Kate Bosworth (Straw Dogs) is set to join 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 begins this week.

Somnia tells the story of an orphaned boy whose dreams and nightmares become reality while he sleeps. Bosworth and Jane play the boy’s parents.

Bosworth is coming off “The League’s” Katie Aselton’s girl-power thriller Black Rock and has starred in such notable genre offerings as Screen Gems’ remake of Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 home-invasion thriller Straw Dogs and Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns.

Noomi Rapace is set to star in Tommy Wirkola’s new sci-fi thriller What Happened to Monday? Rapace will play multiple roles as septuplet sisters trying to survive in an overpopulated world where siblings are outlawed. When one goes missing, they all risk exposure to find her.

Wirkola, the writer and director of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and Dead Snow, said the lead was rewritten for Rapace after meeting with her.

He said:

Although the role was originally written for a male, I was struck by the complexities of having an actor portray seven characters and immediately knew Noomi was the ideal actor — male or female — to bring them to life.

Rapace is coming off Brian de Palma’s lesbian thriller Passion and Ridley Scotts’ Prometheus. She, of course, scored her big break playing Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl Who Played with Fire, Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest).

A trailer has gone online for husband and wife producers Jennifer Blanc and Michael Biehn’s Hidden in the Woods, a remake of Chilean filmmaker Patricio Vallardes’ incest-fueled, rape-happy survival thriller En Las Afueras de La Ciudad.

Electra Avellan and Jeannine Kaspar play sisters repeatedly raped and tormented by their backwoods, drug dealing father until the day he murders two cops and is sent to the pokey. The girls barely have time to pull up their knickers when their drug lord uncle shows up to collect the money their father owes him.

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Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) is set to star in Visions, a new micro-budgeted frightener from Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, The Purge). She joins Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang”) and old people actor Ellen Barkin (Sea of Love).

Visions stars Fisher as a pregnant woman who starts to have disturbing visions while with her husband at his vineyard home. Parsons plays the lovable misfit next door in the Green Lantern tee because what else could he be? Kevin Greutert (SAW 6) directs from a script by Lucas Sussman (Below).

Fisher is coming off Louis Leterrier’s heist flick Now You See Me and Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby. She’s best known for playing Vince Vaughn’s neurotic conquest in Wedding Crashers. Visions marks Fisher’s return to horror since co-starring in the 2001 indie horror The Pool.

Actress Jaimie Alexander’s vagina stole Thor’s thunder at the Los Angeles premiere of Thor: The Dark World. The gorgeous brunette wore a sheer black panel dress revealing much of her stunning figure, including her own dark world regions.

Alexander is said to be in the running to play Wonder Woman in Zack Snyder’s eagerly anticipated Batman vs. Superman… well played, Alexander, well played.

Thor: The Dark World finds the Norse god (Chris Hemsworth) bringing the hammer down on Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston), ruler of the dark Elves of Svartálfaheimr. Alexander plays Asgardian warrior Goddess Sif. Her vagina is uncredited.

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Pretty blonde up-and-comer Sharon Hinnendael goes nude as the lead in Anchor Bay Entertainment’s remake of the 1994 cult classic Embrace of the Vampire, an erotic supernatural thriller about a college virgin’s sexual awakening at the hands of handsome vampire.

In an interview with Mr. Skin, she says:

I think in any movie, any dramatic movie, or even any comedy, nudity should be in it. I mean come on, we get naked day to day. You get naked, I get naked. We shower every morning then we walk around naked and we have sex with people.

That’s kind of just being a human. So I don’t know why getting naked is a big deal when it’s essential. That’s part of your day-to-day life. People want to buy a character; they’re going to naked.

I, for one, plan to be naked when I watch this thing.

Hinnendael nudefully plays Charlotte Wells, the chaste young woman seduced in dreams by a vampire promising her a life of emotional and sexual fulfillment.

Hinnendael, no stranger to nudity, is best known for her role as teen party girl Hannah on the short-lived Showtime series “Look.” The Wisconsin-born starlet also stars in the horror-indies Machine Head and Rites of Passage, the fun must-see directorial debut from Point Break writer Peter Iliff.

