Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, a Latino based companion film to the blockbuster horror series launched by director/writer Oren Peli and producer Jason Blum in 2007.

The trailer’s start makes you think you’re about to watch a sequel to End of Watch until the supernatural shenanigans kick in. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is written and directed by Christopher Landon (Burning Palms) and will be in theaters on Jan. 3, 2014.

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Millennium Films has released a three-minute trailer for Hercules: The Legend Begins, a re-telling of the mythical hero’s origins from director Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2), starring Kellan Lutz (Twilight Saga) as Hercules.

Co-stars include Liam McIntyre (“Spartacus: War of the Damned”) as Sotiris, Gaia Weiss as Princess Hebe, Scott Adkins (Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning) as King Amphitryon and Roxanne McKee (“Game of Thrones”) as Queen Alcmene (pictured above).

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Genesis Rodriguez (The Last Stand) is set to join writer and director Kevin Smith’s new horror film Tusk. She joins a cast that includes Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell) and Michael Parks (Red State). Cameras are slated to roll next month with Demarest Films and Smodcast Pictures producing.

Tusk tells the story of a young podcaster (Long) taken captive and made to wear a walrus suit by the demented old sailor he had planned to interview for his show. Variety broke the news of Rodriguez’s casting, but no word on what role the stunner is playing.

Rodriguez, daughter of international pop singer José Luis Rodríguez (aka El Puma), is coming off the Melissa McCarthy comedy hit Identity Thief and the Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner The Last Stand. She can also be seen as a jiggly, stripping heist babe in the highly underrated thriller Man on a Ledge.

Human Centipede star Ashlynn Yennie told Screamfest LA attendees at the world premiere of Schism tonight that what appealed to her about starring in the film was the opportunity to play a good girl, namely the sexy and supportive girlfriend of a Baton Rouge chef haunted by visions of his violent and evil past.

Fortunately, writer/director Adam Gierasch’s idea of a good girl is someone who goes completely nude during sex. Gierasch and Yennie both explained how the full frontal nudity was necessary because they wanted an honest portrayal of people fucking.

Yennie’s nude scene is lengthy and wonderfully gratuitous and comes early in the film, which is a good thing because Schism goes gonzo pretty quick, making it a challenge to sit through. Co-starring with Yennie are Callum Blue (“Dead Like Me”) as the chef, Vinnie Jones (Snatch) as a vicious human trafficker, and stunner Nicole LaLiberte (Girls Against Boys) as a prostate-massaging stripper.

It’s a great time to be a fan of Halloween haunts. From the annual big-budget events to the new alternative fright experiences, there are many ways to live out one’s nightmares. Finding an attraction that’s big on both scares and production values, however, is like scoring a King Size Snickers bar in the ole jack-o-lantern.

The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor haunt in Long Beach, CA is just that: a super-sized treat guaranteed to satisfy. The attraction features six frightful mazes (maybe the longest around in all of Los Angeles?) including its newest called The Circus, a big top splatterfest where victims are clowned by ghoulish jokers inside a claustrophobic house of mirrors, before being subjected to the goriest show on earth.

Dark Harbor is also home to a circus sideshow this year. Spectators stepping into the four shipyard containers to view the freaks are left alone in the pitch black that is lair to the Shadow Spirit; the thick mist that hides the White Spirit; the realms ruled by disfigured oddities Headless Hannah and The Human Crab; and at the mercy of Sparky, a toasted corpse out to burn onlookers with his sidesplitting zingers.

Dark Harbor’s creepiest mazes are those that sprawl out on board the Queen Mary: Submerged, Hellfire, and Deadrise. Roaming the historic ocean liner’s narrow corridors, engine rooms, and hulls makes for a unique and creepy experience that everyone should live through at least once. Just standing inside the ship captures the imagination… captures and beats the shit out of it with an oar.

Should anyone’s heart come dangerously close to stopping, Dark Harbor provides a handful of rides to get the adrenaline pumping, including a high speed zip line above event grounds—which my wife, Mrs. Muertos, rode while I held her purse on terra firma… What? The keys to my very manly hemi-powered pickup with the shotgun rack on top were inside.

Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is now open and runs through Nov. 2. Tickets and complete event details can be found here. The event is a lot of fun and trumps last year’s Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. Just saying.

The world premiere of Jordan Barker’s home invasion thriller Torment will be held tonight at Screamfest LA, the longest running horror film festival in the US, taking place now through Oct. 17 in North Hollywood. The film stars Katherine Isabelle (American Mary) and  Robin Dunne (“Sanctuary”).

For tickets and detailed info, click here.

Written by new scribe Michael Foster, Torment follows a family of three as they discover that they are not alone during what was supposed to be a quiet family getaway in the countryside. Co-stars include Peter DaCunha (The Barrens) and Stephen McHattie (Haunter).

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Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for 47 Ronin, a fantasy actioner that follows a group of samurai as they set out to avenge the death of their master by a brutal warlord, while fighting off “a savage world of mythic beasts, shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors.”

47 Ronin is directed by someone named Carl Rinsch and stars Keanu Reeves and Pacific Rim’s Rinko Kikuchi.(from the looks of it as a dragon). The film opens on Christmas Day.

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IFC has released a red band trailer for horror icon Dario Argento’s outrageous adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The film revolves around Jonathan Harker (Unax Ugalde), an estate agent whose business with Dracula (Thomas Krestschmann) leads to his entrapment at the Count’s castle in Transylvannia.

One fateful night, while attempting to escape, he encounters the three Brides of Dracula, played by Maria Cristina Heller (Angels and Demons), Morgane Slemp and Spanish-Italian actress Miriam Giovanelli, who goes fully nude for the role (pictured above).

Also along for the ride are Rutger Hauer (Hobo with a Shotgun) as Van Helsing, Marta Gastini (The Rite) as Mina Harker and Asia Argento, Dario’s daughter, as a very nude Lucy Westenra (kinky!). Argento’s Dracula is now available on VOD.

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Para Elisa, the feature directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker and screenwriter Juanra Fernandez, will have its US premiere tonight at Screamfest LA, the longest running horror film festival in the US, taking place now through Oct. 17 in North Hollywood.

For tickets and showtimes, click here.

The official synopsis reads:

A student enters a terrifying world of obsession and misery when she answers a job advertisement requesting a nanny. Held prisoner in a house full of antique toys, she must overcome her deranged captors or become a living doll.

Wow… suddenly putting plastic wrap on the toilet for the babysitter to wet herself doesn’t seem so bad.

Para Elisa stars Ona Casamiquela, best known for the Spanish soap “Un Golpe de Suerte (gringo Yankee translation: Lucky Punch)” and the Spanish sci-fi drama Eva. Co-stars include Ana Turpin (“Bandolera”), Luisa Gavasa (Dark Habits), and Enrique Villen (The Last Circus).

Screamfest will screen the film again on Sunday. Don’t miss it!

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Director Matt Eskandari and screenwriter Adam Lawson’s much delayed frightener The Gauntlet will finally have its U.S. premiere today at Screamfest LA, the longest running horror film festival in the country, currently in its 13th year, taking place now through Oct. 17 in North Hollywood.

For showtimes and info, click here.

The film Gauntlet stars Bai Ling as one of five sinful strangers who wake up to find themselves in a sunken castle underneath the earth without any recollection of how they got there. They’re only hope for survival is to ban together and use their dubious talents to fight against a hellish evil.

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