2010
10.01

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A creepy new trailer for Paramount Pictures eagerly anticipated sequel Paranormal Activity 2 is now haunting the web. The clip introduces the film’s new victims, a family of four and their German Shepard.

Though I maintain a once-bitten-twice-shy attitude towards this movie (I found the original to be as dull as it was nauseating), I gotta admit babies and dogs reacting to unseen entities freaks me the fuck out. I’m also a sucker for simple scares such as doors slamming shut on their own.

Peep it:

OK, when the daughter shows a picture of a young girl, does she say it’s a picture of Katie (the possessed chick from the first flick)?

Paranormal Activity 2 is directed by Kip Williams (Door in the Floor) and arrives in theaters on Oct. 22. Oren Peli returns as writer/producer. The film will face-off against Kevin Greutert’s Saw 7 in 3-D (GoTeam Jigsaw!).

Greutert had been attached to direct the Paranormal sequel, but was forced to remove himself over contractual obligations with Lionsgate.

2010
10.01

‘Ghost Rider’ Sequel Picks Up Italian Sexpot Violante Placido!

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Italian actress/pop singer Violante Placido will join Nicolas Cage in Columbia Pictures’ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. The 34-year-old starlet will play the mother of satan’s spawn.

Placido is best known in the States as the naked chick in the George Clooney spy-thriller The American. Ciaran Hinds, who starred on HBO’s “Rome” as Julius Caesar, has been cast as the devil.

Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Gamer, Crank), Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance will find Johnny Blaze (Cage) hiding out in Eastern Europe, trying to find a cure for his Ghost Rider-y condition while helping to fight off the devil.

The first Ghost Rider grossed over $237 million despite sucking flaming donkey balls.