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Rob Zombie’s inaugural haunt and concert event, The Great American Nightmare, came to a record-breaking close last week with two Halloween shows headlined by Rob Zombie. Held at the Pomona Fairplex in Los Angeles, the concerts featured a mix of Zombie’s greatest hits, new jams, and covers.

I, along with my cousin Adi Muertos, joined the scum of the earth for the Nov. 1 show. The auditorium was pack in tight with all kinds of devil’s rejects and living dead girls. The lights went out and all that could be seen was a flicker of rainbow lights coming from guitarist John 5’s mouthpiece.

Bassist Piggy D crept on stage as drummer Ginger Fish got to work on the skins. “Meet the Creeper” opened the show. Rob Zombie rushed the mic, belting out what would be the first song of an awesome two-hour set. Mosh pits erupted as the one-two, cranium-rattling punch of ‘I, Zombie” and “Super-Charger Heaven” followed.

As Zombie danced and spun across the stage like a Manson Family hippie at a bonfire, jumbotron screens flashed a montage of titillating grind-house movie clips, Hentai images, and eye-popping retro-erotica starring busty and topless babes of yore.

Zombie thanked the audience for making The Great American Nightmare a success, and apologized for the lack of pyrotechnics on stage, noting that fire marshals had put the kibosh on the effects after receiving complaints from a concerned, elderly attendee (dammit, Mom!).

Up until then, I had not noticed the absence of fire. The show was explosive as is. The band was tight and fun to watch, and Zombie once again the consummate frontman. Songs performed included the booty-shaking anthem “Living Dead Girl,” “More Human Than Human,” “Superbeast,” “Dragula,” a hypnotic “Lords of Salem,” the grin-inducing “Pussy Liquor, new anthem “Dead City Radio,” “Thunder Kiss 65,” and covers of Grand Funk Railroad’s “We’re an American Band,” and Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.”

Oblivion star and former Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko is set to star in the sleep paralysis thriller Mara. Directed by documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher (Room 237) for Solution Entertainment Group and Room 101. Shooting begins in May 2014.

Up until Oblivion with Tom Cruise, Kurylenko was best known for her portrayal of revenge-seeking Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. The Ukrainian stunner can also be seen in Neil Marshall’s Centurion and the big-screen video game adaptations Hitman and Max Payne.

Kurylenko will next be seen in Reliance Entertainment and IM Global’s Vampire Academy, a an adaptation of Richelle Mead’s bestselling young-adult book series from Mean Girls director Mark Waters and Heathers scribe Daniel Waters.

MGM and Sony Pictures have released a new two-minute-plus trailer for Jose Padilha’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic Robocop, about a veteran police officer murdered by criminals and brought back to life as a cyborg crime fighter by the OmniCorp corporation.

The reboot stars Joel Kinnaman as Robocop Alex Murphy, Abbie Cornish as his busty wife, Gary Oldman as his creator, Sam Jackson as a media mogul and Michael Keaton as OmniCorp’s CEO. The film opens Feb. 7.

Gotta say, the new trailer is far more interesting than the first. I love watching the ED-209 patrolling internationally. And, while I’m still bummed that Murphy doesn’t meet his end at the hands of brutal street thugs, I’m digging the training.

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Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare has come to a record-breaking end. The inaugural Halloween haunt and concert event drew the largest single night attendance for a stand-alone haunted house event in the United States.

From the press release:

Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare closed out its 15-day run November 2 at the FEARPlex in Pomona, California with a record-breaking night for a stand-alone haunted house event in the United States.

On Saturday night, over 8,500 people traversed the haunted house attractions at this ultimate Halloween music and horror event. The evening culminated with a headlining performance by Rob Zombie.

Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare included mazes based on three of Zombie’s horror films: Lords Of Salem Total Black Out, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto 3D and Haunt Of 1,000 Corpses. Clatto’s review of the event can be read here.

Producer Steve Kopelman said the final weekend of Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare had pulled the largest crowds he has ever witnessed in his 32-year career. “We are extremely proud of the event we built and the partnership with Rob Zombie,” he said, “and look forward to 2014.”