Relativity Studios has released the official U.S. trailer for Hammer Films’ The Women in Black: Angel of Death, a sequel to its 2012 supernatural hit starring Daniel Radcliffe. Directed by Tom Harper and written by Jon Croker and “Woman in Black” author Susan Hill.

Angel of Death stars Phoebe Fox (Eye in the Sky) and Helen McCrory (“Penny Dreadful”) as teachers evacuating a group of schoolchildren to the Eel Marsh House for shelter during London bombings of World War II. The sequel is set 40 years after the events of the original film. It opens Jan. 2, 2015.

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“Falling Skies” alumna Jessy Schram is set to co-star alongside Christina Ricci in the Lifetime six-episode limited series “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.” The series is a followup to the network’s hit original movie “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe.”

Ricci reprises her role as Lizzie Borden, the acquitted suspect in the 1892 hatchet murders of her parents Andrew and Abby Borden. Schram plays an “alluring and ambitious” actress and dancer who befriends Lizzie. The series follows Lizzie after her acquittal and introduces a new murder mystery.

Schram is best known for her roles as Karen Nadler on TNT’s alien invasion series “Falling Skies” and Cinderella on ABC’s fairy tale series “Once Upon a Time.” On the big screen, she had a bit part in the runaway train thriller Unstoppable.

Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween) has been tapped to star in Get the Girl, an abduction indie from Contracted and Madison County writer and director Eric England. Set to roll camera this fall in Los Angeles, the film tells the tale of a rich kid conned into staging a kidnapping that goes terribly wrong.

Compton has starred in a number of notable frighteners, including Takashi Shimizu’s 7500, AfterDark 8 Films to Die For entry Wicked Little Things and the Butcher Brothers’ remake of the 1986 comedic-slasher April Fool’s Day.

She’s best known for taking on the iconic role of Laurie Strode in Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween 2 re-imaginings.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment has set a Jan. 20 DVD and VOD release date for Gnome Alone, starring Verne Troyer as a murderous troll not left home all alone to fend off harebrained intruders. Despite its awesome title, the film’s plot appears to be more traditional.

The synopsis reads:

When timid college student Zoe witnesses a hit-and-run, the dying victim gives her a strange amulet. Suddenly, all those who have offended Zoe in her life begin dying horrible deaths at the hands of a malicious gnome. When Zoe discovers the horrible history behind the amulet, will she be able to harness its magical power before the gnome begins killing those closest to her?

Troyer, best known for his role as Mini Me in the Austin Powers movies, is garnering a lot of buzz for Gnome Alone, and truth-be-told he looks pretty creepy. But, at Clatto, we’re more excited to see Aria London (pictured above) play a cop in the movie. We don’t know who she is, but she could be the next Jennifer Aniston (Leprechaun).

Groovy news for fans of The Evil Dead and its reluctant hero Ash. Starz announced today its new “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” television series for 2015 from producers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, who reprises his role as boomstick bad boy Ashley J. Williams.

Raimi said:

Evil Dead has always been a blast. Bruce, Rob, and I are thrilled to have the opportunity to tell the next chapter in Ash’s lame, but heroic saga. With his chainsaw arm and his ‘boomstick,’ Ash is back to kick some monster butt. And brother, this time there’s a truckload of it.

“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” picks up 30-years later after Ash’s last battle with the Deadites. He’s forced out of hiding when evil forces emerge to eat all of humanity’s soul. Raimi will co-write and direct the pilot episode. The series will include 10 30-minute episodes.

Margot Robbie, the beautiful and very nude star of Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street, is reportedly set to star as Harley Quinn in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, an adaptation of the DC Comic about a group of super-villains brought together by a government agency.

Harley Quinn is the Joker’s emotionally damaged girlfriend, a former Arkham Asylum psychiatrist manipulated by the Joker to aid in his evil ways. Jared Leto is currently in talks to play the Joker. News comes via Collider.

Prior to her breakthrough role as Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie starred in Richard Curtis’ time-traveling rom-com About Time, on NBC’s short-lived drama “Pan Am” and in the Australian horror film I.C.U.

Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator: The Musical returned to the stage this year after a much too long three year hiatus. Featuring new songs and arrangements, a couple of fresh faces, and everything that made it so special and fun its first time out, the show was brought back this year for a limited Halloween engagement, but is now playing through Nov. 23 at The Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles, CA.

