared Zhang, Jacky Lai and Graem Luis.

Big Picture president and co-founder Barreiro said, “UTA brings invaluable expertise across the broad spectrum of verticals that we’re operating in, and they fully support our unwavering dedication to quality, innovation, and community. We’re excited to work with the team to unlock value and opportunities around our expanding slate.”

Big Picture’s next movie...

The highly anticipated movie based on the popular Borderlands video game series struggled out of the gate. It brought in just $8.6 million during its opening weekend, far below the $110 million budget. Critics also panned the film, rating it at only 9% on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. These disappointing numbers continue the trend of video game movies disappointing both audiences and critics.

The Borderlands games have sold over 77 million copies since 2009, so filmmakers hoped the movie could draw from this built-in fanbase. However, director Eli Roth took some liberties with the source material that upset fans. He changed character ages and roles. For example, in the games the characters Lilith and Roland are much younger, but in the movie actors Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart play older versions. Roth also altered the storyline. While he aimed to capture the spirit of the games for a broad audience, many felt it...

For the latest issue of Film Stories magazine, we chatted to director Eli Roth about Borderlands – and the film’s opening weekend was definitely on his mind.

Eli Roth’s Borderlands opened in cinemas on Friday. The film was mostly critically panned – we were kinder to it than most – and according to Variety, the film earned only $8.8m from US cinemas on its first weekend.

Back in June, we asked Roth if he was worried about the opening weekend of his Borderlands film. The trailer was criticised by fans of the game, but Roth seemed largely positive, while admitting that you always worry about the opening weekend with big studio films.

“You’re thinking about that with a tentpole movie,” Roth told us. “You’re very much thinking about opening weekend, but that’s on the marketing department. My job [is] to make the best movie possible and I feel like I’ve done that.

From the latest issue of Film Stories magazine, Eli Roth talks exclusively about his upcoming Hostel TV show and its White Lotus inspiration:

For the new issue of Film Stories Magazine, we chatted to director Eli Roth about his latest film, Borderlands, which the director but we couldn’t resist asking him about the recently announced Hostel TV show. News of the show broke in early June, which Roth says wasn’t meant to happen.

“The news leaked early,” he told us. “We didn’t intend to announce it yet, but people heard we’re making the deal with Paul [Giamatti], so it’s out there in the world.”

Giamatti has been tapped to star in the TV adaptation of one of Roth’s best known films, but his role is being kept secret for now.

The filmmaker also said the show won’t hold back on the bloodshed, stating that...

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In medieval Europe, whole communities came together at public executions, drinking and dancing and collectively purging their sins through ceremonial bloodshed. In early 21st-century America, smaller groups gathered at multiplexes for a similar rite: Exorcizing national guilt by watching graphic torture scenes in horror movies. The latter was, of course, sanitized — the actors in these films were only pretending to be in pain, and the audience was distanced from the action by the invisible wall of a movie screen. But the psychological processes at play weren’t so different.

So-called “torture porn” — a term everyone but the critic who coined it, David Edelstein, seems to hate — developed in the 2000s alongside parallel waves of ultraviolent nihilism in French, Japanese, and South Korean cinema, not to mention the neo-grindhouse revival. But there are a...

Based on the action role-playing first-person video game of the same name, set in a space Western science fantasy setting, Borderlands is the newest addition to the heavily saturated video-game adaptation sub-genre. The movie is directed by Eli Roth, a filmmaker famous for his entries into the horror franchise, particularly those of an incredibly gory nature including Hostel and last year’s Thanksgiving. Starring Cate Blanchett (Tar), Kevin Hart (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) and Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie), Borderlands follows a ragtag team of misfits who embark on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power. Despite boasting a competent cast and colorful visuals, Borderlands is severely let down by poor dialogue, an uninteresting story and complete ignorance of the source material.

The success of a video game adaptation largely relies on one thing – how true it stays to the lore of the game.

