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A Sinister Stranger Stalks Alexandre Aja’s Upcoming Film ‘Elijah’

Alexandre Aja, who brought you films such as Crawl, Horns, High Tension, and Mirrors (among others), is gearing up to deliver his new film with Searchlight Pictures. Titled Elijah, the film “follows a young boy who invites a mysterious man into his home, believing the stranger to be the key to saving his sick mother. As increasingly disturbing things start to happen around his home, the boy soon realizes that the sinister stranger is not the savior he claims to be.” Cory Goodman (The Last Witch Hunter) penned the original script with Gregory Lavasseur (Mirrors) rewriting it, Deadline reports. David Goyer and Keith Levine of Phantom Four (The Night House) along with Adam Goldworm of Aperture Entertainment are producing. Searchlight’s DanTram Nguyen is overseeing the project.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 20, 2020

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Movie Review: Crawl Is A Movie You Need To Sink Your Teeth Into

Living in the South, I’ve seen a gator or two and am fully aware of exactly how dangerous they are. I also love creature features so when I saw the trailer for the gator infested action/disaster flick Crawl, I knew I had to see it. Now I have. First let me say, I’m a fan of director Alexandre Aja’s work. He’s a fantastic director. Horns, Mirrors, The Hills Have Eyes, High Tension, all are great films. Needless to say, I had high expectations for Crawl before I even pressed play. The movie begins with college student Haley (Kaya Scodelario) at swim practice when she receives a call from her sister who is concerned about their father (Barry Pepper) not answering his phone as a Catagory 5 hurricane nears landfall in Florida. When Haley arrives at their old house she finds her father injured in the crawl space that’s flooding, but he’s not alone, there’s a big gator looking for a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 14, 2019

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Two New ‘Crawl’ Clips Urge You To Stay Out Of The Water

Sink your teeth into two new intense clips from Alexandre Aja’s (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) Crawl, produced by Sam Raimi (Evil Dead), opening in theaters this month. “When a massive hurricane hits her Florida hometown, Haley (Kaya Scodelario) ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father (Barry Pepper). Finding him gravely injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by quickly encroaching floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the strengthening storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.” Crawl opens in theaters on July 12, 2019. Stay out of the water #CrawlMovie pic.twitter.com/YEtp5jhU2m — Paramount Pictures (@ParamountIRL) July 1, 2019

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 4, 2019

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First Footage Of Alexandre Aja’s Horror Film ‘Crawl’ Shown At CinemaCon

News continues to fly out of CinemaCon. This time, the subject is Alexandre Aja‘s upcoming horror film Crawl whose first footage was revealed today at the Con. In Crawl, Kaya Scodelario plays a young woman who, while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators, the alligator. Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, and Anson Boon are co-starring in the movie that is part creature feature, part horror, and part disaster movie. CinemaCon attendees can’t stop talking about the footage, calling it “bloody and chaotic.” But what else would you expect from the director of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D, High Tension, and Mirrors? This is going to be bloody good! Produced by Sam Raimi‘s (Evil Dead) Ghost House Pictures, Crawl swims into theaters on July 12th, 2019. Switching gears from the dazzling to the deathly, never before seen

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 4, 2019

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Alexandre Aja And Sam Raimi’s Creature Feature ‘Crawl’ Coming This Summer

Paramount Pictures has just announced that the creature feature Crawl will arrive in theaters this summer from director Alexandre Aja, who has serious horror cred. Aja was also behind High Tension, Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors, Piranha, and Horns. Kaya Scodelario stars along with her fellow Maze Runner actor Barry Pepper in the movie in which Scodelario plays a young woman who, while struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators.” Sam Raimi, the man who brought us Evil Dead, “Ash vs Evil Dead,” and several Spider-Man movies, produces alongside Craig J. Flores (Fathers and Daughters, 300: Rise of an Empire). Crawl, a Ghost House Pictures production, hits theaters on August 19, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 19, 2019

Streaming TV

A First Look At Robert Englund In Alexandre Aja’s ‘Campfire Creepers’

The Hills Have Eyes’ Alexandre Aja is entering the VR arena for his next project Campfire Creepers. Aja will both direct and produce the anthology series. One of the episodes of the series will star none other than Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund, and we have the first official image, thanks to a tweet from the genre legend himself, as well as several behind the scenes images. “The series invites viewers to join the fire circle at Camp Coyote as a group of campers take turns telling scary stories, each one leading you on an immersive ride into your darkest childhood fears.” Casey Cooper Johnson and Martin Anderson co-created the anthology. They also penned the first season. The first episode is now filming and is set to debut this Halloween, exclusively in the Oculus Store.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 24, 2017

Trailers

Alexandre Aja’s Star-Studded Supernatural Film The 9th Life Of Louis Drax Gets First Trailer

The first trailer has arrived for Alexandre Aja’s (Horns, The Hills Have Eyes) new supernatural thriller, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, which is set to be released this September. The trailer for the film, based on the best-selling novel by Liz Jensen of the same name and adapted by writer Max Minghella, finds a young boy in a coma after a terrible accident. As his family searches for answers terrible secrets are uncovered. The 9th Life of Louis Drax stars Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey), Sarah Gadon (Dracula Untold), Oliver Platt (X-Men:First Class, Flatliners) , Molly Parker (Dexter, The Whicker Man), Barbara Hershey (Once Upon a Time), Terry Chen (Continuum) and Aiden Longworth (The Unseen) as young Louis Drax. After surviving eight near-death accidents throughout his young life, Louis Drax (Longworth) plunges off a steep cliff on his ninth birthday. He stuns doctors when he is revived after being dead for two hours. The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 28, 2016

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