Syfy has set an Oct. 13 premiere date for Echo Bridge’s new supernatural thriller American Horror House. The Darin Scott-directed ghost story stars wild child Alessandra Torresani (”Caprica”) as a college coed trapped inside a haunted sorority house with a homicidal housemother, played by Morgan Fairchild.

Torresani is best known for her portrayal of teen cylon Zoe Graystone on Syfy’s short-lived “Battlestar Galactica” spinoff “Caprica.” The 25-year-old starlet has also appeared on episodes of “American Horror Story,” “Warehouse 13,” “Bones” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”

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The Ryan Murphy anthology series “American Horror Story” returns to FX for season two on Oct. 17. After teasing the show with a string of 30-second spots, the network finally gives up the goods with a minute-long trailer that provides a proper glimpse at the Briarcliff Manor asylum, circa 1964, where the story is set.

The new season stars Maroon 5 vocalist Adam Levine, Chloe Sevigny (“Big Love”), Joseph Fiennes (“FlashForward”), Jenna Dewan (Grudge 2), Clea Duvall (“Heroes”) and James Cromwell (Surrogates). Jessica Lange, Zachary Quinto, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe return in new roles.

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W. Peter Iliff, co-writer of classic ’90s films Point Break, Varsity Blues, and Patriot Games, makes his directorial debut with the white-knuckle thriller Rites of Passage. Wes Bentley stars as a psychotic loner looking to secretly perform an ancient Chumash Indian ritual on his secluded beach side property.

An unexpected visit from his brother and a group of drunk, sexed-up college kids complicates matters when their actions trigger the ire of Benny’s deranged meth-addicted groundskeeper Delgado, played by Christian Slater .

Costars include Stephen Dorf as anthropology teacher Nash, Secret Garden’s Kate Maberly as bikini-clad troublemaker Dani, and Briana Evigan who turns in one of the sexiest cat-and-mouse sequences ever committed to film as bootylicious party girl Penelope.

Rites of Passage arrives on DVD on Oct. 16 from Magnet Releasing. I caught a screening of it awhile back, and it was a blast.

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“The Walking Dead” finally makes its way back to AMC on Oct. 14 and the network has released a new trailer to further whet your appetite. Season three finds Rick Grimes leading the gang, including his pregnant wife Lori, to a prison where they come across another group of survivors led by a mysterious figure known as The Governor.

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Magnolia Pictures has released a three-minute featurette for director Bradley Rust Gray’s Jack & Diane, a coming-of-age lesbian werewolf drama starring indie-darling Juno Temple (Killer Joe) and Elvis Presley’s model-turned-actress granddaughter Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road).

The clip features scenes from the movie and interviews with Keough and Gray. It is currently on VOD and will have a limited released in theaters on Nov. 2.

Jack & Diane follows Jack (Keough), a harden New York City dyke, as she attempts to keep her latest conquest Diane (Temple) from leaving town. What Jack doesn’t know is that Diane’s lesbian-awakening has unleashed her animalistic nature.

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Rob Zombie has cut a trailer for his upcoming witch story The Lords of Salem. The footage shown promises a far more intriguing and creepy film than its silly rock-and-roll witchcraft plot would suggest (a DJ inadvertently conjures up a 300-year-old coven of witches).

The Anchor Bay release stars Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Sheri Moon Zombie (Halloween), Sid Haig (Devil’s Rejects), Dee Wallace (Cujo), Meg Foster (They Live), Lisa Marie (Ed Wood),  Billy Drago (Vamp) , Bruce Dern (Silent Running), Ernest Thomas (“What’s Happening”) and Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man).

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Dimension Films is determined to get guys into theaters on April 19 to watch its already much maligned Scary Movie 5. In addition to Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Tisdale and Heather Locklear, the studio has now cast Audrina Patridge (Sorority Row) and former Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson (Scary Movie 4).

Directed by Malcolm Lee (Undercover Brother) and co-written by producer David Zucker, the horror-comedy spoofs Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 Oscar-nominated film Black Swan. No word yet on what roles Patridge and Wilkinson will be playing.

Scary Movie 5 also stars Charlie Sheen (Machete Kills), Terry Crews (The Expendables), Marisa Saks (”Entourage”), Erica Ash (”MADTV”), Simon Rex (Scary Movie 4), Molly Shannon (”Saturday Night Live”), Sherée Whitfield (“Real Housewives of Atlanta”), Angela “Big Ang” Raiola (“Mob Wives”) and Mike Tyson.

A trailer for Millennium Films’ mutant arachnids frightener Spiders 3-D has hit the web ( ba-da-bing!). The film stars scream queen and Playboy model Christa Campbell (Drive Angry) as a large-breasted New Yorker attempting to survive an infestation of giant, alien creepy-crawlies.

The film is directed by Tibor Takacs (The Gate) and costars Patrick Muldoon (Starship Troopers), Johnny Yong Bosch (Insidious), William Hope (Sherlock Holmes), Shelly Varod (Universal Soldier: Regeneration), and Jon Mack (Saw 6).

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Indian porn star Priya Rai is set to topline TomCat Films’ new supernatural thriller Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy. The 34-year-old star of Titty Sweat and Gag Holes also serves as an associate producer on the project.

Rai said in a statement:

This is a very exciting project to be working on, and I am so thrilled and honored to be starring in it. It’s going to be a lot of fun filming this. I love horror movies, and I can’t wait to get started.

Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy stars Rai as the reawakened spirit of Egyptian Goddess Isis. Cranky over being disturbed, she hunts down the Archeology students who disrupted her sleep one-by-one. The film will roll camera in Arizona later this month.

Lisa Palencia directs and co-produces with TomCat Films owner Ted Chalmers, who said he had Rai in mind for the role of Isis when he first conceived the movie.

TomCat Films has released a trailer and sexy new poster for Joseph M. Monks’ upcoming abduction thriller Pray for Dawn. Previously titled The Bunker, the film is about a congressman’s daughter who has been kidnapped by a sadistic serial killer.

Pray for Dawn is executive produced by Kevin Smith, but I’m guessing it’s not the Kevin Smith of Clerks, but most likely Monk’s friend with money who maybe owes him a favor. The film stars a bunch of people, none of which appear to be the insanely hot blonde on the poster (unless she eased up on the burritos).

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