THN News: 9 Up Coming Horror Films of 2017 THN is Watching Out For

A new year and a whole new slew of horror films on the books for this year.
Here at THN we are looking forwards to a number of these both with interest and horror both real and not HaHaHa. So I've compiled a few of the big contenders for both failing and succeeding with us here at the Nation. There's a certain return to franchise horrors on the books this year too along with remakes which we'll see if it they are worth it or not...

As always let us know what your looking forwards to and why in the comments section below!

1. Hellraiser Judgment
Another off the wall return to the Hellraiser series, we are worried here that this might just be another kick into the series so rights can be kept etc, etc. This one does have nightmare on elm street veteran Heather Langenkamp on it's books, this might be a saving grace.
This will revolve around three detectives investigating a serial killer, more than likely diving them head first into the surreal world on pinhead. No returning Doug Bradley is one minus on this films stat line for me personally though.






2. Amityville: The Awakening
This crazy film series, so in all estimates i can see this will be the 18th installation in this movies franchise bananas right?
I've watched many of them, many of them have been some what disappointing, others have seemed more like thrillers rather than horror films, but those are for another time.
This entry was initially going to be a found footage escapade but changed to another standard film, this will follow a family Belle, her younger sister Juliette and twin brother James.
James is Comatose and along with their mother they all move into the Amityville house (unknown to Belle) to help care for him, soon after though he miraculously awakens. Belle also suffers with horrendous nightmares too.
Well the last one of these i enjoyed was actually Ryan Reynolds remake affair if this is anything as good as that it might be worth a watch.

3. Rings
Oh dear another sequel to the ring franchise hey?
Well the first one was a great american remake of the Japanese original it worked, at least for me. Samara was just as spooky as her counterpart and the story flowed well. This one probably won't go for the same route as the third Japanese film, in fact it doesn't.
This one is set after the last ones, no Naomi Watts this time, A woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he gets mixed up in the dark background of the video tape. She sacrifices herself to save him, probably by watching it again like they do, only to discover there is now a movie within the movie that no one has ever noticed before. I'll watch it because i'm a stickler for movie franchises I have to watch them good or bad.


4. World War Z 2
Ok the first one i strangely enjoyed not being a massive fan of the super fast yet decayed zombies and the massive CGI zombie waves (though that i still hate because no matter what zombie or not under all that human weight thousands of zombies would get crushed under the weight) oh and also the fact it had my home country in it WALES.
So not much is known at the moment, Brad Pitt is supposedly coming back as both actor Gerry and producer. Other sources citing a total reboot or even that yes it will take off after the end of the lasdt movie. Whatever way this film goes THN will keep a close eye on it, zombies being one of my favourite types of topics in horror films.

5. Flatliners (remake/reboot of sorts)
Ok so this was one of the first thriller/horror films i generally got in my young years, the movie that made me realise there can be more to film than blood, gore and viscera. I enjoyed it no end and it awakened the ability in me to see further into films than face value.
I'm sure with many other film reviewers had some film have this effect on them too. So some medical students decide to push the limits on how long a person can stay dead before being revived only for their past guilt to come in the form of horrifically real and deadly daydreams.
The new one which is a pseudo sequel staring Kiefer Sutherland's character from the original and Ellen Page reprising studies into the death limit. With a good cast I have some high hopes for this film to be at least 'good' finger crossed.

6. IT (Remake)
Pennywise the clown, Tim Curry's iconic performance as this frightening clown from Stephen King's story IT. Now we all know the original staring Johnboy is not perfect by any means but it is cult worth and as said Curry redeems most the films downfalls with his class portrayal.
So this remake will again follow several outcast type kids who are tormented by an evil entity that disguises itself as a clown so as to attract children and prey on their fears. This band of misfits must band together if they have any hope of defeating the child killing evil.
I'm not unlike many seem to be bothered by the new Pennywise makeup/looks i'm just interested in whether they can actually make a decent King adaptation, because i'm sorry this year seems like a king year and the Dark Tower is NOT shaping up to be something i'm looking forwards to, more on that shits torm later though, this could be even if it's bad more enjoyable than that.

7. Alien Covenant
A sequel to Prometheus, David the android head returns seemingly with his body reattached. Noomi Rapace is back too though we all fear just in flashbacks or a small cameo as she is not present in the trailer and 10 years is a long time to have survived on this seemingly hostile planet. Fassbender  also plays another synthetic Walter who accompanies the Covenant crew.
Danny McBride plays the pilot in this film too, if he dies or lives who knows. We might end up seeing two different aliens in this movie some spawned by the black shit others spawned by traditional facehugging. All i know is i'm just interested to see the next evolution and know what went down after the end of the last film, also to see if people have learnt to run left or right if a giant round thing is chasing you....


8. The Dark Tower
Goodlord, what can i say about this? I absolutely LOVED the dark tower series since i read the first book the gunslinger. Enthralled all the way through with Blaine/Charlie the choochoo/Mono, Oi the weir cat dog thing even Susannah and Eddie. All i have ever wanted is something along the line of Harry Potter or Hobbit for this book series, heck even a TV series.
So when i heard it was finally happening i was like 'yes' did a dance etc, then came the news of Idris Elba playing Roland, ok anyone who knows me knows i am the most laid back person concerning age, sexuality, skin colour or even religion, love/worship whoever you want just don't be a dick. Sorry Idris is NOT Roland the book even says he looks like Clint Eastwood. Even Susannah calls him white, so how will that work?
Now the stories, sources say it's going to be based after the book series, are they trying to fuck it up before it starts?
Can no one make a good Stephen King book to film/series adapt?
Come on the fucking books are excellent and sorry for my language but this is something i feel REALLY strongly about and i feel this will destroy any hope we have for seeing a proper telling of the series like Hobbit or Harry Potter.

9. Saw: Legacy
I've never been a massive fan of the saw film series, yes it was creative for the first three movies, then each one got more convoluted and watered down with nothing new and was like flogging a dead horse or milking a dead cow.
I really thought the last one was as far as they can go or could go. So now this year we are going to see a return to this with another sequel. It has been a while and this is going to be handled by the Spierigs of Undead, Daybreakers and Predestination fame.
Like i said before, it's another part in a series that I've watched so i have to watch it to see where it goes, bah!
Who knows where this one will go only time will tell.

Okay so that's the main ones I have my eye on for this year there will no doubt be a lot more that will show up on the radar as the year progresses.