2081
Based on Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," 2081 is set in a future world where people are handicapped into becoming each other's equals: Athletes have to wear weights, beautiful people wear masks, everyone is equal and being exceptional is unacceptable. The Handicapper General runs the show in the future doling out handicaps where he sees fit, until someone decides that enough is enough and that the extraordinary shouldn't be hid behind chains, weights, posts or masks. I can't find a release date yet, but I'll be sure to let everyone know when I do. In the meantime, enjoy the trailer staring the adorable Julie Hagerty and James Cosmo (who is weighed down by multiple handicaps).

The Burrowers
Remember how amazingly awesome the wild wild west Tremors 4 was? You can't beat alien creatures taking on cowboys, and new movie The Burrowers (taking a page from the Tremors origin story) gives us what we want courtesy of a creepy crawly society of mutants living under the ground. A group of cowpokes set off to find the "Indians" they suspect of murdering off a family of ranchers, but they end up smack dab in the middle of a burrower nest. This movie also has William Mapother (Ethan from Lost!). The trailer is below.

Low Flying Aircraft (Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude)
Based on J.G. Ballard's 1970s story "Low Flying Aircraft," this Portuguese film shows the struggle of one couple trying to give birth under the radar of the government while also dealing with the possibility that their baby could be born a "zote" (which, according to the government, is an genetically "evil" and bad baby). The couple flees the city and tries to give birth in a over-populated, restricted world. Two clips and the trailer are below.

[Bloody Disgusting, Quiet Earth]

Dante 01
A new prisoner arrives in a maximum security space prison and is being processed in the prison psych ward, called Dante 01. This newest addition to the gang is the sole survivor of an alien attack, and apparently that turned him bad - so bad, in fact, that he starts a space prison riot. But is it his will being done, or some alien evilness? The cult French movie, the first solo directing job for Delicatessen's Marc Caro, will be released on January 2, 2009.

Abel
A deadly outbreak sweeps through Berlin slowly paralyzing the masses; infected inhabitants are quarantined in their homes while the virus slowly takes hold of their bodies for three days. As the disease spreads, some survivors lock themselves in their own homes while others go door-to-door preying upon the helplessly immobile. Abel looks terrifying and promises to contain all kinds of different end of the world human psyches. Trailer and stills NSFW.

The Substitute (Vikaren)
This Danish film features a chicken-eating sixth grade teacher, and we're not talking roasted with some nice root vegetables on the side, here. Her students aren't fooled by her niceness at all and, convinced that she's an alien, organize an assault on the creature. The Substitute will be released onto DVD October 14th.

Pink Eye
Patients in an New York insane asylum are being used as lab rats for a mysterious drug test. When one of the mutated psychotics escapes, he unleashes a whole new kind of hell on the closest town. Watch the trailer below to see the patients go crazy and claw at their eyes when exposed to the asylum's drugs. Pink Eye will be out on DVD Sept. 30th.