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Amazon Freevee is packed to the gills with free-to-watch movies and TV shows, and the streaming app now boasts a few original productions of its own, but when there’s so much choice at your fingertips, how do you decide what’s worth your precious eyeball time?

If you’re on the lookout for a hidden sci-fi gem to check out, we’ve got you! This list sorts the science fiction wheat from the science fiction chaff, and we’ll be updating it regularly to make sure all the best options are still available, while adding any new gems that appear on the streaming service in the future.

Daybreakers

Daybreakers is one of the most overlooked vampire movies of the modern era, but its sci-fi elements really do shine and its clinical vibes are not what you’d expect from your average bloodsucker tale. It’s inventive, entertaining, and definitely worth a look.

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Cinematographer Tom Richmond, whose résumé included work on such films as Stand and Deliver, Killing Zoe, Little Odessa, Slums of Beverly Hills and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, has died. He was 72.

Richmond died Friday in New York City, Anthony Jannelli, head of cinematography at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, told The Hollywood Reporter (Richmond also taught at NYU). The cause of death was not immediately available.

Richmond, who was the director of photography on nearly four dozen features, also shot Keenan Ivory Wayans’ I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), Scott Silver’s Johns (1996), Rob Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses (2003) and Todd Solondz’s Palindromes (2004).

He won the best cinematography prize at Sundance in 2006 for his work on Right at Your Door, a drama about a terrorist attack involving chemical bombs.

He received Spirit Award nominations for Stand & Deliver...

Norwegian disaster movies The Wave and The Quake marked out an interesting middle ground in the genre. They eschewed the tiny, insular, approach of something like Right At Your Door, but didn’t quite have the budget to compete with the vast scale of the likes of Roland Emmerich’s CGI choked productions, but they turned their limitations very much to their advantage. Where Emmerich and others in Hollywood tend to favour spectacle over emotion, these films leaned in to character, and deployed their limited but high quality effects to make us feel the peril and therefore identify with the well drawn characters.

The Burning Sea, to my slight disappointment, doesn’t follow Kristoffer Joner’s character into yet another disaster, as if he were John McClane but it was nature, rather than terrorists, repeatedly trying to kill him. Instead, the film focuses on Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp), a robot...

What better way to kick off a new month than a look at the many movies coming to Hulu? Ok, if you don’t have a Hulu subscription you might need an alternative. Maybe this list will convince you to take one out, though (not that I’m there salesperson). But enough patter, let’s crack on with it.

Here’s every new film that arrived on July 1st:

12 and Holding (2006)

2001 Maniacs (2005)

52 Pick-Up (1986)

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2009)

A Kid Like Jake (2018)

A Mighty Wind (2003)

A Storks Journey (2017)

An Eye for a Eye (1966)

The Axe Murders of Villisca (2017)

The Bellboy (1960)

Beloved (2012)

Best In Show (2000)

Between Us (2017)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

Birdwatchers (2010)

Boogie Woogie (2010)

The Bounty (1984)

Brokedown Palace (1998)

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Bug (1975)

Buried (2010)

Cadaver (2009)

California Dreamin’ (2009)

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)

Catcher Was A Spy (2018)

The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)

Change of Plans (2010)

Cheech & Chong...

Alexis Manya Spraic was one of the many filmmakers who was set debut her film M For Magic at SXSW, a documentary about the Magic Castle, an iconic Los Angeles institution founded by Milt Larson and home to talented magicians — and so many people are dying to experience it. With Neil Patrick Harris as a producer and a riveting story about the Larsen family how they created this magical (literally) empire, it was set to bow at the Austin confab — then the coronavirus outbreak happened. SXSW was canceled and Spraic, along with a long list of filmmakers, were left hanging with a film without a premiere.

“We were disappointed, of course – I don’t think any of us fully understood the magnitude of the Covid-19 situation, it has been so fluid,” Spraic told Deadline. “It did feel like the right decision and we all took it in stride.”

More from DeadlineCoronavirus: U.

Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline’s Coping With Covid-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an exchange of ideas and experiences, and suggestions on how businesses and individuals can best ride out a crisis that doesn’t look like it will abate any time soon. If you have a story, email mike@deadline.com.

Ann Lee and two-time Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn run Community Organized Relief Effort, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and strengthening communities affected by or vulnerable to crisis. Core goes where help is most needed, bringing relief to communities facing the realities of both natural and man-made disasters. Here, they’ve...

Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline’s Coping With Covid-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an exchange of ideas and experiences, and suggestions on how businesses and individuals can best ride out a crisis that doesn’t look like it will abate any time soon. If you have a story, email mike@deadline.com.

Lynn Chen has been seen on numerous TV series including Silicon Valley, The Affair and Shameless, and starred in Nice Girls Crew from Sundance winner Tanuj Chopra. Her indie résumé includes the recent Emily Ting comedy Go Back to China, and she is probably best known for her role in Alice Wu’s film Saving Face.

They're not much to look at — typically bland conference suites tucked away on studio lots or office parks. But in the TV world, there is no more sacred ground than the writers room. Inside is where the magic happens: a safe space where writing staffs convene to gossip, snack, argue and — if all goes according to plan — produce a season's worth of addictive television.

But all has not gone according to plan, to put it mildly. The sudden and dramatic onslaught of the Covid-19 epidemic has turned Hollywood writers rooms, like every other communal space,...

German broadcasting group ProSiebenSat.1 has decided to keep its transatlantic production subsidiary Red Arrow Studios after determining that a sale or partial sale of the group was no longer possible due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

The media giant launched a strategic review of the production and distribution division in September with the aim of selling it or forming a partnership with other potential investors.

A final decision had been expected at the end of 2019 but the group said in December that it was postponing it until some time in the first quarter of 2020. ProSiebenSat.1 will now hold on to Red Arrow for the long term.

“We have now closed the process for the strategic review of Red Arrow Studios as various options we were evaluating are no longer viable in a coronavirus crisis environment,” a ProSiebenSat.1 spokesperson said. “We strongly believe in the business. It posted a record 2019. ‘Love is Blind...

Hulu’s slate of new titles arriving on the platform in January is here.

The second season of Hulu original “Future Man” will arrive on the service Jan. 11, while the Natalie Portman-Tessa Thompson science fiction film “Annihilation” will be available to stream on Jan. 4. The film is Alex Garland’s follow-up to “Ex Machina” and starred Portman, Thompson and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a group of scientists investigating a strange environmental phenomenon known as “the shimmer.”

Here’s the full list of what’s coming and going in January.

Also Read: Here's What You Can Stream With Your Amazon Prime Membership in January

Available Jan. 1

Atlanta: Complete Season 2 (FX)

The Detectorists: Complete Season 3 (Drg)

Dot.: Complete Season 2B (Universal Kids)

Saints & Sinners: Complete Seasons 1-3 (Bounce TV)

X Company: Complete Seasons 2&3 (Sony)

54 (1998)

10 Years (2011)

2 Days in the Valley (1996)

9 to 5 (1980)

A Charlie Brown Valentine (2002)

A Simple Plan (1998)

A...

Simon Brew Jul 7, 2017

Trey Edward Shults tells us about It Comes At Night, its dark history, and odd marketing...

In amongst the bustle of Spider-Man: Homecoming and Despicable Me 3 screenings in

UK

cinemas this weekend is the distinctly unsettling and powerful It Comes At Night. A film marketed, not entirely fairly, as a horror, it’s from writer/director Trey Edward Shults. He wrote the movie following the death of his father, a parent from whom he was estranged until his dying days. That extraordinary, impactful backdrop underpins the film, and was the logical starting point for our conversation.

I’ve been reading quite a lot since sitting through your film. In particular, that the movie was a response to your relationship with your late father. I’m sorry to bring it up, but it resonates through so much of the film once you know that. I read that...

