Greetings, all. Ambush Bug here with another AICN HORROR: ZOMBIES & SHARKS column. This time I’ve giving you a look at horrors to come in 2012. There’s some good, some bad, and some fugly from the look at the trailers below. But one thing’s for certain, I’m going to be a busy Bug this year. Enjoy the trailer-mageddon!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome end of the world madness in THE DIVIDE (January 13, 2012, select theaters)
More leather, vampires, werewolves, and bullets in UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (January 20, 2012)
Sequel to THE WICKER MAN is THE WICKER TREE (January 27, 2012, select theaters)
Harry Potter vs ghosts in THE WOMAN IN BLACK (February 3, 2012)
Dark super hero found footage in CHRONICLE (February 3, 2012)
Nic Cage returns in GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 3D (February 17, 2012)
Amanda Seyfried is GONE (February 24, 2012)
Ghostly remake THE SILENT HOUSE (March 9, 2012)
Clive Owen battles INTRUDERS (March 30, 2012)
Joss Whedon’s CABIN IN THE WOODS (April 13, 2012)
Of course, everyone is biting their nails in anticipation for Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS (June 8, 2012)
Cartoon scares in PARANORMAN (August 17, 2012)
And here are some films set to be released in 2012, but have yet to have a release date.
Ghostly horror in THE AWAKENING (no release date)
Scary kids in CHILDISH GAMES (no release date)
More end of the world goodness in THE COLLAPSED (no release date)
Apocalyptic horror in THE DAY (no release date)
Amnesiac scares in DEAD DREAMS (no release date)
School horror in DETENTION (no release date)
Cannibal chomps in DONNER PASS (no release date)
Witchy scares in DUNDERLAND (no release date)
The awesome Highlander-y THE ETERNAL (no release date)
Ghosts everywhere in THE HAUNTING IN GEORGIA (no release date)
The insane looking HELLACIOUS ACRES: THE CASE OF JOHN GLASS (no release date)
Outer space nazi’s in IRON SKY (no release date)
Don Coscarelli’s new horror opus JOHN DIES AT THE END (no release date)
2011 festival favorite JUAN OF THE DEAD (no release date)
Campy fun with THE LEGEND OF THE PSYCHOTIC FOREST RANGER (no release date)
French vampire horror in LIVID (no release date)
Creepy LOVELY MOLLY (no release date)
The batshit crazy looking MACABRE (RUMAH DARA, no release date)
Silicone eating fish in PIRAHNA 3DD (no release date)
Bloody Indonesian kung fu action in THE RAID (no release date)
REC 3: GENESIS (no release date)
A dead soldier returns in THE REVENANT (no release date)
Rose McGowan goes to ROSEWOOD LANE (no release date)
Cabin horror in THE SACRED (no release date)
Divorce terror in SEPARATION (no release date)
Scary, scary stuff plus Corey Feldman in SIX DEGREES OF HELL (no release date)
REC & REC 2 director Jaume Balagueró’s SLEEP TIGHT (no release date)
Norwegian horror in THALE (no release date)
Anthology horror with THEATRE BIZARRE (no release date)
Francis Ford Coppola’s TWIXT (no release date)
Ouija horror in THE UNLEASHED (no release date)
More zombies in WINTER OF THE DEAD (no release date)
Even more zombies in ZOMBIE MASSACRE (no release date)
And don’t forget HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER 3D, Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS, Rob Zombie’s LORDS OF SALEM, Jessica Biel in THE TALL MAN, Spike Lee’s OLDBOY remake, Adam Sandler assaults us all with HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, Exorcist comedy HELLBENDERS 3D, Barry Levinson’s found footage horror THE BAY, Jennifer Lawrence in THE HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET, Elijah Wood in the MANIAC remake, Tim Burton’s FRANKENWEENIE, SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D, Darren Lynn Bousman’s Jersey Devil film THE BARRENS, smokin’ Paz Vega as NURSE 3D, time traveling killers in LOOPER, McG’s OUIJA, Steven C. Miller’s UNDER THE BED, zombie romance in WARM BODIES, Paul MS Anderson and Milla Jovovitch are still killing zombies in RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D, home invasion horror with YOU’RE NEXT, plus Todd Lincoln's THE APPARITION on August 24th! Then for Halloween get ready for Leatherface in yo’ face in TAXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D, the DRIVE ANGRY/MY BLOODY VALENTINE team brings us HALLOWEEN 3D and of course another PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (4) again directed by CATFISH directors Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman! On top of all of that, it’ll finally be all over when TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN 2 hits theaters on November 16, 2012 and the grandfather of all zombie films WORLD WAR Z comes out December 21, 2012!
And I’ll be trying my best to cover them all. Look for AICN HORROR every Friday!
