Stunner Naomi Watts is joining Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo in director Joe Carnahan’s (The Grey) time loop thriller Boss Level. The film finds Grillo playing retired special forces veteran trapped in a never ending cycle resulting in his death until he can figure out who killed him and why.
No word on what role Watts will play in the film, but here’s hoping it involves a frivolous and full-frontal nude lovemaking scene that plays over and over and over again.
Watts is coming off Showtime’s “Twin Peaks” revival and the thriller Shut In. Her notable genre creds include her star-making turn in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Michael Haneke’s 2007 Funny Games remake, the Divergent series, J.A. Bayona’s The Impossible, David Lynch’s erotic thriller Mulholland Dr., and her 1996 horror debut, Children of the Corn: The Gathering.
A trailer has gone online for the indie creature feature The Sitter, starring Aisling Knight (Exorcism) as a broke college student tormented by an evil entity while babysitting for an eccentric couple over a long weekend.
We don’t know who Aisling Knight is of course, but she’s hot enough to make us overlook the Party City mask used for the monster in the movie and hope for the best: a gratuitous shower scene with extra soapy scrubbing!
A new trailer has gone online for Ghostland, Pascal Laugier eagerly awaited followup to his gruesome masterpiece Martyrs. Crystal Reed (“Gotham”) plays a successful horror novelist living with her traumatized sister, Anastasia Phillips (”Reign”), in the house where they once survived a brutal home invasion.
Co-starring alongside Reed and Phillips (”Reign”) are Mylène Farmer (Giorgino) as their mother and Taylor Hickson (Deadpool) and Emily Jones (High-Rise) as younger versions of the sisters. Ghost Land is slated for release April 2018.
The Wishing Forest follows a widow, a thief, and a warrior on a quest to find a magical wish-fulfilling unicorn in a forest overrun by cannibals serving a vicious queen with an insatiable appetite, played by the film’s producer – glamour model-turned-actress Stormi Maya (pictured above).
The Wishing Forest is written by Jamie Grefe (Shark Babes) and helmed by newbie directors Leia and Jadzia Perez. Model/actress Karin Brauns toplines the film, due out later this year.
Milfy model-turned-actress Famke Janssen joins Nicolas Cage in Primal, a new thriller pitting the duo against a frightening mix of deadly animals and a ruthless assassin while onboard a South American freighter bound for the U.S.
Janssen plays a neurologist lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. Cage is a big-game hunter hired to bring back exotic animals from the Amazon to American zoos. When a political assassin being extradited to the U.S. escapes, he frees all the beasts.
Janssen made her horror film debut Clive Barker‘s Lord of Illusions and played Dr. Jean Grey (AKA: Phoenix) in the X-Men franchise. She starred in producer Eli Roth’s Netflix series “Hemlock Grove” and the frighteners Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Don’t Say a Word, The House on Haunted Hill, Hide and Seek, Deep Rising, and The Faculty.
“Hemlock Grove” and “Vampire Diaries” alumna Penelope Mitchell plays a small town woman waking up every morning with mysterious bite marks on her body after moving to the city in Gravitas Ventures’ Apartment 212.
In addition to her roles on “Hemlock” and “Diaries,” Mitchell has got an impressive string of horror creds to her name, including road thriller Curve, Fear of Darkness, 6 Plots, and the Bret Easton Ellis penned Curse of Downers Grove. She’ll next be seen in Neil Marshall’s Hellboy reboot.
HBO Films has released a trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451. Michael B. Jordan (Creed) stars as protagonist Guy Montag, a “fireman” tasked with burning books in a dystopian society where people are happily kept ignorant by their government.
Michael Shannon (Shape of Water) co-stars as his boss Captain Beatty and stunner Sofia Boutella – of Mummy, Atomic Blonde, Kingsman fame – plays Clarisse, the young woman who opens his eyes to a new world. It looks all kinds of good, just wish it were a series. Premieres in May.
Canadian stunner Alexia Fast (Jack Reacher) plays one of a group of eight college kids stalked by a murderous stranger when their party yacht drifts onto a mysterious island in Grindstone Entertainment’s The Ninth Passenger.
Fast made her fright flick debut in 2006 with the zombie horror-comedy Fido. She’s since starred in the sci-fi thriller Repeaters, abduction drama Captive, and supernatural thriller Grace: The Possession. She is best known for playing small town seductress Sandy in the Tom Cruise actioner Jack Reacher.
Jamie Lee Curtis has wrapped her work on the new and reportedly final Halloween sequel from horror hit machine Blumhouse and Universal Pictures. David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) directs and co-writes with longtime collaborator and actor Danny McBride (”Eastbound & Down”).
Halloween creator John Carpenter is an executive producer on the film and Curtis reprises her role as iconic final girl Laurie Strode. Judy Greer (War for the Planet of the Apes) plays Strode’s daughter, Karen, and Andi Matichak (“666 Park Avenue”) is her hot granddaughter, Allyson.
Curtis celebrated wrapping her role by posting on her Instagram a BTS image of herself, Greer, and Matichak huddled together as the Strode girls … which led us to notice there’s something about this trio that truly makes them look related. It’s not the faces or haircuts. It’s-it’s … oh! It’s the boobs! Well played, casting! Well played.
Serbian-Australian stunner Bojana Novakovic continues to embrace our beloved genre with a leading role in Vertical Entertainment’s Malicious, a supernatural thriller about a newlywed mother tormented by her would be child after suffering a traumatic event.
Novakovic is coming off Beyond Skyline, a sequel to the highly underrated 2010 alien invasion thriller Skyline, and has starred in Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, the Mel Gibson revenge drama Edge of Darkness, and producer M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil.
Malicious is written and directed by Michael Winnick (Shadow Puppets) and co-stars Josh Stewart (The Collector), Delroy Lindo (Get Shorty), Melissa Bolona (Shark Lake), and Yvette Yates (Sorority Party Massacre). It is slated for release this summer.
