Sucker Punch, director Zack Snyder’s soon-to-be-released girl-power fantasy actioner, was screened in Los Angeles some days ago. I was fortunate enough to catch it and absolutely loved it. Sure, it could have used some gore and a shower scene, but all-in-all the flick is sexy, slick, and fun.

The film, which opens March 25, centers on a young girl who is committed to an insane asylum by her incestuous father after she refuses to blow him. Once in the loony bin, she befriends a group of sexy misfits and together they dream up a plan to escape the facility in their lingerie. To say any more would spoil the ride.

Now, when I dig a movie, I really want to see it do well. However, since 2009’s Jennifer’s Body, my tastes just haven’t mixed with moviegoers. Jennifer’s Body went limp. Piranha 3-D sank. And, Drive Angry 3-D crashed and burned. Hence, I have a bad feeling that Sucker Punch is gonna be anything but a knockout.

Vanessa Hudgens

Fortunately, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released a grip of images from the movie that should do a proper job of enticing jailbait fans. The shots showcase Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, and Jena Malone.

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

Peep the pics:

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Australian up-and-comer Phoebe Tonkin is set to work her magic on writer/producer Kevin Williamson’s new witch-themed show “Secret Circle.” The 21-year-old shelia joins a cast that includes Brittany Robertson (“Life Unexpected”) and Thomas Dekker (Nightmare On Elm Street).

Based on the book series from “Vampire Diaries” author L.J. Smith, the show stars Robertson as a California teen named Cassie who discovers she’s a witch while living with her mother in New Salem. Tonkin will play Faye, a member of Cassie’s coven.

Williamson, the creative force behind the Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer films and the TV series “Dawson’s Creek” and “The Vampire Diaries,” is penning the pilot for The CW and will serve as executive producer. Cameras are set to roll this month in Vancouver.

Tonkin will also be seen opposite Xavier Samuel in director Russell Mulcahy’s (Resident Evil: Extinction, Highlander) upcoming shark frightener Bait 3-D.

British starlet Michelle Ryan, best known in the States for her role as Jaime Summers on the short-lived NBC reboot of  “The Bionic Woman,” has leaped into director Matthias Hoene’s (Beyond the Rave) horror-comedy Cockneys vs. Zombies.

Written by James Moran, the scribe behind 2006’s hilariously fucked-up frightener Severance, Cockneys vs. Zombies centers on a group of bumbling bank robbers who inadvertently unleash a zombie army while breaking into a 350-year-old vault.

Ryan joins a cast that includes Ashley Thomas (4.3.2.1.), Alan Ford (Airborne), Harry Treadaway (City of Ember), Honor Blackman (To the Devil a Daughter), and Jack Doolan (“The Green Green Grass”). Her previous genre creds include the BBC’s “Merlin” series and an episode of “Dr. Who.”

Daniel Radcliffe is set to star in Mandalay Pictures’ big screen adaptation of author Joe Hill’s horror-romancer Horns. Radcliffe will play a man who awakens after one drunken night to find that horns are growing out of his head and that he is developing mysterious powers that he soon hopes to use to avenge the murder of his girlfriend.

The book’s synopsis reads:

Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish (Radcliffe) as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin’s murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things.

When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover . . . and horns growing from his temples. Ig possesses a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre gift he intends to use to find the monster who killed his lover. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. Now it’s time for revenge.

Hill, the son of author Stephen King, is attached as executive producer. Screenwriter Keith Bunin is adapting the book. Alexandre Aja is attached to direct.

Radcliffe is, of course, the star Warner Bros. Harry Potter franchise. He was last seen in Hammer Films’ sleeper hit The Woman in Black, and will return to star in its sequel.

Matthew Fox has been cast as vicious serial killer Michael “The Butcher of Sligo” Sullivan in director Rob Cohen’s (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) adaptation of bestselling author James Patterson’s I, Alex Cross. The film marks Fox’s  first major role since ABC’s Emmy award-winning series “LOST.”

Produced by QED International, I, Alex Cross stars Hollywood mogul and 6-foot-5 transvestite Tyler Perry as the titular detective and Ed Burns as his friend and partner Det. Tommy Kane. The film’s plot will differ from Patterson’s novel, but still revolves around The Butcher’s murder of Cross’ wife.

QED is currently shopping the project to distributors as the first in a three part Alex Cross reboot. Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman originally played Alex Cross in Paramount Pictures’ Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider.

Fox, of course, starred as Jack Shepard on the greatest show that will ever be “LOST.” His big screen creds are less impressive: Vantage Point, Speed Racer, and We Are Marshall.

Producers Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody (Resident Evil: Afterlife) announced today that Silent Hill stars Radha Mitchell (pictured above), Kara Unger, and Sean Bean have been cast in their long-awaited sequel Silent Hill: Revelation 3-D. The actors join newcomers Adelaide Clemens (Vampire) and Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”).

Says director Michael J. Basset:

It wouldn’t be the same without some of the original Silent Hill cast. Sean, Radha and Deborah’s return will certainly thrill fans of the franchise and compliment Revelations stars Adelaide and Kit.

