Alexa Vega is the latest to join director Darren Bousman’s new 45-minute musical horror show The Devil’s Carnival. The duo previously worked together on Bousman’s Mother’s Day remake and his beloved sci-fi musical Repo! The Genetic Opera.
Starring alongside Vega are Briana Evigan (Sorority Row), Taryn Manning (Manson Girls), Bill Moseley (Devil’s Rejects), Sean Patrick Flannery (Saw 3-D), Paul Sorvino (Repo! The Genetic Opera), Skinny Puppy vocalist Nivek Ogre and musician/performance artist Emilie Autumn.
Vega is best known for her starring role as daughter Carmen Cortez in Robert Rodriguez’s crazy successful family adventure franchise Spy Kids, a role the now 23-year-old starlet has been playing since age 13.
Former “Mad Men” starlet Abigail Spencer is set to star in geek-messiah Joss Whedon’s (The Avengers) modestly budgeted sci-fi romance In Your Eyes. Spencer will play a woman whose life is supernaturally intertwined with that of a man she would normally never befriend.
It’s my first time [doing a project with Whedon], but I’ve always wanted to work with him. I’m so excited to do it. It’s the most romantic film in the history of time. It’s a supernatural romance.
Spencer, who is coming off last year’s Uni tent-pole Cowboys & Aliens, will next be seen as a mother who believes her child may be possessed in The Lionsgate sequel The Haunting in Georgia and as an assistant to young magician Oz in Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and Powerful.
In Your Eyes is directed by Brin Hill (Ball Don’t Lie) from a script by Whedon, who produces with Kai Cole through their recently launched Bellwether Pictures studio.
A trailer for You Got Served director Chris Stokes new horror show The Helpers is raising the roof, yo. The film stars German-born stunner Kristen Quintrall as one of seven Las Vegas-bound friends captured and tortured by crazed orphans hell-bent on vengeance.
Quintrall, best known for her work on Syfy and The Asylum projects, toplines a cast that includes Christopher Jones (Somebody Help Me), Black Thomas (Step Up 2: The Streets), Korean babe Denyce Lawton (“House of Payne”), and former “Man Show” juggy dancer Rachel Sterling.
The first season of the Canadian supernatural series “Lost Girl” is set to premiere tonight on Syfy. The show, which is currently heading into its third season, will introduce American audiences to Bo (Anna Silk), a beautiful woman who discovers she’s a succubus after inadvertently fucking her mates to death.
To remedy the situation, Bo opens a detective agency with BFF Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) and together they solve supernatural cases while investigating Bo’s origins. Things get complicated, however, when Bo develops romantic relationships with detective/werewolf Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) and sexy scientist Lauren (Zoie Palmer).
SVT and Matador Films will premiere creator Lars Lundström’s new Swedish sci-fi drama “Real Humans (Äkta människor)” on Jan. 22. The one-hour, 10-episode series centers on robots so human-like that some party-poopers decide they should not be used for dirty sex and servitude, but instead granted equal rights.
And, suddenly, “Small Wonder” doesn’t seem quite as innocent a family show as we once thought. I never trusted Ted Lawson and United Robotronics.
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Couldn’t get past the the robot boobs? This is the official synopsis:
“Real Humans” takes place in a parallel world to our own, in which people’s lives have been completely transformed by the new generation of robots, the Hubots. They’re used as servants, heavy laborers, company for the lonely and even sex partners.
But Hubots also create conflicts – within families, in places of work and among those concerned about public safety. Their intelligence exceeds our own. Are there any jobs left that are not best carried out by a robot? Can they develop feelings of their own? Can a Hubot harm a human being?
Leo and Niska lead a group of rogue Hubots who are fighting for their freedom. But Leo and Niska don’t agree on methods. During an escape, Leo’s beloved Mimi disappears and Leo leaves the group to find her.
At the same time, the Engman family decides to buy a used Hubot, against the mother Inger’s wishes – at first. But the Hubot addition to the family, Anita, soon wins her over. A lawyer, Inger soon begins to represent clients who support equal rights for Hubots.
Warehouse foreman Roger’s life has begun coming apart at the seams. His wife has left him for her Hubot and all of his human coworkers have been replaced by Hubots as well. Roger joins a resistance movement. Behind the everyday facade, a whole new world is coming to life.
