It’s hard to imagine actress Rebecca Hall wearing a small, clingy blood-splattered tee while fighting off some supernatural force in a scary movie. The sexy 28-year-old star of  Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Chris Nolan’s The Prestige, and last year’s sleeper hit The Town, has made a career out of playing modestly attired women who’d rather show off their brains than boobs.

Looking at the first image of Hall from her upcoming ghost story The Awakening (pictured below), that clingy tee is staying in the closet. Set in 1920’s England, the film stars Hall 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.

The official synopsis reads:

THE AWAKENING is set in 1921, in a post-war world of loss where the bereaved seek solace in spiritualism. Haunted by the death of her fiancé, Florence spends her time debunking supernatural claims, using methodical and rational explanations to disprove the notion that the dead can still haunt us.

She feels compelled to accept a request to go to Rookwood, a boarding school in the countryside where a boy has recently been found dead and rumours about a ghostly boy haunting the school are causing panic amongst pupils and parents alike.

Florence sets to work immediately, laying traps, gathering scientific evidence, uncovering secrets and seemingly unravelling the mystery. However, as Florence is about to leave, she has a chilling spectral encounter which defies all of her rational beliefs and sets her on a journey toward a heartbreaking climax…

The Awakening marks TV director Nick Murphy’s feature film debut and is written by Stephen Volk (“Ghostwatch”). The thriller is produced by Origin Films and costars Dominic West (Hannibal Rising) and Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix).

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If your penis ran away from home one day, hopped on a Greyhound bus, and headed to Hollywood to make a movie, what kind of movie would it make?

Well, if it’s anything like indie-director Jon Hewitt’s penis, it would produce a gritty thriller about hookers, strippers, and more hookers entitled X. It would also cast sexy Australian shelias Hanna Mangan Lawrence and “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” starlet Viva Bianca as its naked leads.

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The film’s official synopsis reads:

Holly Rowe (Bianca) is retiring, kissing her callgirl life goodbye. She just has to get through her last night on the job. Shay Ryan (Lawrence) is a teenage runaway, broke and alone. She just has to get through her first night as a hooker.

Fate throws them together on a job that goes horribly wrong and they’re suddenly racing on an out-of-control roller coaster ride, through Sydney’s criminal underworld. X is a sizzling thriller about love, chance, escape and the oldest profession experienced by two women on a night that will change their lives forever.

(UPDATE: TO SEE X PHOTOS OF VIVA & HANNA GO HERE)

X has already locked distribution deals in the States and the U.K. through IFC Films and Revolver, respectively. The film will have its premiere at the European Film Market in Berlin before making the festival circuit.

Bianca is best known for her turn as Commander Legatus Claudius Glaber’s oft-nude wife Iliythia on Starz’s hit swords-and-sandals series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand.” Nineteen-year-old Lawrence starred in Hewitt’s Acolytes, but has yet to make a name for herself in the States. Her full-frontal nude scene (at the 1:22 mark) in X just might change that.

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Univision has kicked off the third season of Mexican producer Pedro Torres’ scandalous—and often erotically charged—femme-fatale anthology series “Mujeres Asesinas.” A mix between “Desperate Housewives” and “CSI,” the show follows women as they viciously discard the men who have wronged them.

Like most Latin soaps, “Mujeres Asesinas” features many beautiful, top-heavy starlets, but adds quality story-telling, suspense and an eye-catching style not commonly seen in such productions. In fact, the show appears to be the inspiration behind Cinemax’s upcoming new series “Femme Fatales,” which finds model-turned actress Tanit Phoenix narrating the crimes of homicidal hotties.

“Mujeres Asesinas 3” stars Dulce Maria, Belinda, Giselle Blondet, Aleida Nunez, Dominika Paleta, Kiki Edgar, Zuria Vega, Maite Perroni and the sexier Mila Kunis look-a-like Aislinn Derbez. The show airs every Thursday night at 10 p.m.

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If you think porn would be a whole lot better if there weren’t any gratuitous double-anals to distract from the stories, you’ll want to check out Breaking Glass Pictures’ werewolf frightener Half Moon.

Directed by Jason Toler, the film stars porn star and Penthouse Pet Tori Black as a down-and-out street hooker who takes a private with a client who may be a lycan.

Black is the 22-year-old star of Anal Buffet 5, Brother Load, Black Up In Her, and Cum Coat My Throat 4. She is part of the growing number of professional cock-sockets crossing over to indie-horror (See: Riley Steele, Jasmine St. Claire, Belladonna, Maria Lapiedra, Sora Aoi and Sasha Grey).

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Sony Pictures has released the first official photo of its Spiderman reboot star Andrew Garfield and his green goblins tucked into his web-slinger costume (see above). The pic also gives us a glimpse at homemade web-shooters on the wrists of the outfit (see below).

The web-shooters have got comic geeks tingling with joy and anticipation. Apparently, in old-school Spidey comics, young Peter Parker designs the contraptions to compliment his newly acquired powers (unlike the Sam Raimi movies in which the webs are organic).

Directed by Mark Webb, the Spiderman reboot is an origins film based on Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, which finds our fiendly neighborhood crime-fighter back in high school. The film is budgeted at $80 million and will be released in 3-D on July 3, 2012.

Photos: SlashFilm.

