The truth is out there… and it is sad for fans of Showtime’s sexy and quirky comedy “Californication.” The show ends this year. But, all is not lost. David Duchovny, the show’s protagonist, is set to return to broadcast TV in a 13-episode NBC event series guaranteed to please horror fans.

“Aquarius” stars Duchovny as a Los Angeles police sergeant in the 1960’s investigating a young hooligan and charismatic cult leader named Charles Manson. The show is written by John McNamara (“In Plain Sight”). Duchovny serves as an executive producer.

Said NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke:

Event series are a big priority for us, and the combination of a show that charts the lead-up to the Manson murders, along with a television star of the magnitude of David Duchovny, is the very definition of an event.

Duchovny is, of course, best known for his role as FBI agent Fox Mulder on the Fox TV show “The X-Files.”

Awhile back, Clatto was fortunate enough to catch legendary horror director Stuart Gordon’s “Re-Animator: The Musical” during its Los Angeles run at The Steve Allen Theater. To this day, it remains one of the strangest and most fun evenings we have ever experienced (read our review here).

Well, Gordon is back with another, possibly more twisted, bit of theater: “Taste.” Written by playwright Benjamin Brand, “Taste” tells the shocking, true story of two men who meet online and “make a unique arrangement: one will kill, cook, and eat the other.”

Presented by Sacred Fools Theater Company, The Schramm Group LLC, and Red Hen Productions, “Taste” imagines their first and only meeting, told in real time, in a working kitchen. The play runs from April 11 – May 17 at the Sacred Fools Theater located at 660 N. Heliotrope, Hollywood, CA 90004.

Preview shows take place April 4 – 6 and April 10. A special Q&A session with Gordon will be held after each of these performance. Ticket info can be found here. Due to the play’s strong sexual content and imagery, no one under 18 will be admitted.

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW

True crime fans will recognize the story behind “Taste” to be that of Armin Meiwes, a German homosexual man sentenced to life imprisonment after slaughtering and eating Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, a willing victim he met in an internet chatroom in 2001.

Meiwes, who had fantasized about eating friends since the age of 12, viewed the act as a form of communion, a manner in which to keep someone close. Unfortunately, he grew impatient waiting for Brandes to die, and stabbed him to death.

He then hung Brandes on a hook and sliced him up into chunks. He videotaped the entire ordeal. For the following 10 months, he fed on Brandes meat. He was convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in 2004. After a retrial in 2005, he was given life imprisonment for being a sick fuck.

Meiwes has since become a vegetarian.

Open Road Films has released a red-band trailer for A Haunted House 2, a sequel to last year’s hit horror-comedy from Marlon Waynes and director Mike Tiddes. Waynes reprises his role as Malcolm, a man whose ex-girlfriend was possessed by demons and who is now starting his life over with a new family.

Jamie Pressly (“My Name Is Earl”) co-stars in the film as Malcolm’s hot new wife. She doesn’t get much time in the new trailer, a clever and humorous take on Facebook’s Look Back movie campaign, but we do get some kinky-hot shots of Annabelle, The Conjuring’s possessed doll, going nude.

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Warner Bros. has released a trailer for its new tornado thriller Into the Storm, starring “The Walking Dead’s” Sarah Wayne Callies (Rick Grimes’ annoying and adulteress wife, Lori) as a meteorologist teamed up with a storm chaser during a series of violent twisters in an Oklahoma town.

The trailer teases some pretty awesome destruction and provides a peep at a variety of twisters just short of a Sharknado, including fiery funnel clouds! Into the Storm is directed by Steven Quale (Final Destination 5) and written by John Swetnam (Evidence). It hits theaters on Aug. 8.

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Disney star Bella Thorne (“Shake It Up”) is set to star in Blumhouse Productions and Dimension Films’ Amityville. Directed by Franck Khalfoun (Maniac) and written by Casey La Scala (The Remaining) and Daniel Farrands (The Girl Next Door), the film is a remake of 1979’s The Amityville Horror.

