2014
04.05

Brittany Murphy’s Last Movie Was ‘Something Wicked’

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A trailer has gone online for Brittany Murphy’s final film, Something Wicked. Shot in 2009, six months before her death at age 32, the psychological horror thriller arrives in selected theaters this month for a limited run.

Something Wicked tells the story of a car accidents, train accidents, bathroom peeping Toms, creepy guys who say inappropriate things about people’s wives, and many other wicked things. Murphy plays a shrink, who sees the evil befalling a young married couple.

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2014
04.04

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Cuban stunner Ana de Armas (pictured above) and Chilean model/actress Lorenza Izzo (Aftershock) are set to lead Keanu Reeves to ruin in Knock Knock, a new psycho-sexual frightener from horror master Eli Roth (Green Inferno, Hostel).

Roth tells Deadline:

I had a window before I promote Green Inferno, and I wanted to make a movie like Roman Polanski or Paul Verhoeven made when they were young, a classic psycho-sexual thriller that’s not a horror movie, but would have everyone on the edge of their seats.

Lorenza Izzo

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Knock Knock tells the story of a happily married man (Reeves) who gets an unexpected visit from two hot young girls (Armas, Izzo) while his family is away. Roth wrote the film with his Aftershock collaborators Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo.

Armas is coming off Spanish director Antonio Trashorras’ directorial debut El Callejon (Blind Alley), in which she played a woman terrorized at a laundromat by a serial killer. She’s also starred in the Spanish sci-fi drama Madrigal and the international mystery series “El Internado (The Boarding School).”

Knock Knock marks the fourth Roth project Izzo has had a role in. She stars in the cannibal frightener Green Inferno, Roth’s return to the director’s chair, and in the Roth-produced quake thriller Aftershock, and Netflix Original werewolf series “Hemlock Grove.”

Knock Knock goes into production April 14 in Santiago, Chile.

2014
04.03

Dino-Mite: ‘Dracula’ Star Katie McGrath Joins ‘Jurassic World’

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Katie McGrath (“Dracula”) is set to join Jurassic World, the eagerly anticipated third sequel in Universal Pictures and producer Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park franchise. The film, the first in the series since 2001’s Jurassic Park 3, is directed and co-written by Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed).

No word on what role McGrath plays, but she will costar alongside Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider-Man 3), Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Vincent D’Onofrio (Chained), Jake Johnson (“New Girl”), Lauren Lapkus (“Orange is the New Black”) and Judy Greer (Carrie).

McGrath currently stars as sexy, bad-girl socialite Lucy Westenra on NBC’s “Dracula.” She played evil priestess Lady Morgana Pendragon on the BBC’s “Merlin” fantasy series, and had a role in Wes Craven’s Scream IV.

2014
04.02

Scarlett Johansson Can’t Stomach Drug Muling in ‘Lucy’

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Universal Pictures has released a trailer for Fifth Element director Luc Besson’s new sci-fi actioner Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson as a busty, hot chick forced to be a drug mule by Asian gangsters who sew a mysterious narcotic into her stomach after she blacks out after a night of drunken debauchery.

When the drugs leak into her blood, she transforms into a busty, hot killing machine with clairvoyant and telekinetic powers incapable of feeling pain and emotion… I’ll have what she’s having! Lucy opens in theaters Aug. 8.

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2014
03.31

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The truth is out there… and it is sad for fans of Showtime’s sexy and quirky comedy “Californication.” The show ends this year. But, all is not lost. David Duchovny, the show’s protagonist, is set to return to broadcast TV in a 13-episode NBC event series guaranteed to please horror fans.

“Aquarius” stars Duchovny as a Los Angeles police sergeant in the 1960’s investigating a young hooligan and charismatic cult leader named Charles Manson. The show is written by John McNamara (“In Plain Sight”). Duchovny serves as an executive producer.

Said NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke:

Event series are a big priority for us, and the combination of a show that charts the lead-up to the Manson murders, along with a television star of the magnitude of David Duchovny, is the very definition of an event.

Duchovny is, of course, best known for his role as FBI agent Fox Mulder on the Fox TV show “The X-Files.”

2014
03.29

Taste

Awhile back, Clatto was fortunate enough to catch legendary horror director Stuart Gordon’s “Re-Animator: The Musical” during its Los Angeles run at The Steve Allen Theater. To this day, it remains one of the strangest and most fun evenings we have ever experienced (read our review here).

