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Remake of "April Fool's Day" in the works

It was learnt recently that Scout Taylor-Compton will be playing the lead role in the Butcher Brothers remake of April Fool's Day, which she calls "Mean Girls crossed with horror." Scout also says that the plan is to make the film rated R.

She can be seen in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween on August 31 from Dimension Films.

In the original a group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead.
Yet, are they really dead?
Or is it just part of some very real and cruel April Fool's jokes?
The hostess, Muffy, is the only one who apparently knows what's going on.
But then again, is it really her doing the killing?



Clive Barker reveals info about Midnight Meat Train and Hellraiser remake

In an exclusive one-on-one interview with bloody-disgusting.com, horror legend Clive Barker revealed some brand new info on his remake of Hellraiser, along with a few notes on his upcoming Midnight Meat Train from Lionsgate Films.

Clive Barker talked a bit about why he did MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN next, “I have been developing a lot and never know what’s going to come first.“ Then replying to a joke about how no Asian director has proven themselves yet in the horror genre, so why take chance with Ryuhei Kitamura? Clive joked back, “He’s very very good, did you see that trailer?!”

But what is the status of his HELLRAISER remake?

Clive fills in, "I recently turned in a 45-page treatment. They [Dimension] wanted a remake and I couldn’t do that," he continues, "I wrote the narrative so that it has eloquence, I wanted to take what we learned from first movie about Pinhead and pour it into this mold… there’s a great story in there." He also talked a bit about how different this will be from the original, "It’s a horror and a drama, but its bloodier - but most horror movies are bloodier than they were back then."



Zack Snyder bringing "Army Of The Dead"

Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead, 300) took a couple seconds out of his busy night to chat about Army of the Dead, his next zombie feature, with bloody-disgusting.com.

He tells that what will separate this film from any other zombie film is it's scope... "it will be massive!" He really drove home the point that we have never seen anything of this scale in our horror lives.

He also proclaimed his love for the genre and said he'll be sticking around for quite some time.

Set in a quarantined Las Vegas in the not-too-distant future, "Army" revolves around a father who tries to save his daughter from imminent death in a zombie-infested world.



Jessica Alba goes into detail about "The Eye" remake

Over at Comic Con, Jessica Alba chatted briefly about her upcoming role in THE EYE, which hits theaters February 1, 2008.

She talked a little bit about the French directors (David Moreau and Xavier Palud) and how this film differs from their first feature film, THEM, which is slated for theatrical release this August.

"The French directors are amazing, it's really going to take the horror genre to another level" she tells, "THE EYE has lots of blood, lots of gore, insanity, ghosts and its painful because you're going through the entire experience with this girl... you feel her anxiety from beginning to end." She elaborates, "The film is put in first person perspective to really feel the anxiety and what the characters feel. Ours (The Eye) is a lot more subtle and psychological."

Is the infamous elevator scene of the original, in THE EYE remake? Alba answers with a sly smile “You’ll have to see it."

In THE EYE Alba plays Sydney, a young, blind violinist is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death itself capturing the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney must discover whose eyes she has inherited, and what secret visions they have held.



(References - bloody-disgusting.com, hollywoodreporter.com, moviehole.net, movies.yahoo.com, movies.ign.com, aintitcool.com, variety.com)