Sexy promo shots of Israeli-born actress Shirly Brener are making the rounds in Hollywood. The 32-year-old’s natural talents are showcased in a series of bikini and wet t-shirt photos guaranteed to get some callbacks (see gallery below).

Personally, I love how Brener looks a little awkward in some of the pics. I think you can see her bikini-clad soul die a little, especially in the shots where her legs are parted and the one where her bottom is crooked (see just below).

Brener, who was raised in London and Los Angeles, has played small roles in films such as the Jessica Simpson vehicle Employee of the Month, the Lindsay Lohan comedy Labor Pains, and the Al Pacino/Robert De Niro crime-actioner Righteous Kill.

"Does Meryl Streep do this for roles? I need new PR."

Her horror creds include the serial killer flick 30 Days to Die and The Dunwich Horror opposite Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator). She also stars alongside Playboy-model-turned-scream-queen Christa Campbell in the yet-to-be-released survival frightener Unraveled.

Unraveled follows a young group of filmmakers trying to stay alive in the mountains as a sadistic killer hunts them down to film a snuff video.

Peep Brener’s publicity shots (courtesy of Guyism):

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Hayden Panettiere (Scream 4) and Nikki Reed (The Twilight Saga) will join Rebecca De Mornay (Mother’s Day) in director Nelson McCormick’s (The Stepfather) big screen adaptation of author Micheal Hornberg’s 2001 novel Downers Grove. Bret Easton Ellis (“American Psycho”) is attached as screenwriter.

Panettiere will play Chrissie Swanson, an angst-filled high school student convinced that she will be the next victim of a curse that has seen schoolmates die bizarre deaths every year before graduation. Adding to her daily dose of torment are her dysfunctional family and the jock who attempted to rape her at a party.

Nikki Reed

Reed, who starred in this summer’s indie-slasher Chain Letter, will most likely play Chrissie’s sex-crazed BFF Tracy, while the still insanely sexy De Mornay takes on the role of Chrissie’s single-but-dating mother.

Downers Grove is expected to commence shooting in Louisiana next spring. Myriad Pictures is handling distribution outside of the States.

The truth is out there … a third “X-Files” movie is in the works.

So says “X-Files” star David Duchovny (Fox “Spooky” Mulder) in an interview with French entertainment site TVMag. And, though, he fails to flat out acknowledge that the second movie in the franchise X-Files: I Want to Believe sucked little green men balls, he does offer a couple of excuses for its box office failure.

He says:

It is in the process of being written. One awaits just the green light from Fox, a little disappointed from the relatively poor reception of the second film.

The error comes, in my opinion, that the authors strayed too far from the roots of the series. Moreover, the film was released in the summer. The third will be much closer to what the public expects, with government conspiracies, etc.

X-Files: I Want to Believe earned just a little over $68 million worldwide. By comparison, the first film in the series X-Files: Fight the Future raked in over $189 million in worldwide coin.

Fox Mulder is listed as one of Clatto’s 12 Heroes That Won’t make You Feel Like an Asshole.

With Halloween now behind us, most people are now looking ahead to the extremely un-sexy holiday of Thanksgiving. Fortunately, we don’t have to. The following are Halloween pics of celebrity babes who have either worked in horror/sci-fi/fantasy or whose costumes are genre related (Disclaimer: Tila Tequila—pictured above—isn’t an actress, but she’s a horror-show-on-heels. A hot horror show).

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian had a bit part in Lionsgate’s horror parody Disaster Movie. The curvy socialite tried a number of different costumes selections before settling on a Little Red Riding Hood outfit. However, this Cheetah getup she tweeted would have been the better choice:

Briana Evigan’s horror creds include Sorority Row, S. Darko, Burning Bright and director Darren Lynn Bousman’s long-delayed remake Mother’s Day. Here she is dressed as my sister some kind of blonde … hooker:

TV personality Brook Burke doesn’t have any fright films on her resume, but she gives Halle Berry a run for her money as Catwoman:

Playboy-Playmate-turned-reality-star Kendra Wilkenson had a role in Dimension Films’ horror spoof Scary Movie 4. She whipped out the Tommy guns for this gangster getup:

Human-drug Paris Hilton’s horror creds include Repo! The Genetic Opera and House of Wax. This year, she channeled the spirit of a drunken squaw:

Alyssa Milano has starred in Pathology, Fear, and the TV show “Charmed.” She also went topless in Embrace of the Vampire. She went a little PG this year as an elf, or is it a fairy? Either way, World of Warcraft geeks just stained their gaming chairs:

Carmen Electra stars in the Scary Movie franchise. She dressed as a Ringleader this year—a choice that wasn’t quite as revealing as one might have expected from the former Playmate:

Pop singer Ciara transformed into X-Men heroine Storm:

Party girl and American Pie starlet Tara Reid has starred in numerous straight-to-DVD horror flicks including Incubus, Vipers, and Devil’s Pond. Here she pays homage to the new Tara Reid: Heidi Montag:

To see what celebs wore last year, go here.

On-the-set images from Sony Screen Gems upcoming girl-on-girl thriller The Roommate have hit the web. A re-imagining of the 1992 Bridgett Fonda thriller Single White Female, the film stars “Gossip Girl” Leighton Meester as an emotionally unstable college coed obsessed with her dorm-mate, played by Minka Kelly—Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive 2010.

The Roommate is directed by Christian E. Christiansen and costars Billy Zane (Dead Calm), Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Katerina Graham (“The Vampire Diaries”), Alyson Michalka (”Hellcats”), Lauren Storm (Whore), Danneel Harris (”One Tree Hill”), and Frances Fisher (”Eureka”).

