Canadian starlet Mia Kirshner has said I do to playing Stephen Moyer’s hot wife in director Darren Lynn Bousman’s upcoming Jersey Devil project The Barrens. According to Bloody Disgusting, who scored the scoop, Kirshner and Moyer are also being joined by Erik Knudsen (Scream 4) and J. Larose (Saw 3).
The Barrens follows a married couple (Kirshner, Moyer) and their kids as they set out to camp in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, home to the legendary cryptid known as the Jersey Devil. When Richard, the father, falls terribly ill, he begins to believe that his family is being stalked by the famed creature.
Kirshner, who most recently played Nina Dobrev’s vampire mom on The CW’s “Vampire Diaries,” can also be seen in the Ghost House sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia (she played Elizabeth Short), and Miramax’s 1996 Crow sequel The Crow: City of Angels.
Erica Leerhsen is set to star in director Jon Keeyes’ (Fall Down Dead) soon-to-start shooting period frightener Phobia. The 35-year-old genre babe will play Dr. Lesley Parker, a 19th century psychiatrist treating a disturbed Romanian man who just might be a vampire (“Sopranos” with a vamp twist?).
Phobia costars Chase Jeffery (American Virgin), Matthew Tompkins (Mongolian Death Worm), Jonathan Brooks (The Playroom), Nicole Leigh (Karma Police), and Matt Moore (Premonition) as a young Sigmund Freud.
Leerhsen’s horror creds include Platinum Dunes’ stellar 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the supernatural thriller Lonely Joe and sequels Wrong Turn 2: Dead End and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.
There are many horror sites and fans who revel in the genre’s blood and guts. For them, it’s all about the gore and the hatchet-wielding maniac making it all happen. But, here at Clatto, we like to focus on the more romantic side of horror, namely the busty Hollywood starlets and topless scream queens that either kill for vengeance and survival, or are murdered after seen showering, skinny-dipping, and/or having sex.
So imagine our joy when we discovered that writer/producer Steve Wolsh and director Jackson Sciarii have shot what promises to be a sexy, fun slasher that we can all watch with our penises loved ones. Entitled Know Models Were Harmed, the film follows newcomers LeeAnna Vamp, Serenity Risvik, Meghan Perkins and Jessica Benson as they desperately fight to stay alive while in various degrees of nakedness.
In making Know Models Were Harmed, we set out to make a darker and more intense slasher flick than had been made in recent years, without losing what makes horror fun, which in my mind is blood, guts, tits, and gore with the occasional comic relief.
Amen.
According to film’s website, Know Models Were Harmed is slated for an October 2012 release. That’s a bummer of a wait, but you can keep up with the movie (and check out more cool stills) by visiting their Facebook page.
“LOST” starlet Evangeline Lilly is going full-elf in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The 31-year-old stunner recently spoke to SFX about playing Tauriel, a woodland elf not originally found in Tolkien’s novel.
She says:
With every film, you have to educate yourself on the material and it’s often things you don’t know a lot about. Right now I’m studying Elvish and having conversations with people about learning how to be an archer, a swordsperson and how to fight like an elf instead of a gritty convict [laughs].
The Hobbit will be split into two movies: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (release date: Dec. 14, 2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (release date: Dec. 13, 2013). Production is currently underway in New Zealand.
Lilly, best known for playing fugitive Kate Austin on ABC’s “LOST,” will soon be seen in DreamWorks upcoming Hugh Jackman vehicle Real Steel, opening Oct. 7.
Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”) is no stranger to supernatural creatures, but his latest project will have him facing off against one of folklore’s most feared cryptids: The Jersey Devil. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw 2), The Barrens finds Moyer playing a family man who takes his wife and kids camping in the New Jersey Pine Barrens where the Jersey Devil is believed to live.
Bousman tells Variety:
I don’t want to turn it into a cheesy creature feature. It’s about the characters for me, and having watched Stephen for years on ‘True Blood,’ I have no doubt he’s the right leading man.
Bousman, who wrote the script (said to be in the vein of The Shinning), will produce The Barrens with The Genre Company and some other rich guy named John Eckert. Anchor Bay Entertainment will release the film next fall.
