The Whisperer in Darkness

Category: Horror
Subcategories: Independent, Lovecraft, Black & White, Monster, Alien, Strange things in the woods of Vermont that aren't hippies

This is making the festival rounds right now, but they say that the DVD will likely be available in the fall. See The Whisper in the Darkness blog for more details.

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Category: Martial Arts
Subcategories: Chinese, Andy Lau, Sherlock-Holmesiness, General Awesometude

Shark Night 3D

Category: Horror
Subcategories: College Kids, Bikinis, Evil Sharks, Evil Shark Wranglers

This movie has been referred to as "Jaws" in a lake, but the trailer hints that there is evil plotting behind this, which pushes this over into the horror genre, in my opinion.

Don't be Afraid of the Dark

Category: Horror
Subcategories: Guillermo del Toro, Haunted House, Movies to be Avoided by Schizophrenics

X-Men: First Class

Category: Superheros
Subcategories: Comic Book, Sebastian Shaw, Kevin Bacon, Hellfire Club, The Origin of Magneto's Party Hat

Here is a series of clips in which the future X-Men are introduced to Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire Club. I finally understand the scene I kept seeing in the trailers where "Magneto" blows up a room by stomping on the floor.







A Chinese Fairy Tale (A Chinese Ghost Story) 2011

Category: Martial Arts
Subcategories: Chinese, Fantasy, Ghosts, Remake, Dubious Translation

Melancholia

Category: Science Fiction
Subcategory: Romance? End of the World, What the Hell is becoming of SciFi?

Another entry in the tiny sliver of Venn overlap between SciFi and chicflicks. At least someone here recognizes that finding another planet in our orbit isn't going to turn out well...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Category: Science Fiction
Subcategories: Moon, Movies Based on Comic Books Based on Toys, Sequels that Micheal Bay Promises Don't Suck

Two more TV spots - a bit of new footage in the first



The Ward

Category: Horror
Subcategories: John Carpenter, The British Guy from Mad Men, A Nurse Ratched Wannabe, Mental Wards that Specialize in Hot Female Twenty-Somethings and Group Showers

The Divide

Category: SciFi
Subcategories: Apocalyptic, Basement, New York, Bomb, Roommate Issues

No word on when this will be released, but the fact that it was just show at SXSW at least tells us it's finished.

Cowboys & Aliens

Category: SciFi
Subcategories: Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Jon Favreau, Cowboys, Aliens, My Future Wife

New TV Spot

Take Shelter

Category: Urban Fantasy?
Subcategories: Hallucinations, Storms

This feels like "Field of Dreams" meets "Donnie Darko" to me, and it generated a lot of excitement at Sundance...

Imprint

Category: Horror
Subcategories: Masters of Horror, Gory, Evil Geisha, Things You Can't Un-see

This is a 60 minute film/episode from the Masters of Horror series, and considered to have some of the most disturbing imagery of any horror film. Just the trailer is disturbing enough...

Rotten Tomatoes: 3 of 4 critics liked it, 57% of the masses
Netflix: 3 stars

Fighter in the Wind

Category: Martial Arts
Subcategories: Korean, WWII, Biography, What 'Bloodsport' could have been if it wasn't terrible

Netflix doesn't know when it is going to get this movie, but you can buy it on Amazon
Rotten Tomatoes: No critic's reviews, but recommended by 79% of the masses

Haute Tension (High Tension)

Category: Horror
Subcategories: French, slasher, and fence-posts wrapped in barb-wire

Rotten Tomatoes: liked by 41% of the critics, 68% of the masses
Netflix: 3.3 stars

Andante

Category: SciFi
Subcategories: Israeli, Post-apocalyptic, Dreams, Psychedelic, Maybe I'll Understand it Better if I Watch it High

X-Men: First Class

Category: Superheros
Subcategories: Comic Book, Banshee, Professor X Gettin' Gangsta' on Magneto's Ass

I haven't posted all the TV spots, since many are just showing the same footage in a slightly different sequence. However, this one shows us some interesting new elements of the plot.

The Silent House

Category: Horror
Subcategories: Uruguay (Spanish), Ghost? Slasher?, Suspense, One Continuous Shot, Reason to Never go to Uruguay

Rotten Tomatoes: 76% by the critics, liked by 38% of the masses

Super

Category: Superhero
Subcategories: Comedy, Rainn Wilson, Chic from Juno

This one is coming in with mixed reviews.
Rotten Tomatoes: enjoyed by 47% of the critics, 67% of the masses

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Category: Science Fiction
Subcategories: Moon, Movies Based on Comic Books Based on Toys, Sequels that Micheal Bay Promises Don't Suck

New Trailer