Margot Robbie, the beautiful and very nude star of Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street, is reportedly set to star as Harley Quinn in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, an adaptation of the DC Comic about a group of super-villains brought together by a government agency.

Harley Quinn is the Joker’s emotionally damaged girlfriend, a former Arkham Asylum psychiatrist manipulated by the Joker to aid in his evil ways. Jared Leto is currently in talks to play the Joker. News comes via Collider.

Prior to her breakthrough role as Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie starred in Richard Curtis’ time-traveling rom-com About Time, on NBC’s short-lived drama “Pan Am” and in the Australian horror film I.C.U.

Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator: The Musical returned to the stage this year after a much too long three year hiatus. Featuring new songs and arrangements, a couple of fresh faces, and everything that made it so special and fun its first time out, the show was brought back this year for a limited Halloween engagement, but is now playing through Nov. 23 at The Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles, CA.

Adapted from Gordon’s classic 1985 film, Re-Animator: The Musical follows med school students Herbert West and Dan Cain as they set out to test West’s reanimating serum on human corpses, triggering a chain of tragic and horrific events. Graham Skipper reprises the role of West and Darren Ritchie makes his debut as Cain.

Skipper as West is fantastic, mixing the maniacal intensity of the maddest of scientists with the bratty menace of a spoiled child. It’s impossible to take one’s eyes off him, especially during hilariously gut-busting numbers like “I Give Life,” an ode to West’s God complex, “Plagiat,” West’s attack on adversary and plagiarist Dr. Hill, and “Hooray,” a new opening song celebrating the end of death.

Ritchie’s performance is solid and brings to life Cain’s enthusiasm for West’s work and his strained relationship with fiancée Megan Halsey, played by stunner Jessica Howell. The duo shine together when arguing over wedding plans in a duet so funny and cute it could have been part of a Gene Kelly musical.

International opera singer Jesse Merlin is back as West’s nemesis Dr. Hill. Merlin’s voice is what all of us would love to hear when we sing in the shower and our automobiles. Paired with Mark Nutter’s whimsical score and twisted lyrics, it makes for some of the musical’s most memorable numbers, including the plagiarist anthem “I Will Be Famous” and Hill’s pervy, lovesick serenade for Megan.

Going into Re-Animator: The Musical one expects camp and laughs, but what one doesn’t see coming is the immensely talented group of people behind the show. Clatto can only imagine how awesome it would be to see the show adapted as a movie musical like Rocky Horror Picture Show, with Nutter’s compositions, Gordon’s direction and Skipper and Merlin in their respective roles.

Re-Animator: The Musical ends its Los Angeles run at the Steve Allen Theater on Nov. 23. It heads to Las Vegas for its Jan. 6 – Jan. 18 run at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. 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.

To read Clatto’s review of the show’s 2011 run, click here.

A trailer has gone online for writer and director Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry.  “Rookie Blue” star Missy Peregrym toplines the thriller as Jenn, a corporate lawyer dragged to the Canadian wilderness by her outdoorsy boyfriend (Jeff Roop) only to face off against a bloodthirsty bear.

Backcountry marks MacDonald’s directorial debut and co-stars Eric Balfour (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Nicholas Campbell (Haven), and Melanie Mullen (Dead Before Dawn).  Its world premiere was held this year at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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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

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BEST MUSICAL SCORE: Frank Hall, Julia

BEST STUDENT SHORT: Slut

BEST SHORT: The Landing

BEST HORROR COMEDY SHORT: Dead Hearts