Amityville stars Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female) as a single mother who with her three children moves into a new house in Amityville, New York. Unfortunately for the new transplants, the house wants them gone. According to The Wrap, Thorne plays Leigh’s daughter.

The film is the newest in a string of horror films Thorne’s been taking on. The teen starlet, best known for playing aspiring pop singer CeCe Jones on the Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up,” recently wrapped the home-invasion thriller Home, and has starred in Forget Me Not and The Seer.

Image Entertainment will release All Cheerleaders Die May 8 on VOD and June 13 in selected theaters. The horror-comedy is a remake of the 2001 Lucky McKee (The Woman) slasher, and is written and directed by McKee and Chris Sivertson (I Know Who Killed Me).

All Cheerleaders Die stars Caitlin Stasey (I, Frankenstein) as a rebellious teen who joins her high school cheerleading squad after experiencing a tragic event. Her decision pisses off the popular cheerleaders and her loner, black magic practicing ex-girlfriend, played by Sianoa Smit-McPhee (”Hung”).

Additional co-stars include sexy newcomers Brooke Butler, Amanda Grace Cooper, Felisha Cooper, Sidney Allison, Nadia Boceski and Reanin Johannink (I Survived a Zombie Holocaust). The film’s new poster is posted above, and comes via Fangoria.

Paramount Pictures has released a trailer for Megan Fox’s mutant turtle movie. Fox plays a reporter named April O’Neil, and looks absolutely stunning in the role. She really is… what’s that? You actually care about the stupid turtles? Fine. Have it your way.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is producer Michael Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman’s reboot of the popular comic first published in 1984 by Mirage Studios. It centers on four turtles that mutate into crime fighting humanoids after being exposed to radioactive slime… did I mention Megan Fox is in this?

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Universal has released a new trailer for Blumhouse Productions’ The Purge: Anarchy, a sequel to the studio’s surprise hit The Purge. Once again written and directed by James Demonaco, the film follows groups of people going ape shit on the streets during country’s annual Purge.

The Purge is a government sanctioned 12-hour night during which all criminal activity is permissible by law, including murder, rape, and illegal music downloads. The Purge: Anarchy stars Frank Grillo (The Grey), Carmen Ejogo (Alex Cross), Michael K. Williams (”Boardwalk Empire”), and Kiele Sanchez (”LOST”).

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Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for Jupiter Ascending, an epic sci-fi actioner from Matrix directors Lana and Andy Wachowski. Mila Kunis (Ted) plays Jupiter Jones, a beautiful Russian immigrant stuck cleaning toilets up until she discovers her genetic signature puts her in line to be Queen of the Universe.

Channing Tatum (Magic Mike) also stars as a genetically engineered intergalactic bounty hunter sent to earth to find her. Rounding out the cast are Korean starlet Doona Bae (Cloud Atlas), Eddie Redmayne (Les Miserables), Douglas Booth (Noah), and Sean Bean (”Game of Thrones”).

Jupiter Ascending opens July 18.

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Porn superstar and Penthouse Pet Tori Black joins living genre legend Danny Trejo and “O.C.” star Mischa Barton in Martin Owen’s feature debut L.A. Slasher, a horror comedy about a killer who publicly abducts a group of “reality” TV stars to prove to society that they’re better off without them.

Black plays the Teen Mom character, while Trejo portrays a drug dealer, and Barton toplines the film as the Actress. The film costars Brooke Hogan as the Reality Star, Drake Bell as the Pop Star, Elizabeth Morris as The Heiress, Eric Roberts as the Mayor, and Andy Dick as the voice of the L.A. Slasher.

Black made her horror debut in the 2012 indie werewolf frightener Half Moon, earning her a spot on Clatto’s esteemed list of The 12 Hottest Porn Star Crossovers in Horror.