Trey Edward Shults' Us hit arrives in the UK. It’s a particularly unsettling piece of cinema, too…

There’s very little about It Comes At Night that I’d class as comfortable viewing. The second film from writer/director Trey Edward Shults is 91 minutes of unsettling, often gripping filmmaking, that pitched a tent inside my brain and has stayed there since I watched it. I can’t honestly say I enjoyed watching it too much, but I can say it’s a fierce, impressive piece of work.

See related Don Hahn interview: The Lion King, Disney, Pixar, Frankenweenie and the future of animation The Lion King: writer hired for live action movie

Its origins are important. Shults has been open about the fact that he didn’t have much of a relationship with his father, and that the two of them only really came back together when his dad was dying.

Sci-fi thriller to star Alex Russell from Chronicle as a star athlete with bionic enhancements.

Ariane Fraser and Delphine Perrier will kick off pre-sales in Berlin on the project from writer-director Chris Gorak, whose credits include Right At Your Door and The Darkest Hour.

Attach will star Russell (pictured) as a star athlete who is fitted with a bionic arm and leg after a car accident and discovers the prosthetics may have a destructive life of their own.

Adam Schroeder will produce through Adam Schroeder Entertainment banner alongside Rob Paris of Paris Film.

“We’re going to explore the most current and innovative science and technology in this film,” said Schroeder. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be a part of Chris Gorak’s provocative vision and distinctive worldview.

“Having the brilliant Alex Russell on board to star takes Attach to the next level and I can’t wait for Highland Film Group to share this exciting...

In contemporary genre-splash Indiewood, the task is simple but bedevilling: You have an HD camera and a modest house in the L.A. hills; now what do you do? Shane Carruth, among others, has proven that you don't need much more — just add ideas. Call it Home-Based Sci-Fi: From 2006's Right at Your Door to 2012's It's a Disaster, these movies evoke apocalypse but never actually leave the dining room. Launching into a torrent of unmitigated exposition over wine glasses, Coherence is the paradigm eating itself, almost literally, flirting with absurdity by way of some hoary pseudo-science, and getting happily lost in the conundrums. And it's still only eight Hollywood fringies at a dinner party, talking their pretty heads off.

First-timer James Ward Byrki...

This week sees the release of Mike Flanagan's Oculus, the horror film that made its debut at Tiff last year, played to SXSW audiences last month and is finally going wide thanks to Relativity, Blumhouse and WWE. I loved the film and spoke with director Flanagan about his latest work here, now tune in to our latest string of video interviews in which I speak with the cast: Karen Gillan (Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy), Kate Sackhoff (Riddick) and Rory Cochran (Right at Your Door, Dazed and Confused). Here, they discuss tackling the intense nature of their roles, that sinister mirror that haunts the film and more.

The post Exclusive Video Interview: We Talk to Oculus’ Karen Gillan, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.

This week sees the release of Mike Flanagan's Oculus , the horror film that made its debut at Tiff last year, played to SXSW audiences last month and is finally going wide thanks to Relativity, Blumhouse and WWE. Tune in to ShockTillYouDrop.com 's string of video interviews in which they speak with the cast: Karen Gillan ("Doctor Who," Guardians of the Galaxy ), Kate Sackhoff ( Riddick ) and Rory Cochrane ( Right at Your Door , Dazed and Confused ). They discuss tackling the intense nature of their roles, that sinister mirror that haunts the film and more. You can watch the interviews by clicking here . Ten years ago, tragedy struck the Russell family, leaving the lives of teenage siblings Tim and Kaylie forever changed when Tim was convicted of the brutal murder...

Odd List Simon Brew Ryan Lambie 17 Feb 2014 - 06:24

Whether they're bleak, shocking or sad, the endings to these 22 movies have haunted us for years...

Warning: There are spoilers to the endings for every film we talk about in this article. So if you don't want to know an ending for a film, then don't read that entry.

It's probably best to start by talking about what this article isn't. It's not a list of the best movie endings, the best twists, the most depressing endings or anything like that. Instead, we're focusing here on the endings that seeped into our brain and stayed there for some time after we'd seen the film. The endings that provoke in an interesting way, and haunt you for days afterwards.

