Earlier this year, Sony Pictures announced it was looking to replace Rooney Mara in the role of emotionally disturbed hacker Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, a new volume in late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series – made popular by its first novel, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

Naturally, we assumed Megan Fox was a shoo-in. How else to keep the franchise alive after the initial’s release was met with a tepid response at the box office without the casting of a hot chick? The announcement reportedly drew interest for the role from stunners Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, and Alicia Vikander – all excellent choices.

Megan Fox Woulda Killed As Lizbeth Salander!

Sadly, the studio found an actress with less sex appeal than Mara: Claire Foy (“The Crown’s”). Has this Foy person even done a nude scene or semi-nude photo shoot? Was Fox really not available? I mean, c’mon, first screwed out of Wonder Woman role and now this!

Fede Alvarez, director of exceptional fright flicks Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead remake, is at the helm of the sequel.

Alvarez lied said:

I couldn’t be more thrilled about Claire taking the reins of the iconic Lisbeth Salander. Claire is an incredible, rare talent who will inject a new and exciting life into Lisbeth.  I can’t wait to bring this new story to a worldwide audience, with Claire Foy at its center.

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is the first book in what is collectively known as the Millennium Trilogy, novels by late Swedish author Stieg Larsson. They have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Larrson, a journalist and political activist, died of a heart attack at the age 50 in 2004. According to his longtime live-in girlfriend Eva Gabrielsson, he left behind pages to his unfinished fourth book in the series.

“The Girl in the Spider’s Web” is not based on those pages, but instead written by David Lagercrantz with the Larsson’s estate’s support. Gabrielsson calls Lagercrantz an “idiotic choice” for carrying on the book series.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web is slated for release Oct. 5, 2018.

Marilyn Manson has released a video for “We Know Where You Fucking Live,” the first single from his upcoming 10th album Heaven Upside Down,” available Oct. 6. The video follows Manson and a group of gun-wielding nuns as they torment and abuse a suburban family during a home invasion.

As a diehard Manson fan, the shenanigans seem just a little too obvious and uninspired at this point. But, as a Catholic school survivor, hot and fetishized nuns looking to rub their holiest of holies on dudes’ faces is absolutely brilliant and stroke-worthy.

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Jamie Lee Curtis is set to reprise her iconic role as Laurie Strode in a new and reportedly final Halloween sequel from horror hit machine Blumhouse and Universal Pictures. David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) directs and co-writes with longtime collaborator and actor Danny McBride (“Eastbound & Down”).

Curtis tweeted (along with the pic above):

Same porch. Same clothes. Same issues. 40 years later. Headed back to Haddonfield one last time for Halloween.

With Blumhouse in the driver’s seat and Halloween creator John Carpenter on board as executive producer, the new Curtis-starring film could be the best out of all the sequels and reboots in the franchise since Halloween IV! At the very least, we’ll get some quality dick jokes from Green and McBride.

The new Halloween is slated to release Oct. 19, 2018.

Netflix has set an Oct. 13 premiere date for The Babysitter, a horror-comedy from producer and director McG (Terminator: Salvation) for New Line Cinema, starring Bella Thorne and Aussie model-turned-actress Samara Weaving (Hugo Weaving’s daughter).

The Babysitter follows a 12-year-old boy (Judah Lewis) and his ridiculously hot nanny (Weaving) on a night when dreadful things occur. If that’s not enough to pique your interest, Thorne and Weaving share a sultry lesbian scene in the film as well.

Thorne told ET Canada:

It’s super controversial, it will be a lot to deal with. There’s this really slow-mo girl on girl scene, with me and the main character.

Fox Searchlight has released a trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed creature-feature, The Shape of Water. Sally Hawkins (Godzilla) plays a lonely deaf woman working as a janitor in a government lab who falls for a merman being used in top secret experiments during the Cold War, circa 1962 America.

Judging by the trailer, there won’t be many endearingly awkward lobster dinners between the pair being that researchers have their own plans for the creature. The Shape of Water is written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (Divergent). It arrives in theaters Dec. 8

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Well Go USA has released a trailer for Better Watch Out, a home invasion thriller from Chris Peckover, writer/director of 2010’s timely and frightening immigration thriller Undocumented. Aussie stunner Olivia DeJonge stars as a babysitter tormented during the Christmas holiday by trespassers unlike any others.

