The 12th annual Screamfest LA horror film festival came to close Saturday night with the announcement of its Skully Award winners at a closing night party held at Trader Vic’s in Downtown Los Angeles Top honors went to twin directors Jen and Sylvia Soska for their underground surgeries frightener American Mary.

American Mary (Best Picture, Best Director) tells the story of a broke and bored med school student who starts to work the underground surgeries circuit for profit and thrills. Katharine Isabelle was named Best Actress for topling the film, which also won awards for Best Cinematography and Makeup.

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BEST PICTURE: American Mary

BEST DIRECTOR: Jen & Sylvia Soska – American Mary

BEST ACTRESS: Katharine Isabelle – American Mary

BEST ACTOR: Pierre-Francois Legendre – Fear of Water

BEST HORROR – COMEDY: Killer Kart

BEST MUSICAL SCORE: Jamie Blanks – Crawlspace

BEST STUDENT SHORT: Eaglewalk

BEST ANIMATED SHORT: Post Human

BEST SHORT: Incident on Highway 73

BEST MAKEUP: MastersFX – American Mary

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Brian Pearson– American Mary

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: Justin Dix – Crawlspace

BEST SCREENPLAY: The Gaslamp Horror/ Jeremy D. Christensen

BEST EDITING:  Marc Steinicke – On Air

Posted above is the first image of blonde stunner Amber Heard as Miss San Antonio in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, the unexpected—sure to be awesome—sequel to his 2010 grindhouse-actioner Machete. This time, the ex-Federale (Danny Trejo) is out to take down a billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson).

Heard joins a cast featuring sex senoritas Sofia Vergara, Zoe Saldana, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexa Vega, twins Elise and Electra Avellan and returning players Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez. Costarring caballeros include Charlie Sheen, Demian Bechir, Edward James Olmos and Lady Ga-Ga.

Heard can also be seen in Drive Angry, Zombieland, The Ward, The Stepfather, And Soon the Darkness and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane.  She is a self professed lesbian and part of Clatto’s list of The Hottest Women Working in Horror Today.

It may be Halloween, but eOne Entertainment has already got your Thanksgiving Day covered with the Nov. 20 DVD release of Japanese director Takao Nakano’s new romantic-comedy Big Tits Zombie, starring porn star Sora Aoi … you’re welcome.

Big Tits Zombie follows a stripper (Aoi) out to save a small town from a zombie invasion and is an adaptation of the popular manga “Kyonyuu Dragon” (aka: “Big Tits Dragon”) by artist Rei Mikamoto. The film arrives on DVD uncut and in both 3-D and standard format.

If you’re not familiar with starlet Aoi’s work, you’ve got a month to catch up on her critically acclaimed classics Wife Violated in Front of Her Husband, Sora Will Relieve You Greatly, Big Dick PakoPako, Bodily Fluids Mingling, and the painful-sounding Staggering Facial Ejaculation.

Open Road has dropped a trailer for the Marlon Wayan’s penned horror spoof A Haunted House, a send-up of found-footage flicks such as Paranormal Activity and The Devil Inside. Wayans stars with Essence Atkins (“Are We There Yet?”), Nick Swardson (“Reno 911”) and Cedric the Entertainer.

The film’s synopsis reads:

A Haunted House features young couple Malcolm (Wayans) and Kisha (Atkins) who have just moved into their dream house. As they settle in, they quickly find they’re not alone.

Malcolm hires everyone from a priest to modern day ghostbusters to rid her of this unwelcome intruder, determined not to let the evil spirit ruin his relationship… or, more importantly, his sex life.

But it’s not the house that’s haunted, it’s Malcolm’s girlfriend who is possessed by a demon.

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The Asylum has released a trailer for their upcoming home video epic Age of the Hobbits, a Lord of the Rings meets Apocalypto fantasy-actioner starring Christopher Judge (“Stargate SG 1”), Chinese stunner Bai Ling (Crank 2: High Voltage) and a grip of Mexican midgets (si se puede!).

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The film’s synopsis reads:

In an age long ago, the last village of clever, peace-loving Hobbits is attacked and enslaved by the Java Men, komodo-worshiping, dragon-riding cannibals.

Now the young Hobbit Goben, along with his father and sister, must seek help from the “giants” (human hunters) to find the Javas’ lair and rescue the last surviving Hobbits, Goben’s mother among them.

In their quest to destroy the Javas, the heroic partnership of humans and Hobbits will transform both species forever.

Age of the Hobbits arrives on DVD on Dec. 11.

Open Road has released a three-minute behind-the-scenes featurette for Silent Hill: Revelation 3-D, the long-awaited Silent Hill sequel from director Michael J. Basset and producers Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody (Resident Evil: Aftermath).

