We don’t usually post stories about wrinkly old actors on Clatto (don’t hate the player, hate the Google Analytics), but when that wrinkly old actor is Anthony Hopkins an exception must be made. The 73-year-old Academy Award winner is set to star in the new serial killer drama Solace.

Hopkins will play John Clancy, an FBI profiler with psychic abilities that is called in to assist in the hunt for a sophisticated serial killer. The script was originally written by Sean Bailey and Ted Griffin (Ravenous). Peter Morgan (Hereafter) is credited with the latest draft. No word yet on who will be directing.

Hopkins has starred in a grip of high profiled frighteners including New Line’s sleeper hit The Rite, Universal Pictures’ remake of The Wolfman, New Line’s cat-and-mouse thriller Fracture, Lee Tamahori’s survival-actioner The Edge, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula.

He is best known, however, for his Oscar winning turn as Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 adaptation of author Thomas Harris’ chilling masterpiece “The Silence of the Lambs” and its sequels Red  Dragon and Hannibal.

A teaser trailer for writer/director Marc Leland’s upcoming slasher She Wolf Rising has been unleashed and is now ready to piss all over your shoes. The film stars genre babe Tiffany Shepis (pictured above) as a scream queen lured into the seedy world of underground filmmaking.

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The film’s synopsis reads:

Gina Skylar, the world’s reining scream queen, wants to cross over into mainstream cinema and leave the B-horror genre behind her. Gina’s ticket out is her stellar performance in her latest slasher flick. The problem is that someone has stolen the footage.

Gina goes undercover and recruits her number one fan, Jake Bubar, to help. Together they explore the dark and dangerous side of underground filmmaking. Gina and Jake’s beliefs are challenged as they discover myths, legends, bloody decadence and forbidden love.

She Wolf Rising is described as a horror-comedy in the tradition of Tom Holland’s Fright Night. The film costars Timothy Mandala (“As the World Turns”), Debbie Rochon (Abducted II: The Reunion), Ruby Larocca (The Lost), and Tina Krause (Penny Dreadful).

Among Shepis’ many creds are such notable frighteners as Mark Vadik’s serial killer drama Cyrus, The Butcher Brothers’ quirky slasher The Violent Kind, the 2009 Night of the Demons remake, Detour (with Dead Lake’s Kelsey Wedeen), and Troma’s ode to Shakespeare Tromeo and Juliet.

To keep up with She Wolf Rising, make sure to check out the film’s Facebook page.

“Gossip Girl” and Piranha 3-D starlet Jessica Szohr can’t seem to stay away from critters with sharp teeth. The pretty 26-year-old has joined the cast of Love Bite, a horror sex-comedy that finds four friends attempting to survive a werewolf with an appetite for small town virgins.

No word on what role Szohr is playing, but I’m guessing she’s the werewolf because a movie about Szohr saving a town of male virgins with her vagina could only be written by my penis, and it’s been suffering from writer’s block for years now so it just couldn’t be.

Love Bite is directed by some guy named Andy De Emmony from a script by some other guys named Cris Cole and Ronan Blaney. The flick costars Luke Pasqualino (The Apparition) and Ed Speleers (A Lonely Place to Die). Production begins in Scotland on Oct. 9.

Images of Scarlett Johansson on the New York set of Marvel Studios’ upcoming superhero mash-up film The Avengers have hit the web. The shots give us a glimpse of Johansson in her Black Widow and Natasha Romanoff outfits.

The Avengers is directed by Joss Whedon and costars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Samuel Jackson (Nick Fury), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), and Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill).

The Avengers arrives in theaters on May 4, 2012.

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ExileMedia Group have released a trailer for writer/director Arjun Rose’s suicide-slasher Demons Never Die. The U.K. thriller, which marks Rose’s feature film debut, stars pop singer Tulisa Contostavlos, Ashley Walters (Speed Racer), Robert Sheehan (Season of the Witch), Jennie Jacques (Cherry Tree Lane), and “Hollyoaks” babe Emma Rigby (pictured above).

