Emma Caulfield is the latest guest star to join ABC’s much buzzed about fairytale-themed series “Once Upon a Time.” The 38-year-old looker will play the kid-eating blind witch from Hansel and Gretel in the show’s ninth episode.

Caulfield, who first broke into what we insiders call show business playing Brandon Walsh’s girlfriend on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” is best known to horror fans for her portrayal of vengeance demon Anya Jenkins on The WB’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Her first lead role in a feature film was in the 2003 Jonathan Liebesman (Battle: Los Angeles) Tooth Fairy frightener Darkness Falls. She hasn’t done a lot of horror since then, but will soon be seen in the indie-thriller Removal, opposite Kelly Brook (Piranha 3-D) and Billy Burke (Drive Angry 3-D).

“Once Upon a Time” was created by “LOST” executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. The show  follows Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), daughter of Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), as she attempts to set free the small New England town of Storybrooke from an Evil Queen’s (Lana Parilla) grasp.

“Once Upon a Time” premieres Sunday, Oct. 23 at 8pm.

“Teen Wolf” starlet Crystal Reed is set to star in Intrepid Pictures’ upcoming psycho-bitch thriller Crush. Written by Roommate scribe Sonny Mallhi, the film revolves around a popular high school jock (Lucas Till) who becomes an obsession for the girls around him, including an especially demented admirer.

Reed will play a shy emo type who is crushing hard on the jock and is jealous of his relationship with a longtime female friend, played by Sarah Bolger (“The Tudors”). Reid Ewing (“Modern Family”) also stars as a geek pining for the affections of Reed’s character all-the-while wondering if she’s up to something shady.

Reed, best known for her role as love interest Allison Argent on MTV’s “Teen Wolf” series, starred last year in Rogue Pictures’ regrettably underrated alien-invasion actioner Skyline.

Crush is directed by some guy named Malik Bader and is slated to start production Oct. 24 in Los Angeles.

Move over Olivia … there’s a new Wilde girl in tinsel town.

British up-and-comer Gabriella Wilde is currently starring in Paul W.S. Anderson’s steampunk adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ beloved classic The Three Musketeers. The sexy 22-year-old starlet plays Constance Bonacieux, love interest to musketeer-to-be D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman).

The role is Wilde’s first in a major studio release. She joins an all-star cast that includes Matthew Macfayden as Athos, Luke Evans as Aramis, Ray Stevenson as Porthos, Orlando Bloom as the Duke of Buckingham, Christoph Waltz as Cardinal Richelieu, and Milla Jovovich as villainess Milady de Winter.

The Three Musketeers has already opened in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Korea and the U.K. It swings into North American theaters on Oct. 21.

Osiris Entertainment is eyeballing a November DVD release date for its long delayed supernatural thriller The Sacred. Written and directed by Jose Zambrano Casella, the film stars 5-foot-8 stunner Jessica Blackmore as part of a group of university students who set out to explore the Florida swamps where Native Americans were believed to have conducted ceremonies with vengeful spirits.

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The official synopsis reads:

A group of University students travel to a remote, sacred land deep in the heart of the Florida swamps to complete their senior thesis project on Native American folklore. Hundreds of years ago this place was used by Indians to pass judgment on criminals and unwanted members of their tribal community.

Legend has it that these grounds have the magical ability to bring past victims back to life, ultimately punishing or killing whoever is guilty, but no one has yet to find proof. As the students make their way down the trail, they come across an ancient ceremonial site.

They are suddenly faced with visions of their past they wish they had forgotten. One by one, their memories become reality, and everyone they ever committed a sin against now has the power to get even. As they beg for forgiveness for their previous mistakes, they realize they can do nothing but accept their fate in the same way their victims did, but worse.

The Sacred costars Jordan Wall (“The Glades”), John Kyle (The Tenant), David Mackey (House of Blood), John Archer Lundgren (Zombies, Zombies, Zombies), Leander Suleiman (Contract Killers) and sexy newcomer Lauren Brown (Bloody 27).

Photo: Michael Cairns Photography

Aaron Eckhart is ready to breath some life into Lakeshore Entertainment’s I, Frankenstein, a futuristic re-imagining of Mary Shelly’s classic novel in which Frankenstein’s monster is created by Apple Inc. to replace Steve Jobs … what? Too soon?

I, Frankenstein is director Stuart Beattie’s (Tomorrow, When the War Began) big-screen adaptation of Kevin Grevioux’s (“Underworld”) graphic novel. A sequel of sorts, the story reveals that Victor Frankenstein’s monster did not commit suicide, but is instead living in a Gothic metropolis where two immortal clans have been feuding for centuries.

