Variety recently posted an article on UK horror films and discovered a few details about Hammer Films’ upcoming titles. They have already announced plans to remake the Swedish vampire film ‘Let the Right One In”, and have launched their online horror series via Myspace entitled ‘Beyond the Rave’ now they’ve got three new feature films in the works. Read on for more details.

Hammer Film Prods. is getting in on the act in the wake of the banner’s revival last year by Dutch producer John De Mol by unveiling a slate of pics far removed from the bodice rippers of the 1960s and 1970s with which it made its name. The iconic studio is prepping three features that are a far cry from the theatrical dueling of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

Hammer is set to start production later this year on ‘The Wake Wood’ directed by David Keating, ‘The Resident’, a chiller directed by Antti Jokinen that is described as being in the tradition of ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’ and ‘The Quiet Ones, based on the supposedly true story of a group of Canadian hippie scientists in the 1970s who attempt to create a ghost.

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