Enjoy the shots how ever you see fit (courtesy  Horror Asylum & Zimbio):

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Producers Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody (Resident Evil: Afterlife) have tapped director Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane) to helm Silent Hill: Revelation 3-D, the eagerly-awaited sequel to their 2006 adaptation of Konami’s bestselling video game Silent Hill.

The plot (via press release):

For years, Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn’t fully understand. Now on the eve of her 18^th birthday, plagued by terrifying nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she’s not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her in Silent Hill forever.

But, will there be more sexy faceless nurses?

The original Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans and penned by Roger Avary, has earned over $99 million worldwide and over $22 million in U.S. DVD sales. The film starred Aussie actress Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean.

Radha Mitchell made the cut in Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-fi Today.

Pictured above is the first still from writer/director Rob Hall’s upcoming sequel ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2. The film, which began principal photography this week in Los Angeles, stars Thomas Dekker (Nightmare on Elm Street), Danielle Harris (Halloween), Michael Biehn (Terminator), Brian Austin Green (proprietor of Megan Fox’s vagina) , and Nick Principe as ChromeSkull.

Hall says (via press release):

We’re doubling the carnage and doubling the fun. I know we raised the bar on the last one but people have no idea what’s in store in that department for the sequel- it’s the original and THEN SOME.

I’m so happy to have such a stellar cast involved and I think [producer/cowriter Kevin Bocarde] and I have come up with a cool way to bring Chromey back without going all nutty and breaking our own rules.

Laid to Rest starred Bobbi Sue Luther as a prostitute who wakes up in a coffin with temporary amnesia and must evade the sadistic killer who abducted her. Aside from ChromeSkull’s shiny noggin, his shoulder mounted camcorder differentiates him from other movie maniacs.

ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 is slated for a 2011 Halloween release.

Danielle Harris and Bobbi Sue Luther both made the cut in Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-fi Today.

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Diana Terranova owns a pair of the hardest working breasts in Hollywood. The genre babe has made a career out of playing such timeless roles as “Stripper,” “Lap Dancer,” “Pizza Slut,” “Night Club Dancer,” “Go-Go Dancer,” “Dancer #3,” and “Boobs Chick.”

This year, however, Terranova scored the opportunity to portray a character with a name in The Asylum’s upcoming supernatural thriller 8213 Gacy House. Cast as ghost-hunter Janina Peslo, the veteran starlet shows off her acting range as well as her fun-bags.

Peep the trailer:

The film follows a group of paranormal investigators as they attempt to summon the spirit of fag, child-killer John Wayne Gacy … and succeed. Soon, Gacy’s ghost—in Pogo the Clown makeup—is scratching the girls and ass-raping the males.

8213 Gacy House costars Rachel Riley (Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus), Jim Lewis (Camel Spiders), Matthew Temple (Animals), Michael Gaglio (Sharktopus), Brett A. Newton and Sylvia Panacione.

Australian actors Sharni Vinson (pictured above) and Xavier Samuel have been cast in directors Russell Mulcahy and Kimble Rendall’s upcoming creature-feature Bait 3-D. Set in a serene beach community overcome by a deadly tsunami, the film centers on a group of survivors trapped in a supermarket with man-eating tiger sharks.

I’m totally sportin’ a woody over this premise. When hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the streets flooded, I remember hearing that the sharks from the Aquarium of the Americas had been broken free and were feeding on a buffet of floating dead bodies.

Turns out that wasn’t true, but since then I can’t see a news story about a tsunami or flood without thinking how awesome terrifying it would be if maneaters became part of the equation.

Mulcahy, whose director creds include Resident Evil: Extinction and Highlander, further explained his vision in a video interview released awhile back.

Check it out:

Vinson cut her teeth in the States with guest spots on such popular shows as “Cold Case,” “NCIS,” and “CSI: NY.” The 27-year-old sheila scored her major motion picture debut this year in Summit Entertainment’s horrifying Step Up 3-D.

Xavier Samuel landed his own breakthrough role this summer as vampire Riley Biers in the Twilight Saga: Eclipse. He will next play the abducted crush of a psychotic wallflower in writer/director Sean Byrne’s award-winning TIFF darling The Loved Ones.

Bait 3-D also stars “Nip/Tuck” bad boy Julian McMahon, Alice Parkinson (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), cute up-and-comer Phoebe Tonkin, Damien Garvey (The Daybreakers), Lincoln Lewis (Voodoo Lagoon), Martin Sacks, Alexander Russell, Qi Yuwu, and Adrian Pang.

A full-length trailer for Warner Bros/ Legendary Pictures’ girl-power fantasy-actioner Sucker Punch has hit the web. Written and directed by Zack Snyder (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole), the film stars Emily Browning as a madhouse loon in a sexy schoolgirl outfit slowly surrendering her grip on reality while attempting to deal with the loss of her loved ones.

Peep the trailer suckas:

The film’s official—and ridiculously—long synopsis reads:

“Sucker Punch” is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality.  Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, and her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary.

She has been locked away against her will, but Babydoll has not lost her will to survive.  Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls—the outspoken Rocket, the street-smart Blondie, the fiercely loyal Amber and the reluctant Sweet Pea—to band together and try to escape their terrible fate at the hands of their captors.

Led by Babydoll, the girls engage in fantastical warfare against everything from samurais to serpents, with a virtual arsenal at their disposal.  Together, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice in order to stay alive.  But with the help of a Wise Man, their unbelievable journey—if they succeed—will set them free.

Do they pay publicists by the word these days? Seems to me all they needed to say was “Hey, we got young girls in revealing fetish wear fighting Nazi robots and shit.”

Sucker Punch costars Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jaime Chung, Carla Gugino, and Jena Malone. Vagina-less cast members include “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm, Scott Glen,  and Oscar Isaac.

The film swings into theaters on March 25, 2011.

Emily Browning made Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-Fi Today.