Better Watch Out co-stars Levi Miller (Pan) as DeJonge’s charge, Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Patrick Warburton (”Seinfeld”) as his parents, and Ed Oxenbould, DeJonge’s co-star in M. Night Shyamalan’s comeback sleeper, The Visit.

Better Watch Out arrives in theaters and VOD Oct. 6.

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Halloween season is upon us and if you’re getting that sinking feeling that you’re gonna miss out on something big then obviously you haven’t purchased your tickets to this year’s Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor event, featuring the launch of an all-new fourth ship maze! Fortunately, you haven’t missed the boat.

Running select nights from Sept. 28 through Nov. 1 at the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach, Dark Harbor 2017 unleashes seven maddening mazes, hundreds of ghouls, monsters, and sea-faring creeps, immersive attractions, live undead entertainment, tasty slop, and intoxicating spirits (yes, we mean booze!).

Feast is this year’s new maze and it marks the fourth on board the Queen Mary vessel. This is mind-blowing news as the ship’s mazes are unparalleled in eeriness with the uncanny ability to scare and disturb without the aid of hellish creatures – though they appear as well, those sick paranormal pranksters!

Feast tells the tale of Chef, a culinary genius at serving up WWII soldiers as flavorful delicacies, burnt alive in his own oven upon discovery from the ship’s crew. Not one to let a bad review torpedo his career, the Chef returns from the dead with new fish to fry. Feast joins Lullaby, Soulmate, and B340 as the ship mazes, taking guests deep into the engine rooms, corridors, and galleys.

The docks will see more intensified versions of returning mazes Intrepid, Circus Big Top Terror, and Deadrise – an intricate maze so well crafted and long (and wet) it’s easy to get sucked into its story and believe it is a sunken World War II escort ship haunted by drowned mariners and their fearsome Captain.

Tickets – including online deals – are available now and can be purchased at the Dark Harbor website. Check out our reviews for Dark Harbor: 2016, 2014, and 2013.

Entertainment Studios has set a Sept. 22 theatrical release date for Friend Request, a social media themed frightener starring Alycia Debnam-Carey (“Fear the Walking Dead”) as a popular college coed who unfriends an emotionally unstable misfit from her social media, triggering the freak’s suicide.

Unfortunately for everyone, the nut-job’s death unleashes a curse that threatens their lives online and off and leads to the exiling of Debnam-Carey’s character, whose social media is compromised by the dead psycho’s supernatural hacking abilities and made to post each horrific demise on her feed.

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Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for its sequel to director Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners, a 1990 sci-fi thriller about med-school students conducting near-death experiments to see what lies in the afterlife. Niels Arden Oplevscribe (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) directs and Ben Ripley (Source Code) pens.

Nina Dobrev (“Vampire Diaries”) is the group’s hot chick and so we all will rightfully want her to survive over co-stars Diego Luna (Rogue One), Ellen Page (Juno), Kiersey Clemens (Neighbors 2) and James Norton (Rush). But, for our Redbox dollar, we’re most invested in model/actress Charlotte McKinney’s fate.

McKinney, who first came to fame in a Carl’s Jr. ad for Super Bowl XLIX in which she jiggly struts through a farmer’s market seeming nude, plays a nurse with enormous boobs who has sex with Norton’s character. That’s all we know – no thanks to this trailer which keeps McKinney outta sight! Asshole trailer.

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Screen Gems has released a trailer for Keep Watching, a home invasion thriller first announced in 2013 and starring former Disney star Bella Thorne as a hot teen whose family is forced to play a game of kill or be killed, streamed online to the few people not surfing Amazon and PornHub.

Thorne plays Jamie, a disillusioned teenager with a secret. No release date yet, but it’s another notch on Thorne’s horror belt as she continues to mature into a proper scream queen with roles in MTV’s “Scream,” Amityville: The Awakening, Forget Me Not, and McG’s upcoming Babysitter.

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