2012
02.06

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Black Rock director and star Katie Aselton spoke with EW about the lengthy nude cat-and-mouse scenes she shares with costars Lake Bell (pictured above) and Kate Bosworth (below). The film, which was acquired at Sundance this year by LD Distribution, finds the alluring trio warming up to a group of male poachers while vacationing on a deserted island off the coast of Maine.

Trouble starts when Aselton’s character Abby flirts it up with one of the guys, but then gets all Jodi Foster/Accused on his horny ass. Shit hits the fan, and the girls are off and running with the men in pursuit. Hindered by their bodacious femininity, they fall in a lake and must quickly shed their wet clothes to avoid hypothermia.

Aselton explains:

That’s where the girls start to turn primal. That is a true animal instinct. It’s 43 degrees, you have to take those wet clothes off if you’re going to survive, and they’re vulnerable, but they’re finding their strength. That’s truly when their inner strength is taking over, and that’s exciting.

It’s me playing by the rules of the genre, and abiding by those rules on my own terms. It’s like, okay I’ll do nudity, but it’s not going to be in a super sexual way.

Black Rock will mark Aselton’s nude onscreen debut and will serve as Bell’s second (she went topless on HBO’s “How to Make It in America”). The film also provides an opportunity for Bosworth to redeem herself after starring in Rob Lurie’s neutered  remake of  Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs.

"Damn. I forgot to wear shoes."

"Damn. I forgot to wear shoes."

Black Rock is written by Mark Duplass (Cyrus), Aselton’s husband and costar on the hilarious FX fanatsy-football series “The League.” Jay Paulson (“Happy Town”), Will Bouvier, and Anslem Richardson (“As the World Turns”) play the angry, blue-balled hunters.

2012
02.04

You Can Suck Cheerleading Zombie Slayer Juliet Starling’s ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’ In April!

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has set an April 12 release date for Grasshopper Manufacturer’s Lollipop Chainsaw, a third-person zombie adventure written by horror filmmaker James Gunn (Slither) about an 18-year-old panty-flashing cheerleader out to slay the undead.

It’s pretty sexy stuff, but cheerleader Juliet Starling has got nothing on Mrs. Pac-Man. Sure, the ’80s queen was short, round and married … but she liked to eat balls. Stick that in your X-Box 360 (or PS3), Starling!

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2012
02.03

Groovy News: ‘Suburgatory’ Star Jane Levy Lands Lead In ‘Evil Dead’ Reboot!

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Newcomer Jane Levy is set to replace Lily Collins as the female lead in Ghost House Pictures’ upcoming Evil Dead reboot, Deadline reports. Levy will play recovering overdose victim Mia, a character meant to replace original protagonist Ash Williams, famously played by the mighty Bruce Campbell.

Fede Alverez, an aspiring Uruguayan filmmaker who caught Raimi’s attention with an ambitious four-minute-plus sci-fi short entitled Panic Attack, is directing the remake from his own script, punched up by Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body).

Levy is best known for her recurring role as Ian Gallagher’s girlfriend Mandy Milkovich on season two of Showtime’s “Shameless” and as daughter Tessa Altman on ABC’s family dramedy “Suburgatory.”

The Evil Dead reboot will be shot in New Zealand and is slated for release on April 12, 2013. Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood) costars.

2012
02.03

Things Get Grisly for Michaela McManus In ‘Endangered’

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“Vampire Diaries” recurring Michaela McManus may have gotten away from the supernatural creatures of Mystic Falls, but she’s not out of the woods yet. The pretty Rhode Island-born starlet will face-off against a killer grizzly bear in director David Hackl’s (Saw 5) Red Machine.

The film centers on two estranged brothers and their girlfriends as they attempt to escape from the bloodthirsty grizzly stalking them throughout the Alaskan wilderness. Production begins this month in Vancouver.

Red Machine stars James Marsden (Straw Dogs) and Thomas Jane (Punisher) as the estranged brothers, Piper Perabo (“Covert Affairs”) as Jane’s deaf girlfriend, and Billy Bob Thornton (Armageddon) as an expert bear hunter. Rounding out the cast are Scott Glenn (Sucker Punch), Adam Beach (Cowboys & Aliens) and Kelly Curran (Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas).

No word on what role McManus plays in the film (Marsden’s girlfriend?) but, should she get mauled early on, she can always be seen on the small-screen as part of NBC’s trippy parallel-lives drama “Awake,” premiering in March.

2012
02.02

Cougar Becomes the Hunted In New Sharon Stone Stalker Thriller!