Adapted from Gordon’s classic 1985 film, Re-Animator: The Musical follows med school students Herbert West and Dan Cain as they set out to test West’s reanimating serum on human corpses, triggering a chain of tragic and horrific events. Graham Skipper reprises the role of West and Darren Ritchie makes his debut as Cain.

Skipper as West is fantastic, mixing the maniacal intensity of the maddest of scientists with the bratty menace of a spoiled child. It’s impossible to take one’s eyes off him, especially during hilariously gut-busting numbers like “I Give Life,” an ode to West’s God complex, “Plagiat,” West’s attack on adversary and plagiarist Dr. Hill, and “Hooray,” a new opening song celebrating the end of death.

Ritchie’s performance is solid and brings to life Cain’s enthusiasm for West’s work and his strained relationship with fiancée Megan Halsey, played by stunner Jessica Howell. The duo shine together when arguing over wedding plans in a duet so funny and cute it could have been part of a Gene Kelly musical.

International opera singer Jesse Merlin is back as West’s nemesis Dr. Hill. Merlin’s voice is what all of us would love to hear when we sing in the shower and our automobiles. Paired with Mark Nutter’s whimsical score and twisted lyrics, it makes for some of the musical’s most memorable numbers, including the plagiarist anthem “I Will Be Famous” and Hill’s pervy, lovesick serenade for Megan.

Going into Re-Animator: The Musical one expects camp and laughs, but what one doesn’t see coming is the immensely talented group of people behind the show. Clatto can only imagine how awesome it would be to see the show adapted as a movie musical like Rocky Horror Picture Show, with Nutter’s compositions, Gordon’s direction and Skipper and Merlin in their respective roles.

Re-Animator: The Musical ends its Los Angeles run at the Steve Allen Theater on Nov. 23. It heads to Las Vegas for its Jan. 6 – Jan. 18 run at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. For tickets and information on the L.A. run, click here or call 800-595-4849. For Vegas, click here or call 702-749-2000.

To read Clatto’s review of the show’s 2011 run, click here.

A trailer has gone online for writer and director Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry.  “Rookie Blue” star Missy Peregrym toplines the thriller as Jenn, a corporate lawyer dragged to the Canadian wilderness by her outdoorsy boyfriend (Jeff Roop) only to face off against a bloodthirsty bear.

Backcountry marks MacDonald’s directorial debut and co-stars Eric Balfour (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Nicholas Campbell (Haven), and Melanie Mullen (Dead Before Dawn).  Its world premiere was held this year at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Syfy has released a new trailer for its TV adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s 1995 sci-fi classic 12 Monkeys. Aaron Stanford (“Nikita”) plays Cole, a time traveler from the future looking to save the human race by going back to present day to prevent what will become a deadly plague.

Amanda Schull (“Suits”) and Emily Hampshire  are also along for the ride as virologist Dr. Cassandra Railly, whom Cole abducts to help him, and mental patient Jennifer Goines, daughter of the man who creates the virus responsible for humanity’s demise, respectively.

Stanford lacks the intensity Bruce Willis brought to the original, but Emily Hampshire as a crazed hottie in place of Brad Pitt is a giant bowl of awesome. Here’s hoping Schull shares Madeleine Stowe’s enthusiasm for going nude… you know, for artistic reasons.

“12 Monkeys” premieres on Syfy on Jan. 16, 2015.

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“90210” star and scream queen Jessica Lowndes is set to join horror kingpin Darren Lynn Bousman’s long gestating fright show Abattoir. Lowndes plays a real estate reporter caught up in an urban legend about a house built out of haunted rooms.

About the project, Bousman said:

I have been working to get Abattoir made for the last 4 years. At times, it feels like it has been a non-stop push to see this thing into production. But reading the script, and looking at our cast, it has all been worth it. I couldn’t be more excited about the team I am surrounded with.

Horror fans caught their first looks at Lowndes in 2008’s cult smash Autopsy and tween sleeper The Haunting of Molly Hartley. She has since starred in Altitude and Bousman’s The Devil’s Carnival, but is best known for playing junkie actress Adrianna Tate-Duncan on The CW’s “90210” reboot.