Gorgeous British actress/glamor model Gemma Atkinson is finally dipping her pretty pedicured toes (what? I notice these things) into the horror pool with a lead role in Eyeline Entertainment’s upcoming werewolf frightener 13HRS.

According to director Jonathan Glendening (S.N.U.B!), the film showcases Atkinson’s and her jaw-dropping 34E chest in traditional horror fashion.

He tells the Daily Star Sunday:

It’s a horror movie staple to have an incredibly sexy woman pursued by a terrifying beast. Gemma fulfils this role more than adequately. She’s wearing a mini-skirt, blue blouse and stilettos during the whole movie because it’s set over one night. She’s very sexy – I’m a big fan. She surprised me, to be honest – she was superb. This could be the start of a stellar acting career.

Atkinson, who starred on the British teen-soap Hollyoaks and its two spinoffs, is eager to leave modeling behind to focus on a career in film. The 25-year-old stunner has been taking drama and voice classes to better prepare for the endeavor.

She tells The Argus:

I did the modelling for about three years, but acting is what I really want to do. It was really scary at first because modelling was what I’d become known for. It kind of took over the Hollyoaks role, so I’ve been really lucky to get back to Gemma Atkinson, actress.

Atkinson goes on to describe her experience in 13HRS as hard work and is thrilled to learn that the film will finally make its way into theaters later this year (the movie wrapped a year ago).

The film’s official synopsis reads:

A full moon hangs in the night sky, and lightning streaks across dark storm clouds. Sarah Tyler (Calthorpe) returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside for a much put-off visit. As the storm rages on, Sarah, her family, and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.

Trapped, Sarah and her brothers and friends must use their heads as well as their physical strength to survive not only the thing that is hunting them down one by one – but their own entrapment as the besieged group turns in on itself. Can they survive the horror stalking them? Or is their enemy already amongst them, and has it always been? Can they survive for 13 hours?

13HRS is slated for release this summer. Co-stars include hottie Isabella Calthorpe, Simon MacCorkindale (“Poltergeist: The Legacy”), John Lynch (Black Death), Sue Scadding (Witchcraft X: Mistress of the Craft), and Tom Felton of Harry Potter fame.

OK, I think that’s enough words to justify the following photos of Atkinson in lingerie:

[Show as slideshow]

Krokus is back!

I was in junior high when I first listened to Krokus’ Headhunter and, to this day, it remains on one of my go-to discs when I’m barreling down the freeway at 135 miles an hour, downing a bottle of Level One vodka and texting my friends.

The Swiss metal band’s original ’80s lineup has reunited for their upcoming brand new CD Hoodoo, available on Feb. 26.

A video for its first single “Hoodoo Woman” has been released and it’s surprisingly good. The video features all the necessary ingredients for a classic metal video: hot evil chick, hot abducted chick, skulls, and mullets.

Check it out:

The CW announced today early renewals for its popular horror-themed television shows “The Vampire Diaries” and “Supernatural.” Both series perform phenomenally well with horny women ages 18-to-34, giving the network its highest ratings.

(UPDATE: Want to meet the cast of “The Vampire Diaries” at Paleyfest 2010? Go here for more info)

The following is the CW’s official press release:

The series receiving early renewals include this season’s breakout hit THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, The CW’s most-watched show (4.6 million viewers) and the network’s number one show among adults 18-34 (2.5/8).

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES premiere generated the largest audience in network history for a series debut (5.7 million total viewers). THE VAMPIRE DIARIES has improved The CW’s performance Thursday at 8:00 p.m. by 114% among women 18-34 this season.

The network also renewed fan favorite SUPERNATURAL, which will enter its sixth season next year. SUPERNATURAL has one of the most loyal audiences of any show on television and does heroic work in a perennially tough time period.  It has improved over last season among women and adults 18-34 (29% and 8%, respectively) this season, a remarkable accomplishment for a fifth-year show.

“The Vampire Diaries” stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder, known to those of us without vaginas as Boone on ABC’s “LOST.” Created by Kevin Williamson, producer of “Dawson’s Creek” and the scribe behind the innovative Scream films, “Diaries” follows a high school girl’s complicated love triangle with two vampire suitors … who happen to be brothers.

To see photos of the cast’s recent meet-and-greet with fans in Los Angeles, click here.

“The Vampire Diaries” and “Supernatural” both picked up People’s Choice awards this year for Favorite New TV Drama and Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show, respectively.

Alessandra Torresani is the 22-year-old star of the Syfy network’s new “Battlestar Galactica” spinoff series “Caprica.” She’s also kind of a nut. But that’s to be expected when your parents pimp you out as a child-stripper-whore to close business deals with Asian clients.

(See Alessandra dance in sexy video here)

In an interview with Wired, she reveals:

I made my mom buy me lingerie when I was 5 years old. I was a sicko. My mother must have been mortified.

When I was 6, my dad had this huge business meeting, millionaire Asian businessmen came over to our house. I dressed up in this sexy bra, this big fur hat, the red lips, the fake eye lashes. I had my mom go, “Would you please join us in the living room?” and there I was laying on top of the baby grand piano and my 6-year-old neighbor Thomas started playing “Hello Dolly” and I started singing and lifting my legs, doing these kicks.

Then I’d go around and sit on the men’s laps. Let me tell you, my dad closed every deal because of that — these men were fascinated that this little girl came out of this guy and this woman. It was the funniest thing.

Yes, funny in a creepy, most likely illegal, definitely immoral, way.

Torresani’s parents make actress Thora Birch’s folks look like the damn Cleavers. What’s the deal with these Hollywood families? Oh, well, I think it was Michael Jackson who once said, “If they’re old enough to crawl, they’re already in the right position.”

Man, this chick just looks crazy.

Torresani plays Zoe Graystone, the 16-year-old daughter of Cylon creator Daniel Graystone, on the program, airing Friday nights on SyFy.