Life is short. On any given day, you could meet your end. It could come from a random act of violence, an accident, or at the hand of the diseased-riddled, minimum wage-earning cook at your favorite restaurant. There’s nothing you can do about it other than to have your affairs in order and find a God to forgive all the terrible things you’ve done.
The worse thing about your imminent demise, however, has nothing to do with the loved ones you leave behind (you knew them all your life anyway) or the possibility of burning in eternal hell. The true horror of death lies on all the things you will miss out on while rotting in a worm-infested grave.
Things like actress Gemma Arterton’s nude breasts in Anchor Bay’s abduction-thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed for example. If you missed the film’s limited theatrical run in the U.K. and selected cities in the States, you’ll have to wait until Nov. 23 to pick it up on DVD/Blu-ray.
But, what if you croak before then? Your penis’s soul will be doomed to roam the earth in a state of unrest. With that in mind, I have posted Arterton’s topless scene to ensure that doesn’t happen.
This afternoon, while surfing the net for a deal on footwear and interracial POV porn, I came across some genuinely horrific footage taken from the upcoming season of the CBS reality show “The Amazing Race.”
The clip below features home-shopping hosts Brook Roberts and Claire Champlin competing in a watermelon slingshot event gone terribly wrong.
Take a look:
How fucked up is that? I don’t know what’s worse: taking a watermelon to the face or having a bitch of a friend telling you to carry on!
I have never watched “The Amazing Race” (“Survivor” 4Ever, Beyotches!), but I may have to tune in to the new season on Sept. 26 if this clip is indicative of the shenanigans at hand.
Cameras are now rolling on American Psycho director Mary Harron’s new girl-on-girl vampire thriller The Moth Diaries. Based on author Rachel Klein’s novel of the same name, the film stars Sarah Bolger (pictured above) of Showtime’s “The Tudors,” British model-turned-actress Lily Cole, and Sarah Gadon of Dreamworks upcoming Daniel Craig/Naomi Watts thriller Dream House.
Set in an elite boarding school for girls, the film centers on an emotionally disturbed 16-year-old girl named Rebecca (Bolger) and her growing obsession over the budding friendship between her classmate Lucy and mysterious new arrival Eranessa (Cole), whom she believes to be a vampire.
Scott Speedman (The Strangers) costars as Rebecca’s father-figure crush Mr. Davies, an English Literature professor teaching a course on supernatural fiction.
Harron has described her adaptation as a “chillingly atmospheric horror story” and promises that her screenplay remains true to the book’s Gothic and, most importantly, girl-on-girl vampire themes.
The Moth Diaries is currently shooting in Montreal through Oct. 8.
If girl-on-girl vamps aren’t your thing, you can check out Juno Temple andRiley Keough as teen lesbian werewolves here.
Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat bares some fangs and a little bit of skin in the international trailer for director Jennifer Lynch’s long-delayed frightener Hisss. The 33-year-old stunner plays a half-woman/half-snake creature known in Eastern folklore as the Nagin.
Enjoy:
Hisss was shot in India and costars renowned Indian actor Irrfan Khan. Despite having played at the AFM, Cannes, and the Berlin International Film Festival, the flick has yet to strike a distribution deal in the States.
Lynch—daughter of renowned director David Lynch—made her feature film debut in 1993 with the outrageous psychological-thriller Boxing Helena. After a lengthy hiatus, she returned in 20o8 with the serial-killer drama Surveillance.
Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood is tossing his hat into the supernatural realm this October with the Matt Damon vehicle Hereafter. The film tells the story of a former psychic named George (Damon) who is sought after by a group of people attempting to cope with mortality by seeking insight into the afterlife.
Check it out:
After watching Eastwood take on serial killer drama in 2008’s Changeling, I’m extremely intrigued to see what he does with the I-see-dead-people theme.
Entertainment Tonight scored a clip from screenwriter-turned-first-time-director Mitch Glazer’s supernatural-romance story Passion Play. The footage reveals a meeting between Megan Fox’s winged circus show freak and Mickey Rourke’s downtrodden sax player.
Take a look:
The film’s synopsis reads:
Nate (Rourke), a small-time jazz musician, is clearly a hard-luck case. Caught trying to break into a car, he is taken off into the desert where his assailant puts a gun to his head. Game over? Not quite. Stumbling into a circus pitched amidst the vast expanses of the southwest desert, Nate finds himself drawn to the exotic beauty of Lily (Fox), the Bird Woman.
Lily is cold and dismissive; socializing with customers is not her scene. But it dawns on her that this gentle giant may well be her way out of a life of eccentric exposition. Nate is protective and understanding, and to him her aquiline beauty is a magic part of her uniqueness.
As their bond deepens, Nate finds that his dreams of bliss are about to be thwarted by Happy Shannon, a cucumber-cool businessman with deep pockets and an eye for the bizarre.
Passion Play costars Kelly Lynch (The Jacket), Rhys Ifans (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Chris Browning (Let Me In), and the highly overrated Bill Murray (Zombieland) as Happy Shannon. The film will have its premiere at this years Toronto International Film Festival.
Lionsgate has released the first official full-length trailer for its upcoming sequel Saw 3-D. Directed by Kevin Greutert, the seventh entry in the franchise Guinness World Records named the Most Successful Horror Series of all time is said to be its last.
The trailer plays up the 3-D angle, but I’m eager to find out what Det. Hoffman is going to do after being left for dead by Jill Tuck at the end of part six. I’m also eager to see the return of Dr. Gordon (Carey Elwes) and the scene teased on the Saw 6 Blu-ray featuring Amanda Young warning a captive Corbett (test subject Jeff’s tween daughter in Saw 3) about the man who will eventually show up to save her, namely Hoffman.
TV starlet Reagan Dale Neis (“A Minute with Stan Hooper”) stars in award-winning filmmaker Drew Daywalt’s new horror-short Doppelganger. The 33-year-old actress plays a woman who receives a disturbing call from someone who is either her husband or his evil double.
Take a look:
Sadly, Doppelganger’s payoff didn’t really do much for me. I’m especially disappointed because—up until the end—I was really creeped out and expected to see some kind of disturbing conclusion along the lines of Daywalts’ Suicide Girl and the truly chilling Bedfellows. That said, I really can’t wait to see a full-length feature film from this guy.
Daywalt is one of the founding members behind the indie-horror troupe Fewdio. He recently completed a 17-episode web series entitled Camera Obscura for MGW Entertainment.
Photos of actress January Jones on the set of director Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class have hit the web. The shots feature the “Mad Men” star in her Emma Frost costume while shooting a scene in a helicopter and enjoying a juicy slice of melon (pictured above).
Jones beat out British babe Alice Eve for the part in an eleventh hour casting decision. She joins a cast that includes James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, Rose Byrne as Moira, Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Caleb Landry as Banshee, and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique.
Twentieth Century Fox plans to have the film in theaters on June 3, 2011.
French actress Zoe Felix is headlining director Yann Gozlan’s new abduction-thriller Captifs. The 33-year-old starlet plays a nurse taken captive while doing humanitarian work in Eastern Europe.
Take a peek:
The film’s official synopsis reads:
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons.
Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them.
I don’t care if this movie is about croissants and snails. If there’s a woman in a cage, I’m there.
Captifs, which was originally entitled Caged, arrives in France on Oct. 6. No word yet on a U.S. release date.
