Producer Joss Whedon’s ratings-challenged, sci-fi series “Dollhouse” shut its doors for good last night with a finale entitled “Epitaph Two,” which found the characters 10 years into the future. Sadly, if not surprisingly, the episode came in 5th in the ratings, drawing 2.16 million viewers.

“Dollhouse” star Eliza Dushku told the LA Times:

I think it’s easy to point fingers at the end and play coulda/shoulda/woulda. I think initially Fox was really excited about Joss and I teaming up, and I think they were excited about the concept, even though Joss has expressed that maybe the concept that they’d thought up and the concept that he created … maybe there was a disconnect there.

We were optimistic that we would maybe have a chance to go on, but we were also realistic knowing that numbers were the way that they were. It was just a bummer because we’re aware of the fan base and the strong audience that we do have for the show and that’s what always inspired us and fueled us.

… many shows upon getting canceled … that’s it. Game over. You don’t get the chance to finish out all the stories and air all of the episodes. So, it’s a really rare thing that we were really grateful for.

“Dollhouse” starred Dushku as a programmable femme-bot created to carry out the needs of the wealthy. While Dushku often carries out my need to ejaculate into a handful of Kleenex Ultra Soft tissues, even she couldn’t get viewers to tune into the show on Friday nights, commonly known as the potter’s field of time slots.

Dushku is included on Clatto’s list of the Ten Hottest Horror/Sci-fi Babes of the Past Decade.

If you’re a fan of NBC’s over-hyped sitcom “30 Rock,” you will recognize actress Katrina Bowden as scantly-clad assistant Cerie Xerox. Those of us who find a bowl of turds more amusing than Tina Fey and company, however, are just getting to know the 21-year-old star, namely through her roles in 2009’s survival-frightener The Shortcut and this year’s horror-comedy Tucker and Dale VS. Evil (see picture above).

Tucker and Dale premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and quickly acquired a Canadian distribution deal through Maple Pictures. No word yet on who will be handling U.S. distribution.

Bowden stars in the film as a sexy coed who is rescued by the film’s affable hillbillies during a swimming accident.

In an interview with WickedInfo, Bowden described the film as follows:

Tucker and Dale is an exciting, unique movie that was really fun to be a part of. It’s about two lovable friends who get mistaken as evil crazy “hillbillies” by a group of young college kids when they take a camping trip. My character gets rescued by the two locals when there is a swimming accident – although Tucker and Dale are sweet kind-hearted guys, through the eyes of my friends they seem like evil killers. And similarly, through the eyes of Tucker and Dale, my friends seem crazed and violent. Therefore it turns into a kind of cat-and-mouse scenario with cool special effects and funny back and forth between the “eyes” of both groups.

Along with Bowden, Tucker and Dale VS. Evil stars “Firefly’s” Alan Tudyk and “Reapers” Tyler Labine, as the titular heroes Tucker and Dale, Chelan Simmons (Final Destination 3), Brandon Jay McLaren (“Harper’s Island”), Christie Laing (Scary Movie 4), and Sasha Craig (Dark Wolf). To see a trailer and learn more about the flick, click here.

Sadly, I couldn’t wrangle up any more photos of Bowden in Tucker and Dale, but I did put together the following gallery of shots taken from her performance in The Shortcut and from her bikini-clad romp at a Miami beach. Enjoy.

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After Dark’s fourth annual Horrorfest arrives in selected theaters this weekend. This year’s 8 Films to Die For are Kill Theory, Zombies of Mass Destruction, The Reeds, Hidden, Lake Mungo, The Final, Dread (based on a Clive Barker story), and The Graves, starring hottie Clare Grant.

To find a participating theater near you, go here.

If you’d rather watch the flicks in the privacy of your mother’s basement, they will be available on DVD come March 23.

Goofy pop star Ke$ha may have seen Paranormal Activity one too many times. The 22-year-old singer believes that she is haunted and won’t settle into a residence until she can shake the ghost.

She tells Rolling Stone:

I don’t have a house, but I’m looking for one. I just want to make sure it’s not haunted. I’m not just saying this to try to sound crazy, like, “Oh, I’m such a crazy pop star, I’m haunted,” but actually, almost every night I have some psycho dream of the same ghost, either in my face, strangling me, smacking me, shoving me, or just hanging out. Sometimes he’s just there, scaring me, being an asshole.

I, for one, don’t think Ke$ha is haunted. I believe she’s getting her ass kicked every night by Lady Ga-Ga for jacking her ridiculous image and style. Man, what ever happened to attractive pop singers like Christina Aguilera and that chick from Culture Club?

