Up-and-comer Ali Faulkner (Twilight: Breaking Dawn) is set to star in the psychological thriller The Secret Village. The story centers on two researchers studying an outbreak of mass hysteria in a small village.

The film is directed by something called a Swampy Kandan and costars Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls), Stelio Savante (Starship Troopers Marauder) and Richard Riehle (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D).

Faulkner’s horror creds include the cannibal-themed dark comedy Boneboys and the horror-comedy Humans Versus Zombies. She also played bad speller and Volturi secretary Bianca in Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part One.

She will next be seen as Tricia Wilkes in Matthew Spradlin’s big-screen adaptation of his and Barry Wernick’s comic book “Bad Kids Go to Hell,” about the mysterious murders of six privileged private school students during an eight-hour Saturday morning detention.

IFC Midnight has released a trailer for director Alexandre Courtes’ Asylum Blackout. The film follows a group of aspiring musicians whose day jobs at a madhouse kitchen get too hot too handle when a freak storm shuts down the facility’s electricity, opening the inmates’ cells.

Asylum Blackout stars Rupert Evans (“Paradise Heights”), Kenny Doughty (Elizabeth), Dave Legeno (Snow White and the Huntsman), Richard Brake (Hannibal Rising), Joseph Kennedy (Baseline) and the very sexy Anna Skellern (pictured above), whom horror fans will recognize from The Descent 2 and Siren.

Look for Asylum Blackout in limited theatrical release and VOD on May 4.

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