HBO Films is teasing the Oct. 20 premiere of its Alfred Hitchcock/Tippi Hedren-based tele-pic The Girl with an intriguing behind-the-scenes clip that includes interviews with director Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane), star Sienna Miller and Hedren herself.

“The Girl” details Hitchcock’s dark and obsessive relationship with Tippi Hedren during the making of The Birds and Marnie. According to Hedren, an embittered and rejected Hitchcock ruined her career by keeping her under contract for two years, preventing her from working with other studios.

The Girl stars Sienna Miller (G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra) as Hedren, Toby Jones (The Hunger Games) as Hitchcock, Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) as his wife Alma Hitchcock and Penelope Wilton (Shaun of the Dead) as his assistant Peggy Robertson.

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Twenty-one nights of bone-chilling horror are set to roll in this weekend at the Santa Monica Place mall. The inaugural run of Deep Lifestyle Group’s Paranoia Haunted Attraction will pit ill-fated guests against killer clowns, escaped mental ward psychos and even a rabid granny or two.

The Halloween event, which runs throughout October on the top floor of the newly renovated Santa Monica Place mall, spreads over 50,000 square feet and features three terrifying mazes: “Insomniac Clown Playhouse,” “The Infirmary” and “Granny’s Manor of Mayhem.”

Limping among the dead at the haunt will be vendors selling treats and merchandise. A Paranoia Pub will also be set up to make sure spirits are conjured up all night. For dates and times and to purchase tickets, click here.

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AMC Theatres and Fever Productions have announced the limited theatrical release of Michael Gallagher’s Smiley, an internet-inspired slasher about an emotionally unstable college coed who believes the incarnation of a homicidal emoticon is out to get her.

The film stars Caitlin Gerard (Magic Mike), Melanie Papalia (Super Hybrid), Liza Weil (“Gilmore Girls”), Andrew James Allen (The Lovely Bones), YouTube actor Shane Dawson, Keith David (Men at Work) and the always awesome Roger Bart (Hostel 2).

Smiley opens in AMC Theaters on Oct. 12 in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston and Atlanta. It premieres on VOD on Oct. 11.

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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has set an Oct. 23 DVD and Blu-ray release date for Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, a sequel to Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings that serves as a second prequel to the 2003 original which starred Eliza Dushku.

This time out, Wrong Turn 5 places its hillbilly cannibals in a small mining town where the Mountain Man Festival (think Burning Man) is being held on Halloween. The film stars Doug Bradley (Hellraiser’s Pinhead), Roxanne McKee (“Game of Thrones”), Paul Luebke (Djinn) and Amy Lennox (Never Let Me Go).

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For those who thought “Sex and the City” didn’t suck enough, Anchor Bay Films presents Vamps, a vampire comedy from Amy Heckerling, director of Clueless, Look Who’s Talking and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Vamps reunites Heckerling with her Clueless muse Alicia Silverstone and costars Krysten Ritter and Sigourney Weaver in a story about a pair of vampire party girls (Silverstone, Ritter) who must choose between finding true love or living single for all eternity.

The film arrives in theaters for limited release on Nov. 2 with VOD following on Nov. 13.

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Australian stunner Isabel Lucas is set to star in the Hyde Park erotic-thriller Careful What You Wish For as a young trophy-wife named Lena who starts an affair with an awkward high school student too blinded by his penis’ good fortune to notice the trouble brewing around him.

The project was announced during this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Elizabeth Allen (Aquamarine) will direct from a script by executive producer Chris Frisina (“Pop Up Video”). Shooting is slated to begin early next year.

Allen said:

I look forward to bringing the fascinating characters to life in this provocative and sexy coming of age thriller. The lead character of Lena is a uniquely complex femme fatale — a compelling archetype that hasn’t been brought to the screen in some time and is due a revival.  I am thrilled to be collaborating with the talented Isabel Lucas on this project and am excited by the depth and mystery she will infuse into the film.

Lucas is best known for her roles as Goddess Athena in Relativity Media’s The Immortals and as the long-tongued, short skirt-wearing Decepticon in DreamWorks’ Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. She will next be seen in The Loft, for which she goes nude, and in MGM’s long-delayed remake of the classic 1984 actioner Red Dawn.

Kids looking to see naked chicks sure do have it easy today. A few of simple clicks and they’ve got a front row seat to bukkakes and gangbangs. Back in my day, things weren’t that easy. Not only was there no free internet porn, but getting around the parental units was a challenge in itself.

Enter Troma Entertainment. The studio’s productions were full of gore and naked girls, but were so campy the folks never once raised an eyebrow. My favorite: 1986’s Class of Nuke’Em High, about a group of high school kids grossly affected by the nuclear power plant located next door to their school.

This week, Troma announced that it had wrapped principal photography on Lloyd Kaufman’s Return to Class of Nuke’Em High, a new sequel written around two lesbian bloggers who find themselves battling a mutant student body. Not only that, there’s a blood-and-boob filled teaser!

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Orphanage director Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible is set in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami that wrecked Southeast Asia and stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as a vacationing married couple separated in the flood.

Early word from those who caught a screening of the film at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival reveals good and bad news. First the bad news: as suspected, schools of sharks do not eat tsunami survivors as the movie’s plot is based on a true story and sharks are pussies in real life.

The good news, however, more than makes up for the lack of maneaters: Watts goes topless. She does so in a scene that is tasteful and rich in raw human emotion… so if you spank it, please, make sure to do so in a respectable manner—and, maybe, make a donation to the Red Cross or something.

Brian de Palma’s Passion, an American remake of the French erotic thriller Love Crime, screened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival to mostly dreadful reviews. The film, a throw-back to ’80s thrillers, is about a beautiful business woman’s ill-fated manipulation and seduction of her naive protégé.

While there may be some truth to the TIFF reviews that say the film feels dated, critics appear to have missed its one triumph: star Noomi Rapace goes nude and shares a lesbian sex scene with costar Rachel McAdams.

Sure, Rapace can be seen naked in the Swedish film trilogy adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” books (AKA: “The Millennium Series”), but de Palma reintroduces Rapace to our penises sans mohawk, tattoos and piercings… and for that I say thank you.

Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment have released a trailer for writer/director Richard LaGravenese’s Beautiful Creatures. Adapted from the 1985 novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures tells the story of two star-crossed lovers who discover dark secrets about their families and town.

Alice Englert (Singularity) and Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake) star as lovers Lena and Ethan. Zoey Deutch (“Ringer”) plays Ethan’s ex Emily Asher and Emily Rossum (“Shameless”) portrays a witch in lingerie (pictured). Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis and Emma Thompson are the film’s old people.

Beautiful Creatures arrives in theaters on Feb. 13, 2013.

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