Asylum Red Band Trailer Offers Up Gore Aplenty
This entry was posted on 7/2/2008 11:00 PM and is filed under Trailer Watch.
The red-band trailer for
Asylum, the new direct-to-video horror thriller starring
Sarah Roemer (aka, the chick from
Disturbia) that streets on July 15, is online, and seems to promise plenty of gore, or at least a nice clip reel for the foley artists who labored on it. There's a pinch of
Session 9 here, it seems, but
mostly the movie appears to be an excuse for a ghastly-looking "doctor" to ram sharp implements into the eyes and/or heads of a bunch of college students. The voiceover narration is clumsy and derisible ("at history's most notorious asylum for teenagers," and, "students hiding their mysterious past have unlocked true evil"), but who's really paying attention, right? The flick is directed by
Snakes on a Plane helmer David Ellis, whose previous work doesn't much recommend him. (He parlayed stunt coordinator and second unit gigs into directing work on
Final Destination 2 and
Cellular, the latter of which I never saw.) Holy crap... Ellis is doing
Final Destination 4 as well. Somehow missed the news on that one. So this was the in-between paycheck gig, I guess.
