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After impersonating one of his most famous characters, Travis Bickle, in Neighbors, Zac Efron has now teamed with Robert De Niro for a new project and, well, it looks like a far cry from Taxi Driver. The raunchy comedy Dirty Grandpa follows the pair as they take a road trip from Georgia to Florida with plenty of hijinks along the way.

Coming from director Dan Mazur, co-writer of Borat, Bruno, and more Sacha Baron Cohen films, the first trailer has now landed and certainly shows a darker side than your run-of-the-mill studio comedy. However, with a unpromising January release date and not quite hitting any comedic high notes in the trailer, it’s got a decent amount working against it. Also starring Julianne Hough, Zoey Deutch, Aubrey Plaza, Dermot Mulroney and Adam Pally, check out the trailer below and a truly horrendous poster attempting to parody The Graduate.

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The fine folks over at Film.com headed to central Texas for a little something the locals like to call SXSW. Now that most of the movie-related festivities have wrapped up in Austin, it's time we take a look at what SXSW turned up.

Clip past the jump for our roundup of Film.com reviews from SXSW!

"Haunter" - C+

Despite a fairly novel concept and Breslin's solid work, it's hard not to feel like "Haunter" continues the close-but-no-cigar tradition of Natali's post-"Cube" endeavors. As much he cares to entertain heady concepts, it sometimes seems like they wind up every bit as trapped as his characters. — William Gross

"Evil Dead" - B

Given the climax's unexaggerated torrent of blood, and the film's generally proud sense of punishment, it's hard to imagine that the audience isn't tweaking for their fix of the red stuff more than any character on-screen is.

Olive Films has announced that it will release 1995’s Night Of The Scarecrow April 30 on DVD and Blu-ray, both in anamorphic widescreen with special features to be announced. Directed by Jeff Burr of Stepfather II and The Offspring and scripted by Reed Steiner and Dan Mazur, the film takes place in a small town where partying teenagers accidentally free an evil spirit that takes over a nearby scarecrow, which sets out on a vengeful murder spree. Elizabeth Barondes and John Mese star, and the cool supporting cast includes Office Space’s Stephen Root, veteran character actors Bruce Glover and Dirk Blocker, 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Gary Lockwood, future Oscar nominee John Hawkes and Hammer glamour gal Martine Beswick. Retail prices are $24.95 for the DVD, $29.95 for the Blu-ray.

Olive Films has announced that it will release 1995’s Night Of The Scarecrow April 30 on DVD and Blu-ray, both in anamorphic widescreen with special features to be announced. Directed by Jeff Burr of Stepfather II and The Offspring and scripted by Reed Steiner and Dan Mazur, the film takes place in a small town where partying teenagers accidentally free an evil spirit that takes over a nearby scarecrow, which sets out on a vengeful murder spree. Elizabeth Barondes and John Mese star, and the cool supporting cast includes Office Space’s Stephen Root, veteran character actors Bruce Glover and Dirk Blocker, 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Gary Lockwood, future Oscar nominee John Hawkes and Hammer glamour gal Martine Beswick. Retail prices are $24.95 for the DVD, $29.95 for the Blu-ray.

Olive Films has announced that it will release 1995’s Night Of The Scarecrow April 30 on DVD and Blu-ray, both in anamorphic widescreen with special features to be announced. Directed by Jeff Burr of Stepfather II and The Offspring and scripted by Reed Steiner and Dan Mazur, the film takes place in a small town where partying teenagers accidentally free an evil spirit that takes over a nearby scarecrow, which sets out on a vengeful murder spree. Elizabeth Barondes and John Mese star, and the cool supporting cast includes Office Space’s Stephen Root, veteran character actors Bruce Glover and Dirk Blocker, 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Gary Lockwood, future Oscar nominee John Hawkes and Hammer glamour gal Martine Beswick. Retail prices are $24.95 for the DVD, $29.95 for the Blu-ray.

Olive Films has announced that it will release 1995’s Night Of The Scarecrow April 30 on DVD and Blu-ray, both in anamorphic widescreen with special features to be announced. Directed by Jeff Burr of Stepfather II and The Offspring and scripted by Reed Steiner and Dan Mazur, the film takes place in a small town where partying teenagers accidentally free an evil spirit that takes over a nearby scarecrow, which sets out on a vengeful murder spree. Elizabeth Barondes and John Mese star, and the cool supporting cast includes Office Space’s Stephen Root, veteran character actors Bruce Glover and Dirk Blocker, 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Gary Lockwood, future Oscar nominee John Hawkes and Hammer glamour gal Martine Beswick. Retail prices are $24.95 for the DVD, $29.95 for the Blu-ray.