After helming the 2005 Syfy original creature-feature Pterodactyl, many assumed director Mark L. Lester had swallowed some shotgun candy and called it a life. As it turns out, the man behind Class of 1984 (1982), Firestarter (1984), Commando (1985), Armed & Dangerous (1986), and Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) is only dead on the inside.
The 64-year-old filmmaker is back with a new ridiculous psycho-bitch thriller entitled Groupie. The film stars Taryn Manning (Manson Girls) as a woman out to avenge the accidental concert death of her boyfriend by killing off the members of The Dark Knights, a rock band on the comeback trail. Costars include “90210’s” Hal Ozsan as the band’s lead singer, Eric Roberts as the group’s manager, and horror hottie Betsy Rue.
Guys who watch movies with their hands down their pants will recognize Rue as My Bloody Valentine 3-D’s ill-fated motel victim who fights off her assailant in the nude for 8-minutes. Her additional creds include Rob Zombie’sHalloween 2 and guest roles on HBO’s “True Blood,” Fox TV’s “Bones,” and the CBS crime series “The Mentalist.”
Betsy Rue's the day she forgot to wear pants!
Manning and Rue’s participation in this flick automatically earn it a spot on my Netflix queue. But, also drawing me in is the possibility that screenwriters Michael Feifer and Randall Frakes may have gotten inspiration for their story from the tragic 2003 Great White concert fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island.
Groupie arrives on DVD on June 14 from Allegro Entertainment.
Winona Ryder is bringing crazy back to the theater in indie-writer/director Jay Anania’s recently announced psychological thriller The Stare. The film stars Ryder as a playwright haunted by strange dreams and a sensation that she’s being watched and plotted against while attempting to launch her new production.
The Stare, which goes into production on May 6 in New York, costars Oscar nominee James Franco (127 Hours) as an actor performing in Ryder’s play. Franco also serves as producer on the Waterstone-produced project.
Ryder is coming off director Darren Aronofsky’s critically acclaimed psych-thriller Black Swan. Her genre creds include such notable films as Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection, Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula.
Gorgeous “Hollyoaks” star Tiffany Mulheron is joining hot up-and-comers Sara Paxton (Last House On the Left, Shark Night 3-D) and Gillian Zinser (Manson Girls, “90210”) in writer/director Brian Brightly’s feature film debut Liars All (previously entitled Truth or Dare).
Set in London on New Year’s Eve, Liars All centers on a game of truth-or-dare that spins out of control for a group of friends. The Indie Entertainment and Sundial Pictures production is set to roll camera on Monday in Los Angeles.
Mulheron’s genre creds include the rock-and-roll nightmare Dark Journey and the horror-comedy Lesbian Vampire Killers. She is best known, however, for her role as mean-bitch Natalie Osborne on the outrageously sexy British soap “Hollyoaks.”
Liars All costars Matt Lanter (The Roommate), Torrance Combs (“The Tudors”), Randy Wayne (Grizzly Park), and Alice Evans, who played a young Eloise Hawking on ABC’s “LOST.”
Against all odds, director Srdjan Spasojevic’s porn-snuff frightener A Serbian Film is set to hit the U.S. for a limited run in selected theaters on May 13. The controversial film will play in R and NC-17 rated edits, but an unrated version will be available on FlixFling.com on the same day.
A Serbian Film follows a downtrodden ex-porn star trying to make ends meet for his family by taking on a role in a privately funded fetish video that involves acts both immoral and illegal. The film’s most controversial scenes include machete sex, eye-socket rape, torture, and—wait for it—newborn rape.
“LOST” star Tania Raymonde (pictured above) and “True Blood’s” Brit Morgan will make their nude debuts in director Susanna Lo’s Manson Girls, a bio-pic that follows the violent and psychosexual lives of eight female Charles Manson cult members. The sexy duo partake in an orgy and share a girl-on-girl sex scene.
Raymonde and Morgan play convicted murderers Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel, respectively. In an interview with Lo for the website StayThirsty, the starlets reveal the lies they told themselves to justify going butt-nekid for the roles.
Raymonde says:
You can’t make a movie about the Manson girls without showing how the girls related to one another. They shared sexual connections as well as emotional ones. They were coerced and brainwashed into group sex situations that they more or less enjoyed.
