Dimension Films has released a trailer for Amityville: The Awakening, a reboot of the chilling 1979 classic horror film about a family tormented by the demonic forces occupying their home. Franck Khalfoun (Maniac) directs from a script written by Casey La Scala (The Remaining) and Daniel Farrands (The Girl Next Door).

Amityville stars Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female) as a single mother who moves with her three children into a new house in Amityville, New York to be close to the neurological hospital department taking care of her comatose son. Unfortunately for the new transplants, the house is evil.

Not sure we’re digging the whole brother in a coma angle… okay, we’re not, but the Amityville house is still pretty terrifying in its own right.

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A trailer has gone online for Annabelle, the spinoff to James Wan’s blockbuster ghost story The Conjuring. The Annabelle doll was introduced in the film as one of the haunted artifacts collected by married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Written by Gary Dauberman (Crawlspace), Annabelle serves as the creepy doll’s origins story. Stunner  Annabelle Wallis (”The Tudors”) toplines the film. Costars include Ward Horton (”One Life to Live”). Michelle Romano (The Witching Hours) and Alfre Woodard (”True Blood”). It’s in theaters Oct. 3.

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Millennium Entertainment has released a trailer for Spanish visual effects guru turned director Gabe Ibáñez’s Automata. Set in the year 2044, the sci-fi thriller stars the always awesome Antonio Banderas as an insurance agent for a robot manufacturer who discovers the machines are thinking.

While we were hoping for Desperado in space, Automata looks pretty damn exciting. Dylan McDermott (“The Practice”). Melanie Griffith (Dark Tourist), and stunner Christa Campbell (Drive Angry) co-star. Theatrical and VOD release is slated for Oct. 10.

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L.A. Slasher is a horror satire about a killer who publicly abducts a group of “reality” TV stars to prove to society they’re better off without them. Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”) stars as The Actress, and is joined by Danny Trejo (Machete) as Drug Dealer and porn star Tori Black (pictured) as Teen Mom.

L.A. Slasher is Martin Owen’s feature film debut and costars Brooke Hogan as the Reality Star, Drake Bell as the Pop Star, Elizabeth Morris as The Heiress, Eric Roberts as the Mayor, and Andy Dick as the voice of the L.A. Slasher.

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Cinedigm has released a trailer for ex-porn star Sasha Grey’s (Anal Cavity Search 6) new film Open Windows. But don’t grab your Kleenex and KY warming gel just yet. Open Windows is a horror thriller told in real time through the use of webcams, tablets, mobile phones and satellite and security cams.

Open Windows is Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo’s (Timecrimes) English language debut, and stars Elijah Wood (Sin City) as a sad fanboy who gets into trouble when the actress he’s obsessed with watching online is abducted. It arrives on VOD Oct. 2 and in selected theaters Nov. 7.

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The 14th annual Screamfest LA horror film festival is once again creeping up on us, and judging by the announced first wave of frighteners, it’s going to be epic and disturbing. Running Oct. 14 – 23 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theater, the event premieres a variety of features and shorts from around the world.

Among the many first showings Clatto is excited about are the U.S. premiere of the Ashley C. Williams’ (Human Centipede) revenge thriller Julia, the Los Angeles debut of apocalyptic thriller Refuge, and the world premiere of Jen and Sylvia Soska’s See No Evil 2.

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The Creep Behind the Camera (US) – Directed by Pete Schuermann. The Creep Behind the Camera was an actual filmmaker named Vic Savage; a real scumbag whose only real skill was in his uncanny ability to convince the residents of 1960 Glendale, California that he was making the biggest, the BEST monster movie ever made! The true story of Vic Savage, aka Art Nelson and the making of his monster opus The Creeping Terror (1964) is told in the narrative dark-comedy The Creep Behind the Camera. A hilarious and wholly disturbing look at human nature and delusional demagoguery, The Creep Behind the Camera is a roller coaster ride that takes a nostalgic but cautionary look at the era of drive-in cinema at its very worst. Los Angeles Premiere

The House at the End of Time (Venezuela) – Directed by Alejandro Hidalgo. A mother imprisoned for 30 years for murdering her husband is released on compassion, but when she returns to her family home the supernatural events that led to the crime return to haunt her and reveal a sinister secret about the building in which she lives. US Premiere

I Survived A Zombie Holocaust (NZ) – Directed by Guy Pigden. The crew of the New Zealand low budget Zombie film “Tonight They Come!” are filming in the middle of nowhere. The troubled shoot goes from bad to worse when key cast and crew are struck down by a mystery illness. The replacement runner, WESLEY PENNINGTON arrives on set fresh out of film school and bubbling with enthusiasm just in time for the mystery illness to start turning zombie extras into REAL, shuffling, un-dead Zombies. Los Angeles Premiere

