Syfy has released a new trailer for its TV adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s 1995 sci-fi classic 12 Monkeys. Aaron Stanford (“Nikita”) plays Cole, a time traveler from the future looking to save the human race by going back to present day to prevent what will become a deadly plague.

Amanda Schull (“Suits”) and Emily Hampshire  are also along for the ride as virologist Dr. Cassandra Railly, whom Cole abducts to help him, and mental patient Jennifer Goines, daughter of the man who creates the virus responsible for humanity’s demise, respectively.

Stanford lacks the intensity Bruce Willis brought to the original, but Emily Hampshire as a crazed hottie in place of Brad Pitt is a giant bowl of awesome. Here’s hoping Schull shares Madeleine Stowe’s enthusiasm for going nude… you know, for artistic reasons.

“12 Monkeys” premieres on Syfy on Jan. 16, 2015.

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“90210” star and scream queen Jessica Lowndes is set to join horror kingpin Darren Lynn Bousman’s long gestating fright show Abattoir. Lowndes plays a real estate reporter caught up in an urban legend about a house built out of haunted rooms.

About the project, Bousman said:

I have been working to get Abattoir made for the last 4 years. At times, it feels like it has been a non-stop push to see this thing into production. But reading the script, and looking at our cast, it has all been worth it. I couldn’t be more excited about the team I am surrounded with.

Horror fans caught their first looks at Lowndes in 2008’s cult smash Autopsy and tween sleeper The Haunting of Molly Hartley. She has since starred in Altitude and Bousman’s The Devil’s Carnival, but is best known for playing junkie actress Adrianna Tate-Duncan on The CW’s “90210” reboot.

Snowfort Films and Dark Sky Films have released a trailer for Starry Eyes, a supernatural tale starring Alex Essoe as a fledgling Hollywood starlet looking for her big break, but instead finding a mysterious gig that transforms her into something terrifying (reality show star???).

The synopsis reads:

Determined to make it as an actress in Hollywood, Sarah Walker spends her days working a dead-end job, enduring petty friendships and going on countless casting calls in hopes of catching her big break.

After a series of strange auditions, Sarah lands the leading role in a new film from a mysterious production company. But with this opportunity comes bizarre ramifications that will transform her both mentally and physically into something beautiful… and altogether terrifying.

The trailer is captivating, and not just because of the eye-popping camel toe on display early on. Just wish they had used Motley Crue’s “Starry Eyes” on the soundtrack.

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Anchor Bay Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to Steve Wolsh’s directorial debut Muck, a hyper-violent indie slasher about a group of friends seeking refuge in an empty Cape Cod vacation home from an outside evil only to discover a more savage force inside.

Muck is the middle chapter in a trilogy of frighteners spanning three horrific days set before, during, and after St. Patrick’s Day. According to THR, Anchor Bay will release the film in theaters and all platforms in early 2015.

Muck was shot on location in Cape Cod and features practical effects and, most importantly, frivolous nudity from a bevy of gorgeous scream queens.

Stunners include 2012 Playmate of the Year Jaclyn Swedberg, Miss Cape Cod 2013 Audra Van Hees, Miss Cape Cod 2012 Ashley Green Elizabeth, Russian model Gia Skova, Puja Mohindra, Victoria Sophia, and Lauren Francesca (pictured above)

Oh… and horror icon Kane Hodder (Jason X) also stars.

The world premiere of Jen and Sylvia Soska’s See No Evil 2 was held at this year’s Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Hollywood, CA. The film is the unexpected sequel to the 2006 cult hit from ex-porn pioneer Gregory Dark.

The original See No Evil was not a great film, but it had one raw ingredient powerful enough to satisfy the appetites of slasher fans: WWE sensation Kane as a killer Jacob Goodnight, a tormented giant who swings a hook on a chain like a rodeo champ and collects eyeballs as trophies.

The Soska twins, writers and directors of American Mary, one of modern horror’s most impressive and brutal offerings, revive Jacob Goodnight for another go in See No Evil 2, producing a sequel that is not only superior to the original film, but a love letter to the slasher genre.

See No Evil 2 picks up on the night Jacob meets his demise at the hands of some very lucky survivors at the Blackwell Hotel. With his left eye gouged out because irony and numerous fatal injuries from being pushed out a high story window, Jacob is declared dead and en route to the city morgue where scream queen Danielle Harris is working.

Harris plays Amy, a pretty med school dropout working the graveyard shift on her birthday to help process the arrival of Jacob’s body. Surprised by her friends and coworkers with an impromptu party, Amy’s evening doesn’t seem so bad. That is until her friend Tamara, who apparently has a thing for serial killers, goes looking for Jacob.

Katharine Isabelle returns to the Soska fold to play Tamara, and easily steals every scene she’s in with a natural knack for humor and hotness. Watching her mount Jacob’s corpse, briefly cuckolding her boyfriend as she bumps and grinds on the stiff, tickles the funny bone while triggering gooseflesh.

