Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno has signed on to star in writer/director Tommy O’Haver’s (Ella Enchanted) new psycho-killer thriller Spree. The 30-year-old looker will costar opposite “The Big C’s” Hugh Dancy in a story that follows a would-be groom as he murders everyone at his bachelor party while recording his kills on a flip cam.
Hmm. I thought it was common practice to just kill the strippers.
Moreno, an Academy Award nominee for her performance in 2004’s drug trafficking drama Maria Full of Grace, is coming off of Summit’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, in which she played Mexican vamp Maria. She will next be seen in Chilean director Sebastian Silva’s Magic, Magic. a vacation-set frightener costarring Emily Browning and Juno Temple.
Charlize Theron is set to produce and star in Summit Entertainment’s remake of the Dutch ghost-thriller Zwart Water (known internationally as Two Eyes Staring). According to Heat Vision, Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson will helm the project from a script by Rose co-writer Paul Harris Boardman.
Zwart Water centers on a nine-year-old girl who befriends the malevolent spirit of her slightly deranged mother’s dead twin. Theron will play the girl’s mother and produce under her Denver and Delilah Films shingle.
The Academy award-winning starlet will next be seen in the hilariously twisted Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body) penned comedy Young Adult, Ridley Scott’s epic Alien counterpart Prometheus and Universal Pictures’ dark re-imagining of Snow White and the Huntsman.
Rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie continues to dust off horror icons for his now-in-production rock-and-roll witchcraft frightener The Lords of Salem. Oft nude scream queen Barbara Crampton, best known for her roles in Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator and From Beyond, is the latest to join Zombie’s eclectic cast.
Says Zombie:
Salem re-animates! Barbara Crampton has joined the cast of THE LORDS OF SALEM as Virginia Cable, a camera operator for a local kid’s show at Salem Public Access TV called LOBSTER JOE’S FISHY FUN SHOW. She should be safe enough working there… or is she?
Joining Crampton in the project are old-schoolers Dee Wallace (The Howling), Meg Foster (They Live), Lisa Marie (Ed Wood), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead, 1978), Richard Lynch (The Sword and the Sorcerer), Billy Drago (Vamp), Bruce Dern (Silent Running), Ernest Thomas (“What’s Happening”) and Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man).
The Lords of Salem follows a 300-year-old coven of witches masquerading as a rock outfit to take over a small town. Oren Peli, Jason Blum, and Steven Schneider—the team behind Paranormal Activity and Insidious—will produce through their company Haunted Films.
Crampton, now 52, will also be seen next year in surprise Toronto International Film Festival darling You’re Next, a hardcore home invasion thriller starring Step Up 3’s Sharni Vinson that Lionsgate hopes to launch into a franchise.
Maya Entertainment, the folks behind the fun ’80s-inspired psycho-bitch thriller Playing House, are back to their evil ways with the new gruesome slasher Beware, out on DVD today. Directed by Jason Daly, the indie-frightener stars sexy/curvy newcomer Brandy Whitford (pictured above).
The film’s synopsis reads:
The town of Shady Grove holds many dark secrets. Amongst them is the sadistic tale of “Shane,“ a boy who was tortured and chained to a tree as a youngster. Legend has it that he wanders the woods in search of revenge. But no proof of his existence has ever been discovered… until now.
Beware costars Adam Leadbeater (“True Blood”), Alex Livinalli (Mandrake), Cecilia Huete (Carpe Diem) and Colombian stunner Vivi Pineda (“Perro Amor”). To ogle learn more about Brandy Whitford, visit her Facebook fan page.
Katie Featherston is reuniting with Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli to shake things up on an episode of ABC’s new Peli-produced supernatural adventure series “The River.” Featherston leaked the news via her Twitter account last week, but didn’t reveal any details about her role. She did, however, provide the following update late last night:
Shooting at night in the dark jungle … spooky.
“The River” revolves around the search for wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole, who has gone missing while shooting footage in the Amazon. The show stars Bruce Greenwood (Super 8), Leslie Hope (“24”), Joe Anderson (The Crazies), Jeff Galfer (“All My Children”), Eloise Mumford (“Lonestar”) and Thomas Kretschmann (Hostel 3).
Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) directs the pilot from a script by Peli, Michael Perry (Paranormal Activity 2), and veteran scribe Michael Green (“Heroes”). No word yet as to when exactly the mid-season replacement show will air.
Pell James is set to star in Dark Circles, the first announced frightener for 2012 from After Dark Originals. She joins a cast that includes Jonathan Schaech (ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2), Philippe Brenninkmeyer (Beerfest), Michael Patrick Rogers (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D) and Andrea Frankle (The Haunting in Georgia).
The film’s synopsis reads:
Urbanites Alex and Penny escape their stuffy city life to raise their newborn in the country. Instead, they find their spacious farmhome harbors horrors that threaten their relationship, imperil their son, and drive them to acts that neither believed they were capable of, but both are powerless to stop.
Horror fans may recognize James as stab victim Cecelia Shepard in David Fincher’s snorefest Zodiac and as sexy coke-head Bobbi in Jennifer Lynch’s superb serial-killer thriller Surveillance. The 34-year-old starlet also appeared in the popular cult comedy Fanboys.
Paul Soter (of moderately humorous comedy troupe Broken Lizard … ok, they suck) is attached to direct Dark Circles.
Having starred as Prince Caspian in Walden Media’s Chronicles of Narnia films Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Ben Barnes may know a thing or two about adapting literary works for the big screen … or not. Either way, the 30-year-old British actor is talking about his next book-based fantasy adventure The Seventh Son.
It’s nothing like the first book really. I don’t think it’s particularly like ‘The Hunger Games’ or ‘Twilight’ where you can go ‘based on the books,’ because I don’t think this series is as popular yet, so I think there’s a chance to rewrite and make the best movie for the movie’s sake.
I think sometimes when you stick exactly to the book, there’s a danger of it becoming a bit literary, so I think visually they want to make the most exciting film so they’ve changed a lot.
My character in the book is 13 or something, but then the romance element in the book doesn’t really make any sense – it makes more sense to have those characters a little older.
Some of the story in the first book is very static so this is going to be a lot more visual and action-oriented.
The Seventh Son is based on young-adult novelist Joseph Delaney’s “The Wardstone Chronicles,” the first volume in his book series “The Last Apprentice.” Barnes plays Tom Ward, a young man training to be an exorcist in the 1700’s under the tutelage of Master Gregory, aka Spook (Jeff Bridges). Julianne Moore stars as the evil witch Mother Malkin.
Sergei Bodrov directs the Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ production, now shooting in Vancouver.
Bollywood starlet Mallika Sherawat plays a serpent-woman known in Eastern folklore as the Nagin in the Jennifer Lynch-directed creature-feature Hisss. The film, which wrapped last year, was meant to introduce the gorgeous 34-year-old—considered the Marilyn Monroe of India—to American audiences, but never locked distribution.
Earlier this year, Lynch (daughter of David Lynch and director of Boxing Helena and 2008’s exceptional serial killer drama Surveillance) expressed her dissatisfaction with the producers of the film and revealed that she had been booted from the editing room and had no idea what the final cut of the movie now looks like.
Well, I’ve got some good news for Lynch and those who are still eager to see Sherawat slithering around half-naked and swallowing men whole: Hisss is now available for rent at all Redbox kiosks. Sure you may have to jump over hobos and/or risk getting mugged by a guy in a Tony Montana tee, but it’ll only cost you a dollar to peep the flick.
Dark Knight Rises star Marion Cotillard was photographed swimming topless on the set of her new film Rust and Bone, a French drama based on a book about amputees and orcas—and no, the whales don’t terrorize and kill bikini-clad beach goers.
Nonetheless, Cotillard has earned a place on this blog thanks to her recent work in Steven Soderbergh’s viral outbreak thriller Contagion and Christopher Nolan’s Inception. The 36-year-old looker is also staring in Nolan’s Dark Knight Rises as Talia al Ghul, daughter of villain Ra’s al Ghul and Batman love interest.
So, you see, there’s no need to feel like your favorite little horror blog has sold out its principles for a quick spike in traffic. Just sit back and enjoy the insanely large Oscar-winning areolas pictured below and here.
Filmmakers David Buchert and Chris St. Croix have released a NSFW (boobies! hurray!) trailer for the first two 25-minute episodes of their upcoming anthology series Night Terrors. First up is Croix’s “The Keeper,” an impressive stylized monster feature set in what appears to be a small town ruffian bar.
It’s followed by Buchert’s “Dummy,” a cat-and-mouse slasher that introduces what has got to be one of horror’s most creepiest masked killers. It also gives us a peek at sexy newcomer Olivia Bishop, who appears to spend most of her screen time on the run, clad only in her bra and panties (again … hurray!).
“The Keeper” and “The Dummy” are slated for release in November and December, respectively. No word on what format the episodes will be made available, but you can stay informed by visiting the film’s official YouTube page and its Facebook.
