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Death House, a Film from Harrison Smith, to be Expendables of Horror.

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Ever since The Expendables became a big hit in 2010, there have been a few announcements in regards to an “Expendables of Horror” type movie, so I’m going to take this news with a grain of salt. Although, this news seems a little more fleshed out than the others… Who knows…

It was announced by iHorror today that Death House is currently in pre-production. The plot is described as Assault on Precinct 13 meets Saw meets Jurassic Park with Escape from New York, Resident Evil and The Wizard of Oz hailed as other influences as a smorgasbord of subgenres collide in the new movie from Harrison Smith (Camp Dread, Zombie Killers). Harrison Smith will direct Death House based on the original screenplay by Gunnar Hansen.

Hansen was also tapped to star in the movie but tragically passed away in November 2015.

A ton of horror icons are slated to appear in Death House and they include Robert Englund, Danny Trejo, Michael Berryman, Kane Hodder, Dee Wallace, Bill Moseley, Barbara Crampton, Doug Bradley, Ken Foree, Camille Keaton and Don Shanks.

Death House is expected to see release sometime in 2016 and you can catch the very lengthy plot summary below:

“The Death House is the Area 51 of 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?”

Michael DeFellipo

(Senior Editor)

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