Well, Gordon is back with another, possibly more twisted, bit of theater: “Taste.” Written by playwright Benjamin Brand, “Taste” tells the shocking, true story of two men who meet online and “make a unique arrangement: one will kill, cook, and eat the other.”

Presented by Sacred Fools Theater Company, The Schramm Group LLC, and Red Hen Productions, “Taste” imagines their first and only meeting, told in real time, in a working kitchen. The play runs from April 11 – May 17 at the Sacred Fools Theater located at 660 N. Heliotrope, Hollywood, CA 90004.

Preview shows take place April 4 – 6 and April 10. A special Q&A session with Gordon will be held after each of these performance. Ticket info can be found here. Due to the play’s strong sexual content and imagery, no one under 18 will be admitted.

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW

True crime fans will recognize the story behind “Taste” to be that of Armin Meiwes, a German homosexual man sentenced to life imprisonment after slaughtering and eating Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, a willing victim he met in an internet chatroom in 2001.

Meiwes, who had fantasized about eating friends since the age of 12, viewed the act as a form of communion, a manner in which to keep someone close. Unfortunately, he grew impatient waiting for Brandes to die, and stabbed him to death.

He then hung Brandes on a hook and sliced him up into chunks. He videotaped the entire ordeal. For the following 10 months, he fed on Brandes meat. He was convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in 2004. After a retrial in 2005, he was given life imprisonment for being a sick fuck.

Meiwes has since become a vegetarian.

2014
03.29

AnnaBelle Doll Goes Nude in ‘A Haunted House 2’

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Open Road Films has released a red-band trailer for A Haunted House 2, a sequel to last year’s hit horror-comedy from Marlon Waynes and director Mike Tiddes. Waynes reprises his role as Malcolm, a man whose ex-girlfriend was possessed by demons and who is now starting his life over with a new family.

Jamie Pressly (“My Name Is Earl”) co-stars in the film as Malcolm’s hot new wife. She doesn’t get much time in the new trailer, a clever and humorous take on Facebook’s Look Back movie campaign, but we do get some kinky-hot shots of Annabelle, The Conjuring’s possessed doll, going nude.

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2014
03.29

‘Into the Storm’ Trailer Will Blow You Away!

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Warner Bros. has released a trailer for its new tornado thriller Into the Storm, starring “The Walking Dead’s” Sarah Wayne Callies (Rick Grimes’ annoying and adulteress wife, Lori) as a meteorologist teamed up with a storm chaser during a series of violent twisters in an Oklahoma town.

The trailer teases some pretty awesome destruction and provides a peep at a variety of twisters just short of a Sharknado, including fiery funnel clouds! Into the Storm is directed by Steven Quale (Final Destination 5) and written by John Swetnam (Evidence). It hits theaters on Aug. 8.

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2014
03.29

Disney Star Bella Thorne Moves to ‘Amityville’

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Disney star Bella Thorne (“Shake It Up”) is set to star in Blumhouse Productions and Dimension Films’ Amityville. Directed by Franck Khalfoun (Maniac) and written by Casey La Scala (The Remaining) and Daniel Farrands (The Girl Next Door), the film is a remake of 1979’s The Amityville Horror.

Amityville stars Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female) as a single mother who with her three children moves into a new house in Amityville, New York. Unfortunately for the new transplants, the house wants them gone. According to The Wrap, Thorne plays Leigh’s daughter.

The film is the newest in a string of horror films Thorne’s been taking on. The teen starlet, best known for playing aspiring pop singer CeCe Jones on the Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up,” recently wrapped the home-invasion thriller Home, and has starred in Forget Me Not and The Seer.

2014
03.29

Jump for Joy: ‘All Cheerleaders Die’ Scores Release Date!

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Image Entertainment will release All Cheerleaders Die May 8 on VOD and June 13 in selected theaters. The horror-comedy is a remake of the 2001 Lucky McKee (The Woman) slasher, and is written and directed by McKee and Chris Sivertson (I Know Who Killed Me).

All Cheerleaders Die stars Caitlin Stasey (I, Frankenstein) as a rebellious teen who joins her high school cheerleading squad after experiencing a tragic event. Her decision pisses off the popular cheerleaders and her loner, black magic practicing ex-girlfriend, played by Sianoa Smit-McPhee (”Hung”).

Additional co-stars include sexy newcomers Brooke Butler, Amanda Grace Cooper, Felisha Cooper, Sidney Allison, Nadia Boceski and Reanin Johannink (I Survived a Zombie Holocaust). The film’s new poster is posted above, and comes via Fangoria.