As such, whilst not every ending we're going to talk about here is a flat out classic - although lots of them are...

Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 23 Jan 2014 - 05:44

Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2006, and a further 25 overlooked gems...

With all the major films that elbow their way into their cinemas every year, there's bound to be some casualties among the big hits. And just like any other year, 2006 was dominated by the likes of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Da Vinci Code and Ice Age: The Meltdown. But in tandem, there were dozens of lesser-seen films which shuffled in and out of cinemas (or occasionally, didn't get a release in cinemas at all) without very many people noticing.

As we're sure you're aware by now, these lists aim to redress the balance a little, and hopefully introduce a few films from any given year that you may have missed. There are also one or two films that, although...

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream on Netflix and Amazon Instant Video.

streaming now, before it’s on dvd

All Is Bright: Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti are Canadians selling Christmas trees in New York City; they elevate the underpowered dramedy to something worth your time [at Amazon Instant Video] 2 Guns: Wahlberg and Washington are as fun together as they are separately, but there’s little genuinely unique or clever here; you will forget the movie the moment it ends [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

new to stream

Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden: wonky, less than wholly satisfying documentary about the CIA’s hunt for the Al Qaida leader [at Amazon Instant Video] White House Down: the action is mildly diverting, and though star Channing Tatum is bland, the rest of the cast, including James Woods and Jamie Foxx, is fun to watch [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

new to prime...

Paramount has become one of the friendliest studios to the horror genre over the past several years by taking chances on movies others wouldn't touch. Next up for them? A little movie called Attach. Read on for details.

According to THR, Paramount has nabbed writer-director Chris Gorak's sci-fi spec script Attach. Gorak, a longtime production designer who segued to the director's chair for the 2006 thriller Right at Your Door, also will direct Attach. Adam Schroeder (Chronicle) is producing.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is described as in a similar vein as Chronicle in that it is a big visual concept with a young cast at the center of it. Look for more on this one as we get it!

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Paramount Pictures has won a heated bidding war for screenwriter Chris Gorak's sci-fi script entitled Attach.

Chronicle's Adam Schroeder is producing. While no story details were given, it is said to be in the same vein as Chronicle, centering on a big visual concept with a young cast at its core. The pitch also included a visual test reel that Chris Gorak directed.

Chronicle, which launched the careers of director Josh Trank and stars Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and Michael B. Jordan, took in over $127 million worldwide from just a $12 million budget last year.

Chris Gorak started his career as an art director and production designer for films such as Tombstone, Fight Club, Minority Report and Lords of Dogtown. He made his feature directorial debut with the 2006 thriller Right at Your Door, which he followed up with 2011's The Darkest Hour.

Paramount has nabbed writer-director Chris Gorak's sci-fi spec script Attach. Gorak, a longtime production designer who segued to the director's chair for the 2006 thriller Right at Your Door, also will direct Attach. Adam Schroeder (Chronicle) is producing. Photos: 15 Horror Movies That Offered the Most Bang for the Buck The script came with a visual test that Gorak directed and sparked a bidding war, with multiple studios involved. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is described as in a similar vein as Chronicle in that it is a big visual concept with a young cast at

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Odd List Caroline Preece 29 Aug 2013 - 05:48

Proving that small-scale shocks are often the most effective, here are 15 of the finest single-location thrillers of the last decade...

Playing on our fears of being trapped and alone, the single-location thriller updates old haunted house and home invasion stories to include new, more inventive locations, and it seems that filmmakers haven’t yet run out of ideas of how to scare the living daylights out of us. Some have played on modern fears of corporate meddling or reality television, while others have simply tried to expand their locations to icy prisons and public places.

To celebrate those great genre-bending efforts, here are a dozen and a half of our favorites from the last ten years (with a doff of the cap to Panic Button, a low budget Brit horror that just misses out)…

15. Devil (2010)

Shamelessly exploiting many people's paralysing fear of elevators,...