Cinematographer Maxime Alexandre, who worked on last year’s The Crazies and Alexandre Aja’s gruesome 2003 slasher High Tension, promises a 3-D experience worthy of raiding your mom’s purse. He says:

With the most advanced technology available, in particular the lighter, smaller and more flexible 3D Red Epic, we are able to take audiences deeper in the world of Silent Hill than they ever dreamed possible. Devotees will finally be able to enter this realm along side of Heather, Vincent, Harry and Rose and experience the psychological horror and the fear of the unknown with them.

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.

Mitchell, a favorite among horror fans, made her genre debut in the 2000 sci-fi actioner Pitch Black. Other creds include Richard Franklin’s (Psycho 2, Cloak & Dagger) boat thriller Visitors, Greg Mclean’s giant-croc frightener Rogue, Jonathan Mostow’s sci-fi mind-bender Surrogates, Breck Eisner’s The Crazies, and Julie Delpy’s upcoming Erzsebet Bathory bio-pic The Countess.

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

“Big Love” star Chloe Sevigny is taking a swing at a new HBO miniseries set around the 1892 hatchet murders of Andrew and Abby Borden. Sevigny has been cast in the role of the Borden’s daughter Lizzie, who was arrested for the crimes, but acquitted during trial.

Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (Silence of the Lambs) will produce the four-part miniseries through their company Playtone. Sevigny is also serving as an executive producer on the project. Some douchy-looking guy named Bryce Kass is writing the script.

Sevigny will also be seen in Jonathon Caouette’s upcoming art-house thriller All Flowers in Time. Her creds include David Fincher’s Zodiac, Jonathan Liebesman’s The Killing Room, and Mary Harron’s big screen adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho.

Canadian actress Leslie Hope has landed the lead in Paranormal Activity director/producer Oren Peli’s new ABC pilot “The River.” Hope will play a television producer named Tess, who sets out to find her husband six months after he goes missing while filming a reality TV show set in the Amazon.

The show’s synopsis reads:

Tess, a world traveler and top-notch producer who, six months after her TV explorer husband Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood) goes missing in the Amazon, receives a signal from his beacon. Convinced that Emmet is alive, Tess forces her reluctant son Lincoln (Joe Anderson) to abandon his medical studies and lead a rescue expedition.

“The River” is produced by Peli with partners Jason Blum and Steven Schneider. The pilot episode will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) from a script by Peli, Michael Perry (Paranormal Activity 2), and veteran scribe Michael Green (“Heroes”), who was brought in to rewrite the original draft.

Hope has most recently held a recurring role on the CBS crime drama “The Mentalist,” but is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Teri Bauer, Jack’s doomed wife, on the Fox series ’24.’ She also starred in the Kevin Costner supernatural drama Dragonfly and director George Romero’s revenge-thriller Bruiser.

The first official trailer for writer/director John Pogue’s viral outbreak thriller Quarantine 2: Terminal is now spreading across the net. The film stars Swedish (oh, yeah!) actress Mercedes Masohn (not pictured above) as an inexperienced flight attendant who must deal with infected passengers the only way she knows how … erotic Swedish massage!

Peep the trailer:

OK, the real synopsis reads:

Quarantine 2: Terminal starts right after the events of the previous film at LAX, as passengers board a flight to Nashville. When a passenger becomes violently ill with a mysterious rabies-like virus, the plane makes an emergency landing at a large metropolitan airport.

Jenny (Masohn), a heroic yet inexperienced flight attendant, takes charge of the safety of her passengers. Relieved when a swarm of heavily equipped emergency vehicles, police units and the CDC arrive, Jenny and the passengers soon discover that they have been quarantined and are now trapped.

Desperate to escape, Jenny enlists the help of one of the surviving passengers, a kindergarten teacher, Henry (Josh Cooke), to devise a plan to survive.

Sounds pretty cool, but I like my idea better.

Pogue, who makes his directorial debut with Quarantine 2, also wrote the scripts for Ghost Ship, U.S. Marshals, and The Skulls 1-3. The original Quarantine, directed by John Erick Dowdle (Devil), earned over $41 million in worldwide coin when it was released in ’08.

Michelle Rodriguez is set to star in Dimension Films and Troublemaker Studios new supernatural frightener The Home, slated to shoot this summer. The film follows a badly burnt and emotionally crippled firefighter attempting to recuperate at a nursing home where evil spirits appear to be tormenting the elderly residents.

Despite owning a tight bod and looking pretty glam these days, Rodriguez has got all the femininity of a trucker named Sea Bass so I’m guessing either she’ll play the firefighter (which is written male, but could change) or will be the firefighter’s friend.

Rodriguez can currently be seen on the big screen as a U.S. marine fending off an alien attack in Battle: Los Angeles. She’s also starred as a tough combat pilot in Avatar, a tough activist in Machete, a tough vampire slayer in BloodRayne, a tough commando in Resident Evil and as a tough cop on ABC’s “LOST.”