A German trailer for Cabin Fever: Patient Zero has gone online. The film is the newest entry in the Cabin Fever franchise and serves as a prequel. Kaare Andrews (Altitude) directs from a script by Jake Wade Wall, writer of the awesome Amusement and The Hitcher and When a Stranger Calls remakes.
Patient Zero follows friends on a Caribbean holiday who start to fall victim to a flesh-eating disease. A mysterious stranger unaffected by the outbreak holds the key to their salvation or demise. Cast includes Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), Jillian Murray (The Graves), and model/actress Lydia Hearst (pictured).
Lionsgate has released a trailer for Philippe Caland’s Repentance, formerly titled Vipaka. The psychological thriller stars Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Mike Epps, Sanaa Lathan, and “Revolution” stunner Nicole Ari Parker (pictured).
Set in New Orleans, Repentance centers on Angel Sanchez, an emotionally unstable contractor (Whitaker) who abducts and torments his newly hired life coach (Mackie) and family when his life fails to get better. Parker plays his beautiful wife Sophie.
Parker, who played porn star Becky Barnett in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, currently stars on NBC’s sci-fi drama series “Revolution” as Justine Allenford, a Patriot gone rogue.
Posted here for your viewing pleasure are pictures of Vanessa Hudgens on the set of The Kitchen Sink, a horror-comedy in which a group of teens join forces with vampires and zombies to fight off an alien invasion. The film is directed by Robbie Pickering (Natural Selection) from a 2010 Black List script by Oren Uziel.
The shots show Hudgens taking a call, stuffing her face with chips and a tasty beverage, and wearing a white and flimsy blood stained dress.
Hudgens plays a popular teen whose life is in danger when aliens invade earth. Hudgens, who came to fame in Disney’s High School Musical franchise, has starred in a string of genre offerings, including Beastly, Sucker Punch, Frozen Ground and Machete Kills.
Open Road has released the first trailer for A Haunted House 2, a sequel to this 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. Sadly, she doesn’t get a lot of screen time in the trailer. Instead, we get “fluffy” comedian Gabriel Iglesias to look at. That’s all right. We’ll always have Poison Ivy: The New Seduction.
A Haunted House 2 arrives in theaters on March 28, 2014.
Annabeth Gish (“The Bridge”) joins Kate Bosworth (Straw Dogs) and Thomas Jane (The Punisher) in Somnia, a new thriller from writer and director Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Absentia) and co-writer Jeff Howard (Oculus). Production on the film is already underway.
Somnia tells the story of an orphaned boy whose dreams and nightmares become reality while he sleeps. Gish stars as the MILFY case worker assigned to his case. Bosworth and Jane play the boy’s concerned parents.
Gish is coming off the white-knuckle FX crime drama “The Bridge” and A&E’s miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones.” She also starred as FBI agent Monica Reyes on the eighth and ninth seasons of “The X-Files,” and as the mysterious Lita on ABC’s short-lived series “FlashForward.”
Ashley Greene (Twilight Saga) is set to star in fright legend Joe Dante’s new horror comedy Burying the Ex. Greene stars as Evelyn, a manipulative and possessive woman who returns from the dead after dying in a freak accident to claim her boyfriend, Max (Anton Yelchin), from the living.
Burying the Ex co-stars stunner Alexandra Daddario as Olivia, the beautiful woman Max hooks up with after his girlfriend’s tragic demise. The film is scripted by Alan Trezza and is based on his short of the same name.
Greene is coming off Dark Castle’s not-so-supernatural flop The Apparition. She will next be seen in the Weinstein Company’s Random, formerly titled Satanic. Greene is best known for her role as Edward’s adopted little sister, Alice Cullen, in Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Saga.
Wondering what “Game of Thrones” star Natalia Tena was doing yesterday? She was hard at work on a new paranormal thriller from Matador Pictures and Content Media. Yeah, that’s no reason for her not to have answered your calls… your heavy breathing is just asthma, we know.
Residue is the name of the film and it began production today under the helm of TV director Alex Garcia (“Utopia”). Created and written by John Harrison (Book of Blood), the story follows photojournalist Jennifer Preston as she uncovers a supernatural cause behind an explosion that has left her city in chaos.
Tena is best known for playing Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter franchise and Osha, protector of young Rickon Stark, in HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
Lifetime has set a Jan. 25 premiere date for Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, a biopic based on the notorious life of Lizzie Borden, the acquitted suspect in the 1892 hatchet murders of her parents Andrew and Abby Borden. The film is directed by Nick Gomez (”Flash Forward”) and stars Christina Ricci in the titular role.
Co-starring alongside Ricci are Billy Campbell (“Helix”) and Clea DuVal (Argo). The film marks Ricci’s return to horror since 2009’s After.Life, in which she toplessly played the victim of an automobile accident who wakes up in the morgue, but is told by the mortician that she is dead.
Ricci’s creds include a string of memorable frighteners and thrillers, including Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, Wes Craven’s Cursed, the sexy abduction drama Black Snake Moan and the biopic Monster, based on serial killer Aileen Wuornos and her lesbian lover.
Mexican pop star and actress Eiza González (“Amores Verdaderos”) has got some big heels—and bra!— to fill as Titty Twister stripper and vampire-queen Santánico Pandemonium in the small screen adaptation of Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Till Dawn.”
“From Dusk Till Dawn” is a re-imagining of Rodriguez’s 1996 film of the same name, written by Quentin Tarantino and featuring George Clooney in his first lead movie role and Salma Hayek in her most memorable as the film’s original Santánico Pandemonium.
In addition to González, the 10-episode series stars D.J. Cotrona (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) as Seth Gecko, Zane Holtz (Vampires Suck) as Richie Gecko, Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) as Jacob Fuller, Madison Davenport (Noah) as Kate Fuller, Brandon Soo Hoo (Ender’s Game) as Scott Fuller.
Rounding out the cast are Don Johnson as Sheriff Earl McGraw and “Sons of Anarchy” recurring Jesse Garcia as Texas Ranger Freddie Gonzales. “From Dusk Till Dawn” will air on Rodriguez’s El Rey Network, a new genre cable channel debuting in December.
“Arrow” star Caity Lotz stars in Content Media’s upcoming sci-fi thriller The Machine. Written and directed by someone named Caradog James, the film stars Lotz as an artificial intelligence expert turned cyborg by a scientists working for Britain’s Ministry of Defense.
Lotz, who plays heroine Canary on The CW’s superhero series “Arrow,” is trained in Tae Kwon Do and Muai Thai, disciplines that make her a genuine ass kicker in The Machine.
Lotz is an up-and-comer best known for her recurring role as Anna Draper’s niece on AMC’s “Mad Men.” She played Officer Kirsten Landry on MTV’s short-lived horror-comedy show “Death Valley” and toplined writer/director Nicholas McCarthy’s creepy ghost story, The Pact.