Trouble comes quick when Jacob awakens from the dead to see Tamara and her boyfriend going at it. Enraged, he completely crushes him and chases after Tamara, slaughtering all who cross his path. The next unfortunate soul is Amy’s boss Holden, a good natured and wheelchair bound Michael Eklund, fresh off a menacing turn on A&E’s “Bates Motel.”

Jacob hooks Holden with his chain and yanks him down a hospital corridor. It’s a tragic scene that one expects to get worse once Jacob starts to pull on his chain, but the kills in See No Evil 2 aren’t particularly gory or shocking. Don’t misunderstand. The deaths are violent… just not outrageous. It’s an unexpected surprise, especially after the gruesomeness of American Mary, but there’s no need to fret.

What See No Evil 2 lacks in blood, it more than makes up in cat-and-mouse thrills. The chases are pure white-knuckle fun and provide plenty of jump scares. Kane is absolutely frightening as Jacob, physically on par with Jason Voorhees. The dialogue is funny and sharp and provides even the most secondary of characters with enough likability to kinda hope for their well-being… maybe.

There is a twist to the film and it ends in a promising manner for those of us who hope to see another chapter in the WWE Studios franchise (hopefully with the Soska twins once again at the helm). See No Evil 2 is available on DVD and Blu-ray from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Dark Sky Films has released a trailer for its new werewolf thriller Late Phases, starring Nick Damici as a blind war veteran out for vengeance after a werewolf kills his neighbors and his seeing-eye dog. Spanish filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano (Cold Sweat) makes his English language feature debut with the project.

If a blind soldier taking on a werewolf isn’t enough to grab your interest, the film also stars “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” and Bitch Slap stunner Erin Cummings (pictured). Cummings and “Once Upon a Time” actor Ethan Embry play a married couple living in Damici’s community.

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The 14th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival came to a close last week with the announcement of the Skully Award winners. The ceremony was held at a closing night party at Sammy Hagar’s Cabo Wabo Cantina (hence why we’re just now recovering to write this) in Hollywood, CA.

Alejandro Hidalgo’s supernatural thriller House at the End of Time earned top honors with wins for Best Picture and Best Director. Matthew A. Brown’s rape/revenge shocker Julia was the evening’s biggest winner, taking home Best Makeup, Best Editing, Best Musical Score, and Best Actress for Ashley C. Williams.

Clatto’s Pick of the Festival: Parlor. Read our review.

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BEST PICTURE: House at the End of Time

BEST DIRECTOR: Alejandro Hidalgo, House at the End of Time

BEST ACTRESS: Ashley C. Williams, Julia

BEST ACTOR: Matthew Gray Gubler, Suburban Gothic

BEST EDITING: Julia

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: White Settlers

BEST MAKEUP: Julia

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: Dark Was the Night

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Dark Was the Night

Matthew Gray Gubler for Suburban Gothi

Yahav – Fear of Water

BEST MUSICAL SCORE: Frank Hall, Julia

BEST STUDENT SHORT: Slut

BEST SHORT: The Landing

BEST HORROR COMEDY SHORT: Dead Hearts

Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator: The Musical is extending its Los Angeles run until Nov. 23. The show plays the Steve Allen Theater Fridays through Sundays at 8 p.m. The award-winning musical returned this year after its original 2011 L.A. run with new songs for a special Halloween engagement.

Re-Animator: The Musical is also heading to Las Vegas and will run Jan. 6 through Jan. 18 at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to L.A. and now Vegas, the show has played New York and Europe. In a release, Gordon said he was “looking forward to new blood in the audience.”

Adapted from Gordon’s beloved 1985 film, the production follows the grisly havoc caused by med school students Herbert West and Dan Cain after they set out to reanimate human corpses. Graham Skipper reprises the role of West and Jesse Merlin returns as West’s nemesis and plagiarist Dr. Hill.

Read our review of musical’s original run here.

For tickets and information on the L.A. run, click here or call 800-595-4849. For Vegas, click here or call 702-749-2000.

Insidious is an enjoyable movie, but quite frankly we liked it better when it was 1982 and called Poltergeist. To boot, Insidious: Chapter 2 was more Poltergeist 3 in comparison to the first Poltergeist sequel, which was a gem in it’s own right thanks largely to Julian Beck’s portrayal of demon Reverend Henry Kane.

But, we digress… Focus Features has released a first trailer for Leigh Whannell’s Insidious: Chapter 3, slated to arrive in theaters May 29, 2015. The film marks the directorial debut of the Insidious and SAW co-creator, and it looks… terrifying! The series may be coming into its own now. Gave us goosebumps!

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Open Road has released a red band trailer for writer Dan Gilroy’s (Bourne Legacy) directorial debut Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a callous douche videotaping people during moments of crisis to sell to the highest paying news network.

The official synopsis reads:

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents.