Former “Baywatch” star and Playboy Playmate Carmen Electra was photographed in the Florida Keys this weekend while on the set of her new creature-feature 2 Headed Shark Attack. While the shots don’t clue us in to what role the sexy 39-year-old is playing, they do reveal why you’ll now watch something called 2 Headed Shark Attack.
2 Headed Shark Attack follows the survivors of a Semester at Sea ship that is sunk by a mutant ocean predator. Stranded on an atoll that is quickly flooding, the ship’s students and teachers desperately search for a way to avoid the hungry beast.
The Asylum will release the film on DVD and Blu-ray on Jan. 17, 2012.
When you’re on the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder—dumpster-diving for soda cans worth a $5 discount at Six Flags (because you can’t skip your kid’s b-day every year) and shopping at Ross—it’s easy to forget how much more scary the world must be for rich people. Thankfully, director Joel Schumacher reminds us with his new home-invasion thriller Trespass.
The film stars Academy Award winners Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a wealthy married couple held captive by shotgun wielding hooligans during a home invasion robbery orchestrated by the guy banging the rich guy’s trophy wife … and you thought you had problems living in your parent’s basement with your fat spouse.
Carla Gugino is dynamite. So, it comes as no surprise that she’s been cast as Boston detective D.D. Warren in TNT’s small-screen adaptation of author Lisa Gardner’s bestselling crime-thriller Hide. The film is one of six made-for-TV thrillers that will make up the studio’s new Movie Mystery Night series.
The synopsis reads:
Detective Warren investigates the mummified remains of six missing women found inside a buried chamber at an abandoned mental hospital. The case leads Warren to investigate Annabelle, a woman with a secret past and twisted family history.
Gugino’s genre creds include the Zack Snyder films Sucker Punch and Watchmen, David S. Goyer’s supernatural creepshow The Unborn, and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, in which she turns in a nude scene so classic it was shot in black-and-white (pictured below).
Hide is directed by “Ghost Whisperer” creator John Gray from a screenplay by Janet Brownell (The Amy Fisher Story). The film will air on TNT in November.
Meet the Parents star and 2005 Playboy cover model Teri Polo will finally be seen in Take 2 Releasing’s long-delayed ghost story Haunting at the Beacon. Polo plays Bryn Shaw, a bereaved mother who attempts to send a message to her dead son through the spirit of another deceased boy.
The paranormal thriller marks screenwriter Michael Stokes’ (Iron Eagle IV) directorial debut and costars David Rees Snell (“The Shield”), Ken Howard (Rambo), Elaine Hendrix (“90210”), Marnette Patterson (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder), and Michael Ironside (Lake Placid 3).
Polo’s horror creds include Joe Dante’s supernatural thriller The Hole 3-D, Josef Rusnak’s abduction thriller Beyond and the awesome—but short lived—Fox television series “Brimstone,” in which she played Ashur Badaktu, the damned priestess who orchestrates the escape of 113 souls from hell.
Haunting at the Beacon arrives on DVD and Blu-ray disc Sept. 13.
Dreamworks’ Fright Night remake is off to a frightening start at the box office, trailing Conan, Spy Kids 4, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and The Help for Christ’s fucking sake. (Is Tyler Perry’s Madea in that? How can this be number one???).
Fright Night’s lack of bite at the theaters is especially disappointing because the Craig Gillespie-directed/Marti Noxon-penned thriller is one of the best revamps ever, easily surpassing the campy original in thrills and laughs.
So, what’s it gonna take to get you guys to a showing? How about knowing that sexy newcomer Emily Montague plays a Las Vegas stripper who gets caught up with Colin Farrell’s bad-boy vamp? If you don’t know who she is, the well-dressed folks at Esquire provide a mighty fine introduction here.
A creepy, yet oddly sexy, trailer for Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s (“Nip/Tuck,” “Glee”) new FX series “American Horror Story” has hit the web. The show stars Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton as an unstable married couple who discover that their new Los Angeles home is haunted.