It’s a bad time to be Eli Roth.

A miscalculation of near-mythic proportions, “Borderlands” has a whopping six percent on Rotten Tomatoes heading into its opening weekend. Those bad reviews (IndieWire gave it a “C-“) are the least of the “Hostel” filmmaker’s problems, as Lionsgate’s misguided video game adaptation has inspired assessments of not only the director’s filmography but also whether his impact on pop culture has been at all valuable.

This ranking can’t account for all of that. If you’re a fan of the types of genre films that Roth makes, read on. If you’re not, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and enjoy the “Borderlands” dogpile — a massive multiplayer online affair now available free of charge.

Last year, Roth’s meaty and murderous “Thanksgiving” did well for the provocateur. The seasonal holiday slasher, starring Nell Verlaque, Patrick Dempsey, and Addison Rae among others,...

Romance It Ends With Us opens in 630 cinemas through Sony at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, pitting lead actress Blake Lively against her husband Ryan Reynolds, whose Deadpool & Wolverine has held top spot for two weekends.

It Ends With Us is adapted by Christy Hall from Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, about a woman whose connection with a neurosurgeon begins to remind her of her parents’ troubled relationship.

Director Justin Baldoni stars alongside Lively having optioned the book through his Wayfarer Studios in 2019, with Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj and Kevin McKidd also on the cast.

Having broken out in...

In recent years the conversation around adequate representation in all aspects of filmmaking, has been gaining a new momentum. Audiences demand for a diverse range of actors onscreen and age is one of the many factors. It is a known fact that actors in Hollywood have a certain time-limit, beyond which they do not receive enough offers.

Recently director Eli Roth restarted the discussion around the industry’s treatment of older actors and stated how they tend to disregard their talent just due to age. He then proceeded to name two senior actors he approached for his movie Borderlands, further cementing that age doesn’t matter to him.

Eli Roth on Ageism: Casting senior actors in his movie

Eli Roth is known for his work in the horror genres, for films like Cabin Fever and Hostel, but he has transitioned into a new genre. The director shifted his interest to...

Horror maestro Eli Roth directs a fun, but disappointingly uneven video game adaptation. Here’s our Borderlands review.

Eli Roth has never cared what critics think about his films. Despite making films such as Hostel, The Green Inferno and Knock Knock, Borderlands might be his toughest challenge to win over not just critics, but audiences.

Borderlands is based on a successful series of games in which you play as a Vault Hunter who is looking for – you guessed it! – a Vault that usually holds all kinds of treasures. The games are delightfully violent and a lot of fun, so it seems like this is exactly in Roth’s wheelhouse.

Except, Borderlands, which is designed to be the first in a series of films, is aimed at a younger audience. In many ways, this is Roth trying his hand at Guardians Of The Galaxy. The tone is similar and, like Guardians,...

Horror director Eli Roth might be known as a purveyor of torture porn movies like "Hostel" and "Cabin Fever," but he has a soft side when it comes to animals. Speaking to Total Film about his holiday slasher "Thanksgiving," he confessed to having a problem with movies where a murder victim has a pet. "I can't enjoy the movie until I know someone's gonna feed that pet. Even though I know it's a story, I know it's not real. I'm like, but what about the cat?"

Roth has a pet of his own -- a French bulldog -- who gave him the inspiration he needed when pitching a "Borderlands" movie to Lionsgate. "Whenever I take her for a walk and she has to go to the bathroom, she won't let me look at her," Roth explains in the latest issue of SFX magazine. "I have to look away because she gets really shy.

Cate Blanchett is well-aware that her starring in video-game adaptation “Borderlands” is more than a little unexpected.

The Oscar winner told Empire that leading Eli Roth’s action film was a way to escape her “Covid madness” of quarantine at the time.

“The crazy asks are usually the things I gravitate towards; the things I could never conceive of,” Blanchett said. “I think there also may have been a little Covid madness — I was spending a lot of time in the garden, using the chainsaw a little too freely. My husband said, ‘This film could save your life.'”

