While it’s probably fair to say that most folks enjoy the idea of having the entire cast of MTV’s “The Jersey Shore” eaten alive by a 20-foot maneater, the reason to tune into Syfy’s upcoming Jersey Shore Shark Attack is curvy Canadian stunner Melissa Molinaro.
Molinaro plays Nookie, one in a group of guidos desperately trying to convince officials to shut down the beach after a man is killed by a shark and triggers fears of another Jersey Shore bloodbath like that of 1916.
Jersey Shore Shark Attack is Molinaro’s first foray into horror. The 29-year-old is best known in the States for her appearances on the reality competition shows “Making the Band 3” and “Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll.”
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for slasher fans. Director Steven C. Miller’s (Scream of the Banshee, Automaton Transfusion) remake of Charles E. Sellier, Jr.’s beloved 1984 holiday classic Silent Night, Deadly Night has been greenlit.
Malice in Wonderland scribe Jayson Rothwell will pen the script and serve as executive producer. Richard Saperstein (The Mist), Brian Witten (Chernobyl Diaries) and Shara Kay (The Barrens) are producing. Anchor Bay will handle North American distribution.
Silent Night, Deadly Night follows a murderous Santa out to slaughter all who have been bad, but in particular nude young women and the men who screw them. Genre icon Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange) has already been cast in the remake as Sheriff Cooper, a small town lawman in for the night of his career.
The Silent Night, Deadly Night redo is slated for release this Christmas season.
Tomcat Films has released a trailer for its campy new creature-feature Snake Club: Revenge of the Snakewomen. Penthouse Pet and girls-only porn star Veronica Ricci stars in the film as a half-woman/ half-snake creature feeding on the patrons that visit the strip club where she works.
It’s about a group of jaded strippers at a seedy, dive strip club when some dramatic action happens and a series of events causes me, Jaded Stripper #1, the ‘prized dancer,’ to transform into a snake God-like woman with snake stripper minions.
Snake Club: Revenge of the Snakewomen is directed by David Palmieri (Axegrinder, Darkworld) and is Tomcat Films and Ricci’s first collaboration since last year’s Bloody Mary 3-D. Her adult creds include My First Lesbian Experience, Welcome to Bondage, Veronica’s Private Tickle Hell, Girls Who Want GirlsandSideline Sluts: Cheerleader Confessions.
Columbia Pictures has released a new set of images for it’s upcoming sequel Men in Black III. Showcased in the shots are its female leads: Emma Thompson as MIB head O, Alice Eve as a young agent O and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger as a busty leather-clad villainess.
MIB III finds Will Smith’s Agent J heading back in time to save Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent K from an awful fate with the help of K’s younger self, played by Josh Brolin. Costars include Michael Stuhlbarg (“Boardwalk Empire”), Jemaine Clement (Diagnosis: Death) and Bill Hader (Superbad).
The Barry Sonnenfeld-directed sequel arrives in theaters on May 25.
Production has wrapped on TinRes Entertainment’s new supernatural thriller The Firstling. The film is directed by Peter Antonijevic and stars model/actress Rebecca Da Costa, Milo Ventimiglia (“Heroes”) and old people actors Andie MacDowell (Groundhog Day) and Lou Gossett Jr. (Iron Eagle).
Written by Nissar Modi, The Firstling tells the story of a pregnant woman who must avenge a wronged spirit or risk an awful fate for her unborn child.
Da Costa’s horror creds include 2010’s silly “trapped” frightener Trick of the Witch, in which she played a fashion model trapped during a shoot in a mansion by malicious supernatural forces, and Kevin Carraway’s (Fear Chamber) upcoming time warp thriller Seven Below.
Production on director Eduardo Sanchez’s Big Foot thriller Exists is set to begin in Elgin, TX on Monday. The film marks Sanchez’s return to the found-footage genre he ushered in with 1999’s game-changer The Blair Witch Project.
Written by Jamie Nash (Lovely Molly), Exists follows a group of friends as they’re stalked and slaughtered by Big Foot in the Texas woods. Cast includes Dora Madison Burge (“Friday Night Lights”), Roger Edwards (Bad Kids Go to Hell) and Denise Williamson (pictured).
The Haxan Films and Amber Entertainment production also stars “suit” actor Brian Steele as the legendary beast.
So that tsunami and earthquake combo that practically destroyed Japan … that was no natural disaster. That was an act of God. An act of a God who anticipated the release of director Noboru Iguchi’s (Machine Girl) outrageous scat-themed splatter show Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead.
Described as “the most crap-tastic zombie movie ever to emerge from the sewers of low-budget filmmaking,” Zombie Ass stars 18-year-old newcomer Arisa Nakamura, Mayu Sugano (pictured above), Asami (Rape Zombies), Yuki (Paradise Kiss) and the very busty Asana Mamoru.
Peep it:
The film has a synopsis:
Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her sister Ai, who was tormented by high school bullies, pretty young karate student Megu (Nakamura) accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods: smart girl Aya (Sugano), her druggie boyfriend Také, big-boobed model Maki (Mamoru), and nerdy Naoi.
Things start to go badly when Maki finds a parasitical worm inside a fish they catch – and wolfs it down alive, in the hope that it’ll help keep her skinny! Soon after, and not so unexpectedly in situations like this, zombies show up and begin to complicate things further.
After they’re attacked by a crowd of poop-covered undead who emerge from an outhouse toilet, the group seeks refuge at the home of strange Dr. Tanaka and his daughter Sachi.
But unbeknownst to them, Tanaka has been conducting experiments on the parasites—and the zombies!—and has another fate in mind for the five strangers from the city.
What’s the connection between the parasites and the zombies? And can Megu’s karate alone help them escape, or will she have to rely on the liberating power of farts to save the day?
Keri Russell (“The Americans,” “Felicity”) is set to star in the sci-fi thriller Dark Skies. The Blumhouse production is directed by Scott Charles Stewart (Priest, Legion) and costars some guy named Daniel Barrett.
Russell and Barrett will play the parents of a six-year-old boy who has been marked for abduction by an alien living among humans.
Russell doesn’t have a lot of horror under her garter belt, but did star in Grimm Love, a thrillerbased on the true story of a gay German man sentenced to life imprisonment after slaughtering and eating a willing victim he met in an internet chatroom.
Marvel Studios has released the first clip from Joss Whedon’s eagerly anticipated superhero mash-up The Avengers. To my surprise, it actually showcases the only female hero in the flick: Black Widow. Played by Scarlett Johansson, the Black Widow is … OMG! Look at those things jiggle:
Imagine waking up every day to rape and murder the same person. Over and over. Every day. Never a new victim. Just the same one you’ve raped and murdered countless days before. Sure, it wouldn’t be so bad the first few days, but eventually you’d both stop trying so hard.
You wouldn’t run during the chase. The victim wouldn’t struggle as much. Soon, you’d move in together and the rape and murder would dwindle down to twice a week. The victim would think you’re just not into them, and you’d have to ease their insecurities with lies. Every day.
That is the skin-crawling horror that Columbian filmmaker Miguel Urrutia explores in his Groundhog Day/Momento inspired frightener Wake Up and Die, starring Peruvian stunner Andrea Montenegro and Luis Fernando Bohorquez.
Peep the trailer here (and, yes, Montenegro goes nude).
