“Party of Five” starlet Lacey Chabert is a reason to go crazy over Highland Film Group’s upcoming anthology Sanitarium, set to be shopped at next month’s American Film Market. The 30-year-old stunner is part of a cast that includes genre heroes Robert Englund and Malcolm McDowell and Lou Diamond Phillips.

The film’s synopsis reads:

Sanitarium consists of three tales based on three particular patients of a mental institution. Each tale begins with Dr. Stenson, the primary physician at the Sanitarium, commenting on the recent arrival of a new patient. As Dr. Stenson speaks, the individual’s story begins.

Chabert made her big screen debut as Penny Robinson in 1998’s Lost in Space, but her natural talents were better displayed in 2006’s Black Christmas remake and 2010 little seen, but awesome, Thirst. She’ll next be seen in the supernatural thriller Ghost of Goodnight Lane.

Periscope Entertainment’s new torture show Would You Rather will have its red-carpet premiere tonight at the LA Live Regal Cinemas in downtown L.A. as part of the 12th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival, taking place now through Oct. 21.

Director David Guy Levy and the film’s stars Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs and former porn star Sasha Grey (pictured) will be on hand for the festivities. Tickets to attend the screening and all of Screamfest LA events are available for purchase at ScreamfestLA.com.

Would You Rather stars Snow as a woman who competes in a wealthy psychopath’s (Combs) deadly game of torture and terror to win money to pay for her cancer-stricken brother’s medical bills. The role marks Snow’s return to horror since toplining Screen Gems 2008 remake of Prom Night.

Screamfest LA kicked off its 12th annual reign of terror on the movie world Friday night with a screening of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton’s The Collection, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 2009 cult hit The Collector, starring Josh Stewart.

Emma Fitzpatrick plays Elena, a hearing-impaired girl abducted from a rave by The Collector and taken to an abandoned, but booby-trapped hotel. Stewart reprises his role as Arkin, the ex-con-turned-hero, now forced to join a group of mercenaries hired by the missing girl’s father to find her.

The film is brutal, violent fun —a stylish tour-de-blunt-force guaranteed to thrill Collector fans while drawing in new ones. Dunstan, directing from a script he co-wrote with Melton, keeps the cat-and-mouse intensity of the original, but amps up the action with outrageous new death traps, zombified junkies and creepy new revelations.

The Collector & Erin Way

The Collection begins with Elena and her friends dancing the night away at an underground rave filled with beautiful semi-naked young people. Things get ugly when Elena finds her boyfriend making out with a hot blonde on the dance floor. She decks him and runs off upset, ducking into a room that holds a familiar looking chest.

Arkin, last seen abducted by The Collector in the original film, rolls out of the box—bloodied and bound—when Elena unfastens its latch, triggering a series of elaborate traps inside the club that allow for the bloodiest opening mass murder scene since 2002’s Ghost Ship.

Arkin escapes, but leaves Elena behind. She’s taken to the abandoned hotel where The Collector has set up shop to work on a gruesome project. While not a lot is revealed about The Collector, enough chilling background seeds have been planted to ensure the character’s transformation into a franchise-worthy villain.

Man's Worst Friend

The white-knuckle thrills continue as Arkin and a team of mercs, led by Elena’s guardian Lucello (Lee Tergesen), break into the hotel  in search of Elena, who has already managed to get away from The Collector and is roaming the halls with a creepy-cute captive named Abby (Erin Way), The Collector’s pet.

The Collection displays in theaters on Nov. 30.