Blanchett prepared just as seriously for her role as Lillith, the leader of a ragtag group of space mercenaries, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, Arianna Greenblatt, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black, as she has for any role. Blanchett turned into a gamer just for the fully-meta experience of “Borderlands.”

“My thumbs can barely control a phone,...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: Through a Glass Very, Very Darkly

If Arthur Slugworth haunted your dreams as a child, then prepare for Günter Meisner to paint your adult nightmares with a sickly blue palette in “In a Glass Cage.”

German actor Meisner played a certain beloved chocolatier’s cadaverous arch-rival in Mel Stuart’s inherently creepy “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” in 1971 — exactly 15 years before he’d play a sadomasochistic Nazi doctor in Agustí Villaronga’s post-World War II revenge picture, “In a Glass Cage,” from 1986. And here, Meisner is just as lacking in...

Stars: Rocio Scotto, Jason Faunt, Raj Jawa, Kylie Rohrer, Andy Lauer, James Hyde | Written and Directed by Andrew de Burgh

Zara slips out of bed as her husband Robert sleeps. She goes downstairs, pulls a small box out of a trunk and looks through the book of sinister-looking drawings it contains. She’s about to go from aspiring actress and abused wife to the seductress from hell.

Post credits we see them at the breakfast table, she’s waiting for a callback for a part and he’s being an obnoxious prick. The thing is he’s not wrong in saying if they have money troubles she should get an actual job, she made less than $10K last year, it’s the belligerent, demeaning way he says it that’s the problem. That belligerence only gets worse as time goes on, leading to Robert forcing himself on her, and, after...

It's been a busy week for Paul Giamatti. Having just signed up to lead Eli Roth's upcoming Hostel TV adaptation, The Holdovers actor is now preparing to boldly go into the Star Trek Universe with Paramount+ spin-off series Starfleet Academy, which starts production later this summer. According to Deadline, Giamatti will take on the role of the first season's as-yet-unnamed villain, a man with an ominous past connected to one of the Academy's cadets.

Giamatti joins Holly Hunter (Raising Arizona) — whose casting as Starfleet Academy's chancellor was confirmed last month — in the series, which is being helmed by co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. Here's the show's official synopsis: "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy follows a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships,...

Paul Giamatti is boldly going where no one from “Billions” has gone before: the “Star Trek” franchise.

The Oscar-nominated star of “The Holdovers” has boarded Paramount+’s upcoming series “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” in a major recurring role, Variety reports.

Per the trade, Giamatti will play the first season’s main villain, who has a “sinister connection” to one of Starfleet Academy’s cadets.

“Sometimes you’re lucky enough to discover that one of the greatest actors alive is also a huge ‘Star Trek’ fan, and meeting Paul was one of those miraculous moments for us,” co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau said in a statement. “The sheer delight with which he dove in on ‘Starfleet Academy’ is only surpassed by the gratitude we feel about him joining our incredible cast.”

Giamatti joins Oscar winner Holly Hunter in the cast. Hunter will be playing the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy,...

Star Trek fans are celebrating this afternoon after hearing about Paul Giamatti joining the cast of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for a recurring villainous role. The Oscar-nominated actor plays the central villain in the upcoming series, described as “a man with an ominious past with a connection to one of the show’s cadets.”

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy “introduces us to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they will discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.”

Last month, Holly Hunter joined the cast of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, lending even more star power to a fan-favorite corner of the beloved science-fiction franchise. Hunter will portray the captain...

El equipo original de ‘Hostel’ se reúne para modernizar la saga.

De acuerdo con The Hollywood Reporter, Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”) protagonizará una serie de televisión basada en la franquicia de terror de Eli Roth, “Hostel”, que se encuentra en fase de desarrollo y aún no tiene una plataforma asociada.

