A teaser for scream queen Danielle Harris’ directorial debut Among Friends is now available for your viewing pleasure. Set in the ’80s, the horror-comedy centers on a dinner party that goes terribly wrong when embittered friends turn on each other.

The film is written by actress Alyssa Lobit (The Things We Carry) and produced by starlet Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (The Victim) and Athena Lobit. Harris, Biehn, and Alyssa Lobit star alongside Brianne Davis (ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2), Dana Daurey (Lucky), Tanya Newbould (Skyline), Chris Backus (Elevator), AJ Bowen (Hatchet 2), Chris Meyer and Kamala Jones (“Good Christian Belles”).

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Halloween is lurking around the corner and, if you’re a parent, that means it’s time to start planning some fright-filled activities for your kids. But, what can you do when haunted events cost too much money and letting your children trick-or-treat only exposes them to rape-happy pedophiles and type 2 diabetes?

Well, if you live in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and/or New York City, you can treat your little terrors to a reading from iconic horror producer/director William Castle’s new young-adult novel “From the Grave: The Prayer,” his first completed project since dropping dead in 1977 at the age of 63.

Excerpts from the book will be read by Castle’s daughter Terry. The all-ages event will also feature book signings and plenty of Halloween tricks and treats, including a demonstration of the Castle family’s “secret fake blood recipe.”

“From the Grave: The Prayer” is set be released on Oct. 2 and will be made available in print and eBook versions ($15.99 and $9.99 respectively) via Amazon, Kindle, NOOK, and iBooks. It is the first in a planned series of “From the Grave” books.

William Castle is the legendary producer of Rosemary’s Baby and the director of such demented frighteners as The House on Haunted Hill (1959) and 13 Ghosts (1960). He returned from the dead last May during the 33rd anniversary of his death and immediately launched his blog and  Twitter and Facebook accounts to stay in touch with fans.

“From the Grave” readings will take place at:

BOOKS OF WONDER on Oct. 16 at 1 pm.

18 West 18^th Street

New York, NY 10011

(212) 989-3270

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BOOK PASSAGE on Oct. 21 at 7 pm.

51 Tamal Vista Blvd.

Corte Madera, CA 94925

(415) 927-0960

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STORIES BOOKS & CAFE on Oct. 27 at 7:30 pm.

1716 West Sunset Blvd.,

Los Angeles, CA 90026

(213) 413-3733

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Camilla Belle, last seen in the hilarious Lionsgate culture-clash comedy From Prada to Nada, has been offered the role of Eve in Legendary Pictures’ big-screen ode to John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost.” While negotiations are still in progress, Deadline reports the deal is nearly sealed.

Diego Boneta (“90210”) is said to be circling the role of Adam. If signed, Belle and Boneta will join a cast that includes Bradley Cooper as Lucifer, Benjamin Walker as archangel Michael, Casey Affleck as archangel Gabriel, and Djimon Hounsou as Abdiel, the angel of death.

“Paradise Lost,” written by 17th century English poet John Milton, follows Lucifer’s banishment from Heaven, his three-day battle with God’s archangels, and his role in the fall of Adam and Eve (or so says the guy I cheated off in British Lit back in college. I got a C+).

Genre fans may recognize Belle from her starring roles in Screen Gems’ remake of When a Stranger Calls, Legendary’s Roland Emmerich-directed epic 10,000 B.C. and the little seen—but awesome—psych-thriller The Quiet (opposite Elisha Cuthbert).  The 24-year-old stunner can also be seen in Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Summit’s sci-fi actioner Push.

Spanish actress Cristina Brondo stars in directors Adrian and Ramiro Garcia Bogliano’s upcoming Argentinean-set thriller Penumbra. The gorgeous 34-year-old will play a lawyer who rents out an inherited dingy apartment to a mysterious man during a solar eclipse that brings forth horrific events.

Says IFC Films president Jonathan Sehring:

We’ve been big fans of Adrian and Romero Garcia Bogliano since we saw Cold Sweat. We’re thrilled to be in business with them on Penumbra, which shows them only growing stronger as filmmakers.

Cristina Bondo gives an amazing performance as the Boglianos slowly and expertly turn up the dread and tension in this thrilling film.

IFC Midnight will distribute Penumbra in North America, Malaysia and Singapore.

The Bogliano’s Cold Sweat (originally released as Sudor Frio)  frightener follows a young man as he tracks down his missing girlfriend to an old house where brutal killers have holed themselves up with 25 cases of explosives. The film features international pop singer and Playboy model Camila Velasco in her acting debut.

Michelle Rodriguez is reprising her role as commando Rain Ocampo in director Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth installment in the insanely successful Sony Screen Gems franchise. Bloody Disgusting confirmed the news, but there’s no word on how Ocampo is being resurrected (she was infected and killed in the original RE film).

Rodriguez joins a cast that includes super hot Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine, Colin Salmon as James ‘One’ Shade, Boris Kodjoe as Luther West, Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker, and—of course—Milla Jovovich as resident ass-kicker Alice.

Resident Evil: Retribution is set to shoot in Japan, Russia, and Toronto. It arrives in theaters on Sept. 14, 2012.