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The film’s synopsis reads:

When Amber (Contostavlos) takes her own life, Archie Eden (Sheehan) and seven other depressed London teenagers decide to follow her lead and create a suicide pact.

As the group begins to die one by one, Archie realises they have all become the target of a masked killer and that his own commitment to death has become a terrifying fight for survival and a battle to protect the girl he loves, but who is the killer?

Depression is a truly frightening and serious affliction that can ruin an individual’s life and that of their loved ones. I, for example, am depressed that the British teen soap “Hollyoaks” doesn’t air here in the States. While I’m not suicidal, I’m downright cranky that I don’t get enough of its stars Rigby, Tiffany Mulheron, and Gemma Atkinson.

Demons Never Die opens in the U.K. on October 28.

Kate Bosworth will soon be seen as tormented housewife Amy Sumner in Sony Screen Gems’ upcoming remake of iconic filmmaker Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 home-invasion thriller Straw Dogs. The 28-year-old starlet recently spoke to Black Book magazine about the film and its strokeworthy harrowing rape scene with Alexander Skarsgård.

I told Alex not to worry about me, to just go for it. I said, I need you to lose yourself in this moment. And it was actually violent. He’s a huge guy.

When he was ripping off my clothes in front of a room filled with men, even though I knew it was make-believe, it was still incredibly violating and terrifying. The panic you see flooding me in that rape scene is real.

The Straw Dogs remake is directed by Rob Lurie (The Last Castle) and finds Amy Sumner, a fading Hollywood actress, and her scrawny screenwriter husband (James Marsden) moving down South where they discover that Amy’s hillbilly ex (Skarsgård) longs to reconnect with her vagina.

The film forces its way into theaters on Sept. 16.

Photos of model and sometime-actress Sophie Monk wearing a sexy, skintight Catwoman costume have hit the net. I have no idea what the pics are for or from, but you can thank Yahweh for them when you lay yourselves to sleep, which I’m guessing will be within the next 90 seconds.

Monk, who starred as an incestuous psycho-killer in Dark Castle’s gory slasher The Hills Run Red, joins Adrianne Curry, Kelly Brook, Alessandra Torresani, and Sara Jean Underwood as some of Clatto’s favorite Cos-players.

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Shark Night 3-D opened today. I have no idea if it’s any good, but last week’s Rogue Pictures’ Swimming with Sharks Pool Party sure looked like fun. The event, held at the Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California, reeled in stars Sara Paxton, Alyssa Diaz, Dustin Milligan, Sinqua Walls and Chris Carmack.

Also making a splash at the shindig were dancer-turned actress Keltie Colleen (Footloose) and “Bachelor” contestants Natalie Getz,Vienna Girardi, Erica Rose, Deanna Pappas and Melissa Schreiber (single girls gotta eat too).

Shark Night 3-D is directed by David R. Ellis (The Final Destination 3-D). Click here to see promo stills from the flick. Sara Paxton is part of Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-Fi Today.

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Marilyn Manson has released a music video for his new single “Born Villain.”  The most shocking thing about it? It’s directed by Hollywood ass-hat Shia LaBeouf … and there’s a vagina with an eyeball. There’s also boobies and body suspension and some cheesy Shakespeare readings—which I’m sure will conjure up English Lit nightmares for us all.

“Born Villain” is the title track to Manson’s upcoming eighth studio album.

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“In Plain Sight” starlet Rachel Boston is the latest addition to writer, director, and actor Todd Berger’s upcoming horror-comedy It’s a Disaster. The 29-year-old  joins a cast that includes Berger, America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”), Julia Stiles (“Dexter”), Kevin M. Brennan (The Lake House), Jeff Grace (Scenesters), Blaise Miller (Scenesters) and Laura Adkin.

The film follows four couples who, while meeting for a Sunday brunch during holiday, discover that the end of the world is upon them. Boston, best known for her recurring role as detective Abigail Chaffee on the USA network’s “In Plain Sight” and as Beth Mason on NBC’s  2002 dramedy “American Dreams,”  will play a wily wild-child named Lexi Kivel.

It’s a Disaster starts filming next month in Los Angeles.