La serie se describe como una adaptación moderna y un thriller elevado que también es una reinvención de la franquicia de terror que comenzó en 2006 y generó dos secuelas. Eli Roth y Chris Briggs, que estuvieron involucrados en las películas originales, regresarán como guionistas, con Roth también dirigiendo el proyecto.

La trama original de “Hostel” seguía a tres mochileros que, en busca de aventuras hedonistas, se dirigían a una ciudad eslovaca, sin imaginar el horror que les aguardaba. Si bien los detalles específicos sobre la trama no han sido revelados, Giamatti interpretará un papel clave.

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Pack up yer bags and steady your stomachs, gorehounds — we're heading back to Hostel! After a jaunt into family-friendly horror fare with 2018's The House With A Clock In Its Walls, director Eli Roth returned to his bloody roots last year with splatter-filled slasher Thanksgiving. And now, with his hotly anticipated videogame adaptation Borderlands' summer release fast approaching, Roth is already hard at work on his next project — a small-screen take on the cult torture-porn franchise that secured his horror icon status. And did we mention the series will star The Holdovers' Paul Giamatti?

As first reported by THR, Paul Giamatti has closed a deal to star in Roth's TV take on the Hostel franchise, a modern adaptation of the films described as both an "elevated thriller" and also a "reinvention". Promisingly, the show — which will reunite co-writer and director Roth with Hostel collaborators Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss — is coming from Fifth Season,...

Every now and then, we get to write a sentence that confounds and excites us. Something so strange, it could either be the worst thing in the world or the best. Well, here’s the latest– Paul Giamatti is set to star in a “Hostel” TV series directed by Eli Roth. Let that sink in for a minute.

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According to THR, Paul Giamatti is going to star in a TV reimagining of the torture porn horror film, “Hostel.” The folks behind the original film franchise, writer-director Eli Roth and producers Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss, are all returning for this new iteration.

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Paul Giamatti will star in a TV version of Eli Roth’s grisly Hostel franchise. Both Roth and the films’ original producers will be involved in the new series.

A gold star to anyone who saw this coming.

Paul Giamatti, of Billions and Big Fat Liar fame, as well as his collaborations with Alexander Payne including Sideways and this year’s wonderful drama The Holdovers (pictured), is starring in a television version of Eli Roth’s Hostel, which is not a sentence I expected to type today.

It seems this collaboration has been on the cards for some time. Giamatti told Entertainment Weekly in a 2013 interview that “Eli was shooting Hostel in Prague and I was shooting The Illusionist and I met him. We talked about me actually killing somebody in that movie but it never panned out”.

Hostel is a film often, and perhaps quite rightly in the case of its sequel,...

Get your passports ready because Hostel is returning with director and writer Eli Roth at the helm.

According to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, Roth is preparing to take Hostel to the small screen with a "reinvention" of the franchise suited for television. In even better news, Academy Award-nominated actor Paul Giamatti, who is currently coming off of a hot streak after his acclaimed film The Holdovers, will star, though specifics about his characters being kept under wraps.

The article also throws around a lot of buzzy terms to describe this version of Hostel, including calling it a "modern adaptation" and an "elevated thriller."

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Hostel movies weren't exactly high-brow and, in fact, went a long way toward popularizing the term "torture porn" in the horror genre, so it'll be interesting to see what Roth comes up with to make Hostel,...

"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept," as the saying goes, "for there were no more horror movies to bring back as a modern revival." Hmm, that's not exactly right, but you're picking up what I'm laying down here. Horror continues to be an industry mainstay and, when it works, it's been a pillar of consistent box office profits and viewership ratings. So, in that light, it's no surprise that Hollywood would dig into its bag of tricks and come up with yet another relatively popular IP to revive all over again for old fans and newcomers alike. In this case, the revival series in question also comes with quite an interesting little factoid that could've led to famous character actor Paul Giamatti joining the "Hostel" franchise almost 20 years ago.

Instead, the Oscar-nominated star of "The Holdovers" will be making his first appearance in the franchise...