The clip includes interviews with stars Adelaide Clemens (Heather Mason), Sean Bean (Harry Mason), Kit Harington (Vincent Carter), Malcolm McDowell (Leonard Wolf), Deborah Kara Unger (Dahlia Gillespie) and Carrie-Anne Moss (Claudia Wolf).

Silent Hill: Revelation 3-D arrives in theaters on Oct. 26.

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MGM and Sony Screen Gems have released a teaser-trailer for director Kimberly Peirce’s (Boys Don’t Cry) upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 novel “Carrie,” starring Chloe Moretz (Let Me In) as the tormented telekinetic teen.

Carrie tells the story of a bullied high school girl who develops deadly telepathic powers when she reaches puberty. After suffering a humiliating prank at her school’s prom, she freaks the fuck out and uses her new found skills to punish her classmates and her deranged mother.

Costars include Julianne Moore as her mother Margaret White, Judy Greer (“Californication”) as gym teacher Miss Desjardin, Portia Doubleday (Youth in Revolt) as Chris Hargenson, Gabriella Wilde (Three Musketeers) as Sue Snell and Alex Russell (Chronicle) as Billy Nolan.

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“Party of Five” starlet Lacey Chabert is a reason to go crazy over Highland Film Group’s upcoming anthology Sanitarium, set to be shopped at next month’s American Film Market. The 30-year-old stunner is part of a cast that includes genre heroes Robert Englund and Malcolm McDowell and Lou Diamond Phillips.

The film’s synopsis reads:

Sanitarium consists of three tales based on three particular patients of a mental institution. Each tale begins with Dr. Stenson, the primary physician at the Sanitarium, commenting on the recent arrival of a new patient. As Dr. Stenson speaks, the individual’s story begins.

Chabert made her big screen debut as Penny Robinson in 1998’s Lost in Space, but her natural talents were better displayed in 2006’s Black Christmas remake and 2010 little seen, but awesome, Thirst. She’ll next be seen in the supernatural thriller Ghost of Goodnight Lane.

Periscope Entertainment’s new torture show Would You Rather will have its red-carpet premiere tonight at the LA Live Regal Cinemas in downtown L.A. as part of the 12th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival, taking place now through Oct. 21.

Director David Guy Levy and the film’s stars Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs and former porn star Sasha Grey (pictured) will be on hand for the festivities. Tickets to attend the screening and all of Screamfest LA events are available for purchase at ScreamfestLA.com.

Would You Rather stars Snow as a woman who competes in a wealthy psychopath’s (Combs) deadly game of torture and terror to win money to pay for her cancer-stricken brother’s medical bills. The role marks Snow’s return to horror since toplining Screen Gems 2008 remake of Prom Night.

Screamfest LA kicked off its 12th annual reign of terror on the movie world Friday night with a screening of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton’s The Collection, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 2009 cult hit The Collector, starring Josh Stewart.

Emma Fitzpatrick plays Elena, a hearing-impaired girl abducted from a rave by The Collector and taken to an abandoned, but booby-trapped hotel. Stewart reprises his role as Arkin, the ex-con-turned-hero, now forced to join a group of mercenaries hired by the missing girl’s father to find her.

The film is brutal, violent fun —a stylish tour-de-blunt-force guaranteed to thrill Collector fans while drawing in new ones. Dunstan, directing from a script he co-wrote with Melton, keeps the cat-and-mouse intensity of the original, but amps up the action with outrageous new death traps, zombified junkies and creepy new revelations.

The Collector & Erin Way

The Collection begins with Elena and her friends dancing the night away at an underground rave filled with beautiful semi-naked young people. Things get ugly when Elena finds her boyfriend making out with a hot blonde on the dance floor. She decks him and runs off upset, ducking into a room that holds a familiar looking chest.

Arkin, last seen abducted by The Collector in the original film, rolls out of the box—bloodied and bound—when Elena unfastens its latch, triggering a series of elaborate traps inside the club that allow for the bloodiest opening mass murder scene since 2002’s Ghost Ship.

Arkin escapes, but leaves Elena behind. She’s taken to the abandoned hotel where The Collector has set up shop to work on a gruesome project. While not a lot is revealed about The Collector, enough chilling background seeds have been planted to ensure the character’s transformation into a franchise-worthy villain.

Man's Worst Friend

The white-knuckle thrills continue as Arkin and a team of mercs, led by Elena’s guardian Lucello (Lee Tergesen), break into the hotel  in search of Elena, who has already managed to get away from The Collector and is roaming the halls with a creepy-cute captive named Abby (Erin Way), The Collector’s pet.

The Collection displays in theaters on Nov. 30.