Jessica Szohr (“Gossip Girl”) has been tapped to topline a new paranormal series from celebrated horror producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker Kevin Williamson (Scream, “Vampire Diaries”). The show is being produced for The CW with David Nutter (“Game of Thrones”) directing.
Szohr plays the granddaughter of a voodoo priestess exploiting her heritage to sell trinkets to tourists in Baton Rouge. When she starts to experience paranormal phenomena, she seeks help from a once successful parapsychologist turned convention attraction.
Szohr is best known for playing sullen hot chick Vanessa Abrams in The CW’s “Gossip Girl,” but thrilled horror fans in 2010 with a bikini-clad role in Piranha 3D.
Carmen Ejogo co-stars in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, a sequel to Scott’s sleep-inducing Alien prequel, Prometheus. Ejogo joins Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice), Demian Bichir (Hateful Eight), Amy Seimetz (You’re Next), Danny McBride (“Eastbound & Down”), and Michael Fassbender, back as David the android.
Alien: Covenant finds the crew of the colony ship Covenant coming upon a planet they believe to be an uncharted paradise only to discover it’s a hostile hellhole inhabited by Prometheus sole survivor David. The film is part two in Scott’s planned trilogy of Alien prequels for 20th Century Fox.
Ejogo is coming off the acclaimed drama Selma, but horror fans will know her from the white-knuckle sequel The Purge: Anarchy and James Patterson adaptation Alex Cross. She also joins Waterson in the J.K. Rowling penned Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Busty-model-turned-busty-actress Emily Ratajkowski (Gone Girl) is set to co-star alongside Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) in director Anthony Byrne’s In Darkness, a psychological revenge thriller co-written by Dormer and Byrne.
In Darkness stars Dormer as a blind musician dragged into London’s seedy underground after hearing a murder take place in the apartment above hers. Ratajkowski plays the troubled daughter of the film’s bad guy and an important figure in Dormer’s quest for justice.
Ratajkowski rose to fame after her heart-stopping topless and thong shaking performance in Robin Thicke’s music video for the catchy-as-fuck hit “Blurred Lines” and a memorable topless turn in David Fincher’s murder mystery Gone Girl.
Indican Pictures has released a trailer for its upcoming shoe-string budgeted slasher Deadly Famous, releasing on DVD March 1. The film stars Daniel O’Meara (John Carter) as a former child actor turned acting coach and cannibalistic killer in hunt of aspiring Hollywood starlets.
Porn star Dahlia Sky (From My Asshole with Love) plays the heartbreaking role of a hot girl murdered too soon in a bathtub. Co-stars include Jackie Moore (Pernicious), Ria Huang (Nude Nuns with Big Guns), and – of course – Eric Roberts. Jim Lane and Eric Troop direct.
AMC has released a teaser trailer for season two of its “Walking Dead” prequel series “Fear the Walking Dead,” premiering April 10. The show ended its first season with its Brady Bunch gang reaching the shore and eyeballing ally Victor Strand’s yacht as safe harbor.
The trailer gives us a peek at a zombie apocalypse as it heads to sea and it appears to be anything but enchanting. But here’s hoping there’s enough down time on that boat for Madison (Kim Dickens) and Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey) to get in some mother/daughter bikini lounging in.
If you were naughty last Christmas, you probably skipped out on all that It’s a Wonderful Life crap and caught yourself a screening of Trick’r Treat writer and director Michael Dougherty’s new holiday frightener Krampus, starring Adam Scott (Piranha), Toni Collette (Sixth Sense), David Koechner (Anchorman), and Allison Tolman (The Gift).
Now, Krampus is coming to Digital HD on April 12 and Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, and On Demand on April 26… and judging from the details Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has released about the home editions, Christmas comes early this year.
Blu-ray and DVD Special Features:
Alternate Ending
Deleted Scenes
Extended Scenes
Gag Reel “The Naughty Ones: Meet The Cast” – At the center of this crazed story, filled with horrifying creatures and massive set pieces, are some of the funniest and most talented actors working today. This piece shines a light on the cast of Krampus as they share their experiences making this movie.