More than a decade after the last bit of blood was spilled on the Hostel movie franchise, the story is now moving to television. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Eli Roth, Chris Biggs, and Mike Fleiss are all returning to the land of masked torturers for another round — this time on the small screen and with Paul Giamatti in tow. Here’s a look at everything we know so far about the Hostel show. What will the Hostel TV show be about? According to THR, the project is being billed as a “modern adaptation” of the story as well as an “elevated thriller” and “reinvention” of the franchise. For the uninitiated, Hostel‘s three films centered on a group of tourists who are kidnapped, sold, and tortured by wealthy Europeans who paid handsome sums to viciously attack them in dark cave chambers. The first film hit theaters in 2005 and was...

Paul Giamatti has signed on to star in a television adaptation of Eli Roth’s horror franchise “Hostel.”

The project is in development at Fifth Season, the studio behind “Severance,” and does not yet have a distributor attached. Roth is set to direct and write with original franchise producer Chris Briggs. The two of them will also executive produce alongside “Hostel” alum Mike Fleiss.

“Hostel,” which premiered in theaters in 2005 and spawned two sequels, followed American tourists who are convinced by a stranger to travel from Barcelona to Slovakia, where they are then taken captive by an underground organization that kidnaps people for rich clients to torture and kill.

The series is envisioned as a “modern adaptation” and “reinvention” of the low-budget horror franchise, the first installment of which collected $82 million atop a $4.8 million budget. The less lucrative sequel, 2007’s “Hostel: Part II,” still raked in more than $35 million against a $10.2 million budget.

Academy Award nominee and lifelong horror fan Paul Giamatti is set to star in a key role for new “Hostel” TV series with Eli Roth returning, THR reports today.

It’s not just Roth returning, but franchise producers Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss as well.

No plot details as of yet as the series is still in development. But it’s described as a “modern adaptation” and an “elevated thriller” that’s also a “reinvention” of the horror franchise that launched in 2006 and spawned two sequels.

Roth and Briggs will write the script, with the former set to direct. Roth, Briggs and Fleiss will all executive produce the series.

Giamatti will star in a key role, though character details are under wraps.

The actor is a huge fan of the genre, having recently appeared as the villainous Christian Barbrow in season two of HBO Original Series “30 Coins.” Giamatti recently...

Update: A month after the Paul Giamatti / Hostel TV series rumor popped up, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that it’s actually happening! Giamatti is set to play “a key role” in the Hostel TV show, which is said to reinvent the franchise as an “elevated thriller.” The series is coming our way from Fifth Season, the studio behind Apple’s Severance, and has Eli Roth, Chris Briggs, and Mike Fleiss on board as executive producers. Roth and Briggs are also writing the project, which Roth will be directing.

In 2013, Giamatti revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he almost made a cameo in the original Hostel: “Eli was shooting Hostel in Prague and I was shooting The Illusionist and I met him. We talked about me actually killing somebody in that movie but it never panned out.” Now it looks like Giamatti and Roth are going to make up for lost time.

Hostel is coming to television.

Paul Giamatti has closed a deal to star in a Hostel TV series with the franchise’s Eli Roth, Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss all returning for the project from Fifth Season, the studio behind Apple TV+’s Severance.

The Hostel show, which is currently in development and does not yet have a platform attached, is described as being a “modern adaptation” and an “elevated thriller” that’s also a “reinvention” of the horror franchise that launched in 2006 and spawned two sequels.

Roth and Briggs will pen the script, with the former set to direct. Roth, Briggs and Fleiss will all executive produce the series.

The original movie revolved around three backpackers who were headed to a Slovak city that promised to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaited them.

Giamatti will star in a key role, with character details under wraps.

