The new year is only two months away. That's right: 2011 is getting ready to end. October wasn't a very big month for horror films -- with the exception of Paranormal Activity 3 -- but November and December seem promising. Here are the films fright fans are looking forward to in the months before 2012 comes roaring in.
11-11-11 (Release date? You guessed it! 11-11-11)
From Saw II-IV director Darren Lynn Bousman comes this tale of supernatural terror. The story centers around an author who, after his death of his wife and child, travels to Barcelona to see his estranged brother and dying father, where he learns that his life is plagued by events that occur on 11/11/11. Early buzz is positive, as is fanfare for Bousman's production blog for the film.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (limited release 12-9-11)
While this film is only being released in NY/LA to qualify for this year's Academy Awards before it receives a wide release in January, it still looks fabulous. This serious psychological drama centers around Eva and Franklin, the parents of the titular Kevin. From a very early age there are signs that Kevin is different -- possibly even mentally disturbed -- but the doting parents brush them off. Eva can't quite shake her disquieting feelings about her son, and after he goes on a murderous rampage at his high school, she has to deal with her guilt over her son's actions.
Bag of Bones (TV miniseries, airs on A&E 12-12-11)
Master of horror Mick Garris helms this Stephen King adaptation starring Pierce Brosnan and Melissa George. The official synopsis: "Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs. Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway and finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a vindictive millionaire, Max Devore, who is trying to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. as Mike is drawn into Mattie's struggle--and begins to fall in love with her--he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What do the forces that have been unleashed here want of Mike Noonan?" Garris also adapted King's The Shining, Quicksilver Highway, Desperation, and The Stand for television.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (12-21-11)
David Fincher, who directed Fight Club and Seven, has given literature fans in the US something to smile about with the much-anticipated adaptation of the bestselling novel starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. There are already a series of Swedish films taken from all three novels in Stieg Larssen's trilogy, which are beloved to many, but English-language audiences are literally chomping at the bit for this release. Viral marketing and Fincher's unusual 4-minute long trailer have already taken this release to new heights and its release is still 6 weeks away. This film tells the story of Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist who is recruited by a notorius millionaire to investigate the disappearance and supposed murder of his niece Harriet some 40 years prior. Blomkvist enlists super-hacker and cult icon Lisbeth Salander to help him "catch a killer of women." This December promises that "Evil Shall with Evil be Expelled," and movie fans everywhere cannot wait.
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