This show looks really good. Of course, if its anything like Murphy’s previous work, it’ll probably get preachy by season two and we’ll discover that the ghost really just want to teach the living tolerance and Britney Spears lyrics. Oh, and Gwyneth Paltrow will guest star.
“American Horror Story” premieres on FX on Oct. 5.
Columbia Pictures has released the first official trailer for directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. The sequel once again finds Nicolas Cage battling evil as stunt motorcyclist-turned-supernatural-vigilante Johnny Blaze, AKA Ghost Rider.
Peep it:
If watching Ghost Rider piss fire isn’t enough to get your interest, here’s the synopsis:
Johnny – still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter – is hiding out in a remote part of Eastern Europe when he is recruited by a secret sect of the church to save a young boy (Fergus Riordan) from the devil (Ciaran Hinds).
At first, Johnny is reluctant to embrace the power of the Ghost Rider, but it is the only way to protect the boy – and possibly rid himself of his curse forever.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance also stars Christopher Lambert (Highlander), Johnny Whitworth (Limitless) and beautiful Italian actress/pop singer Violante Placido (The American). The film opens in 3-D on Feb. 17, 2012.
Former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star and Playboy cover model (July, 2000) Charisma Carpenter is set to star in the Syfy original Haunted High. The 40-year-old stunner will play a sexy librarian at a New England private school overrun by demonic forces.
Carpenter joins a cast that includes M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly on “LOST”) as the school’s demon headmaster and everyone’s favorite Mexi-can Danny Trejo as its ass-kicking janitor. Marc Donato (“Degrassi: Next Generation”) and Jonathan Baron (Shadow People) costar as students.
Carpenter most recently starred in Jason Bourque’s survival-frightener Crash Siteand Hanelle Culpepper’s psyche-thriller Deadly Sibling Rivalry, in which she plays twins. She is, of course, best known for her role as bratty-babe-turned-vamp-killer Cordelia Chase on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spinoff “Angel.”
Carpenter will reunite with “Buffy” alum James Marsters on the fifth episode of the seventh season of The CW’s “Supernatural,” premiering on Sept. 23. Entitled “Shut Up, Dr. Phil,” the episode finds Carpenter playing a witch scorned by her husband (Marsters).
Haunted High is directed by Jeffrey Lando (Thirst) and is currently being shot in New Orleans.
The Asylum has reeled in Playboy model and “Baywatch” star Carmen Electra to star in their ridiculous new creature-feature 2 Headed Shark Attack, available on DVD Jan. 17, 2012. She joins a cast that includes Jerry O’ Connell’s younger brother Charlie O’Connell (“The Bachelor”) and Hulk Hogan’s handsome son Brooke Hogan (Sand Sharks).
Peep it:
2 Headed Shark Attack follows the survivors of a Semester at Sea ship that is sunk by a mutant ocean predator. Stranded on an atoll that is quickly flooding, the ship’s students and teachers desperately search for a way to avoid the hungry beast.
Electra’s horror creds are limited to the forgettable ’90s frighteners An American Vampire Story, The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven, and Good Burger. She does, however, steal the show in Dimension Films’ Scary Movie, a parody of Wes Craven’s Scream in which she spoofs Drew Barrymore’s death scene.
“Pretty Little Liar” Torrey DeVitto is set to star in director Olatunde Osunsanmi’s (The 4th Kind) Evidence, a found-footage frightener that follows police as they attempt to put together a portrait of a mass murderer utilizing his victims’ camcorders, flip cams, and smart-phones.
Evidence is currently shooting in Los Angeles and costars Harry Lennix (“Dollhouse”), Dale Dickey (Super 8), Caitlin Stasey (Tomorrow, When the War Began), some Asian kid named Albert Kuo and Nolan Gerard Funk (Deadgirl).
DeVitto, a 27-year-old former fashion model, is best known for her role as Melissa Hastings in the ABC Family teen-mystery soap “Pretty Little Liars.” Her movie creds include Sony Screen Gems home-video thriller I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer and Warner Bros. The Rite.