 

The dark and acerbic new comedy called It's a Disaster may seem like a strange film to be reviewing at a horror site, but after watching the film and deciding it felt like a bizarre mixture of The Last Supper (1996) and Right at Your Door (2007), we felt it was more than suitable for FEARnet readers. The specter of death does hover over this odd comedy of apocalyptic manners, which means it qualifies as horror "enough," but also... I just really liked It's a Disaster and the boss said, "Sure, review it but play up the 'end of the world' angle a bit."

  Yes, that's right. It's a Disaster is an acidic farce about a Sunday brunch that's promptly interrupted by news of a nearby nuclear attack -- which means that a socially-awkward get-together is about to become the last meal this collection of four couples will ever eat. I leave...

An Incredible Mess: Todd Berger’s Apocalypse a Hilarious Gas

The end of days have never looked like a better time to spend with friends than they do in director Todd Berger’s latest film, a gleeful exploration of morbidity, It’s a Disaster. Obviously made on a scanty budget, this one setting comedic extravaganza seems all the better for its tight containment, featuring an exciting concept, a hellaciously dynamite screenplay, and a group of talented actors all obviously having a good time—you’ll wish, as they do, that an end weren’t in sight.

Four couples are about to converge for a semi-regular couples brunch at the home of Pete and Emma (Blaise Miller and Erinn Hayes). While nearly all of them have been friends for years, the Debbie Downer of the bunch, Tracy (Julia Stiles) is bringing her recent boyfriend, Glenn (David Cross), to meet her friends for the first time.

Playing like a comedic response to Chris Gorak's 2006 indie disaster fave Right At Your Door, director Todd Berger's It's A Disaster drops a regular brunch date between friends into the end of the world. With a talented cast including David Cross, Julia Stiles and America Ferrera this one is available on VOD right now with a limited theatrical run due to start on April 12. And we've got an exclusive clip to entice your attendance ... Eight friends meet for their monthly "couples brunch." But what starts as an impromptu therapy session / airing of domestic grievances takes a sudden, catastrophic turn when the city falls victim to a mysterious attack. Trapped in the house and unsure of their fates, these seemingly normal people...

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After last week’s brilliant new releases in the home entertainment market, headed up by Steve McQueen’s Shame and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (I bought them both on Blu-ray, the latter in HMV’s exclusive steelbook special edition), this week sees another great slew of titles for us to add to our collections.

As ever, we have not just the brand new films and TV shows making their way to shelves for the first time, but also single-disc Blu-ray editions (which we’re increasingly seeing within a few months of the Double / Triple Play versions), and a host of films getting the HD treatment, released on Blu-ray for the first time, with Disney releasing a handful of old titles in the visually beautiful format.

Stay tuned for next week (and be sure to get your pre-orders in early), which will see Chornicle, Coriolanus, Martha Marcy May Marlene,...

This week on The Video Score, we've got all your new major video releases including an Oscar winner and a horror movie people didn't think too much of. There are also three great classics coming out, two of which are on Blu-ray. "A Streetcar Named Desire" is our pick of the week, just edging out Georges "Papa Georges" Méliès' "A Trip to the Moon," which should seem very timely if you checked out "Hugo" last year.

Pick of the Week

"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)

Director: Elia Kazan

Cast: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh

Story:

In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic affectations as a royal pain but also thinks...

The Darkest Hour arrives on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD April 10th from Summit Entertainment. Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella and Olivia Thirlby star in this story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow and fight to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.

With Moscow’s classic beauty as the backdrop, The Darkest Hour is from the minds of visionary filmmakers Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and Chris Gorak (Right At Your Door).

The suspense never lets up as the invaders begin their assault on Earth, targeting the planet’s power supply. Head inside for a peek at the special features.

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With Act of Valor likely to have some legs over its second weekend — after taking the chart’s number one spot last time out, no less — the film’s production company, Bandito Brothers, have taken some newly-established clout and mapped out their second follow-up project. (The first, a racing film entitled High Speed, was announced over two weeks ago.)

