Elisabeth Shue is set to join Jennifer Lawrence in director Mark Tonderai’s (Hush) new thriller House at the End of the Street. The film marks Shue’s quick return to horror after starring in Alexandre Aja’s fish-&-chicks frightener Piranha 3-D, in theaters Aug. 20.

House at the End of the Street revolves around a teen girl (Lawrence) who discovers that the house across from her new home was the scene of a double homicide. Things complicate further when she befriends the murdered family’s surviving son (Thieriot).

Shue will play mother to Lawrence’s character. Production on the film begins next month in Ottawa.

Shue’s horror creds include Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man, the Robert De Niro/ Dakota Fanning thriller Hide and Seek, and the indie-release First Born.

Lawrence, hot off her critically acclaimed performance in the award-winning indie-drama Winter’s Bone, has been cast as a young Mystique in director Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men origins reboot X-Men: First Class.

Hammer Films have released a red-band trailer for their upcoming remake of the 2008 Swedish vampire drama Let the Right One In. Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), the film has been renamed Let Me In and stars 14-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) as the story’s bullied loner and 13-year-old Chloe Moretz (Kick Ass) as his vampire girlfriend and guardian.

Take a look:

Let Me In costars Richard Jenkins (Cabin in the Woods), Cara Buono (“Stephen King’s Dead Zone”), Elias Koteas (The Killer Inside Me), Sasha Barrese (Hellraiser: Inferno), and Chris Browning (Cowboys & Aliens).

The Swedish film Let the Right One In is directed by Tomas Alfredson and based on the best selling novel Lat den Ratte Komma by author John Ajvide Lindqvist. The film is included in Clatto’s prestigious list of 15 Vampire Movies That Won’t Make You Gay.

Let Me In arrives in theaters on Oct. 1.

Sony Screen Gems has released the first official trailer for director Scott Stewart’s post-apocalyptic-vampire-frightener Priest. British actor Paul Bettany (Legion) headlines the film as a man of the cloth out to slay the bloodsuckers that have abducted his 18-year-old niece.

Say two Hail Marys and take a look:

The official synopsis reads:

Priest is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. Paul Bettany is Priest, a legendary warrior priest during the last Vampire War, who now lives in obscurity among the other human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities controlled by the Church.

But when his 18-year-old niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires in the desolate wastelands outside, Priest breaks his sacred vows and ventures out to find her and seek vengeance upon those responsible, especially their brutal leader (Karl Urban).

Priest is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend, Hicks (Cam Gigandet), a local outpost sheriff, and Priestess (Maggie Q), a member of his former legion of vampire-killers who has otherworldly fighting skills.

As a Catholic school survivor, I curled up into the fetal position and clenched my ass cheeks tightly when I first heard Sony Screen Gems was developing a horror film entitled Priest. Some topics are just too personal. But, now that I see it’s just another vampire movie, I can go back to living my normal life again. Hmm. I wonder if the the local altar boys want to come over to see porn and take E. I should call them.

Priest costars Maggie Q (“Nikita”), Karl Urban (And Soon the Darkness), Brad Dourif (Chain Letter), Christopher Plummer (Cold Creek Manor), Mädchen Amick (“Twin Peaks”), Cam Gigandet (The Roommate), Alan Dale (“LOST”) and Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”).

Say your prayers on May 13, 2011.

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Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released the first official trailer for writer/director Zack Snyder’s (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole)  eagerly anticipated fantasy-actioner Sucker Punch. The film is headline by Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jaime Chung, Carla Gugino, and Jena Malone.

Peep it:

Ah, movies. They’re magic really. Cinematic voodoo capable of bedazzling our minds with a mix of story, stunts, and special effects. But, some of the biggest and most impressive F/X have nothing to do with blowing up cities or creating giant man-eating monsters.

Hollywood’s most inspired wizardry occurs on the makeup chair. That’s where they can take something that looks like this:

… and work on it for eight hours until it becomes something more penis-friendly like this:

Pretty amazing, huh?

I don’t know about you, but it’s far more important for my penis to believe a film’s heroine is totally bang-able than whether or not the werewolves in Twilight look real (they don’t). Suddenly, I feel bad about forwarding through the makeup/wardrobe awards segment during the Oscars.

To see the magic of makeup at work, check this out:

The Sucker Punch synopsis reads:

Sucker Punch is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary…with potentially tragic consequences.

The film is based on an original screenplay by Zach Snyder and Steve Shibuya. It’s vagina-less costars include Scott Glenn, Jon Hamm, Michael Jai White, and Oscar Isaac.

Sucker Punch arrives in 2-D and 3-D on March 25, 2011.