“Battlestar Galactica” babe Tricia Helfer is playing doctor in director Eric Wostenberg’s new sci-fi thriller Bloodwork (previously titled Phase One). Helfer stars as Dr. Wilcox, the head researcher in a secret government approved human regeneration experiment masquerading as a pharmaceutical drug test trial.
Travis Van Winkle (Friday the 13th) and John Bregar (“Degrassi: The Next Generation”) play college roommates who partake in the study to earn money for a trip to Europe. Mircea Monroe, best known for her work on Showtime’s “Episodes,” also stars as test subject Stacey.
Lightning Entertainment holds distribution rights to the film and premiered a sales trailer for it at this year’s American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA. Thankfully, the crafty folks at the QuietEarth managed to snake the clip for us to vulture.
Shooting has commenced on Image Works Entertainment’s 3-D remake of Japanese filmmaker Ataru Oikawa’s creepy J-Horror frightener Apartment 1303. The film stars “The O.C.’s” Mischa Barton (pictured above), Rebecca De Mornay (Mother’s Day), and Julianne Michelle (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps).
Apartment 1303 follows a young woman, who while investigating the mysterious suicide of her sister, discovers a malevolent force that may have caused her sibling—and many women before her—to jump to their deaths from the room’s 13-story balcony.
The supernatural thriller is directed by Swedish filmmaker Daniel Fridell and costars vagina-less actors John Diehl (Stargate) and Robert Blanche (Zombie Apocalypse). Production is currently taking place in Montreal.
“Pretty Little Liar” Torrey DeVitto has landed a recurring role on the hit CW series “The Vampire Diaries.” The 27-year-old starlet will play Mary, an intelligent young doctor fascinated by the self-healing powers of history teacher and vampire hunter Alaric Saltzman (Matt Davis).
DeVitto’s first two episodes are set to air when “The Vampire Diaries” returns from hiatus on Jan. 5 (this week’s episode marks its last first-run until then). According to THR, DeVitto’s character is expected to have a multi-episode arch.
DeVitto, who is married VD’s regular Paul Wesley (known to most as The Guy Who Isn’t Ian Somerhalder), currently plays Melissa Hastings on ABC Family’s teen-mystery soap “Pretty Little Liars.” Her movie creds include I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer and this year’s exorcism tale The Rite.
She will also be seen starring opposite Radha Mitchell and Stephen Moyer in Fourth Kind director Olatunde Osunsanmi’s Evidence, a found-footage frightener that follows police detectives as they attempt to put together a portrait of a mass murderer by utilizing his victims’ camcorders, flip cams, and smart-phones.
Over the summer, Maya Entertainment promoted their psycho-bitch thriller Playing House by giving fans an opportunity to win a date with the film’s super-sexy star Mayra Leal. A gringo-square named Mark from Los Angeles won the contest and was treated to dinner with Leal at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood.
The 5-foot-3, Texas-born Latin stunner, best known for her nude role in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete, spoke during the date about her big, moist lips, going naked in movies and the effect it has had on her Facebook page, and her love of pork.
Mark asked about her zodiac sign (because favorite color is too risque on a first date), opined that she should do Telemundo (way to pigeonhole, dude), and proceeded to perform an awkward impersonation of an effeminate Latin lover. Needless to say, Leal was quick to drop the “F’ word (“We’re friends”).
Written by “LOST” scribe Craig Rosenberg, the film follows a group of apparently very attractive passengers terrorized by an evil force after the mysterious death of a passenger on Vista Pacific Flight 7500. Chung will play a newly engaged flight attendant on her maiden voyage.
Chung’s genre creds include the 2009 remake Sorority Row, Dragonball Evolution (based on the Japanese Dragon Ball magna), and the indie-anthology Burning Palms. She will next be seen as a prisoner-prostitute in the abduction drama Eden.
Christian Serratos
Serratos’ role in 7500 is a little more vague, described only as a “woman who shares a secret with her boyfriend.” Aside from showing her ass for PETA, the 21-year-old stunner hasn’t done much outside of starring in Summit’s stupidly successful Twilight Saga. She’ll be seen this month in Breaking Dawn: Part One.
Former lesbian and “Hung” starlet Anne Heche is set to star in Nothing to Fear, a demonic thriller directed by Anthony Leonardi III for Slasher Films, the upstart genre studio founded by Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.
Nothing to Fear is the story of a pastor who moves his family to Stull, Kansas, one of the seven known gateways to hell, and watches as his daughters unleash the ultimate evil. The film is based on actual town folklore that claims the devil rises once every year from the local graveyard to walk the earth.