Deadline fills us in on the details, reporting that one of their next endeavors will be an economic thriller, God’s Gulch; Valor co-director Mike “Mouse” McCoy will helm, while Brooks McClaren for the script. Here’s how the plot goes:

“In the wake of the entire computer network shutting down and the ensuing economic and societal collapse, a group must come together to fight for their survival.”

Despite what such a logline may suggest, I’d guess that the scale here isn’t too vast or ambitious — so long as...

Remember the times critics have said that they like it when films let the audience find the horror in their own imagination? To keep that latex monstrosity of a monster in the shadows lest we see it’s horribly unhorrifying latex moulded face? To keep that particularly traumatic scene off-screen so that we can think ourselves into terror as opposed to just passively taking it like a blood soaked pie to the face?

Well I think they should take that back because no matter how fertile an imagination you have The Darkest Hour will finally confirm that suspicion you had that invisible electricity isn’t actually that scary. At all. Not even when it turns people into fairy dust and eats your energy. Not even then.

The film starts by following two American internet entrepreneurs (Emile Hirsch and Max Minghella) who head to Moscow to finalise a business deal. When...

This is a UK competition for The Darkest Hour, directed by Chris Gorak and starring Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby and Max Minghella. The Darkest Hour is out from 16 January and, to celebrate, Pure Movies is giving away a bunch of merchandise including light-up shot glasses, Russian hats, light-up Usb sticks and t-shirts! Four young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack, and combines mind blowing special effects from filmmaker Timur Bekmambetor (Wanted) with the grounded, post-apocalyptic vision of director Chris Gorak (Right At Your Door).

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

The Darkest Hour is another depressing example of a talented young director who appears to have been put through the studio mangle and been artistically compromised as a result. Chris Gorak’s first film, Right at Your Door, was an audacious and impressively-concieved doomsday scenario, yet the one presented here – not written by Gorak this time – suffers a laughable dearth of invention, and to be fair to Gorak, even a veteran director would struggle to muster up much intrigue.

In the lead roles, Emile Hirsch and Max Minghella play a pair of arrogant, enterprising douchebags who travel to Moscow for a business meeting, only to have their idea unceremoniously stolen by a Russian businessman. Quite strange it is how the film, produced by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, keenly enforces any and all stereotypes about the country, that it is a corrupt, amoral wasteland in which the word of law means little.

Cheap can be a good thing. Cheap can force visual storytellers to be more creative. Here we have nearly invisible alien invaders dropping down in globs of light over Moscow. Invisible invaders! Sometimes they shoot lightning! Imagine all the FX budget The Darkest Hour didn’t have to play with! Surely, then, we’re in for an inspired, imaginative story and engaging, fascinating characters -- you know, to make up for the cheapness. Kinda like director Chris Gorak has already done, with his gripping near-sf thriller Right at Your Door (budget: about $1.98) which takes place almost entirely within the confines of an ordinary modest Los Angeles home and the surrounding streets... with no FX to speak of. Nope. What we have here is a simple yet stupid riff on the disaster monster movie. Its idea of using the Moscow urban landscape is most memorably limited to gawping at famous logos -- look,...

To celebrate the release of ‘The Darkest Hour’, in cinemas Friday 13th January, we are giving away 5 goodie bags with a T-Shirt, shot glasses, a Russian hat, Usb key and a Darkest Hour graphic novel!

Five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack, and combines mind blowing special effects from filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) with the grounded, post-apocalyptic vision of director Chris Gorak (Right At Your Door). Starring Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman.

The Darkest Hour stars Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor and Joel Kinnaman.

You can find out more about The Darkest Hour on the official Facebook page, win tickets to see UK dubstep duo Nero and even win a film pass for a year.

To be in with a chance of winning this great prize, click next below...

Two new featurettes have been unveiled for Twentieth Century Fox's new alien invasion thriller The Darkest Hour, released in 2D and 3D on January 13.

The latest poster for the film is above and both featurettes are embedded below.

Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor and Joel Kinnaman star as five young people stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive after a devastating invasion by invisible, energy-devouring beings from another world.