The 2000s was an interesting time for cinema. Let’s face it: it was an interesting time in general. In the realm of horror, the beginning of the aughts saw an influx of remakes of J-Horror – some bad, some pretty decent. However, with the post-9/11 cultural climate heightening anxieties and desensitization to violence due to real-world events, another genre emerged, tapping into the darker side of human nature. First coined by David Edelstein in a 2006 article in New York magazine, “torture porn” took the roots of exploitation and splatter films of the 70s and 80s and reintroduced the mainstream audiences to a new level of explicit brutality. Films like Saw, Hostel, The Devil’s Rejects, and the New Extremity of French Horror were raw and unapologetic looks at human depravity. It was everywhere. I mean, there was a time when you couldn’t go more than a year without having a Saw film.

Jay Hernandez, known for his roles in films including Hostel and Suicide Squad, will make his feature directorial debut with the horror movie Night Comes, we’ve learned today.

Impossible Dream Entertainment and Canada-based production and financing outfit Big Picture Cinema Group are teaming to produce the new feature horror thriller, which will star Dafne Keen and Samantha Lorraine.

Jay Hernandez also wrote the screenplay with Jason Bourque and Nancy Isaak.

Night Comes unfolds against the backdrop of a cataclysmic event that threatens to engulf humanity. Two sisters manage to escape the horror only find themselves thrust into a perilous struggle for survival, tasked with a mission that holds the fate of mankind in the balance.

The press release promises, “Night Comes promises to deliver a spine-chilling, edge-of-your-seat experience that will leave audiences breathless.”

Jay Hernandez said, “With Night Comes we have a chance to do two unique things simultaneously.

Exclusive: Dafne Keen (Logan) and Samantha Lorraine (Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado) have been tapped to star in Night Comes, a survival horror thriller marking the feature directorial debut of actor Jay Hernandez (Suicide Squad).

Hailing from Impossible Dream Entertainment and the Canadian production and financing outfit Big Picture Cinema Group, the film unfolds against the backdrop of a cataclysmic event that threatens to engulf humanity. Two sisters manage to escape the horror only to find themselves thrust into a perilous struggle for survival, tasked with a mission that holds the fate of mankind in the balance.

Hernandez teamed with Jason Bourque and Nancy Isaak to write the film, which draws inspiration from such popular genre titles as Birdbox and The Descent. Impossible Dream partners Shaun Redick and Yvette Yates Redick will produce alongside Big Picture...

The episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? covering Snakes on a Plane was Written and Narrated by Mike Holtz, Edited by Jaime Vasquez, Produced by Andrew Hatfield and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

When you go back and take a look at the movies that were released in 2006, you might think we were all high. I mean some of us were but regardless, everything was so over the top. Eli Roth’s Hostel was tearing off tourists’ clothes while slashing their Achilles’, The Hills Have Eyes remake was gnarly in every way and does anybody remember that really cool but super weird Paul Walker flick Running Scared? We were on some dark stuff back in the mid-2000s. It wasn’t just the horror and action genres, either. Comedies like Grandma’s Boy had a level of wildness to them that you don’t see these days.

Threequels can often be a daunting undertaking for even the most accomplished of directors, and even for franchises with decent first two installments. Candyman 3: Day of the Dead takes a fairly offensive stab at the Mexican holiday, while Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III doesn’t live up to the pre-release marketing hype about it being ‘banned’ and ‘the most controversial movie ever made’. It was neither. Even Scream 3, despite not necessarily being bad per se, is a low point considering how strong the first two movies are. On the flip side though, George Romero’s Day of the Dead is a solid follow-up to both Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, while Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead threequel Army of Darkness is a total blast. So, after Hostel: Part II grossed significantly less than the hit opening chapter, did that put any notions...

Malayalam cinema has been on a roll in the past few months. With many back-to-back hits and each movie having a different story to convey, this industry has become a hotbed of experimentation and fresh stories. Jithu Madhavan is known for last year’s blockbuster hit Romancham, which uniquely explored the horror-comedy genre. Basking on the success of his first film, Jithu Madhavan brings Aavesham, which loosely translates to ‘charge up.’ Aavesham is about a group of college students who become acquainted with a local gangster, and have their lives changed forever. Released on April 11th, 2024, it is a Malayalam language film.

