Good evening. Tonight we have for your viewing pleasure the first official trailer for Fox Searchlight’s Hitchcock, a biopic on the master of suspense, his relationship with his wife and the making of Psycho from director Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) and screenwriter John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan).
Hitchcock stars Anthony Hopkins as the iconic Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, Toni Collette as Peggy Robertson, Ralph Macchio as Psycho screenwriter Joe Stefano and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins.
“Twin Peaks” alumna Madchen Amick is set to star in “Witches of East End,” a Lifetime pilot based on the 2011 Melissa de la Cruz bestseller about a family of witches. She joins costars Rachel Boston (“American Dreams”), Jenna Dewan-Tatum (Tamara), Glenne Headly (“ER”), Daniel Ditomasso, Patrick Heusinger (Nanny Diaries) and Julia Ormond (Surveillance).
“Witches of East End” follows Joanna Beauchamp (Ormond), a small-town art teacher who when faced with a dangerous threat to her family reveals to her two adult daughters (Boston, Tatum) that they were born witches and that they must embrace their powers. Amick will play Joanna’s sister Wendy, a beautiful witch that shape-shifts into a cat.
Amick last genre role was in Screen Gems’ 2011 post-apocalyptic-vampire-frightener Priest. The now 41-year-old stunner can also be seen in the 1992 Stephen King-penned Sleepwalkers and 1993’s psychological thriller Dream Lover, starring James Spader. Those with grey on their nutsack know her best as abused waitress Shelly Johnson on David Lynch’s groundbreaking TV series “Twin Peaks.”
Horror icon John Carpenter will be presented with a Career Achievement Award on Saturday at LA Live Regal Cinemas as part of the 12th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival, taking place in Los Angeles October 12-to-21.
The festivities kick off at 7 p.m. with a Q&A and will be followed with a screening of Carpenter’s much maligned 1987 possession thriller Prince of Darkness, starring Donald Pleasence with a memorable cameo by rocker Alice Cooper as a sinister street bum.
Tickets to the 12th annual Screamfest Film Festival can be purchased here.
If you thought bad acting and large black cocks were the scariest things about porn, Paranormal Activity: A Hardcore Parody may change your mind. Directed by what sounds like a disease you’d pick up in a Tijuana brothel… Dick Chibbles, the spoof appears to be a solid send-up of Paramount’s 2009 blockbuster.
Bailey Blue (Facial Cum Catchers 17) and Tommy Gunn (Dropping Loads 3) star as a married couple (played by Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat in Oren Peli’s original) documenting the paranormal activity taking place in their home.
Devon Lee (Big Black Beef Stretches Little Pink Meat 6) and Whitney Grace (Pegging: A Strap-On Love Story 5) costar as blowjobs and vaginal penetrations.
IFC Films has released a new trailer for music video director Jeremy Regimbal’s feature film debut In Their Skin (previously titled Replicas). The home invasion thriller stars Selma Blair, Rachel Miner, James D’Arcy and Josh Close, who also penned the script.
In Their Skin follows a married couple (Blair, Close) as they arrive at their country home to heal after the loss of their young son. A dinner with neighbors seems like a good idea up until they realize they’ve invited a murderous couple (Miner, D’Arcy).
Nestor Carbonell’s eye mascara must be running. The “LOST” actor (he played the ageless Richard Alpert) has been cast on A&E’s “Bates Motel,” a prequel series to Hitchcock’s Psycho from Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”).
“Bates Motel” examines how Norman Bates psyche developed from his childhood through his teen years and how his twisted relationship with his mother shaped him into a psycho killer. Carbonell plays bad Sheriff Royce Romero, Deadline reports.
“Bates Motel” stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Norman Bates, Vera Farmiga (Source Code) as his mother Norma Louise Bates and Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) as sadistic deputy Zach Shelby. The series is set to shoot this month and will premiere in 2013.
Syfy has set an Oct. 13 premiere date for Echo Bridge’s new supernatural thriller American Horror House. The Darin Scott-directed ghost story stars wild child Alessandra Torresani (”Caprica”) as a college coed trapped inside a haunted sorority house with a homicidal housemother, played by Morgan Fairchild.
Torresani is best known for her portrayal of teen cylon Zoe Graystone on Syfy’s short-lived “Battlestar Galactica” spinoff “Caprica.” The 25-year-old starlet has also appeared on episodes of “American Horror Story,” “Warehouse 13,” “Bones” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”
The Ryan Murphy anthology series “American Horror Story” returns to FX for season two on Oct. 17. After teasing the show with a string of 30-second spots, the network finally gives up the goods with a minute-long trailer that provides a proper glimpse at the Briarcliff Manor asylum, circa 1964, where the story is set.
The new season stars Maroon 5 vocalist Adam Levine, Chloe Sevigny (“Big Love”), Joseph Fiennes (“FlashForward”), Jenna Dewan (Grudge 2), Clea Duvall (“Heroes”) and James Cromwell (Surrogates). Jessica Lange, Zachary Quinto, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe return in new roles.
W. Peter Iliff, co-writer of classic ’90s films Point Break, Varsity Blues, and Patriot Games, makes his directorial debut with the white-knuckle thriller Rites of Passage. Wes Bentley stars as a psychotic loner looking to secretly perform an ancient Chumash Indian ritual on his secluded beach side property.
An unexpected visit from his brother and a group of drunk, sexed-up college kids complicates matters when their actions trigger the ire of Benny’s deranged meth-addicted groundskeeper Delgado, played by Christian Slater.
Costars include Stephen Dorf as anthropology teacher Nash, Secret Garden’s Kate Maberly as bikini-clad troublemaker Dani, and Briana Evigan who turns in one of the sexiest cat-and-mouse sequences ever committed to film as bootylicious party girl Penelope.
Rites of Passage arrives on DVD on Oct. 16 from Magnet Releasing. I caught a screening of it awhile back, and it was a blast.
“The Walking Dead” finally makes its way back to AMC on Oct. 14 and the network has released a new trailer to further whet your appetite. Season three finds Rick Grimes leading the gang, including his pregnant wife Lori, to a prison where they come across another group of survivors led by a mysterious figure known as The Governor.