They lead the charge against the extraterrestrials, who have attacked Earth via our power supply.

Filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch, upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) is a producer on the project, which is directed by Chris Gorak (Right At Your Door).

Apocalyptic fantasy goes to Russia in The Darkest Hour, an alien invasion flick that evidently expects dramatic shots of a depopulated Red Square to make up for a flatlining screenplay and the absence of even a single compelling character. Some diverting effects work and a puzzling (if badly developed) premise may keep audiences from throwing in the towel, but ho-hum word-of-mouth should lead to quickly fizzling box office. Video: 'The Darkest Hour' Trailer After his intriguing twist on biohazard drama in 2006's Right at Your Door, director Chris Gorak is slavishly obedient to genre expectations here, finding

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Sneaking into theaters this Christmas Sunday is Summit Entertainment's The Darkest Hour, a sci-fi alien invasion film that was Not screened for critics. We all know what that usually means. Directed by Chris Gorak (the man behind the awesome thriller Right at Your Door), and starring Olivia Thirlby, Emile Hirsch, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman and Max Minghella, the 28 Days-like thriller follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. Since Bloody Disgusting won't have a review for you until tomorrow (it's the holidays yo!), we're asking you dear readers to write your own reviews and tell all of Bd what You thought. Simple enough? I have a feeling we won't be seeing many reviews today....

The Darkest Hour has a very enigmatic moniker; the title could be referring the the fact that this movie takes place in a Moscow that has been drained of all electricity following an alien attack. It could be referring to the fact that the events unfolding depict humanity’s most dire moment. Conversely, it could be trading in on the old adage that it is always darkest before the dawn. In that way, more probably (and yet, most likely, less intentionally) the title could be referring to the actual first hour of this sci-fi action thriller. For what begins as a rote, uninspired journey filled with stock characters making bad decisions soon gives way to a bright, beaming sun of inspired madness – a sun that might, oddly, save this film from becoming just another completely wasted opportunity.

We begin with two American entrepreneurs, friends since grade school, arriving in Moscow...

This video will not be one be news reporter blooper outtakes. Summit Entertainment released a viral video to promote the upcoming science fiction horror movie “The Darkest Hour.” In this video, a Russian news reporter was on camera for a typical live report about high costs of electricity. And then suddenly, the invasion started and he became one of the first victims of the alien invasion. Here is the official synopsis: “The Darkest Hour” is the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The film stars Emile Hirsch (“Into the Wild,” “The Girl Next Door”), Olivia Thirlby (“Juno,” “No Strings Attached”), Max Minghella (“The Social Network,” “Agora”) and Rachael Taylor (“Transformers,” “Shutter”). It is directed by Chris Gorak (“Right at Your Door”) and written by Jon Spaights (“Prometheus”). “The Darkest Hour” will be released on December 25 later this year.

The Darkest Hour (in theaters 12/25), is fast approaching, and yet despite the trailers and TV spots that have been appearing as of late, much of the film's plot is still a mystery to the general public. That, of course, is a good thing. Films are spoiled too often these days either by information-heavy trailers or candid set photos. Thankfully, The Darkest Hour—an alien invasion film directed by Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door) set in Moscow, Russia—has been spared this invasion of movie privacy. Still, if you're interested in knowing a bit more about the film than the trailer, or other press materials have let on, we've decided to give you a bit of a synopsis. Think of it as an appetizer before a big, juicy meal (or in this case, a big, juicy bowl of borscht).

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Summit Entertainment has dropped us the final hi-res batch of imagery from The Darkest HOURthat features more guns, more electricity and the reveal of mercenaries. Click the image above for a whopping 40+ hi-res stills. Directed by Chris Gorak (the man behind the awesome thriller Right at Your Door), and starring Olivia Thirlby, Emile Hirsch, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman and Max Minghella, the 28 Days-like thriller follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. David Harley smartly noted this is basically Predator in Moscow. Oddly, this doesn't make me any more excited. The invasion begins on Christmas Day.