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Aavesham begins with a bunch of young boys joining a college in Bangalore, away from home for the first time. The whole idea was to have full freedom in a city where no one would know them.

Even Eli Roth can’t believe that two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett was willing to learn to twirl guns and shoot baddies in “Borderlands,” the director’s gonzo adaptation of the popular video game.

Roth noted that since people loved seeing Blanchett wield a baton in “Tár,” where she portrayed a fictional world-famous conductor embroiled in controversy, the filmmaker said he might as well “put a flamethrower in her hand.”

In “Borderlands,” Blanchett sports a fiery red bob and is surrounded by the starry ensemble of Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black and “Barbie” breakout Ariana Greenblatt. The story follows Blanchett as Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past. She reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora and forms an unexpected alliance to find the missing daughter of Atlas.

Roth shared a trailer for the film during Lionsgate’s presentation at CinemaCon, the annual convention for movie...

After a quieter April opening weekend, we get a slightly busier one with one high profile wide release and a handful of smaller releases. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

The big release of the weekend is “Civil War,” filmmaker Alex Garland‘s fourth feature film as a director, and one that is reportedly A24’s biggest budget production, reportedly costing $50 million. Set in a dystopian war-torn future America, the movie stars Oscar nominee Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny from “Priscilla” as two wartime journalists heading to D.C. to interview the President (Nick Offerman), who is about to be deposed by a group of opposing rebels. The movie also stars Jesse Plemons, Wagner Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson.

Garland established himself as a screenwriter with films like Danny Boyle‘s “28 Days Later” and the 2012 “Dredd” movie starring Karl Urban, but his 2015 directorial debut “Ex Machina...

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Wondering just when you’d be able to get your hands on the upcoming Survival Horror title Gore Doctor from Salient Games? You can do just that tomorrow! Yes, Salient Games has announced that Gore Doctor will be released for PC via Steam on March 22nd. And if you’ve been completely unaware of the game, you can still check out the demo, which has recently been updated.

Drawing inspiration from iconic films such as Saw, Hostel, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and even Rockstar’s Manhunt, Gore Doctor sees you in the shoes of a protagonist who finds himself abducted and imprisoned in the confines of Dr. Gorberg’s institute. Once a respected psychiatrist, Dr. Gorberg’s descent into madness followed the tragic loss of his wife, Scarlett, to an incurable illness. Unable to cope with his grief, he transformed his institute into a hellish realm of despair and death,...

In one of our recent Wtf episodes, we covered the eye-gouging, eastern European-set filthy shenanigans of Eli Roth’s nicely messed up torture porn movie, Hostel. The film helped pave the way for the exploitation horror subgenre to thrive in the early 2000s, and followed a group of American tourists who get a lot more than they bargained for during a trip to the lovely picturesque country of Slovakia. Poor lads. All they wanted was some promiscuous sex with hot European ladies, but they weren’t counting on a shady organization dishing out decapitation and slit throats, as a side dish to the fornication. The movie, according to the tagline, was ‘based upon true events’ and whether or not you believe this claim, it’s nothing if not brutally demented in parts. So, like any other horror movie that manages to whip up a frenzy with critics and fans alike,...

Quentin Tarantino is undoubtedly one of the most influential directors in Hollywood. There is one filmmaker who was influenced and guided by Tarantino and went on to become a prominent name in the horror genre. Eli Roth’s film, Restaurant Dogs, was a clear homage to the Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs. The duo later became good friends and collaborated on several projects over the years.

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Roth’s films had their fair share of acclaim and criticism, depending on the audience of the film. He was put on the horror genre map with his controversial film franchise, Hostel. He went on to make Knock Knock with Keanu Reeves, which some fans consider as Reeves’ most disgusting movie.

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