Says Eckhart:

Somebody says, ‘Do you want to play Frankenstein?’ and I was like, ‘Well, I haven’t thought about it. Then I read the script.

Whenever you read a script that you want to do, you start feeling yourself in that character. All of a sudden your juices start flowing. That’s how you know you should do a movie.

Now I’m gonna be Frankenstein and I’m kind of worried about it, actually. I’ve gotta go and figure out how the hell I’m gonna play Frankenstein.

Eckhart, who is coming off Columbia Pictures’ alien-invasion actioner Battle: Los Angeles, has starred in Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight, Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, John Woo’s Paycheck, Paramount Pictures’ The Core and Suspect Zero and the 2001 Sean Penn-directed serial killer drama The Pledge.

Eckhart is currently shooting Pan with Soul Surfer starlet AnnaSophia Robb. The Ben Hibon-directed film, a dark take on the classic Peter Pan tale, finds Eckhart playing a former detective named Hook, who is still on the hunt for a child predator Pan.

Lara Flynn Boyle is set to star in director Duane Journey’s Black Forest: Hansel and Gretel & The 420 Witch, a stoner re-imagining of the classic Grimm brothers fairy tale. The 41-year-old stunner will play an evil witch who, after baiting teens into her house with some wicked pot, eats them to maintain her youthful appearance.

Joining Boyle in the project as siblings Hansel and Gretel are Twilight Saga star Michael Welch and 18-year-old “Castle” cutie Molly Quinn. The film, written by David Tillman (Vampire Survivor), will begin production on Nov. 12 in Los Angeles. Indies Dark Highway Films, KK&P, and Uptik Entertainment are all producing.

Boyle is best known for her roles as Donna Hayward on “Twin Peaks” and Serleena, a sexy shape-shifting alien queen, in Men in Black II. Other notable genre turns include MGM’s Poltergeist 3 (her horror debut at age 18), Tom Holland’s psycho-bitch thriller The Temp, and Lifetime’s small-screen adaptation of author Ann Rivers Siddons’ 1978 mystery novel The House Next Door.

Hills Have Eyes starlet Vinessa Shaw will topline screenwriter Jesse Peyronel feature film debut Siren, a modern day fairy tale about a woman whose scent is so overwhelmingly pleasing it makes her irresistible to men (where I come from, we call those women strippers).

Peyronel tells THR:

It’s really a grounded intimate look at someone who has a special ability but looked at in a personal way. It’s takes a more a realistic look at an X-Men-style power.

Oddly enough, I exude a special smell that drives people away from me. But, I can only initiate the power after consuming Taco Bell cheesy bean & rice burritos.

Siren is produced by Eccho Media and costars Bess Wohl (Flightplan), Rob Kazinsky (Pacific Rim) and Ross Partridge (Prom Night). Production is currently underway in Massachusetts.

Shaw’s genre creds include the 1981 Thanksgiving Day slasher Home Sweet Home (in which she made her acting debut at the age of five), the Disney witch comedy Hocus Pocus, indie-frightener Stag Night, and Alexandre Aja’s 2006 remake of Wes Craven’s horror classic The Hills Have Eyes.

A trailer for Relativity Media’s new period thriller The Raven is now online. Set in 1849 Baltimore, the James McTeigue-directed film follows famed novelist Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) as he attempts to rescue his wife (Alice Eve) from a serial killer inspired by his most gruesome works.

I caught an early screening of The Raven some months back and found it to be quite stylish and suspenseful. I would write a proper review, but the folks behind the film are threatening to bury my PS3 loved ones if I dare spill on its twists and turns.

The Raven swoops into theaters on March 9, 2012.

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The cast of AMC’s critically acclaimed zombie-apocalypse series “The Walking Dead” are spilling on season two of  the show in a new four-minute-plus featurette that gives fans a taste of what’s to come and a glimpse at some of the new faces they’ll be seeing … ripped off.

“The Walking Dead” will have its 90-minute premiere on Sunday, Oct. 16. Six hour-long episodes will air during the following weeks before the show takes a short hiatus and returns on Sunday, Feb. 12 (just in time for sweeps).

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You may not know aspiring actress Jen Dance, but you will Down the Road. The pretty 20-year-old model is making her feature film debut in the new indie frightener from writer/director Jason Christopher. Dance plays an emotionally unstable girl taken on a camping trip by friends who start to mysteriously disappear.

Down the Road costars Chelsey Garner (Killer Shorts 2), Shaun Paul Costello (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”), Chris Ready (Bloodlust Zombies), David J Bonner (Six Degrees of Hell), and beloved genre treasure Clint Howard (Bloodrayne: The Third Reich).

To learn a little more about Dance, go here. To keep up with the film, visit the Down the Road Facebook page.

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