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Starring Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, and Joel Kinnaman, the film follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The 3D action-thriller highlights the classic beauty of Moscow alongside mind-blowing special effects from the minds of visionary filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch) and director Chris Gorak.

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Summit Entertainment released another new trailer for the upcoming science fiction thriller “The Darkest Hour.” Here is the official synopsis: “The Darkest Hour” is the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The film stars Emile Hirsch (“Into the Wild,” “The Girl Next Door”), Olivia Thirlby (“Juno,” “No Strings Attached”), Max Minghella (“The Social Network,” “Agora”) and Rachael Taylor (“Transformers,” “Shutter”). It is directed by Chris Gorak (“Right at Your Door”) and written by Jon Spaights (“Prometheus”). “The Darkest Hour” will be released on December 25 later this month. Check out the trailer below. Source: Youtube...

We have added the new second movie trailer Summit Entertainment's Christmas Day sci-fi release, "The Darkest Hour." Directed by Chris Gorak's (Right at Your Door) the apocalyptic thriller stars Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman, Dato Bakhtadze, Yuriy Kutsenko, Artur Smolyaninov, Pyotr Fyodorov and Nikolay Efremov.Watch the second trailer for "The Darkest Hour" below;"The Darkest Hour" is released on 2D and 3D screens across the Us from December 25th and the UK from January 13th, 2012. The Darkest Hour follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The 3D action-thriller highlights the classic beauty of Moscow alongside mind-blowing special effects from the minds of...

Aliens are invading again, and the new trailer for The Darkest Hour suggests that it might just be worth watching them...

Arriving at Christmas in the Us, and on January 13th in the UK, The Darkest Hour is a movie about an alien invasion. More specifically, it’s about a group of people on holiday in Moscow, when the (impressive-looking) creatures from another world attack.

The quality of alien invasion flicks has been, at best, variable, of late (the thought of having to sit through Battle: Los Angeles again is genuinely terrifying). But The Darkest Hour might just have something to it. It stars Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby, and is the first big(-ish) budget feature from Chris Gorak, who helmed the impressive indie flick, Right At Your Door.

A new trailer for The Darkest Hour has just turned up anyway, so why not take a look at that?...

Here is a new trailer and some TV spots for The Darkest Hour, which was directed by Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door). The thriller tells the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The thriller stars Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor and Joel Kinnaman.

There is not any new footage shown, but the movie looks cool, At first, I was hesitant to think this movie would be good, but now I am interested. I really want to see Kinnaman and Hirsch on screen, since they are both solid actors.

Check out the trailer and TV spots below and share your thoughts:

The Darkest Hour opens in 3D and 2D theaters on December 25. Do you plan on surviving the holidays with this movie?...

Summit Entertainment has released a new trailer (via iTunes Trailers ) and three new TV spots from The Darkest Hour . Check out the videos in the players below! The thriller opens in 3D and 2D theaters on December 25 and tells the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor and Joel Kinnaman star with Chris Gorak ( Right at Your Door ) directing.

Two new television commercials were released for the upcoming science fiction thriller “The Darkest Hour.” Here is the official synopsis: “The Darkest Hour” is the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The film stars Emile Hirsch (“Into the Wild,” “The Girl Next Door”), Olivia Thirlby (“Juno,” “No Strings Attached”), Max Minghella (“The Social Network,” “Agora”) and Rachael Taylor (“Transformers,” “Shutter”). It is directed by Chris Gorak (“Right at Your Door”) and written by Jon Spaights (“Prometheus”). “The Darkest Hour” will be released on December 25 later this year. Check out the short television spots of a bunch of people getting disintegrated. Source: Youtube...

Summit Entertainment has released four new "Warning Signs", based on the world of their alien invasion film, The Darkest Hour , as well as a new TV spot for the Christmas day release. Check them all out below! The thriller opens in 3D and 2D theaters on December 25 and tells the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor and Joel Kinnaman star with Chris Gorak ( Right at Your Door ) directing. Click on any of the images below for larger versions in our gallery:...