“Real Humans” is directed by Harald Hamrell och Levan Akin and stars Andreas Wilson (Kill Your Darlings) as Leo, Eva Röse (Storm) as Niska, and Lisette Pagler as topless Asian Hubot Mimi.
The show will premiere on Swedish network SVT1, but don’t panic; you’ll still get a chance to see the series as format and international distribution rights have been sold to U.K. distro-house Shine Group.
“Smallville’s” Cassidy Freeman is heading to Mystic Falls, the fictional small Virginia town that vampire brothers Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan Salvatore (the guy who isn’t Ian Somerhalder) call home on The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries.”
TV Line reports that Freeman will play a “sexy and fearless” woman named Sage in the 16th episode of the show’s current season. The character will be introduced in a flashback sequence dating back to 1912, and may return in later episodes.
Freeman, who starred as lesbian Frances Dunhill on NBC’s short-lived 2011 drama “The Playboy Club,” is best known for her portrayal of LuthorCorp CEO Tess Mercer on The CW’s recently ended Superman series “Smallville.”
Actress Briana Evigan tweeted news last night that will serve as music to horror fans’ ears. The Los Angeles-born stunner is joining director Darren Bousman’s (Repo! The Genetic Opera) new musical horror show The Devil’s Carnival.
Filming this weekend w @darren_bousman in “the devils carnival” im singing such a fun song! Cant wait to start filming 😉
Evigan, who teamed up with Bousman on last year’s Mother’s Day remake, has starred in a number of notable frighteners, including Summit’s Sorority Row redo, the 2009 Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko, and the oh-shit-there’s-a-tiger-in-my-living-room thriller Burning Bright.
The Devil’s Carnival is now shooting and costars genre babe Taryn Manning (Manson Girls) and career villain Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects).
After watching newcomer Ashlynn Yennie eat shit and die in madcap director Tom Six’s demented cult 2009 hit The Human Centipede, I was certain the Wyoming-born starlet would quit Hollywood and head back home to work the mines.
But, when she resurfaced in its sequel last year, it became apparent that Yennie is here to stay. I am now convinced that the pretty 26-year-old has got scream queen midi-chlorians pumping in her blood.
This, of course, bodes well for writer/director Adam Gierasch’s (Night of the Demons – 2010) new Seven Arts frightener Schism, which stars Yennie as a woman in a committed relationship with a Baton Rouge cook with a dark past.
Schism costars Callum Blue (“Smallville”) as Yennie’s boyfriend and Vinnie Jones (Midnight Meat Train) in what will surely be some kind of pissed off character role. The film—said to be in the vein of Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder—will shoot in New Orleans.
Posted above is the first still from writer/director Josh Stolberg’s new indie frightener Crawlspace. Budgeted at $500,000, the film—formerly entitled Hideaway—follows a homicidal psychopath as he torments the family living in his foreclosed home.
“Full House” and “90210” star Lori Loughlin costars with “Wings” actor Steven Weber as the family heads in the Vuguru production. Weekend at Bernie’s Jonathan Silverman, “LOST’s” Sterling Beaumon (he played young Benjamin Linus), and Sorority Row hottie Nicole Moore fill out the cast.
Crawlspace will be made available through VOD, Netflix, HULU, and various other digital platforms.
Looks like “Vampire Diaries” and “Secret Circle” alumna Bianca Lawson is barking up a new supernatural tree. The 29-year-old starlet has scored the recurring role of guidance counselor Ms. Morrell on season two of MTV’s hit high school-set werewolf series “Teen Wolf.”
Joining Lawson in the new season are Stephen Lunsford as a student with a crush on Alison, Daniel Sharman as a troubled lacrosse player, Sinqua Walls as a shy loner, Gage Golightly as a tomboy-turned-beauty-queen and Michael Hogan as Alison’s werewolf-hunting grandfather.
Developed by “Criminal Minds” creator Jeff Davis, “Teen Wolf” premiered to over two million viewers last June. The series, which stars Tyler Posey as teen werewolf Scott McCall, Crystal Reed as love interest Alison Argent and Tyler Hoechlin as Alpha-wolf Derek Hale, returns for a second season this summer.
