Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated model Marisa Miller is set to make her feature film debut in Universal Pictures’ supernatural buddy-cop actioner R.I.P.D. Directed by Robert Schwentke, the film stars Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges as ghosts working paranormal crime for a police unit known as the Rest in Peace Department.
Miller, who broke Sports Illustrated sales records with her 2008 Swimsuit cover, will play Bridges’ avatar—his human form among the living. Additional costars include Kevin Bacon (X-Men: First Class), Mary Louise Parker (“Weeds”), Stephanie Szostak (Devil Wears Prada), James Hong (Blade Runner), Mike O’Malley (Deep Impact) and Bill Cosby as Ryan Reynold’s ghost dad.
MTV is set to premiere its new horror-comedy series “Death Valley” on Monday, Aug. 29. Set in the San Fernando Valley, the show follows a camera crew as it documents the containment effort put forth by the LAPD’s Undead Task Force during a supernatural uprising that finds the streets overrun by zombies, werewolves, and vampires.
The show stars Tania Raymonde (”LOST”), Caity Lotz (“Mad Men”), Vene L. Arcoraci (Minority Report), Bryan Callen (Scary Movie 4), Toby Meuli (The Craigslist Killer), Texas Battle (Final Destination 3), Bryce Johnson (“Pretty Little Liars”), and Courtney Halverson (Freaky Faron).
Dimension Extreme has set a Sept. 22 DVD release date for the ninth sequel in the Hellraiser series, the first to not star British actor Doug Bradley as Cenobite leader Pinhead. Budgeted at a reported $300,000, Hellraiser: Revelations revolves around two friends who unlock the Lament Configuration while partying in Mexico.
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Despite the fact that the new Pinhead (Steven Brand) looks like a younger version of Christopher Lloyd’s Uncle Fester with acupuncture on his face, the latest entry piqued my interest when I read that one friend attempts to get Pinhead to take the other friend’s mom in his place. Reviews, however, have been harsh and Hellraiser creator Clive Barker agrees.
Barker tweets:
Hello, my friends. I want to put on record that the flick out there using the word Hellraiser IS NO FUCKIN’ CHILD OF MINE! I have NOTHING to do with the fuckin’ thing. If they claim it’s from the mind of Clive Barker, it’s a lie. It’s not even from my butt-hole.
Hellraiser: Revelations is directed by Victor Garcia from a script by special effects guru Gary J. Tunnicliffe. Garcia’s creds include Mirrors 2and Return to House on Haunted Hill.
The original Hellraiser film is the only one in the franchise directed by Barker (it was based on his novella “The Hellbound Heart”). The 57-year-old British author regrettably sold the rights to the Hellraiser universe before the first film hit theaters in 1987.
Full Moon Features founder and director Charles Band brings back one of horror’s most outrageous—but forgotten—abominations in his new outrageous thriller Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt, a sequel to 1999’s The Killer Eye, in which a giant severed eyeball, possessed by an extraterrestrial being from the eighth dimension, looks to impregnate hot coeds on earth.
Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt follows a group of cute college coeds who while watching bad B-movies on Halloween night inadvertently unleash the horny eyeball. The film stars hotties Olivia Alexander (pictured above), Erica Rhodes (Plague Town) and newcomers Ariana Madix, Lauren Furs, and Chelsea Leigh Edmundson.
Former “Baywatch” star and Playboy Playmate Carmen Electra was photographed in the Florida Keys this weekend while on the set of her new creature-feature 2 Headed Shark Attack. While the shots don’t clue us in to what role the sexy 39-year-old is playing, they do reveal why you’ll now watch something called 2 Headed Shark Attack.
2 Headed Shark Attack follows the survivors of a Semester at Sea ship that is sunk by a mutant ocean predator. Stranded on an atoll that is quickly flooding, the ship’s students and teachers desperately search for a way to avoid the hungry beast.
The Asylum will release the film on DVD and Blu-ray on Jan. 17, 2012.
When you’re on the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder—dumpster-diving for soda cans worth a $5 discount at Six Flags (because you can’t skip your kid’s b-day every year) and shopping at Ross—it’s easy to forget how much more scary the world must be for rich people. Thankfully, director Joel Schumacher reminds us with his new home-invasion thriller Trespass.
The film stars Academy Award winners Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a wealthy married couple held captive by shotgun wielding hooligans during a home invasion robbery orchestrated by the guy banging the rich guy’s trophy wife … and you thought you had problems living in your parent’s basement with your fat spouse.
Carla Gugino is dynamite. So, it comes as no surprise that she’s been cast as Boston detective D.D. Warren in TNT’s small-screen adaptation of author Lisa Gardner’s bestselling crime-thriller Hide. The film is one of six made-for-TV thrillers that will make up the studio’s new Movie Mystery Night series.
The synopsis reads:
Detective Warren investigates the mummified remains of six missing women found inside a buried chamber at an abandoned mental hospital. The case leads Warren to investigate Annabelle, a woman with a secret past and twisted family history.
Gugino’s genre creds include the Zack Snyder films Sucker Punch and Watchmen, David S. Goyer’s supernatural creepshow The Unborn, and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, in which she turns in a nude scene so classic it was shot in black-and-white (pictured below).
Hide is directed by “Ghost Whisperer” creator John Gray from a screenplay by Janet Brownell (The Amy Fisher Story). The film will air on TNT in November.
Meet the Parents star and 2005 Playboy cover model Teri Polo will finally be seen in Take 2 Releasing’s long-delayed ghost story Haunting at the Beacon. Polo plays Bryn Shaw, a bereaved mother who attempts to send a message to her dead son through the spirit of another deceased boy.
The paranormal thriller marks screenwriter Michael Stokes’ (Iron Eagle IV) directorial debut and costars David Rees Snell (“The Shield”), Ken Howard (Rambo), Elaine Hendrix (“90210”), Marnette Patterson (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder), and Michael Ironside (Lake Placid 3).
Polo’s horror creds include Joe Dante’s supernatural thriller The Hole 3-D, Josef Rusnak’s abduction thriller Beyond and the awesome—but short lived—Fox television series “Brimstone,” in which she played Ashur Badaktu, the damned priestess who orchestrates the escape of 113 souls from hell.
Haunting at the Beacon arrives on DVD and Blu-ray disc Sept. 13.
Dreamworks’ Fright Night remake is off to a frightening start at the box office, trailing Conan, Spy Kids 4, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and The Help for Christ’s fucking sake. (Is Tyler Perry’s Madea in that? How can this be number one???).
Fright Night’s lack of bite at the theaters is especially disappointing because the Craig Gillespie-directed/Marti Noxon-penned thriller is one of the best revamps ever, easily surpassing the campy original in thrills and laughs.
So, what’s it gonna take to get you guys to a showing? How about knowing that sexy newcomer Emily Montague plays a Las Vegas stripper who gets caught up with Colin Farrell’s bad-boy vamp? If you don’t know who she is, the well-dressed folks at Esquire provide a mighty fine introduction here.
A creepy, yet oddly sexy, trailer for Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s (“Nip/Tuck,” “Glee”) new FX series “American Horror Story” has hit the web. The show stars Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton as an unstable married couple who discover that their new Los Angeles home is haunted.
This show looks really good. Of course, if its anything like Murphy’s previous work, it’ll probably get preachy by season two and we’ll discover that the ghost really just want to teach the living tolerance and Britney Spears lyrics. Oh, and Gwyneth Paltrow will guest star.
“American Horror Story” premieres on FX on Oct. 5.