The 815 winners of ABC’s “Lost” sweepstakes contest have each received an exclusive message-in-a-bottle prize package (pictured above) holding a digital key to the first four minutes of the show’s highly anticipated sixth and final season premiere episode entitled LA X. Needless-to-say, those four minutes are now circulating the web.

Personally, I hate spoilers. Love teasers, but spoilers … not so much. I like to enjoy a complete piece of work, which is why I won’t watch the leaked clip. But, hey, if you’re one of those people that has to bite into the chewy center right away, then go ahead and enjoy:

“Lost” season six premieres Tuesday, Feb 2 on ABC.

Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira Mistress of the Dark, lets her hair down to play the concerned mother of a teenage horror movie fanatic in writer-director Joshua Grannell’s feature film debut All About Evil.

The synopsis reads:

All About Evil is a wicked black comedy set in the world of a horror movie about a mousy librarian (Natasha Lyonne) who inherits her father’s beloved but failing old movie house. In order to save the family business she discovers her inner serial killer – and a legion of rabid gore fans – when she starts turning out a series of grisly shorts. What her fans don’t realize yet is that the murders in the movies are all too real!

Costarring with Peterson are Natasha Lyonne (the ugly chick from American Pie), Thomas Dekker (A Nightmare On Elm Street), Noah Segen (Dead Girl), and Julie Caitlan Brown (“Babylon 5”).

And, don’t forget to check out Peterson in the reboot of “Elvira’s Movie Macabre.”

Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced that it will release director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s feature film debut After.Life on April 9 for a limited theatrical run. The film has been tagged with an R-rating for its disturbing images, language, and generous helping of Christina Ricci nudity.

(UPDATE: To see the first official After.Life trailer, click here)

After.Life, which held its premiere back in November as part of the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, stars Ricci as an automobile accident victim who awakens while her body is being prepped for burial by a mysterious mortician, played by Liam Neeson. According to those who caught the film’s premiere, Ricci appears nude through much of the film.

After.Life costars Justin Long, Josh Charles, and Chandler Canterbury. To see a new poster, go here.

The folks at Hollywood Life are reporting that human drug Lindsay Lohan will let her fun bags fly in Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming grindhouse-actioner Machete. The one-time-actress-turned-tabloid-star cameos as a sociopathic socialite named April Benz.

Hollywood Life reports:

Lindsay is slated to get wet and naked while swimming in a waterfall with Alicia Rachel Marek, 34, who plays her mother, June.

Lohan boobage? Mother-daughter kink? It’s as if my penis made a movie while I was sleeping.

Check out Machete’s faux-trailer, which ran as part of Rodriguez’s and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 Grindhouse collaboration, to get an idea of the scene in question:

Oscar-winning actress/producer Charlize Theron (Monster, The Road) and producer/director David Fincher (Zodiac, Se7en) are developing a new HBO crime drama based on the book Mind Hunter:Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by renowned FBI profiler John Douglas and novelist/filmmaker Mark Olshaker (Mind of a Serial Killer).

The series will recount Douglas’ experiences on the field while tracking down serial killers and rapists. “Dexter” executive producer Scott Buck is writing the pilot.

Douglas pioneered the profiling techniques used by the Bureau today and was the inspiration for the agent Jack Crawford character in author Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter novels and the Frank Black character in Chris Carter’s “Millennium” series.

He has profiled such noted monsters as JohnWayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, (aka: Son of Sam), Charles Manson, James Earl Ray, Edmund Kemper (aka: the Coed Killer), Richard Speck, and countless others.

Though he retired in the mid-nineties, Douglas continued to consult in such high-profile cases as The Unabomber, the Nicole Brown Simpson/ Ron Goldman murders, and the JonBenet Ramsey homicide.

If you want to freak yourself out, read Douglas’ The Anatomy of Motive and Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet.

For over a decade, B-movie scream queen Tiffany Shepis has been chased, tormented, and brutalized (often while in the buff) in such straight-to-DVD trash fare as Dark Reel, Bloody Murder 2, and Embrace the Darkness 3. This year, the busty 30-year-old may finally get some payback in former AFI head of press and public relations John Wildman’s directorial debut Stripped.

Described as a post-feminist horror film, Stripped revolves around two brothers and a friend whose night of partying comes to a dreadful end when they find themselves trapped in a house occupied by a family of homicidal, man-hating women. It’s not clear if Shepis will be playing one of the psycho bitches or if she is the “friend” mentioned in the description. Either way, I’m sure both roles will call for nudity.

Stripped is set to shoot in May in Dallas, Texas. Jeffrey Allard (The Violent Kind, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Adam Donaghey are attached as producers.