Screen: Whispers

By John Hill on October 29, 2008 3:18 PM |

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Sometimes it takes more than a ball of twine and a rugby shirt with a hilarious nickname on it to attract the twenty-something stag night crowd.

And when your target market is off laying waste to European cities instead of Surrey, you've got to pull out all the stops.

For Brit wonderworld Thorpe Park, that means shoehorning the premise of a series of dodgy horror movies into a rollercoaster. In the month that saw Universal Studios announce plans for a Transformers ride, English thrill-seekers began to gear up for the arrival of the Saw rollercoaster next Spring.

Saw - The Ride will feature one of the steepest freefall drops in the world. The 100 feet fall at 100 degrees is reportedly nearly as steep as the drop in quality between the original 2004 movie and its sequels.

Check out the Youtube trailers for a gut-busting redefinition of the phrase "tenuous link".

To some, he'll forever be known as the man behind Fight Club.

But author Chuck Palahniuk is about to see his third movie hit the screen, when Haunted gets the celluloid treatment.

In one of Chuck's better stories, 17 people go through a gruelling ordeal to create a literary masterpiece - by getting themselves locked in an abandoned theatre with limited food supplies.

No details on the cast have been revealed as yet.

Marvel are working on plans to bring another of its super roster to world cinemas.

Rumours are circling that moustachioed sorcerer Dr Strange may be in line for his own spell in the limelight. Although there's no news on any director or casting, the doctor may well turn up in multiplexes within the next five years.

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