Galleries – Still Images from the set
Feature Commentary With Director/Co-Writer Michael Dougherty and Co-Writers Todd Casey & Zach Shields
Blu-ray Exclusive Special Features:
“Krampus and His Minions” – In this exclusive feature see how Krampus and his twisted underlings gave the visual-effects superstars at Peter Jackson’s New Zealand-based Weta Workshop some creative and technical challenges. Viewers will have an insider look at how Krampus and his evil minions were created and executed. “Practical Danger” – Stunt Coordinator Rodney Cook walks viewers through how the film’s thrilling stunts were done live on set while facing challenges with the creatures, children and set design. “Inside the Snowglobe: Production Design” – Filming almost entirely on sound stages in the middle of summer in New Zealand, the art department and special effects team had to pull out all of their tricks to create sets that were realistic, ready for stunts and practical effects, all while creating the look of a winter wonderland. “Behind the Scenes at Weta Workshop: Krampus” – Go behind-the-scenes at the world famous Weta Workshop to see how they brought the amazing Krampus creatures to life. “Dougherty’s Vision” – In this featurette Director Michael Dougherty, along with the film’s cast and crew, reveal how his approach informed the tone, pacing, humor and performances of Krampus.
Based on the notorious folktale of an evil Christmas entity out to abduct and slay misbehaving children who don’t believe in the Yuletide spirit, Krampus finds a young boy’s family in trouble when he denounces Santa and the magic of Christmas in the wake of visiting asshole relatives who have crushed his soul.
Kelly Overton (“True Blood”) is toplining Syfy’s new original “Van Helsing” series as vampire killer Vanessa Helsing. The show will run for 13 episodes and is produced by Nomadic Pictures with writer and director Neil LaBute (Your Friends & Neighbors) as showrunner.
“Van Helsing” finds our new vampire hunter, a descendant of the Van Helsing linage, resurrected as humanity’s salvation in a future where bloodsuckers rule the world. Cameras are now rolling on the show for a fall debut.
Overton is familiar to horror fans for her roles in The Ring Two, the video game adaptation Tekken, her co-directorial effort The Collective, and HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood,” in which she played raging werewolf Rikki Naylor.
The Boogeyman (1980) director Ulli Lommel returns to helm Boogeyman: Reincarnation, the fourth entry in the supernatural franchise. The sequel serves as a origins story, spanning “generations, lands and time itself to present a riveting and haunting experience.”
Toplining Boogeyman: Reincarnation is pretty newcomer Skylar Radzion (pictured) – not sure what her age is so perv out responsibly. She’s joined by American Mary babe Tristan Risk and Human Centipede 2 & 3 creep Laurence Harvey.
Jaimie Alexander, star of NBC’s “Blindspot” and Marvel Studios’ Thor, toplines the erotic thriller Broken Vows from newbie director Bram Coppens. The gorgeous stunner plays a bride-to-be who has a one night fling with a troubled barkeep during her bachelorette party in New Orleans.
What happens in the Big Easy proves to be difficult to leave behind when her not-so-one-night-stand, played by Wes Bentley (Hunger Games) and Wes Bentley’s eyebrows, follows her home on a mission to destroy her marriage and win her heart with his homicidal charms.
Alexander first caught the eye of horror fans in the 2006 slasher Rest Stop, in which she regrettably used a body double for nude scenes. Considering she’s never stripped on screen and her career continues to blossom, don’t expect any nude-acting from Alexander in the film 🙁
Universal Pictures has released a first trailer for the third chapter in Blumhouse’s politically charged horror franchise, The Purge. Titled Election Year, the sequel stars Elizabeth Mitchell (“LOST”) as a U.S. senator marked for death for her efforts to bring an end to the Founding Father’s annual purge night.
The Purge is a government sanctioned 12-hour night during which all criminal activity is permissible by law, including murder, rape, and more murder. Mitchell’s senator puts a target on her back when she exposes that the purge is aimed at minorities and the poor.
Purge: Election Year picks up two years after the events of Purge: Anarchy and finds Frank Grillo’s Leo Barnes character back in action and attempting to protect the senator on purge night amid the evening’s hooligans and murderers. Series writer and director James DeMonaco is once again at the helm.
