Dennis Quaid stars in Martin Guigui’s psychological thriller which is said to be in the vein of Disturbia.
Image will release theatrically in November followed by digital, home entertainment, VOD and PPV.
The story centres on intrigue, rumours and modern hauntings in a small town as high school children are pitted against a villain in a community where adults refuse to see the dangers right before their eyes.
Bruce Wilkinson wrote the screenplay and Ronnie Clemmer, Scott Mednick and Bret Cullen produced.
Image’s chief acquisitions officer Bill Bromiley announced the acquisition here and closed the deal with the film’s representatives.
The trailer for the horror movie Beneath The Darkness is out. Watch it here and check the captures on the gallery.
It’s here, one still and the poster for horror movie Beneath The Darkness are now in the gallery.
I’ve finally catched up with all the spoofs Slice Of Fried Gold have released the last month. You can watch them in their pages here and the screencaptures on the gallery. I’ve also added pictures to the Mortal Kombat Legacy launch and the Beneath The Darkness sneak preview party last Tuesday.
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Robopocalypse Trailer – Screencaptures
‘Mortal Kombat Legacy’ Launch
‘Beneath the Darkness’ Cast Sneak Preview Party
Bob Jimenez at El Latino Weekly has reviewed Stephen’s upcoming horror movie Beneath The Darkness. Keep reading if you want to know how the movie is.
Ask most people and they’ll tell you that dying in a plane crash is the most frightening death they can imagine. Director Martin Guigui laughs, looks us all in the eye and says, “Want to bet?”
Guigui is a director (My Ex-girlfriend’s Wedding) who usually makes us laugh. But in “Beneath the Darkness,” he explores the psychotic world of a small town mortician who enjoys burying people alive. In Bruce Wilkinson’s screen play, the victim is thrown in a coffin screaming for mercy. There is none. Well, almost none. “Want company,” the mortician asks with a grin? He throws a flashlight into the coffin and slams it shut!
Guigui has apparently been studying terror movies that work. “What ever happened to Baby Jane?” “Kill Bill 2” and certainly, “Psycho!” There’s a touch of all three thrown in with a little “Nancy Drew.” But there’s freshness in the way Guigui pieces together a story that keeps us guessing and sensing that we’re going to see something even worse.
Guigui is also market conscious. The movie is a perfect summer-recession distraction aimed principally at an audience sure to come back to be scared again and again; teenagers. The hero of the movie is one of their own; rebellious, distracted and a loner, yet brave enough to confront and expose the evil in his town.It just happens to be Eli, the mortician, a psychopath monster. Veteran actor Dennis Quaid plays the douchebag, asshole, nut-ball with perfection. According to executive producer Scott Mednick, Quaid has never, until now, played a villain.
Okay, we won’t count his role as Doc Holliday in “Tombstone” In any event, Quaid is so menacing, (watch his eyes and twitching mouth) that he only has to raise his hand and you expect to see an axe in it. In fact, Quaid is so wacky that one isn’t sure whether Guigui is satirizing horror movies or just letting Quaid have fun.
Travis (Tony Oller) is our teenage geek hero. He is tormented by the memory of helplessly standing by and watching his younger sister die. That gives him a sort of “I don’t give a shit attitude,” especially about school and the track team. But he becomes curious about seeing two eerie silhouettes dancing in Eli’s upper floor bedroom. He should have minded his own business.Abby (Aimee Teegarden) is Travis’s perky but nosey girl friend who goads Travis into taking a closer look. The plot would work well enough without her sexy teasing, but Travis has to find his groove somehow and lets Abby talk him into breaking into Eli’s house—at night. Not a very good idea. Soon both find themselves at the mercy of Eli who plans to bury both of them.
Bravo to Geoff Zanelli for his nail biting musical score. It faithfully accompanies every emotion of fear and terror the audience feels or is it the music and not the scene?
I must warn you. The opening scene of “Beneath the Darkness” is so terrifying and so disturbing that you’ll want to get up and walk out. I mean, who need this? But you’ll be glad you stayed, to let director Martin Guigui take you to the edge time and time again. And you never know? You might meet a new friend, the guy or gal you’ve been grabbing next to you.
Yesterday Stephen was on the Henshin Justice Unlimited forums answering questions of the fans.
He said Dink will be back next season on Private Practice and right now he’s writing different projects with directors he has previously worked with.
As you probably already know, Stephen has started filming a new movie called Beneath The Darkness. The upcoming indie film centers about a somber sophomore boy who breaks into Vaughn Ely’s house in search of ghosts with his friends. Stephen plays the character of Brian, a friend of the main role and is working alongside Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller, Aimee Teergarden and Devon Werkheiser.
