Sweet news for horror fans. The Food Network is kicking off season three of “Halloween Wars” on Sunday, Oct. 6. The food challenge show pits five teams—made up of cake decorators, candy makers, and pumpkin carvers—against each other to create the most jaw dropping Halloween treat ever.
Hosted by Justice Willman (“Cupcake Wars”), the series features a panel of judges tasked with eliminating one team per episode until a $50,000 winner is announced. Each week, a celebrity arbiter from the horror world joins in on the judging.
Scream queen Danielle Harris (Halloween) will guest judge on the show’s premiere episode. Tony Todd (Candyman) will pop up in Episode 2. Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels on which HBO’s “True Blood” is based on, in Episode 3. Derek Mears, who played Jason in 2009’s Friday the 13th reboot, will guest judge on the final episode.
Archstone Distribution has released a new trailer for Cassadaga, a supernatural-slasher hybrid from director Anthony DiBlasi (Dread), starring “Mindy Project” recurring Kelen Coleman (pictured). The film arrives in selected theaters and on VOD on Oct. 11.
Cassadaga tells the story of a young and deaf art teacher who moves to a spiritual community in Florida after the tragic loss of her sister. Her healing is disrupted, however, by an angry spirit and a serial killer nicknamed Geppetto for his tendency to make living marionettes out of his victims.
Natalie Martinez (“Under the Dome”) is set to join Disney star Bella Thorne (“Shake It Up”) in Voltage Pictures’ Home Invasion. The microbudget film is helmed by commercials director Sean Carter and penned by newcomer Joseph Dembner. It goes into production this fall.
Home Invasion centers on a family taken captive in their own home by intruders looking the play a game of life and death based on a set of rules the family will learn as they go along. According to THR, Martinez will play Thorne’s stepmother, a woman determined to save her loved ones.
Martinez is coming off stupidly dull CBS summer series “Under the Dome.” Notable creds include Allen Hughes’ corruption drama Broken City, David Ayer’s cop-thriller End of Watch, and Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race reboot. She’ll next be seen opposite Ryan Reynolds in the sci-fi thriller Selfless.
“Game of Thrones” alumna Roxanne McKee is set to star in Syfy’s “Dominion,” a new day-of-reckoning series based on Screen Gems 2010 Paul Bettany vehicle Legion. The show picks up 25-years after the battle between man and angels began.
McKee will play a princess-like character living in one of mankind’s last surviving cities, Vega. Co-stars include Anthony Stewart Head (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) as president of the Senate of Vega, Luke Allen-Gale (Captain America) as a rival, and Shivani Ghai (“Eastenders”) as a foreign diplomat.
McKee is coming off the 2012 slasher Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines. She is best known for her portrayal of Doreah, handmaid to Dothraki queen Daenerys Targaryen on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”The sexy canuckhas also starred in the British lesbian drama “Lip Service” and the long-running teen soap “Hollyoaks.”
Rosario Dawson is set to star alongside Aaron Eckhart in Incarnate, a microbudget thriller from director Brad Peyton (Journey 2: Mysterious Island) and screenwriter Ronnie Christensen (Dark Tide) for Blumhouse Productions, producers of the Paranormal Activity, Purge, and Insidious franchises.
Incarnate tells the story of a rogue exorcist (Eckhart) with the ability to reach the subconscious mind of the demonically possessed. All hell breaks loose when he meets a nine-year-old boy consumed by a demon from his past. According to THR, production is slated for November in Los Angeles.
Dawson is coming off a fully nude turn in Danny Boyle’s crime thriller Trance. Her notable genre creds include Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Men in Black II and Percy Jackson & the Lightening Thief.
Full Stealth Films has set an Oct. 11 VOD release date for Nate Taylor’s directorial debut Forgetting the Girl. The psychological thriller stars Christopher Denham (Argo), Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”), Lindsay Beamish (Short Bus), Elizabeth Rice (“Mad Men”) and “True Blood” alumna Anna Camp (pictured).
Forgetting the Girl follows troubled photographer Kevin Wolfe (Denham) as he attempts to find a woman who will love him and help him forget about his traumatic past. Unfortunately for Wolfe, no one likes a gloomy Gus and he is repeatedly rejected to the point of using “desperate measures.”
Lacey Chabert is starring in Syfy’s new, surprisingly non-shark, original feature Scarecrow. Set to air Oct. 5 as part of the network’s Halloween programming, the film finds a group high school delinquents getting offed by an evil scarecrow while serving detention on a farm.
Scarecrow co-stars Brittney Wilson (“Bates Motel”), Nicole Munoz (“Defiance”), Julia Maxwell (American Mary), Lanie McAuley (Blood Brothers: Reign of Terror) and Robin Dunne (Species 3). A teaser for the flick has been released and it looks kinda fun.
Saxon Sharbino has joined producer Sam Raimi’s remake of Tobe Hooper’s 1982 supernatural blockbuster Poltergeist. Gil Kenan (Monster House) is attached to direct the film, written by David Lindsay-Abaire (Oz the Great and Powerful, Rise of the Guardians).
Poltergeist follows the Bowen family whose young daughter is abducted into another dimension by angry spirits. According to THR, Sharbino will play 16-year-old Kendra Bowen, the eldest of the family’s three kids. Sam Rockwell (Iron Man 2) and Rosemarie DeWitt (“United States of Tara”) star as the parents.
Sharbino is coming off the Fox drama “Touch.” The up-and-comer is no stranger to horror and has starred in such hardcore outings as Steven R. Monroe’s I Spit On Your Graveremake, the abduction thriller Julia X and the horror-dramaRed White & Blue.
Television actress Alanna Masterson is set to join season four of AMC’s monster hit zombie drama “The Walking Dead,” premiering Oct. 13. The news comes on the heels of Christian Serratos’ casting as survivor Rosita Espinosa.
According to Deadline, Masterson will be introduced mid-season as a zombie apocalypse survivor. She will recur throughout season four with an option to return as a regular in season five.
Masterson doesn’t have many notable projects under her belt, but she has guest starred on a few television series, including “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “Malcolm in the Middle,” “Greek” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Porn star newbie Layla Sin is set to star in Hitchhiker Massacre, a new indie-slasher from some guy named James Bills. The film follows a serial killer’s bloody trail as he slaughters people to harvest their organs for profit and serve their flesh to eat.
Time for some Horror! Very excited to get another mainstream part in a movie!
While we could not find Sin’s other mainstream credit, we did masturbate to stumble upon some of the 18-year-old’s more interesting work, including Fantasy Footjobs 14, Every Last Drop 27 and Lesbo Pool Party 2. Production on Hitchhiker Massacre is already underway in Los Angeles.
