Trailer Park Tuesdays - Cub

Happy Halloween from the Trailer Park.  Razorblades in apples are the least of your worries around here...






Being the week of Halloween, let's look at an upcoming horror film, specifically a new one out of Belgium, a country known less for its horror movies (even though it has produced its share of fright flicks over the years) and more for its main cinematic export, Jean-Claude Van Damme. That however might change, if this upcoming film is as good as it might seem.

Cub is the film in question and it involves a group of Flemish boy scouts and their scout leaders, off in the woods on a camping trip, being stalked by a psycho killer.  Sounds and looks like something right up my alley.
I was a boy scout growing up so the mere concept of this one hits me just right.  I'm totally intrigued.  Then I read some early reviews (mostly good) and saw this trailer and I knew I had to see this one.  Check it out:

That tagline, "Be Prepared," just hooks me.  It's SO perfect!

Here's the official synopsis from the website:

"CUB is a horror adventure in which a young imaginative twelve-year-old boy named Sam heads off to camp with his Cub Scouts pack, leaders Peter and Chris and quartermaster Yasmin. Once they enter the woods, Sam quickly feels something is not quite right. He soon stumbles upon a mysterious tree house and meets a shifty, masked feral-looking child. When Sam tries to warn his leaders, they ignore him: the boy often tells tall tales and Sam’s mysterious past which he refuses to talk about makes his leader Peter mistrust him. As Sam gets more and more isolated from the other scouts, he becomes convinced a terrible fate awaits them: the Feral Child, it turns out, is the helper of the Poacher, an evil psychopath, who has riddled the forest with ingenious traps and is intent on slaughtering the scouts… one by one…"

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Cub (originally titled Welp) was partially funded through crowd sourcing, which is something that usually gives me pause, but I'm into the concept, and the trailer looks good, so I'm going to give it a shot when it finally secures an American release.

Cub sees release in its native Belgium tomorrow, on October 29th.  After that, keep an eye out for it, probably next year, here in The States.

Trailer Park Tuesdays - The Town That Dreaded Sundown

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This week at TPT we got the trailer for the remake of the 1976 true-story horror flick The Town That Dreaded Sundown.  The original film (I reviewed it HERE) has some effective scare sequences (and a great looking villain), but it suffers from wild tonal swings and some bad comedy.  So a remake is not something I am opposed to.  From the looks of this first trailer, it is even something I am going to be supportive of.

From some early reviews, it seems this new version is going in an interesting direction, more of a slasher-type thing, maybe?  Also, very stylish.  And the trombone kill is in there!  YAY!  But there's no Andrew Prine.  Booo!  Guess you can't have everything.

The film is being released by Blumhouse Productions though the long-dormant MGM subsidiary Orion Pictures, and I won't lie, seeing that Orion logo made me smile and put me on this movie's side early.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) is getting a limited release on October 16th, probably nowhere near where you live, so you'll have to seek it out on VOD.  Do it, or The Phantom Killer will get you.