Lou Diamond Philips is set to play satanic serial killer Richard Ramirez in Megan Griffiths’ The Night Stalker. The film centers on a lawyer attempting to get a confession out of Ramirez to save a client from the death penalty. Ramirez’s real-life murder spree in LA from 1984 – 1985 serves as back-story.
Ramirez was captured on August 29th by outraged residents of East L.A. who recognized him from mug shots printed on newspapers, giving chase when he tried to steal a vehicle to flee police. He was found guilty on 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries.
Ramirez was sentenced to death in 1989, but died of lymphoma while on death row in San Quentin in 2013.
“Pretty Little Liars” star Ashley Benson toplines Branden Kramer’s feature directorial debut Ratter, a disturbing cyber-thriller about a New York graduate student stalked online and off by a “ratter” hacking into all her technical devices and accounts.
Ratter is based on Kramer’s 2012 short Webcam and has been picked up by Sony Pictures for worldwide distribution. Webcam has been viewed more than six million times on Vimeo.
Benson is best known for playing bulimic turned bombshell diva Hanna Marin on ABC Family’s “Pretty Little Liars,” but is also permanently etched in the brains of the few of us who saw Spring Breakers as Brit, the hottest and bustiest of the film’s bikini-clad armed robbers.
Model and actress Kate Nauta stars in Avalanche Sharks, releasing OnDemand June 30 from MarVista Digital Entertainment. Nauta faces off against supernatural maneaters awakened and freed during a Bikini Snow Day event at a popular ski resort.
Horror fans may have seen Nauta in the indies The Somnambulist, Choose, Nine Miles Down, and the Fearnet webseries “Fear Clinic,” but she’s best known for her role as lingerie-clad assassin Lola in Luc Besson’s 2005 sequel Transporter 2.
Avalanche Sharks is directed by Scott Wheeler (Sink Hole) and co-stars stunners Gina Holden (SAW: Final Chapter), Kelle Cantwell (Deadgirl), Erika Jordan (Sharknado 3), Erin Ross (Catching Faith), Mika Brooks (Lowlifes) and fetish porn star Emily Addison (Bad Bosses in Bondage).
This truly looks more fun than Sharknado and it has bikinis and no Ian Ziering!
Pop singer Demi Lovato joins season two of Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Till Dawn,” premiering Aug. 25 on the El Rey Network. Based on Rodriguez’s 1996 vampire thriller of the same name, the show expands on the misadventures of murderous fugitives the Gecko Brothers and those in pursuit of them.
Who did Lovato blow for the role? Wilmer Valderrama of course! But, it’s okay; they’re an item don’t you know! No word on Lovato’s character, but she reportedly only pops up in the final episode of the new season.
“From Dusk Till Dawn” stars D.J. Cotrona and Zane Holtzas Seth and Richie Gecko, Valderrama as serpent villain Carlos Madrigal, Briana Evigan as forgery expert Sonja, Danny Trejo as demonic baddie The Regulator, and stunner Eiza González as vampire queen Santánico Pandemonium.
Lionsgate has released a trailer for Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah, an adaptation of Robert C. O’Brien’s post apocalyptic novel, starring Margot Robbie (Wolf of Wall Street), Chris Pine (Star Trek) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave).
Set in the wake of nuclear war, Z for Zachariah tells the fucked up story of the last black man on earth (Ejiofor) as he stumbles upon the last white woman on earth (Robbie) only to have the last white man on earth (Pines) show up and cock-block him.
Starz has released a new teaser for its upcoming series “Ash Vs. Evil Dead.” The show is produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, reprising his role as antihero Ashley J. Williams. Co-stars include Lucy Lawless (Spartacus”), Jill Marie Jones (“Sleepy Hollow”), Mimi Rogers (The Rapture).
“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” picks up 30-years after Ash’s last battle with the Deadites and finds the reluctant hero forced out of hiding to stop a new uprising. Lawless plays a mysterious woman out to nix the source of the evil, who she happens to think is Ash.
IFC Midnight has set a July 3 VOD release date for visual effects artist Benni Diez’s feature film, Stung. Model/actress Jessica Cook stars as a catering employee hired for an extravagant garden party where illegally acquired fertilizer mutates Ichneumon wasps into seven-foot monsters.
An average sized wasp is enough to make the strongest of us scream and run like children. Now, imagine a giant parasitic wasp looking to lay eggs inside your body! Diez loads laughs into the outrageous horror-comedy, but we’ll be damned if it ain’t a disturbing concept. We’re buzzing with anticipation!
Magnet Releasing has released a trailer for Thomas Daley’s feature film debut Tiger House, a home invasion thriller starring “Skins” actress Kaya Scodelario (pictured). The film is written by new scribe Simon Lewis, and costars Ed Skrein (”Game of Thrones”) and Dougray Scott (”Hemlock Grove”).
Scodelario plays Kelly, an injured high school gymnast attempting to save the lives of her boyfriend and his family when armed thugs break into their home and take them captive. Tiger House releases on DVD and VOD in October.
Those worried they’d never see British stunner Kate Beckinsale’s vinyl-clad tush in another Underworld entry can now rejoice! The good people at Screen Gems have delivered enough dump trucks full of cash to Beckinsale’s door ensure her return for a new sequel.
Beckinsale will reprise her role as death dealer Selene in Underworld 5 with “Outlander” director Anna Foerster at the helm, working off a script by Priest scribe Cory Goodman. Production takes place in Prague in October.
No word on the film’s plot other than it will introduce a younger generation of feuding vampires and werewolves. Beckinsale is comming off last year’s psychological thriller Stonehearst Asylum and 2012’s Total Recallre-do and Underworld: Awakening.
Lionsgate has released a full-length trailer for fright master Eli Roth’s Knock Knock, a psycho-sexual thriller blending every married man’s greatest fantasy with his worst fear. Keanu Reeves stars as a happily wed man who regrettably allows two hot young girls into his home while his family is away.
Cuban stunner Ana de Armas (El Callejon) and Chilean model/actress Lorenza Izzo (Green Inferno) play the sadistic and sex-crazed visitors. Roth wrote Knock Knock with his Aftershock collaborators Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo.