Julia (US) –Directed by Matthew A. Brown. A neo-noir revenge thriller centering on Julia Shames (Ashley C. Williams – The Human Centipede), who after suffering a brutal trauma, falls prey to an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself. US Premiere

Parlor (US) – Directed by Devon Downs & Kenny Gage. The film follows six young college hopefuls vacationing and partying in Eastern Europe who get more than they bargained for when they unwittingly get caught up in a maniacal tattoo artist’s fiendish side business. Shot entirely in Vilnius, Lithuania starring Robert Lasardo (Nip/Tuck, Death Race, Human Centipede III) World Premiere

Refuge (US) – Directed by Andrew Robertson. This apocalyptic genre thriller is set in the American south about a family struggling to survive in the wake of a catastrophic plague. Los Angeles Premiere

See No Evil 2 (US) – Directed by Jen & Sylvia Soska. Starring WWE’s Glenn “KANE” Jacobs, Danielle Harris and Katharine Isabelle (American Mary). A group of friends pays a late-night visit to the city morgue to surprise Amy (Harris) on her birthday. But the surprise is on them when the one-eyed corpse of brutal psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) unexpectedly rises from a cold sub-basement slab. Their wild party quickly turns into a terrifying slay-fest as the sadistic mass-murderer resumes his savage rampage complete with hooks, surgical knives and power saws. World Premiere

Suburban Gothic (US) – Directed by Richard Bates, Jr. Starring Matthew Gray Gubler (Criminal Minds), Kat Dennings (Two Broke Girls), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) Raymond has a prestigious MBA, but he can’t find work. He can channel the paranormal, but chatting with a cute girl mystifies him. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jock father, and beer-bellied classmates. But when a vengeful ghost terrorizes the small town, the city-boy recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threatening everyone’s lives. “The Dead Just Got Deader.” Los Angeles Premiere

For more information, visit the Screamfest website.

Thandie Newton has joined the large and impressive cast of HBO’s “Westworld,” a re-imagining of the 1973 sci-fi classic about androids run amok in an adult themed amusement park created for humans to indulge in their lust for blood and sex. Bad Robot (“LOST”) and Jonathan Nolan (“Person of Interest”) produce.

Newton will play Westworld brothel madam Maeve Millay. She co-stars with Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, James Marsden (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Rodrigo Santoro (300: Rise of an Empire), and stunners Evan Rachel Wood (“True Blood”), Angela Sarafyan (Breaking Dawn) and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Hercules).

Newton’s horror debut came in 1994 with Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire. She has since starred in The Chronicles of Riddick, 2012, Vanishing on 7th Street, and Retreat. Newton can currently be seen on DirecTV’s cop drama “Rogue.”

Poiley Wood Entertainment has set an Oct. 31 VOD release date for Missionary, starring “House of Lies” stunner Dawn Olivieri as a married woman whose affair with a disturbed Mormon missionary leads to a fight for survival.

Missionary is helmed by Anthony DiBlasi, writer and director of the awesome 2009 adaptation of the Clive Barker short story Dread. Co-stars include Kip Pardue (Hostel: Part III), Mitch Ryan (Cabin Fever: Patien Zero). and J. LaRose (Insidious).

Genre fans will recognize Olivieri from her role as Mystic Falls newscaster Andie Star on “The Vampire Diaries” and as evolved human Lydia on “Heroes.” The model-turned-actress also starred in Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke’s rock-n-roll thriller Plush, and voiced Lucy Kuo in the video game inFamous 2.

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Icon has released a trailer for actress Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut The Babadook. The supernatural thriller stars Essie Davis (Matrix ReLoaded) as the widowed mother of an emotionally trouble six-year-old who is convinced a storybook boogeyman is out to kill them.

While the first trailer is still more disturbing, one thing is clear: that’s one terrible mom! Who reads that stuff to a six-year-old? Did they run out of Paddington Bear books in London? Bad, mom! Bad, bad, bad! Anyway, The Babadook arrives in the U.K. on Oct. 24 and in the U.S. on Nov. 28. Take the kids!

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“Jersey Shore” alumna Jenni Farley is looking to JWoww horror fans with Jersey Shore Massacre, a silly new slasher from Farley’s production shingle JWoww Productions. Arriving on Blu-ray and DVD Aug. 22, the flick pokes fun at MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” and promises plenty of meathead and bimbo blood.

Jersey Shore Massacre finds a group of girlfriends and their douche bag suitors trapped in the woods with a mentally retarded serial killer out to kill them one by one. The film stars Danielle Dallacco, Angelica Boccella (Blood Ties), Nicole Rutigliano (Wolf of Wall Street), Ashley Mitchell, and porn star Ron Jeremy.

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