#SDCC15: 5 Things We Learned About Tales of Halloween Plus the Trailer!
Steve Barton
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Tales of Halloween took center stage at the Horton Grand Theatre during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, and we were on hand to make sure you guys learned some cool things about the flick and got to see some tasty eye candy! Once you’ve taken all that in, be sure to check out the new trailer.
5 – The entire panel was filmed and will most likely end up on the DVD/Blu-ray release. We captured some footage too, but you’ll have to wait a bit for us to get the video cooking. It’s not everything, but it’s a hell of a nice chunk!
4 – Mike Mendez’s segment will be excessively violent. If there’s one thing we can always count on Mike for, its gloriously loony horror on a (budget permitting) epic scale, and Epic Pictures was happy to give him another platform to spread the red.
3 – There will be lots of familiar faces littering each segment as Tales of Halloween was very much a concerted effort from the horror community in Los Angeles. Dread Central favorite Tiffany Shepis was on hand and let us know that not only is she in the film, but she gets to share the screen with her 10-year-old daughter who has… shall we say… lots of surprises in store for her real life mommy!
2 – Both Greg Grunberg and Clare Kramer (the latter of whom also hosted the enormous panel that didn’t have enough seats to sit all those involved) reprise their roles from Mike Mendez’s Big Ass Spider in Mendez’s segment! A mini-sequel of sorts?
1 – We’ve saved the best for last! The lovely Adrienne Barbeau will be in the film as a radio DJ whose voice serves to bring the stories, which all take place on one night in one town, together. Any fan of John Carpenter’s The Fog should be absolutely elated by this news as no one on the planet has a more sultry voice than Barbeau.
Next for Tales of Halloween is the Film4 FrightFest in the UK.
Ten tales of terror unfold in a sleepy American suburb on All Hallows Eve as ghouls, imps, aliens, goblins, demons, axe murderers and serial killers roam the witching hour. This anthology of power nightmares is directed by the cream of the scream industry crop: Neil Marshall, Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Adam Gierasch, Lucky McKee, Dave Parker, Paul Solet, Ryan Schifrin, John Skipp, Andrew Kasch, and Mike Mendez.
Tales of Halloween is created by Axelle Carolyn and produced by Patrick Ewald, Shaked Berenson, Mike Mendez and Axelle Carolyn.
This year’s Film4 FrightFest takes place at the Vue Cinema, Leicester Sq between Thursday August 27 and Monday August 31st. Festival and day pass sales went on sale Saturday July 4th at 10:00am and will only be available online. Single tickets will go on sale on July 25th.
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