Syfy has released a trailer for The Asylum’s Sharknado, an epic creature-feature marking the triumphant comeback of American Pie star Tara Reid. Set to premiere on July 11, the film follows a Venice Beach bar owner searching for his estranged family in the midst of a shark flinging tornado.
Co-starring alongside Reid are “Beverly Hills 90210″ alum Ian Ziering as the bar proprietor and ABC Family’s “Make It Or Break It” star Cassie Scerbo as the sexy bartender helping him on his journey. Reid plays Ziering’s jiggly ex-wife.
Brian de Palma’s Passion will release on VOD on Aug. 1 and play selected theaters on Aug. 30. The film is an American remake of the French erotic thriller Love Crime and tells the story of a beautiful business woman’s ill-fated manipulation and seduction of her naive protégé.
Passion stars Rachel McAdams as boss bitch Christine and Noomi Rapace as her seemingly weak assistant. The duo share a lesbian love scene in which Rapace goes nude. Co-stars include Dominic Cooper (Devil’s Double), Karoline Herfurth (We Are the Night) and Rainer Bock (Inglourious Basterds).
“Survivor” fans, get ready. On July 16, former contestant Danielle DiLorenzo and her immunity idols can be seen in director Lance Dumais’ feature debut Armynel, a low-budget thriller about a young woman (Marita Gomsrud) tormented by nightmares and hallucinations, suggesting she’s a killer.
DiLorenzo plays the troubled girl’s lesbian lover, who advices her to seek help through hypnosis therapy. “Survivor” fans will remember DiLorenzo from her jiggly appearances on “Survivor: Panama” and “Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.” If you’re not a fan, head back to camp. I have nothing for you.
NBC premiered the pilot episode tonight of its new series “Siberia,” a scripted drama about a reality show set in in the remote Siberian territory of Tunguska in which 16 contestants compete in a no-holds-barred competition to win a large cash prize. Things take a nasty turn when people start to die… horrifically.
“Siberia” writer/creator and pilot episode director Matthew Arnold does an impressive job of making the series resemble a reality show. I’ll admit that there were times I thought I was watching a new season of “Survivor” and not a scripted program.
If that’s not enough reason to tune in, take into consideration the inclusion of model/actress Berglind Icey (pictured), sexy star of the Rob Schneider comedies The Hot Chick and The Animal. Icey’s character doesn’t fare too well in the pilot, but something tells me we’ll be seeing more of her regardless.
Peep the pilot episode of “Siberia” at the show’s website.
Production has wrapped on Intruder, a home invasion thriller marking the directorial debut of production designer Travis Zariwny (Hatchet III) and starring Scottish stunner Louise Linton (pictured) and John Robinson (Lords of Dogtown) .
Shot in Portland, Oregon, Intruder finds Linton playing a woman who is psychologically tormented in her home for two days by a stranger who has followed her home after a chance meeting in public. According to TheWrap, the film is a cross between Paranormal Activity and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope.
Linton’s creds include guest spots on the CBS crime shows “CSI: NY” and “Cold Case,” and the 2008 indie ghost thriller The Echo. She will next be seen in Zariwny’s sophomore effort Scavengers, a sci-fi thriller set in space and starring Sean Patrick Flanery (Saw: The Final Chapter).
Splatterpunk horror author John Skipp and filmmaker Andrew Kasch (Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy) have co-directed and released a proof-of-concept sales trailer for a future film adaptation of Skipp’s 2006 strip club bloodfest “The Long Last Call.”
“The Long Last Call” is set at a backwoods strip joint where a mysterious stranger has arrived at closing time with a briefcase full of cash that he uses to conjure up feelings of greed, rage and resentment in lowlifes that patron the club and its dancers.
I read the book awhile back. While it’s not as frightening as what your significant other could do to you if you fail to blowtorch the pesky stripper glitter off your face after a night out at the nudie bar, it’s an extremely fun and twisted ride. Amazon’s 47North just re-released it. Pick it up!
Posted above is a first look at Academy Award winning stunner Jennifer Connelly in Noah, an adaptation of the biblical story by Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky. Connelly plays Noah’s wife Naameh. The film reunites Connelly with Aronofsky, who shot her in the meth drama Requiem for a Dream.
Noah also re-teams Connelly with her Beautiful Mind co-star Russell Crow, who toplines the film as the fabled ark builder. Co-stars include Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Durand (“LOST”), Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson), Madison Davenport (The Possession) and Dakota Goyo (Dark Skies).
Noah sails into theaters March 28. 2014. Below, peep pics of Russell, Watson, Hopkins and Lerman:
IFC has acquired the U.S. rights to Plus One, a supernatural thriller from Last House On the Left director Dennis Iliadis and screenwriter Bill Gullo, starring “Pretty Little Liars” babe Natalie Hall and Chronicle’sAshley Hinshaw (pictured).
Plus One is set at the biggest party of the year and finds three college friends struggling to save their relationships and lives after a supernatural phenomenon occurs at the shindig. Co-stars include Rhys Wakefield (The Purge) and Logan Miller (Would You Rather).
Hinshaw made her feature film debut in the critically acclaimed 2012 superhero drama Chronicle. She also starred in the highly underrated psychological thriller Rites of Passage, released that same year on DVD. Hinshaw currently stars in About Cherry, a porn-based indie drama in which she goes nude.
Millennium Entertainment has released a new trailer for Darko Entertainment’s Hell Baby, a horror-comedy marking the directorial debut of “Reno 911″ writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. The film stars Leslie Bibb and Rob Corddry as an expectant couple living in a haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans.
When the couple realize that a demon spawn is growing inside Bibb’s womb, they turn to the Vatican’s elite exorcism team for help. The film co-stars Riki Lindhome as a Bibb’s Wiccan sister, Michael Ian Black as her psychiatrist, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer as detectives and Garant and Lennon as the exorcists.
Hell Baby arrives on VOD and in selected theaters on Sept. 6.
Up-and-comer Maika Monroe has scored the lead female role in You’re Next director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett’s new psychological thriller The Guest. Monroe will co-star alongside “Downton Abbey’s” Dan Stevens in the film, set to shoot this summer.
The Guest tells the story of David, a deeply disturbed ex-Marine (Stevens) who returns from a tour of duty to terrorize a military family. Monroe plays Anna, the family’s daughter who suspects that something is not right with David.
Monroe made her acting debut in 2006’s Bad Blood, playing a member of a cannibalistic clan out to feed on unsuspecting travelers. She reprised the role last year in its sequel Bad Blood… the Hunger. Monroe can currently be seen in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring.