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It’s been awhile since Sharon Stone parted her legs to seduce a man on the big screen, but the Basic Instinct star is still smoking. At least, that’s what W2 Media is banking on with their new stalker thriller Attachment.

Directed by Tony Kaye (American History X), the story finds Stone as a married woman tormented by the emotionally unstable college student she shared a one night fling with. Producers will shop the film at next week’s European Film Market in Berlin, Deadline reports.

Stone, whose genre creds include Total Recall, Sphere, Cold Creek Manor, and Diabolique, will soon be seen as Aphrodite in Marc Turtletaub’s (Little Miss Sunshine) big-screen adaptation of  British author Marie Phillips’ novel “Gods Behaving Badly.”

2012
02.02

Katherine Heigl Is Going ‘Face Blind’

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Unlikable rom-com actress Katherine Heigl will produce and star in the kinda dirty-sounding Face Blind. The film marks Heigl’s return to big-screen horror since 2001’s Valentine, in which she costarred with Wild Thing’s babe Denise Richards and “Bones” star David Boreanaz.

Heigl will play a psychologist stricken with prosopagnosia (face blindness), a neurological disorder caused by a lesion in the temporal lobe (that’s the part of the brain that allows us to remember people’s faces, duh.).

According to Deadline, which broke the story, Heigl’s character is stalked by a man who once terrorized one of her patients. Her condition, however, doesn’t allow her to identify the creep, and just ends up making her look crazy.

If Face Blind sounds familiar that’s because it’s pretty much a spot-on rehash of last year’s home-video original Faces in the Crowd, starring Milla Jovovich.

2012
02.02

Who Wants to Get Stranded On The Island of Megan Fox?

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Guys, grab your little buddy. It’s time to take a three hour minute tour to the Island of Megan Fox. The gorgeous 25-year-old stars in an ad for Brazilian language school CCAA in which two male plane crash survivors wash up on an isle of Megan Fox clones.

Decked out in crochet bikini tops, loincloth skirts and fur shawls, the sexy clones welcome the men to their paradise, but are soon put off by their inability to speak English. Deemed worthless, the guys are then banished to the scary island of former heavy-weight champ and convicted rapist Mike Tyson.

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2012
02.01

‘Dead Zone’ Starlet Nicole de Boer Twists & Shouts In ‘Metal Tornado’

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Although it’s not about a Sunset Strip hair-metal band, Accent Films Metal Tornado is every bit as ridiculous and every bit as awesome. Starring Canadian starlet Nicole de Boer, Lou Diamond Phillips and Briana Evigan’s dad, the film revolves around a magnetic twister destroying everything in its path.

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Boer has starred in a string of notable genre projects, including the very funny 2008 rock-n-roll vampire comedy Suck, Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 sci-fi masterpiece Cube, Paramount’s syndicated series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and USA’s “Stephen King’s Dead Zone.”

Metal Tornado is forecast to hit DVD on May 22, following its VOD premiere on May 8.

2012
02.01

‘Ironette’ Rachele Brooke Smith Dances with the Devil in ‘The Cloth”

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Professional dancer-turned-actress Rachele Brooke Smith is ready to tango with the devil. The Arizona-born stunner has joined writer/director Justin Price’s The Cloth, a horror-actioner starring Danny Trejo and Eric Roberts as priests fighting demonic possession …

… with shotguns and cool sci-fi gadgetry.

The very bendy Smith, whose dance skills have been featured in such fam-friendly productions as Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, Iron Man 2 (as an Ironette) and “Glee (the Britney Spears episode),” plays Julia, a possessed young woman who somehow still looks super hot.

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2012
01.31

Bear Necessities: Piper Perabo Joins Grizzly Thriller ‘Endangered’

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Piper Perabo (Carriers, “Covert Affairs”) is the first female lead cast in director David Hackl’s (Saw 5) upcoming killer grizzly thriller Red Machine. The pretty Texas-born stunner will star opposite Billy Bob Thorton (Sling Blade), James Marsden (Straw Dogs) and Thomas Jane (Punisher).

Written by Rick Cleveland (“Six Feet Under”) and J.R. Reher, Red Machine follows two estranged brothers (Marsden, Jane) and their girlfriends as they attempt to escape from the bloodthirsty grizzly stalking them throughout the Alaskan wilderness.

According to Deadline, Perabo will play a deaf photographer engaged to Jane’s character, whom she met while working the Iraq War. Production on the film begins this month in Vancouver.