Human Centipede mastermind Tom Six will see the premiere of his already controversial sequel The Human Centipede: Full Sequence tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse theater in Austin, Texas as part of the Fantastic Fest seventh annual kickoff.

Six recently spoke with The NY Times about the film, which was banned in the U.K. for its scenes of torture, humiliation, defecation, and forced barbed-wire sodomy. The always outrageous auteur explains to writer Dave Itzkoff why he likes pissing people off and embraces the term “torture porn.”

Says Six:

I actually like the term. I see porno films, of course, and I like them, I have no problem with that at all. And there have been so many horror films, and that’s all torture and misery. That’s the genre. I kind of like that they combine it. I think my film is a torture porn with European art sauce or something.

I like to make controversial films. I like that people talk about your work. I would hate it if I would make a film, and people wonder what to have for dinner when the film is over and not think about your film. I love it that people talk about it, hate it, can’t sleep over it.

Because if people say it’s a nice shot or it’s a nice story line, it’s so general. You can say that with almost any film you see. And things like, “this film should never have been made,” that’s exceptional.

The Human Centipede: First Sequence starred Ashlynn Yennie and Ashley C. Williams as American tourists abducted by an evil German scientist hell-bent on creating a human centipede by sewing them together mouth-to-anus.

Full Sequence is set around a fat, perverted miscreant named Martin (Laurence R. Harvey) who attempts to create a much bigger human centipede of his own after watching the Six’s original movie. Yenni returns for the sequel, but it’s not known yet if she’s playing herself or reprising her First Sequence role in some kind of fantasy scene.

A trailer for Open Road’s upcoming man-vs-wild thriller The Grey is now roaming the internet. Directed by Joe Carnahan (The A-Team) and toplined by Liam Neeson, the film follows a group of oil-rig workers attempting to survive the Alaskan wilderness after their plane crashes.

The movie looks like fun, but as someone who has spent his entire professional life sneaking shots of booze into his coffee mug, I must call shenanigans on the scene in which Neeson preps to fight off some wolves with broken miniature bottles of liquor wrapped around his fists. Those things are plastic.

The Grey costars Dermot Mulroney (Zodiac), Frank Grillo (“The Gates”), Dallas Roberts (Shadow People), Joe Anderson (The Ruins), James Badge Dale (World War Z), and Nonso Anozie (Conan the Barbarian). It opens in theaters on Jan. 27.

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Canadian starlet Mia Kirshner has said I do to playing Stephen Moyer’s hot wife in director Darren Lynn Bousman’s upcoming Jersey Devil project The Barrens. According to Bloody Disgusting, who scored the scoop, Kirshner and Moyer are also being  joined by Erik Knudsen (Scream 4) and J. Larose (Saw 3).

The Barrens follows a married couple (Kirshner, Moyer) and their kids as they set out to camp in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, home to the legendary cryptid known as the Jersey Devil. When Richard, the father, falls terribly ill, he begins to believe that his family is being stalked by the famed creature.

Kirshner, who most recently played Nina Dobrev’s vampire mom on The CW’s “Vampire Diaries,” can also be seen in the Ghost House sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia (she played Elizabeth Short), and Miramax’s 1996 Crow sequel The Crow: City of Angels.

Erica Leerhsen is set to star in director Jon Keeyes’ (Fall Down Dead) soon-to-start shooting period frightener Phobia. The 35-year-old genre babe will play Dr. Lesley Parker, a 19th century psychiatrist treating a disturbed Romanian man who just might be a vampire (“Sopranos” with a vamp twist?).

Phobia costars Chase Jeffery (American Virgin), Matthew Tompkins (Mongolian Death Worm), Jonathan Brooks (The Playroom), Nicole Leigh (Karma Police), and Matt Moore (Premonition) as a young Sigmund Freud.

Leerhsen’s horror creds include Platinum Dunes’ stellar 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the supernatural thriller Lonely Joe and sequels Wrong Turn 2: Dead End and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.

Phobia rolls camera on Oct. 3 in Dallas, Texas

There are many horror sites and fans who revel in the genre’s blood and guts. For them, it’s all about the gore and the hatchet-wielding maniac making it all happen. But, here at Clatto, we like to focus on the more romantic side of horror, namely the busty Hollywood starlets and topless scream queens that either kill for vengeance and survival, or are murdered after seen showering, skinny-dipping, and/or having sex.

So imagine our joy when we discovered that writer/producer Steve Wolsh and director Jackson Sciarii have shot what promises to be a sexy, fun slasher that we can all watch with our penises loved ones. Entitled Know Models Were Harmed, the film follows newcomers LeeAnna Vamp, Serenity Risvik, Meghan Perkins and Jessica Benson as they desperately fight to stay alive while in various degrees of nakedness.

Wolsh tells Dread Central:

In making Know Models Were Harmed, we set out to make a darker and more intense slasher flick than had been made in recent years, without losing what makes horror fun, which in my mind is blood, guts, tits, and gore with the occasional comic relief.

Amen.

According to film’s website, Know Models Were Harmed is slated for an October 2012 release. That’s a bummer of a wait, but you can keep up with the movie (and check out more cool stills) by visiting their Facebook page.

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