It’s likely that most horror fans have at some point played that fucked up game where they’re asked to pick between two terrible fates (i.e. Would you rather lose your nuts or your eyes? Save your offspring or your spouse?). That game is now going to play out in Oscar-winning F/X creator Robert Legato’s directorial debut Choose.
Insanely hot Katheryn Winnick (Amusement) headlines Legato’s twisted horror show. The 32-year-old Canadian starlet plays a journalism grad student tracking down a sadistic serial killer who forces his victims to make horrendous, life-altering choices (think a more evil Jigsaw).
Check out the following synopsis: .
The peace and tranquility of an idyllic, suburban city is suddenly broken. Behind the picket fence and manicured lawn, teenage Sara awakens startled as a rush of cold air gently pushes her bedroom door open. Across the hall her parent’s bedroom door lies ajar. She calls for her parents-no response. She enters their bedroom and as her eyes adjust to the darkness she sees her parents on the bed hog-tied and gagged. Before she can react she is grabbed roughly by the hair and slammed against the wall. “Do what I say or you die” Scarlip tells her.
He turns over an expertly crafted hourglass filled with blood and coolly instructs her, “I’m going to kill your mother or your father. You have sixty seconds to decide which one.” She begs and pleads with him, but all Scarlip tells her is that if she doesn’t choose then both parents die. And this is just the opening sequence of the chilling horror Choose.
Choose costars Kevin Pollak (End of Days), Bruce Dern (Swamp Devil), Talia Balsam (Killer Instinct), Cady Huffman, and Nicholas Tucci (Undocumented) as the Scarlip killer. The film is currently seeking distribution.
Rachel Weisz joins Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts in Morgan Creek’s new thriller Dream House. Directed by Jim Sheridan, the film stars Weisz and Craig as a married couple who purchase a New England home that unbeknown to them was the site of a grisly domestic murder, namely a mother and her two kids.
Watts plays the next door neighbor who knows what really happened in the house.
Moody-tween fashion retailer Hot Topic will be hosting a meet-and-greet with “The Vampire Diaries’ stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder. The event will take place Saturday, Feb. 13 at the Hot Topic outlet located inside the Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park, CA beginning at 4 p.m.
(UPDATE: If you missed this event, don’t worry. You can meet the cast of “The Vampire Diaries” at Paleyfest 2010. Click here for details.)
The autograph signing portion of the show is sold out, but a Q&A session will be open to the public. Rock outfit A Fine Frenzy will also be performing at the event.
For more info, call Hot Topic at 818-348-8440.
“The Vampire Diaries” is writer-producer Kevin Williamson’s (Scream, “Dawson’s Creek”) adaptation of L.J. Smith’s popular novel series of the same name for the CW television network. The show follows high-schooler Elena Gilbert as she’s courted by two vampire brothers.
The most frightening thing about Fox’s sci-fi/FBI procedural “Fringe” is how awful it is. Chock-full of lousy acting, lame dialogue, cliched characters, and cheesy effects, it’s hard to believe that J.J. Abrams has a hand in its production. The show does have one thing going for it: actress Anna Torv.
Torv, who plays agent Olivia Dunham, can be seen in a semi-nude pictorial in the March issue of Esquire magazine. Take a peek:
Human drug Mickey Rourke appears to be quite smitten with Megan Fox, his costar in director Mitch Glazer’s supernatural-drama Passion Play.
The 57-year-old actor tells Entertainment Weekly:
I didn’t know too much about her, except what I read. And I think the pleasant surprise was this girl who’s a world-class beauty turned out to be probably the best young actress I’ve ever worked with. I don’t know if a lot of her films have showcased her acting ability more than, say, being action-oriented, but she really stepped up the plate with this one and was very consistent and professional, beyond her years. At 23, I couldn’t do half of what she’s doing.
Rourke’s statement appears to put Fox head-and-shoulders above his Wrestler costars Evan Rachel Wood and Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei.
Rourke comments:
Well, The Wrestler was quite tough. There wasn’t much chemistry there. Uh, that’s a whole other conversation. With Megan and I, there’s a lot of chemistry and a lot of respect. We’re both comfortable with each other.
Fox is unjustly nominated for Worst Actress at this year’s Razzies Awards for her performances in Transformers 2and Jennifer’s Body(I’m guessing the Razzies are determined by fat girls and gay guys).
To see BTS shots of Rourke with Fox, click here. To peep leaked topless photos of Fox from the Passion Play set go here.
Actress Jessica Alba told MTV News that she will be playing twins in director Robert Rodriguez’s revenge-actioner Machete.
She says:
I play identical twins. One’s bad and one’s good. There’s a ton of action in it. My character does a bit. I got to do some action finally again. This movie is Robert Rodriguez, old school at its best.
Check out the interview:
In addition to kicking ass, MTV reports that Alba will also flick her bean during an on-screen bathtub masturbation scene (I’m guessing that’s the bad twin) that could possibly give her ass-spanked turn in The Killer Inside Me a run for its stroke-value.
(UPDATE: I caught Machete at the theater and Alba looks amazing, but sadly does not play twins and does not masturbate. i have no idea why she or MTV said otherwise, but they owe my penis an apology. Great flick though!)
Machete’s amazing cast includes Danny Trejo as the titular antihero, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Rose McGowen, Cheech Marin, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson, and a topless Lindsay Lohan.
Genre babe Mary Elizabeth Winstead has finally secured her first starring role in a studio film. She, along with Joel Edgerton, will headline Universal Pictures upcoming remake of John Carpenter’sThe Thing, set to start shooting on March 15 in Toronto.
Winstead will play a PH.D. candidate who ventures to Antarctica to join a Norwegian research team’s investigation of a frozen spaceship trapped under ice. When an alien organism attacks the crew, she and Edgerton’s helicopter pilot character are left to fend for themselves.
Winstead has starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Final Destination 3, The Ring 2, and the Dimension Films remake Black Christmas.
Amanda Fuller has been acting on television since she was about 10-years-old, appearing on such shows as “Walker Texas Ranger,” “Two of a Kind,” and “Touched by an Angel.” Now 25, the fledgling actress is showing off how much she’s grown in director Simon Rumley’s dark psychological creep-show Red, White, & Blue.
From what I gather, the film follows three losers with a knack for bad decision-making. Fuller plays human cum-receptacle Erica, an emotionally unstable runaway prone to drinking and group sex.
It appears that Fuller, who goes nude in the film, needs to believe that Red, White, & Blue is complex and artistic and not just pretentious masturbation fodder for those who peruse straight-to-DVD indie fare in search of B-list, maybe even C-and-D-list, Hollywood T&A. So, let’s humor her and watch as she explains why the nudity and violence in Rumley’s movie is a bold cinematic statement of yada yada.
I wasn’t going to post about Suicide Girls Must Die, an indie-horror with a “reality-based” slant, because I don’t like tattooed ugly chicks. But, then I realized that some of you guys are probably tattooed and ugly too.
If you have a donkey wheel you can spin to go back in time, make sure you head to the year 2003. Why? Because that’s the year you could call Live Links and hook up with “Lost” star Evangeline Lilly. At least, that’s what the phone sex company would have you believe in the following ads:
Lilly, of course, is known to millions as Kate Austin on ABC’s hit sci-fi series “Lost,” now on it’s sixth and final season.
Of course, had you called, chances are the gal on the line would actually look more like Hurley than Lilly’s Kate.
