On this week’s episode of Collider Nightmares (July 11, 2025) Clarke Wolfe, Perri Nemiroff, Jon Schnepp and Mark Reilly will discuss the following:
FRESH MEAT
First up in Fresh Meat, it’sThe Shallowsmaking, well, “fresh meat” out ofBlake Lively.The Shallows, the Black List ranked script which sees Lively as a lone surfer stranded 200 yards from shore with a great white in her path,released its final trailer the other day.The Shallows, directed byJaume Collet-Serra, hits theaters on June 28.
Have you heard ofThe Greasy Strangler? Oh boy, genre fans, if you haven’t yet, you sure won’t forget, and believe me, this won’t be the last time. The latest fromElijah Wood’s(yes really!) horror production company SpectreVision,The Greasy Stranglergot its first and VERY not safe for work teasertrailer plus a release date last week. Called “2016’s most WTF movie” by The Daily Beast, the Sundance selection hits limited theaters and VOD on October 7.
Shane Black is no stranger to genre. While he’s mostly been known for his comedy favorites likeThe Nice GuysandKiss Kiss, Bang Bang,plus a little movie calledIron Man 3,Black is re-teaming with hisMonster Squadco-writerFred Dekkerto write and directPredator 4,titledThe Predator, expected to begin shooting later this year. While he’s certainly been talking a lot about his plans for the film, Black recently told IGN thatRidley Scott’sAlienhas been a major influence on the project. Black also revealed on the Empire podcast that he is looking to earlySteven Spielbergas an influence saying he wants it mysterious, interesting, with the same sense of wonderment and newness thatClose Encounters of the Third Kindhad when that came out.
After briefly returning to video games inMortal Kombat X, Jason Voorhese is coming home for real. During E3 yesterday, five minutes of alpha footage made its way online showing off the new endeavor and revealing that gamers can play as both scared teenagers and Jason himself. According to Bloody Disgusting,Friday the 13th: The Gamereleases this fall for PC, PS4 and XBO.
Lots of people are looking to VR as the future of entertainment and now digital artist and graduate studentClaire Hentschkerhas blended new and old, takingStanley Kubrick’sclassic filmThe Shiningand creating a 360 degree VR experience appropriately titledShining 360. Hentschker uses Kubrick’s extensive use of the steadicam and the film’s signature long tracking shots for the photogrammetry. She hopes that people would have a vested interest in experiencing familiar scenes from the film in this new, fragmented way.
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!
The thing that gave all of us the feels and got a lot of you talking,Netflix released the trailer forThe Duffer Brothersnew genre series,Stranger Things. StarringWynona Rider,David Harbor,Matthew Modineand a slew of ridiculously talented children,Stranger Thingsis a love letter to the supernatural classics of the 80’s, telling the story of a young boy who vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.
Recently it was announced that Fox would order a television adaptation ofWilliam Peter Blatty’siconic novelThe Exorcistto series. Starring Oscar winnerGeena Davispaired withRise of the Planet of the ApesdirectorRupert Wyattfor the pilot episode, the trades reported that Alan Ruck would be made a series regular. Ruck will play the Rance family patriarch who was once a successful civil engineer, Henry suffered a traumatic accident that left him permanently impaired. Now he finds himself a prisoner inside his own body, frustrated by his lack of progress and his inability to help his family in their time of need. Despite all this, he remains a warm, loving presence, and someone who will go to any lengths to protect the ones he loves.
JUMP SCARES
This week theEli RothproducedClownhits select theaters and VOD and was directed by none other thanSpider-Man: HomecomingdirectorJon Watts. Watts is the latest in a long line of genre directors who Hollywood studios have snapped up to spearhead big budget superhero movies.
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