Opens: May 25
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Devin Kelly
Genre and rating: Supernatural horror, R
Plot: While visiting Russia, six young adventurers take an “extreme tour” of Pripyat, the long abandoned town near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Spin: With a sizable but loyal audience (99% of whom are young males) and comparatively minimal marketing costs, low- to mid-budget horror movies are generally safer bets than big-budget franchise projects like MIB III. We’ll see if that hold true this May.