A sales trailer has gone online for Image Entertainment’s All Cheerleaders Die, a remake of the 2001 Lucky McKee (The Woman) slasher, written and directed by McKee and Chris Sivertson (I Know Who Killed Me). The horror-comedy is slated for release in spring 2014.

All Cheerleaders Die stars Caitlin Stasey (I, Frankenstein) as a rebellious teen who joins her high school cheerleading squad after experiencing a tragic event. Her decision pisses off the popular cheerleaders and her loner, black magic practicing ex-girlfriend, played by Sianoa Smit-McPhee (”Hung”).

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Assuming enough truckloads of cash show up at her doorstep, Kate Beckinsale is set to star in the ghost thriller The Disappointment Room. The film is directed by D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) from a script by “Prison Break” star turned screenwriter Wentworth Miller (Stoker).

The Disappointment Room stars Beckinsale as a mother who moves with her husband and child into a country manor in an old Eastern seaboard town. In the attic, she meets the ghost of little girl who beckons her to open a locked room. Cameras roll Feb. 3 in Greensboro, N.C.

Beckinsale is coming off last year’s Total Recall remake and the sequel Underworld: Awakening. She will next be seen as the lead in Eliza Graves, a psychological thriller based on the 1945 Edgar Allan Poe story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.”

Model and actress Roxanne McConnell stars in Safehouse Pictures UK and Straight To Video Productions’ new slasher Banjo. McConnell plays the adulterous wife of Peltzer Arbuckle (James Hamer-Morton), a pushover who conjures up an imaginary childhood friend to fight back against the bullies in his life.

We’re not familiar with McConnell’s previous work, but her ball-crusher charm is not lost on us. Written and directed by indie filmmaker Liam Regan, Banjo needs funding to happen. Folks can help by chipping in on its Kickstarter page. Below is a teaser trailer to get motivated.

Photo: James Alexander

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Lionsgate’s new psycho-sexual slasher Nurse 3D arrives on VOD and in limited theatrical release on Feb. 7. Paz de la Huerta (“Boardwalk Empire”) toplines the film as Abby Russell, a beautiful, but bat-shit crazy, day nurse who seduces and murders men she deems wicked by night.

The official synopsis:

By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, someone you wouldn’t hesitate to trust your life with. But by night, her real work begins… using her smoldering sexuality she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are.

When a younger nurse starts to suspect Abby’s actions and compromises her master plan, Abby must find a way to outsmart her long enough to bring the cheater you’d least expect to justice.

Katrina Bowden (“30 Rock”) plays the pretty younger nurse. Rounding out the cast are Judd Nelson (Breakfast Club), Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), Boris Kodjoe (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Adam Herschman (Bucky Larson), Niecy Nash (“Reno 911”), and Melanie Scrofano (SAW VI).

Nurse 3D is directed by Doug Aarniokoski (The Day, “Criminal Minds”) and written by David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace, Dreamscape).

Tribeca Film has released a trailer for Apollo 18 director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s new thriller Open Grave. Sharlto Copley (Elysium) plays a man who wakes up in a ditch filled with dead bodies and has no idea how he got there or who he is (we’ve all been there, buddy).

After escaping the mass grave, he breaks into a house where he finds others like him hiding from an outside threat. Erin Richards (“Breaking In”) co-stars in the film as Sharon, one of  the group struggling with memory loss.

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“Entourage” alumna Janet Montgomery is set to topline WGN America’s first scripted series “Salem.” Set in 17th century Massachusetts, the show follows the events surrounding the town’s infamous witch trials. Montgomery plays Mary Sibley, the ruthless and beautiful wife of ailing Salem Selectman, George Sibley.

“Salem” co-stars Xander Berkeley (“Nikita”) as Magistrate Hale, Ashley Madekwe (“Revenge”) as Montgomery’s confidant, and Seth Gabel (“Fringe”) as an aristocrat who oversees the witch hunts. The series is slated to premiere in the spring.

Horror fans will recognize Montgomery from slashers Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead and Hills Run Red. She also co-starred in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. The British stunner is best known for playing thief Ames on FOX’s “Human Target” and Eric Murphy’s gorgeous assistant on HBO’s “Entourage.”

Twentieth Century Fox has released the first trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer’s eagerly anticipated return to the X-Men franchise. A sequel to Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, DoFP finds present day mutants traveling in time to warn the old guard about a dystopian future.

The two-minute-plus trailer gives us Wolverine on his mission, a peeks at Bingbing Fan as Blink and Booboo Stewart as Warpath, and a crotch shot of Jennifer Lawrence as she kicks ass (think I saw her blue eye) as young Mystique. X-Men: Days of Future Past arrives May 23, 2014.

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When anarchists armed with military weapons order you to kneel on a concrete floor, it’s disturbing. It doesn’t matter if the guns are fake and the terrorists simply actors in Blumhouse Productions’ new Halloween experience The Purge: Fear the Night. It’s all very unsettling.

