WGN America has released a 46-second teaser for its first scripted series “Salem,” starring Janet Montgomery (Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead) Set in 17th century Massachusetts, the show centers on the town’s infamous—and fun looking—witch trials. It premieres in the spring.
“Salem” stars Montgomery as Mary Sibley, the ruthless and beautiful wife of an ailing Salem Selectman, Ashley Madekwe (”Revenge”) as Montgomery’s confidant, Xander Berkeley (”Nikita”) as Magistrate Hale, and Seth Gabel (”Fringe”) as Cotton Mather, an aristocrat who oversees the witch hunts.
Merry Christmas, heathens! Yeah, once again it’s belated. But, that’s only because I was trying to find the perfect gift to post here for you. So, yeah, it’s your fault. I mean, really, what do you get the site surfer who’s seen it all? I’ve already showed you the 12 Babes of Christmas Horror.
OK, that takes care of the dudes. But, what about the ladies? In the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot more chicas joining the Clatto clan. It’s no surprise; we’re the only horror site reporting on what the females in the genre are doing. Sure, we do it with the finesse of a 13-year-old horn-dog, but there’s lots of love there.
For the ladies: a Christmas carol performed by Christian metal outfit Stryper:
IFC Midnight has released an official theatrical trailer for writer and director Joe Swanberg’s 24 Exposures, a serial killer drama set in the world of fetish porn. You’re Next director Adam Wingard plays Billy, a photographer who stages eroticized female death scenarios in his photos.
When his models start popping up murdered, Billy becomes the prime suspect for an emotionally unstable homicide detective who has been shit on by too many women. The role is played by You’re Next scribe Simon Barrett. Rounding out the cast are Sophia Takal (V/H/S) and Helen Rogers (V/H/S).
24 Exposures arrives in selected theaters and VOD on Jan. 24.
Anchor Bay’s Sorority Party Massacre arrives on DVD Feb. 11. To further promote the sexy slasher, the studio has released new stills of its gorgeous scream queens: Rebecca Grant (Sink Hole), Marissa Skell (“Dexter”), Eve Mauro (Zombie vs. Strippers), Casey Fitzgerald (Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs), Adrian Kirk (616: Paranormal Incident), Alison Mei Lan (Hit List) and Yvette Yates.
Well played, Anchor Bay, well played.
Sorority Party Massacre finds a college town sheriff teaming up with a big city cop to investigate a 20-year string of sorority sister abductions and murders. The film is co-directed by Chris W. Freeman and Justin Jones (Mirror Image). Peep the film’s hot trailer here.
Co-stars include Kevin Sorbo (“Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”), Ed O’Ross (Universal Soldier), Leslie Easterbrook (The Devil’s Rejects), Richard Moll (“Night Court”), Amanda Barton (Gingerdead Man: Saturday Night Cleaver), Louis Mandylor (The Quest), and Tom Downey (Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan).
Clatto spoke exclusively with Marissa Skell (she’s the blonde in the black shorts) about Sorority Party Massacre awhile back. It’s a pretty in depth interview in which she talks about the making of the film, her experiences in the horror genre, and her appearance on the VH1 reality competition show, “Scream Queens.” Read it here.
XLrator Media has acquired the North American rights to director John Suits’ TheScribbler. Katie Cassidy (“The Arrow”) plays a woman undergoing an experimental treatment to eliminate the multiple personalities that torment her, while risking the loss of her true identity in the process.
The Scribbler is written by Daniel Schaffer, adapted from his 2006 graphic novel. Michael Imperioli (”The Sopranos”), Billy Campbell (”The Killing”), Garret Dillahunt (Last House on the Left) and Kunal Nayyar (”The Big Bang Theory”) round out the cast. Release is slated for fall 2014.
Ali Larter is set to star in The Diabolical, a supernatural thriller from Preferred Film & TV. The film is directed by newcomer Alistair Legrand from a script he wrote with a guy named Luke Harvis. According to Deadline, cameras will roll on the project February 2014.
The Diabolical follows a young, single MILF named Madison and her children tormented nightly by a powerful and violent spirit. Unable to find demonologists willing to help her family, she nags her scientist boyfriend, Nikolai, to get rid of the evil force.
Larter is, of course, no stranger to horror. The blonde stunner has starred in Warner Bros. 1999 remake of The House on Haunted Hill, New Line’s Final Destination 1 & 2, and Screen Gems’ Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Afterlife. She was also a regular on NBC’s “Heroes” for four seasons.
Posted above is a shot of Piper Perabo and James Marsden attempting to escape from the pissed off grizzly on their trail. It’s one in a set of stills released online to promote SAW 5 director David Hackl’s Endangered, previously titled Red Machine (peep gallery below).
The Open Road film follows a deputy (Thomas Jane) as he searches for his missing deaf wife (Perabo) in the Alaskan wilderness with the aid of his estranged brother (James Marsden). When a bloodthirsty grizzly and the wacko hunting it enter the picture, shit goes cray-cray.
A new trailer has gone online for director Oleg Stepchenko’s long delayed adaptation of Russian novelist and poet Nikolai Gogol’s Viy, a short story about a philosopher forced to read psalms over the body of an evil witch for three nights in a village overrun by demonic forces.
To survive the ritual, he must draw a circle of protection around himself and not flinch at the horrors that will fall upon him, including the undead witch, flying goblins, and… Viy, a grotesque and powerful demon.
Stepchenko’s Viy appears to retell the classic story, but from the perspective of new protagonist Jonathan Green, a cartographer who stumbles upon a cursed village when he gets lost during a research mission near the Carpathian Mountains.
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence, a sci-fi thriller starring Johnny Deppas an Artificial Intelligence creator whose brain is uploaded into a super computer when he’s shot by anti-technology activists… I think.
Better read the official synopsis:
Dr. Will Caster (Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions.
His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.
However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed—to be a participant in his own transcendence.
Transcendence co-stars Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3) as Will’s wife and Paul Bettany (Legion) as his best friend Max Waters, both fellow researchers frightened by Will’s omnipresent quest for power. Rounding out the cast are Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy (Dark Knight), and Kate Mara (“American Horror Story”).
20th Century Fox has released the first trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a sequel to its 2011 blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The film stars Keri Russell (Dark Skies), Gary Oldman (Dark Knight), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Kodi-Smit McPhee (Let Me In) and Andy Serkis (The Hobbit) as Caesar.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a post apocalyptic story set a decade after the director Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 reboot. The sequel is directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and co-written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).
