Lacey Chabert is starring in Syfy’s new, surprisingly non-shark, original feature Scarecrow. Set to air Oct. 5 as part of the network’s Halloween programming, the film finds a group high school delinquents getting offed by an evil scarecrow while serving detention on a farm.

Scarecrow co-stars Brittney Wilson (“Bates Motel”), Nicole Munoz (“Defiance”), Julia Maxwell (American Mary), Lanie McAuley (Blood Brothers: Reign of Terror) and Robin Dunne (Species 3). A teaser for the flick has been released and it looks kinda fun.

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Saxon Sharbino has joined producer Sam Raimi’s remake of Tobe Hooper’s 1982 supernatural blockbuster Poltergeist. Gil Kenan (Monster House) is attached to direct the film, written by David Lindsay-Abaire (Oz the Great and Powerful, Rise of the Guardians).

Poltergeist follows the Bowen family whose young daughter is abducted into another dimension by angry spirits. According to THR, Sharbino will play 16-year-old Kendra Bowen, the eldest of the family’s three kids. Sam Rockwell (Iron Man 2) and Rosemarie DeWitt (“United States of Tara”) star as the parents.

Sharbino is coming off the Fox drama “Touch.” The up-and-comer is no stranger to horror and has starred in such hardcore outings as Steven R. Monroe’s I Spit On Your Grave remake, the abduction thriller Julia X and the horror-drama Red White & Blue.

Television actress Alanna Masterson is set to join season four of AMC’s monster hit zombie drama “The Walking Dead,” premiering Oct. 13. The news comes on the heels of Christian Serratos’ casting as survivor Rosita Espinosa.

According to Deadline, Masterson will be introduced mid-season as a zombie apocalypse survivor. She will recur throughout season four with an option to return as a regular in season five.

Masterson doesn’t have many notable projects under her belt, but she has guest starred on a few television series, including “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “Malcolm in the Middle,” “Greek” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Porn star newbie Layla Sin is set to star in Hitchhiker Massacre, a new indie-slasher from some guy named James Bills. The film follows a serial killer’s bloody trail as he slaughters people to harvest their organs for profit and serve their flesh to eat.

Sin tweeted:

Time for some Horror! Very excited to get another mainstream part in a movie!

While we could not find Sin’s other mainstream credit, we did masturbate to stumble upon some of the 18-year-old’s more interesting work, including Fantasy Footjobs 14, Every Last Drop 27 and Lesbo Pool Party 2. Production on Hitchhiker Massacre is already underway in Los Angeles.

Twilight: Eclipse star Kirsten Prout has jumped on board Joy Ride 3, the newest installment in the franchise first launched in 2001 by director John Dahl (The Last Seduction) and screenwriter J.J. Abrams (yes, that J.J. Abrams). The new sequel is written and directed by Declan O’Brien (Wrong Turn 4 & 5).

Joy Ride 3 finds a group of young rally racers chased down by sadistic serial killer and truck driver Rusty Nail. Prout plays tuner-car girl Jewel McCaul. She joins co-stars Jesse Hutch (Freddy vs. Jason), Gianpaolo Venuta (“Being Human”), Leela Sevasta (Black Christmas) and Ken Kirzinger as Rusty Nail.

Proust is best known for playing love interest Amanda Bloom on ABC Family’s sci-fi series “Kyle XY” and doomed vampire Lucy in Twilight: Eclipse. The pretty canuck also starred in the MTV tween-slashers My Super Psycho Sweet 16 2 & 3.

IFC Midnight has set a Nov. 22 VOD release date for Contracted, a body-horror thriller from writer and director Eric England (Madison County). The film stars Najarra Townsend (pictured) as a young woman who thinks she’s caught a sexually transmitted disease up until her body starts to completely rot.

Contracted co-stars Katie Stegeman (Madison County), Caroline Williams (Hatchet III), Charley Koontz (Rubber), TV starlet Alice MacDonald and Simon Barrett (You’re Next). A trailer has been released for the film and it definitely makes AIDS look like herpes by comparison.

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eOne Entertainment has released a trailer for writing/directing duo Glen Scantlebury and Lucy Phillips’ Abducted. The film stars Tessa Ferrer (”Grey’s Anatomy”), Jelly Howie (Victim), Trevor Morgan (Mean Creek), Ross Thomas (Soul Surfer), and TV starlets Vivan Dugré and Emily Graham-Handley.

Set in Los Angeles, Abducted finds three couples kidnapped and held captive by masked individuals out to conduct “bizarre medical experiments and horrific physiological torture” on them. The film arrives on DVD on Oct. 15.

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2 Guns and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol stunner Paula Patton is in negotiations to star in Legendary Pictures’ adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s immensely popular PC game World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft is set to go into production in January under the direction of Duncan Jones (Moon). Its release is slated for 2015. In addition to Patton, Colin Farrell is also said to be in the mix for a role.

Genre fans will recognize Patton as the lead in Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors and Tony Scott’s time travel thriller Déjà Vu, in which she makes her nude debut. She’s coming off this summer’s buddy-actioner 2 Guns, in which she also goes nude (I’m guessing she’s trying to get Denzel Washington’s attention).

An extended trailer has gone online for director Jonathan Glazer’s (Sexy Beast) upcoming adaptation of Michel Faber’s debut novel Under the Skin, an erotic sci-fi drama about an alien that takes the form of beautiful big-breasted woman to seduce men to murder and turn into food for her species.

Scarlett Johansson goes totally nude as the voracious and busty alien, but don’t expect Natasha Henstridge in Species or Mathilda May in Lifeforce type thrills. This is strictly WTF artsy-fartsy stuff—the kind of thing critics need to feel good about rewarding Johansson’s bush come award time.

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Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures have tapped Footloose and Rock of Ages star Julianne Hough to topline Skeleton Key director Iain Softley’s new road thriller Curve. Hough will play the victim of a murderous hitchhiker.

According to Variety, Hough’s character is a young bride-to-be trapped in her car after crashing it to escape the hitchhiker she foolishly picked up. No word if Hough breaks into song or dance.

Hough is an award-winning country singer and “Dancing with the Stars” champ whose first lead role was in 2011’s Footloose remake. Her last outing was in the 2012 movie adaptation of the hair-metal musical Rock of Ages.