Moyer is, of course, best known for his portrayal of vampire Bill Compton on the Showtime series “True Blood.” The 41-year-old British actor has also starred in the apocalyptic actioner Priest, the supernatural thriller The Caller, the Al Pacino serial killer drama 88 Minutes, the home invasion frighteners Restraint (with a nude Teresa Palmer), and Open House (with wife and “True Blood” costar Anna Paquin).
The starlets pictured above are Marcia Do Vales, Victoria Broom, Natalia Celino and Tabitha Quitman. They are the protagonists in director Neil Jones’ (The Reverend) upcoming frightener Deranged. I have not seen any of their previous work, but they appear to possess some natural talent … or maybe it’s enhanced talent.
The film’s synopsis reads:
Four girls go on a bachelorette party weekend to a country house, in rural Spain. Little did they know what someone had planned for them. The real party begins when the host is mysteriously attacked and one by one, the guests find themselves in mortal danger. The race is on to uncover the killer’s identity and they must fight back or be brutally murdered.
Deranged costars Craig Fairbrass (White Noise 2: The Light) and is produced by EnMar Productions. The film wrapped production earlier this month in Madrid, Spain.
Nude photos of Scarlett Johansson were leaked online yesterday. I did not post about it because I was certain the rapture was about to occur. As it turns out, the shots aren’t a gift from baby Jesus, but the noble work of a now wanted hacker who infiltrated Johansson’s cell phone.
Johansson has hired a team of lawyers and Seal Team 6 to take down the perp and anyone who posts the pics on their site. I value my life and assets (Foreman Grill, PS3, and a couch) too much to put the images up on this site, but you can peep them by visiting these brave degenerates.
Johansson is currently at work on geek-mesiah Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. The 26-year-old stunner is also set to play a horny alien in director Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of author Michel Faber’s novel Under the Skin.
StudioCanal has released a trailer for director Nick Murphy’s feature film debut The Awakening. Set in 1920’s England, the film stars Rebecca Hall (The Town) as a paranormal party pooper out to prove that the apparition at a boy’s school is nothing more than the creation of mass hysteria.
While this movie looks like the type of paranormal thriller you’d take mom to see, I gotta say I was pretty amused when the boy ghost goes all Porky’s on Hall during a shower scene (1:58 mark). Consider me sold (I’m calling mom right now).
Pop quiz, ladies: What was the most romantic movie of the ’90s? Was it Ghost? Pretty Woman? Legends of the Fall? Titanic? I don’t think so. Anyone who has ever experienced the joy of true love and the anguish of possibly losing that love knows that Frankenhooker was—and, arguably, still is—the greatest love story ever told.
Frankenhooker is the heart-wrenching tale of Jeffrey Franken, a med-school dropout who loses his fiance to a tragic lawn mower accident. Left with only her amputated head, he sets out to murder and dismember New York prostitutes with the intent of building her a new body. After putting her together, he successfully brings her back to life … as a sleazy and twitchy streetwalker.
If that isn’t an ode to true love, I don’t know what is. That’s why I’m thrilled to learn that Synapse Films is releasing remastered, uncut version of Frankenhooker on Blu-ray disc, complete with audio commentary from director Frank Henenlotter and featurettes with Jennifer Delora and Frankenhooker herself Patty Mullen—aka Penthouse Pet of the Year 1987.
Frankenhooker can be picked up on Blu-ray on Nov. 8.
Carla Gugino, the sexy star of Zac Snyder’s Sucker Punch and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, is the latest Hollywood babe to make Esquire’s “Women We Love” feature. The 40-year-old stunner even goes nude for photographer Kayt Jones.
This being Esquire, however, the shots are pretty tasteful … so you may want to keep things classy by using a Burberry fringed cashmere muffler while “enjoying” the pictures.
Gugino will soon be seen in TNT’s small-screen adaptation of author Lisa Gardner’s bestselling crime-thriller Hide. She plays protagonist D.D. Warren, a detective investigating the mummified remains of six missing women found inside a buried chamber at an abandoned mental hospital.