Costars include Willa Holland (Straw Dogs), Jennifer Stone (“Wizards of Waverly Place”), James Tupper (“Revenge”), and Rafi Gavrone (Mine Games). Production begins on February, 2012. The film is Slasher Films first production.
Heche has only starred in a handful of genre offerings, namely the 1997 disaster flick Volcano, the Kevin Williamson-penned I Know What You Did Last Summer, Gus Van Sant’s 1998 Psycho remake, Jonathan Glazer’s kinky psych-thriller Birth, and the 2008 outbreak thriller Toxic Skies.
Behind his sweet Hobbit facade, Elijah Wood may just be a nasty little gremlin. The affable 4-foot star (just a guess) of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and upcoming Hobbit films has officially signed on to star as sadistic serial killer Frank Zito in the Alexandre Aja-produced remake of the 1980 slasher Maniac.
Directed by Franck Khalfoun (P2), the redo finds antique mannequin salesman and deranged murderer Frank Zito (Wood) seeking women online to kill and scalp as revenge against his abusive mother whom he’s still haunted by in disturbing hallucinations.
The role is Wood’s second as a vicious serial killer. He played Kevin, an eerily quick-moving cannibalistic killer, in Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City (pictured above). BD, who first broke this story, also reports that French actress Nora Arnezeder (Safe House) will costar as journalist Anna D’Antoni, Frank’s love interest.
Gotta Love Them Old Romantic Comedies!
William Lustig’s original Maniac got feminist panties in a bunch when it was first released in 1980. Movie critics, including Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, were disturbed by the film’s violence against women and called for its boycott at theaters.
To see a trailer and/or pick up a copy of Blue Underground’s 30th Anniversary Edition of Maniac on DVD and Blu-ray, go here.
Radha Mitchell has said I do to playing Nicolas Cage’s wife in writer/director Scott Walker’s feature film debut Frozen Ground, the true story of Robert Hansen, an Anchorage-based serial killer who murdered 24 women over a 12 year span by hunting them down like game in the Alaskan wilderness.
Mitchell joins a cast that includes John Cusack as Hansen, Cage as the detective who brings him to justice, and Vanessa Hudgens as the teen prostitute who managed to escape from Hansen after being abducted, raped, and sexually assaulted with a hammer.
Mitchell, who made her genre debut in the 2000 Vin Diesel sci-fi actioner Pitch Black, and is best known for 2006’s Silent Hill, has starred in Richard Franklin’s Visitors, Greg Mclean’s Rogue, the Bruce Willis toplined Surrogates, and last year’s stellar remake of George Romero’s The Crazies.
The sexy Australian stunner will next be seen in 4th Kind director Olatunde Osunsanmi’s new found-footage thriller Evidence, Julie Delpy’s The Countess—an arthouse take on the Erzsebet Bathory story—and the eagerly anticipated sequel Silent Hill: Revelation.
Writer/director George Gallo (Middle Men) has assembled an impressive cast of actors for his new psych-thriller Columbus Circle. Selma Blair stars as Abagail Clayton, an agoraphobic young heiress tormented by the mysterious couple (Amy Smart, Jason Lee) living next door to her New York penthouse apartment.
The Lightning Entertainment film also stars Kevin Pollak as the building’s concierge, Beau Bridges as Dr. Raymond Fontaine (Abagail’s sole confidant) and Giovanni Ribisi as Frank Giardello the homicide detective investigating the death of an elderly neighbor.
Columbus Circle will hold its premiere at this week’s American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA. Posted above is the first image from the film, which doesn’t really hint at any turmoil between Blair and Smart’s characters, but does give hope for a weepy lesbian sex scene.
Australian model-turned-actress Nicky Whelan will cause quite a bit of turbulence in moviegoers’ pants next summer when she stars in Japanese director Takashi Shimizu’s (The Grudge) supernatural in-flight frightener 7500.
The CBS Films production—set to shoot later this month—follows a group of passengers terrorized by a supernatural force after the mysterious death of a passenger on Vista Pacific Flight 7500. Whelan will play a bitchy newlywed with control issues.
Joining the gorgeous 30-year-old sheila are fellow babes Amy Smart (Mirrors), Leslie Bibb (Midnight Meat Train), Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween), and Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood”). 7500 is slated for release on Aug. 31, 2012.
Australian for "See My Movie"
Whelan has appeared in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, starred in the ninth and final season of “Scrubs,” and played Jason Sudeikis’ spectacularly topless fuck-fantasy in the criminally underrated Farrelly brothers’ comedy Hall Pass.
