Screamfest LA kicked off its 12th annual reign of terror on the movie world Friday night with a screening of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton’s The Collection, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 2009 cult hit The Collector, starring Josh Stewart.

Emma Fitzpatrick plays Elena, a hearing-impaired girl abducted from a rave by The Collector and taken to an abandoned, but booby-trapped hotel. Stewart reprises his role as Arkin, the ex-con-turned-hero, now forced to join a group of mercenaries hired by the missing girl’s father to find her.

The film is brutal, violent fun —a stylish tour-de-blunt-force guaranteed to thrill Collector fans while drawing in new ones. Dunstan, directing from a script he co-wrote with Melton, keeps the cat-and-mouse intensity of the original, but amps up the action with outrageous new death traps, zombified junkies and creepy new revelations.

The Collector & Erin Way

The Collection begins with Elena and her friends dancing the night away at an underground rave filled with beautiful semi-naked young people. Things get ugly when Elena finds her boyfriend making out with a hot blonde on the dance floor. She decks him and runs off upset, ducking into a room that holds a familiar looking chest.

Arkin, last seen abducted by The Collector in the original film, rolls out of the box—bloodied and bound—when Elena unfastens its latch, triggering a series of elaborate traps inside the club that allow for the bloodiest opening mass murder scene since 2002’s Ghost Ship.

Arkin escapes, but leaves Elena behind. She’s taken to the abandoned hotel where The Collector has set up shop to work on a gruesome project. While not a lot is revealed about The Collector, enough chilling background seeds have been planted to ensure the character’s transformation into a franchise-worthy villain.

Man's Worst Friend

The white-knuckle thrills continue as Arkin and a team of mercs, led by Elena’s guardian Lucello (Lee Tergesen), break into the hotel  in search of Elena, who has already managed to get away from The Collector and is roaming the halls with a creepy-cute captive named Abby (Erin Way), The Collector’s pet.

The Collection displays in theaters on Nov. 30.

NBC has set an Oct. 26 premiere date for “Mockingbird Lane,” a Halloween special that was at one time meant to be a TV series reboot of the ’60s sitcom “The Munsters” from executive producers Bryan Singer (X-Men) and Bryan Fuller (“Pushing Daisies).

The show follows the Munsters as they purchase the Victorian mansion at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. Jerry O’Connell plays Herman, Portia de Rossi is his wife Lily, Eddie Izzard is Grandpa, Mason Cook is Eddie and Charity Wakefield is “homely” cousin Marilyn.

According to THR, the two Bryans didn’t see eye-to-eye on the visual style of the series pilot, which was written by Fuller and directed by Singer. Fuller and NBC executives also had some creative differences they couldn’t get over and most likely wouldn’t have due to Fuller’s commitment to NBC’s “Hannibal” series.

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Canadian actress Keegan Connor Tracy, currently seen as the Blue Fairy on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time,” is the latest to take a stab at A&E’s “Bates Motel,” a prequel series to Hitchcock’s Psycho from Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”).

“Bates Motel” will examine how Norman Bates psyche developed from his childhood through his teen years and how his twisted relationship with his mother shaped him into a psycho killer. Tracy will recur as Norman’s teacher and adviser Miss Watson, Deadline reports.

“Bates Motel” stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Norman Bates, Vera Farmiga (Source Code) as his mother Norma Louise Bates, Nestor Carbonell as sinister sheriff Royce Romero and Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) as sadistic deputy Zach Shelby.

The series is set to start production this month and will premiere in 2013.

Good evening. Tonight we have for your viewing pleasure the first official trailer for Fox Searchlight’s Hitchcock, a biopic on the master of suspense, his relationship with his wife and the making of Psycho from director Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) and screenwriter John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan).

Hitchcock stars Anthony Hopkins as the iconic Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, Toni Collette as Peggy Robertson, Ralph Macchio as Psycho screenwriter Joe Stefano and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins.