Sex was the glue that held their family together. It’s important to show how these girls lived. I’m only portraying a character as accurately as I can, as I would with any role. As far as the nudity is concerned, I’ll get over it.
Morgan echoes Raymonde’s sentiment:
I have been avoiding nudity, for almost everything, so far in my career as well. So the sex scenes are new territory for me, but I am not as concerned as I imagined I’d be.
Probably because this is one of the only films I’ve read where it seems like it’s necessary and integral to the authenticity of the story. Sexuality was such an important factor in the 1960’s and in the lives of these girls, so I am willing to express that part of myself.
A horse is a horse, of course of course, unless that horse is making your nipples hard.
Suggestive portrait photos of “Life Unexpected” star Arielle Kebbel and her horse have hit the web. The shots present the 26-year-old stunner in a variety of come-hither poses while going bra-less in a slinky white dress (see gallery below).
Kebbel, a 2002 Miss Florida Teen U.S.A. beauty pageant contestant, has starred in a number of frighteners, including The Uninvited, The Grudge 2, and the horror-spoof Vampires Suck. She’s also appeared on The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries” and HBO’s “True Blood.”
Now, before you run off to get a bucket of KY Warming Gel and sit down to enjoy the photos, my self-imposed blogger’s code of ethics forces me to inform you that the horse in the pictorial is actually a mare named Breezy. Of course, your penis doesn’t need to know that.
Actress A.J. Cook has signed a two-year contract to reprise her role as Special Agent Jennifer “J.J.” Jareau on the CBS crime-drama “Criminal Minds.” The 32-year-old starlet was written off the show last season, replaced by Rachel Nichols and her beautiful large breasts.
Cook, who appeared in two season six episodes to tie up loose ends, will also appear on the season finale. CBS has not yet officially renewed “Criminal Minds,” but this bit of news—along with the fact that the show is ridiculously popular with TV viewers—bodes well for the possibility of a season seven and eight.
Horror fans know Cook from such projects as Final Destination 2, Ripper, Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell, The House Next Door, Bloodsuckers, Night Skies, and the Fox television series “Tru Calling.”
Newcomer Ashley Hinshaw has been cast in 20th Century Fox’s new supernatural thriller Chronicle. Directed by Josh Trank (“The Kill Point”), the film centers on three Portland teens who develop powers after being exposed to a mysterious substance.
Hinshaw, who got her start as a beauty and hair model while in high school, has guest starred on episodes of “Fringe” and “Gossip Girl.” The 22-year-old Indiana-born hottie will also be seen in screenwriter W. Peter Iliff (Point Break, Patriot Games) directorial debut Creepers (formerly entitled Rites of Passage).
Chronicle costars Dane DeHaan (“In Treatment”), Michael B. Jordan (“Friday Night Lights”) and Alex Russell (Bait).
Posted above is the first image from Relativity Media’s regrettably PG-13 rated creature-feature Shark Night 3-D. The shot features a terrified—and bikini-clad—Sara Paxton (The Last House on the Left) trapped in a shark cage by a hungry man-eater.
Paxton describes the film:
It’s very different from Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D. But I don’t think people should go in expecting The Reader with Kate Winslet, either.
The photo is pretty cool, but my “Shark Week” expertise tells me that’s a great white trying to take a bite out of Paxton. Of course, whites don’t do fresh water; only bull sharks do. So, I’m gonna guess this scene is taking place in the ocean.
Shark Night 3-D is directed by David R. Ellis (The Final Destination 3-D) and costars Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny), Chris Carmack (The Butterfly Effect 3), Alyssa Diaz (Red Dawn), Joel David Moore (Avatar), Dustin Milligan (The Messengers) and Sinqua Walls (Savage County).
A trailer for author/screenwriter Julia Leigh’s erotically-charged directorial debut Sleeping Beautyhas hit the web. The film appears to be not so much a re-imaging of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale as it is an exploration of the sleeping princess syndrome, a sexual fetish in which guys get off on fucking women who are in a state of unconsciousness (man, I miss college).
Australian actress Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) stars in the film as a student-turned-prostitute named Lucy who allows men to do all the nasty stuff they want to her while she’s in a drug induced slumber inside what is called a Sleeping Beauty chamber.
