Second Sight Films has announced a brand-new Limited Edition 4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set release of director Alexandre Aja’s (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) 2003 shocker High Tension (a.k.a. Switchblade Romance). A cult classic of the New French Extremity movement, High Tension stars Cécile de France (The French Dispatch) and Maïwenn (The Fifth Element) […]
Halle Berry to star in thriller Mother Land from director Alexandre Aja
Oscar-winner Halle Berry is set to star in the upcoming thriller Mother Land from Crawl and The Hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment – who are best known for producing Netflix’s Stranger Things and co-producing Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival. Mother Land is set to follow the story of a mother and her twin sons who […]
October Horrors 2021 – The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes, 2006. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Tom Bower, Ted Levine, Billy Drago, and Laura Ortiz. SYNOPSIS: After breaking down while driving through a barren stretch of desert, a family find themselves fighting for survival against a family of mutant cannibals. […]
Alexandre Aja provides an update on the sequel to alligator hit Crawl
While doing the rounds for his Netflix thriller Oxygen (read our ★★★★ review here), Alexandre Aja has been speaking about another of his projects, the alligator action hit Crawl, and providing an update on a potential sequel. Crawl made over $90M at the worldwide box-office off a $13.5M budget, so a follow-up was always likely, and […]
Movie Review – Oxygen (2021)
Oxygen, 2021. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi, Marc Saez, Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua, Noémie Devide, Grégory Levasseur, Lyah Valade, Pascal Germain, Marie Lemiale, Laura Boujenah, Cathy Cerda, and Éric Herson-Macarel. SYNOPSIS: A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there and must find […]
Melanie Laurent stars in trailer for Alexandre Aja’s Oxygen
Netflix has released a trailer for director Alexandre Aja’s (Horns, Crawl) upcoming thriller Oxygen which stars Melanie Laurent as a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with no memory of who she is or how she got there, with only 90 minutes to live she must remember who she is in order to […]
Mélanie Laurent is running out of air in teaser for Netflix sci-fi thriller Oxygen
We’re all used to a fair bit of social isolation these days, but possibly not to the extent of that experienced by Mélanie Laurent’s character in Alexandre Aja’s claustrophobic science-fiction thriller Oxygen, which has just released its first teaser trailer that you can watch below. Directed by Alexandra Aja, the man behind alligator attack movie […]
Crawl director Alexandre Aja to helm horror Elijah
Deadline is reporting that Piranha 3D and Crawl director Alexandre Aja has signed on to helm Elijah, a horror from Searchlight Pictures (Antlers, Ready or Not). According to the trade, 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 […]
Crawl director Alexandre Aja introduces an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip
Ahead of its UK home entertainment release this coming Monday, we’ve got an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the acclaimed disaster horror Crawl, introduced by director Alexandre Aja himself; check it out here, and be sure to head on over to our YouTube channel for more exclusive clips and videos… SEE ALSO: Exclusive Interview – Crawl […]
Exclusive Interview – Crawl director Alexandre Aja on film’s difficult water scenes, dogs in horror and potential sequel
Despite what one may think of the man behind some of grimmest, goriest and gnarliest big studio fare over the past decade, The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja claims he is, in fact, not a “serial killer” — he just has a knack for putting his characters through the wringer. As […]