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British actress Wendy Glenn has been cast as the female lead in SAW II-IV director Darren Lynn Bousman’s eagerly anticipated damnation flick 11-11-11. Now shooting in Barcelona, the film costars Timothy Gibbs, Michael Landes, Brenden Price, and Spanish actors Ángela Rosal, Salomé Jimenez, Benjamin Cook, Montse Alcoverro and Lluis Soler.

The premise behind 11-11-11 is rooted in the superstitious belief that celestial guardians use the numbers to warn us about the impending doom-and-gloom heading our way when the 11th gate of Heaven opens for 49 minutes and we, as a people, are too busy snorting coke, fucking whores, and/or watching HBO to care about repenting.

The film’s official synopsis reads:

After the tragic death of his wife and child, famed American author Joseph Crone (Gibbs) travels from the United States to Barcelona, Spain to reunite with his estranged brother Samuel (Landes) and dying father, Richard. However, fate has a different plan for Joseph as his life becomes plagued with strange happenings, and the constant sightings of the number 11.

Curiosity quickly turns to obsession, and Joseph soon realizes that this number holds a horrific meaning not only to himself but possibly to all of religion. Isolated in a foreign country with only the support of his companion, Sadie (Glenn), Joseph soon realizes that 11/11/11 is more than just a date, it’s a WARNING.

Truth-be-told, I used to see the 11:11 on my clock and watches all the time. I would just happen to glance at the clock and there it was, day or night. Holy Shit! Look at the time this post went up … I’m just fucking with you. It is a cool and creepy premise though.

Wendy Glenn is perhaps best known in the States for her portrayal of pretty carpet-muncher Isabella on the Showtime lesbian drama “The L-Word.” Mystery fans may also recognize her as Pascale on Fox TV’s short-lived whodunit series “Reunion.”

Her most memorable role, however, involves planting a big wet one on Katie Cassidy’s kisser on the now canceled “Melrose Place” reboot:

Having grown up as a Hungry, Hungry Hippos kind of kid, I didn’t much care when Universal Pictures announced last summer that it was producing a $200 million big screen adaptation of the Hasbro game Battleship. My interest sank even further when thick-bottomed pop star Rhianna was cast as the flick’s eye-candy.

Well, imagine my surprise this morning when my search for Max Hardcore’s Anal Destroyer led me to discover that Battleship revolves around navy fleets fighting off an alien invasion. Not only that, but swimsuit-model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker plays the film’s romantic lead.

Directed by Peter Berg, Battleship also stars Liam Neeson (After.Life), Alexander Skarsgard (“True Blood”), Taylor Kitsch (“Friday Night Lights”), and badass Tadanobu Asano (Ichi the Killer). The film won’t be sailing into theaters until May 18, 2012, but consider it now on Clatto’s radar.

Universal Pictures is set to roll out Death Race: Frankenstein Lives, the prequel to the 2008 remake starring Jason Stathem, on DVD and Blu-ray next week. The film stars Danny Trejo, Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, and gorgeous South African model-turned-actress Tanit Phoenix.

Also along for the ride is leggy up-and-comer Lauren Cohan as Death Match host—and all-around bad bitch—September Jones. The 28-year-old stunner cut her bad girl teeth playing relic thief Bela Talbot on The CW’s “Supernatural” and 500-year-old vamp Rose on the network’s hit bloodsucker soap “The Vampire Diaries.”

Cohan also stars opposite Arielle Kebbel in director Bill Eagles’ island-frightener Disturbed.

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Slovakian stunner Barbara Nedeljakova appears to be stepping up her B-game. Best known in the States for her role as Euro cock-bait Natalya in writer/director Eli Roth’s Hostel, Nedeljakova has recently completed work on low-budget frighteners The Hike and Children of the Corn: The Dweller (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

Her latest project is producer Jonathan Sothcott’s (Devil’s Playground) so-ridiculous-it-can-only-be-awesome thriller Strippers vs. Werewolves, directed by Jonathan Glendening (13 HRS). No word on what role Nedeljakova will play in the film, but my highly trained industry insider senses tells me it could very well be a stripper.

Interesting aside: Sothcott recently bragged to Dread Central that he is “pals” with insanely gorgeous British actress/model Gemma Atkinson and got the idea to hire Glendening as director after watching her in 13HRS. Let’s hope he still wants to bang her bad enough to offer her a part in the flick as well.

Here you see the first image of actress Rooney Mara (Nightmare on Elm Street) as pissed-off hacker-punk Lisbeth Salander in Columbia Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

W Magazine scored the shot along with a lengthy interview with director David Fincher, who reveals that he put Mara through an audition test that required her to “kick a dildo” up some guy’s ass. Fincher also discusses his previous films, including Zodiac, Seven, and Alien 3.

The interview offers no explanation, however, for Fincher’s decision to make Mara as fugly as the chick in the original Swedish film (see gallery below). Isn’t the point of a remake to make things look better? Fucking Hollywood. Never gets it right.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo costars Robin Wright (Unbreakable), Joely Richardson (“Nip/Tuck”), Stellan Skarsgard (Melancholia), Christopher Plummer (Priest), and Daniel Craig in the role of journalist Mikael Blomkvist.

Columbia Pictures will also adapt the other two entries in Larsson’s widely popular Millennium Trilogy: “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” Collectively the novels have sold over 40 million copies worldwide.

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