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“Twin Peaks” alumna Madchen Amick is set to star in “Witches of East End,” a Lifetime pilot based on the 2011  Melissa de la Cruz bestseller about a family of witches. She joins costars Rachel Boston (“American Dreams”), Jenna Dewan-Tatum (Tamara), Glenne Headly (“ER”), Daniel Ditomasso, Patrick Heusinger (Nanny Diaries) and Julia Ormond (Surveillance).

“Witches of East End” follows Joanna Beauchamp (Ormond), a small-town art teacher who when faced with a dangerous threat to her family reveals to her two adult daughters (Boston, Tatum) that they were born witches and that they must embrace their powers. Amick will play Joanna’s sister Wendy, a beautiful witch that shape-shifts into a cat.

Amick last genre role was in Screen Gems’ 2011 post-apocalyptic-vampire-frightener Priest. The now 41-year-old stunner can also be seen in the 1992 Stephen King-penned Sleepwalkers and 1993’s psychological thriller Dream Lover, starring James Spader. Those with grey on their nutsack know her best as abused waitress Shelly Johnson on David Lynch’s groundbreaking TV series “Twin Peaks.”

Horror icon John Carpenter will be presented with a Career Achievement Award on Saturday at LA Live Regal Cinemas as part of the 12th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival, taking place in Los Angeles October 12-to-21.

The festivities kick off at 7 p.m. with a Q&A and will be followed with a screening of Carpenter’s much maligned 1987 possession thriller Prince of Darkness, starring Donald Pleasence with a memorable cameo by rocker Alice Cooper as a sinister street bum.

Tickets to the 12th annual Screamfest Film Festival can be purchased here.

If you thought bad acting and large black cocks were the scariest things about porn, Paranormal Activity: A Hardcore Parody may change your mind. Directed by what sounds like a disease you’d pick up in a Tijuana brothel… Dick Chibbles, the spoof appears to be a solid send-up of Paramount’s 2009 blockbuster.

Bailey Blue (Facial Cum Catchers 17) and Tommy Gunn (Dropping Loads 3) star as a married couple (played by Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat in Oren Peli’s original) documenting the paranormal activity taking place in their home.

Devon Lee (Big Black Beef Stretches Little Pink Meat 6) and Whitney Grace (Pegging: A Strap-On Love Story 5) costar as blowjobs and vaginal penetrations.

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IFC Films has released a new trailer for music video director Jeremy Regimbal’s feature film debut In Their Skin (previously titled Replicas). The home invasion thriller stars Selma Blair, Rachel Miner, James D’Arcy and Josh Close, who also penned the script.

In Their Skin follows a married couple (Blair, Close) as they arrive at their country home to heal after the loss of their young son. A dinner with neighbors seems like a good idea up until they realize they’ve invited a murderous couple (Miner, D’Arcy).

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Nestor Carbonell’s eye mascara must be running. The “LOST” actor (he played the ageless Richard Alpert) has been cast on A&E’s “Bates Motel,” a prequel series to Hitchcock’s Psycho from Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”).

“Bates Motel” examines how Norman Bates psyche developed from his childhood through his teen years and how his twisted relationship with his mother shaped him into a psycho killer. Carbonell plays bad Sheriff Royce Romero, Deadline reports.

“Bates Motel” stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Norman Bates, Vera Farmiga (Source Code) as his mother Norma Louise Bates and Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) as sadistic deputy Zach Shelby. The series is set to shoot this month and will premiere in 2013.

Syfy has set an Oct. 13 premiere date for Echo Bridge’s new supernatural thriller American Horror House. The Darin Scott-directed ghost story stars wild child Alessandra Torresani (”Caprica”) as a college coed trapped inside a haunted sorority house with a homicidal housemother, played by Morgan Fairchild.

Torresani is best known for her portrayal of teen cylon Zoe Graystone on Syfy’s short-lived “Battlestar Galactica” spinoff “Caprica.” The 25-year-old starlet has also appeared on episodes of “American Horror Story,” “Warehouse 13,” “Bones” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”

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