Inspired by Blumhouse Productions’ box office hit The Purge and set in a six-story building in downtown Los Angeles, the attraction puts guests in the middle of a political upheaval between the country’s New Founding Fathers and revolutionaries identified as Constitutionalists on the one night of the year when all criminal behavior is permissible by law, including murder.

The experience is interactive and crazy intense, especially if you commit to the 45-minute story that pits you and a group of NFF delegates against Constitutionalists looking for a presidential key card to blow some shit up. My wife, Mrs. Muertos, and I agreed early on to go with the flow regardless of what happened. We would regret that almost immediately.

Just minutes after our group was taken hostage by Constitutionalists, who made us kneel and lock arms, Mrs. Muertos was ripped away from me by a gun-wielding woman demanding she help find her husband. I assumed we’d meet up soon, but that was not the case. For the remainder of the experience, we faced the night’s horrors separated from each other.

Like being told to kneel, being parted from one another was troubling despite the knowledge that this was all made up. It’s a testament to the event’s intensity. It gets in your head (especially with the aid of libations). My wife was put in quarantine and interrogated by another band of Constitutionalist before joining a new group of NFF delegates.

My group raced through decrepit apartments, hospitals, parks, alleys and government offices, chased by Purging hooligans, vagrants and military snipers. Along the way, I witnessed a young woman give birth, numerous shooting deaths, chained female captives, and two sexy masked strippers, one of which wore a black thong up her shapely big ass (kinda glad the wife wasn’t around for that part).

The Purge: Fear the Night is a unique experience that movie fans should not miss. It is our favorite Halloween event this year. But be warned: there are only five nights left (Oct. 29-Nov. 2). To purchase tickets and for complete event details, visit www.purgelive.com.

An international trailer has gone online for Devil Inside writer/director William Brent Bell’s new found-footage frightener Wer. Penned by Bell and Devil Inside co-writer Matthew Peterman, the film stars “Criminal Minds” alumna A.J. Cook as a defense attorney whose client is a werewolf and up on murder charges.

Cook is best known for her role as Special Agent Jennifer “J.J.” Jareau on the CBS crime-drama “Criminal Minds.” She can also be seen in Final Destination 2, Ripper, Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell, The House Next Door and director Darren Lynn Bousman’s “Mother’s Day” remake.

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Comparing Halloween haunts to Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare is like comparing apples to apples with razor blades. Zombie’s inaugural haunt and concert event is more of a Lollapalooza type deal with less hippies and more hellbillies. Held at the Fairplex in Pomona every Thursday-Sunday now until Nov. 2, the event is a great Halloween destination for friends to hang out, drink, and groove.

Every night features genre-specific musical acts (metal, alternative rock, electronic dance, Latin, etc), freak shows, and an outdoor movie theater showing classic fright flicks. The night my wife, Mrs. Muertos, and I attended (Oct. 19) featured performances on stage by punk rock heroes The Vandals, TSOL, and the Dickies.

Though it’d been awhile since the little lady and I had pogoed and moshed the night away, we were there for the haunt; to experience the “bonechilling” mazes inspired by three of Zombie’s films: The Lords of Salem Total Blackout, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto, and Haunt of a 1,000 Corpses.

First up was The Lords of Salem Blackout, where thick black hoods were thrown over our heads before we were sent off to navigate a narrow and winding maze. Along the way the floor shifted beneath our feet and light shocks of electricity buzzed our hands as we felt our way through the darkness (apologies to guards we may have groped).

It’s was a disturbing experience, one that made us anxious to see where the trail would end and what horrors we’d face once the hoods came off. When that moment arrived, we found ourselves at… the next maze. That was it for the first. It was over. Now, I get it. It’s called LoS Blackout. But, it feels like a cheat, especially considering the film’s warped and inspired imagery. Chalk it up to missed opportunity.

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is 3D, fluorescent painted fun. It’s the raunchier of the three mazes, but not as sleazy as the animated feature it’s based on. Except for the vaginal entrance, which one must push through pink, squishy walls (genius!), the majority of obscenities are spray painted on the walls. There are a couple of dildo-wielding Superbeastos, but not nearly enough bra-busting Suzi-X’s.

Haunt of a 1,000 Corpses rounds out the mazes with a display of hillbilly horror and animatronic beasts. Captain Spaulding marked our foreheads with a sign to let his minions know we were lambs to the slaughter. Poked and pushed through the maze by insult-hurling inbreds and necrophiliacs, we witnessed a variety of backwoods terror, including a Charlie Manson-like family murder and a violent suicide.

Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare is on its last severed leg (it ends Nov. 2). While not as shocking as hyped, it is a fun way to spend Halloween. To purchase tickets and for complete event details, visit www.greatamericannightmare.com.