WhenThe Expendableshit theaters back in 2010, it assembled a cast of some of the biggest action stars around, lead bySylvester Stallone. Since then, there have been attempts to re-create this formula in other ways, such as an all-female version known asExpendaBelles, and theFast & Furiousfranchise’s cast only keeps getting bigger and bigger afterThe Expendablescame out. Now it seems that thehorrorgenre is getting its own version ofThe Expendableswith a new movie entitledDeath House, which features a murderer’s row of genre legends, according to iHorror.
Thecastincludes horror icons that any genre fan will be familiar with, such asRobert Englund,Danny Trejo,Michael Berryman,Kane Hodder,Dee Wallace,Bill Moseley,Barbara Crampton,Doug Bradley, Ken Foree, Camille Keaton andDon Shanks. Unfortunately, one of the other proposed stars,Gunnar Hansen,passed awayin November. He also wrote the screenplay, which Harrison Smith (Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard) will direct from. Take a look at theofficial synopsisbelow.
“TheDeath Houseis theArea 51of Evil… a subterranean government facility that holds humanity’s worst on nine levels. Hell, Dante’s ninth level, holds the Five Evils… the “dark stars” of Death House. These individuals are so heinous they can never walk among society again. They may also be supernatural. Agents Toria Boon and Jae Novak have their own dark pasts, arriving at Death House to tour its levels and observe its denizens first-hand as well as the medical and mental experiments of Drs. Eileen Fletcher and Karen Redmane. Their depraved experiments date back to the Nazi doctors of WWII. Prison cells are virtual reality holo decks that recreate prisoner environments before they were incarcerated. A special hallucinogenic gas keeps inmates under control. The victims are homeless, bused into Death House to play literal victims while killing habits are studied. The results are sick, but only a hint of what goes on here. Hell literally breaks loose inside the facility when an EMP device detonates, killing all power and communication and… releasing every prisoner. Boon, Novak, and Fletcher are caught in a race against advancing prisoner hordes led by occultist Neo-Nazi Sieg. The monsters are freed, and they’re going down. Boon and Novak’s fight through Death House turns into a house of horrors gauntlet; their only hope of escape is descending into Hell and enlisting the help of the Five Evils. Events culminate in a violent face-to-face standoff with absolute evil… only to find that they have traveled down a rabbit hole and through a looking glass. Black is white and white is black and the definitions of good and evil no longer apply. Who are the monsters? Who will escape?”
It isn’t known when production will begin onDeath House, but the project’sIMDB pageincludes a comment from one of the filmmakers, who states that the death ofGunnar Hansenset them back a bit, but they are “moving forward vigorously.” The IMDB page currently lists an unspecified 2017 release date. It isn’t known if a distributor is in place, but we’ll keep you posted with any updates as soon as they’re available.
Back in August, director Harrison Smith spoke withDread Centralabout the project, which he said will combine the “grittiness” of Assault on Precinct 13 with the gore ofSawand the action ofJurassic Park. Other films such asEscape From New York,Resident EvilandThe Wizard of Ozalso provided inspiration for this unique tale. Take a look at the poster forDeath House, and stay tuned for more updates.
