Burgeoning scream queen Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”) is set to star in the supernatural romance I Will Follow You Into the Dark. The pretty 25-year-old Brit will play a woman willing to die to be with the lover who helped her get over the trauma of losing both her parents suddenly.

The Castlight Pictures and Zero Gravity release is written and directed by some guy named Mark Robinson. Costars include the very sexy Leah Pipes (Sorority Row), Ryan Eggold (“90210”) and Jaz Martin (The Shattering).

Barton, who made her horror acting debut as a tween in the 1999 M. Night Shyamalan mind-blower The Sixth Sense, returned to the genre in 2009 with roles in the buried-alive frightener Walled In and the psycho-bitch thriller Homecoming.

She will next be seen in the cave-set survival indie Into the Darkness and Apartment 1303, a 3-D remake of Japanese filmmaker Ataru Oikawa’s creepy J-Horror of the same name.

“Battlestar Galactica” starlet Katee Sackhoff has scored the female lead in Vin Diesel’s Riddick, the third entry in the David Twohy directed sci-fi franchise that includes 2000’s Pitch Black and 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick.

Riddick’s terribly written synopsis reads:

Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before.

Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge.

With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

Deadline reports that Sackhoff will play Dahl, a Nordic mercenary out to cash in on Riddick’s hide. Also on board for the sequel are greasy-looking, but awesome, career-villain Jordi Molla (Colombiana) as bad guy Santana and Karl Urban (Dredd), reprising his role as Lord Vakko.

Sackhoff’s genre creds include Halloween: Resurrection (her horror movie debut), White Noise 2: The Light, Fox Family’s “The Fearing Mind,” and NBC’s short-lived series “The Bionic Woman.” She is best known, however, for her portrayal of cocky fighter pilot Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on Syfy’s “Battlestar Galactica.”

The 31-year-old starlet will next be seen in TV producer/director Shawn Pillar’s feature debut Sexy Evil Genius and Lionsgate’s The Haunting in Georgia, a sequel to their 2009 sleeper-hit The Haunting in Connecticut. Sackhoff can also be heard as the voice of Mandalorian Bo-Katan on Cartoon Network’s “The Clone Wars.”

The Asylum has set a March 27 home-video release date for director Liz Adams’ feature debut Air Collision. The film stars genre babe Jordan Ladd (pictured above) as a flight attendant helping passengers keep their shit in while their plane attempts to avert a collision with Air Force One.

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Costarring in the airline disaster flick are Reginald VelJohnson (“Family Matters”) as an air traffic controller dealing with “the worst case scenario,” Dave Vescio (Human Factor) as a hysterical passenger and Andy Clemence (Black Forrest) as the President of the U.S.A.

Ladd, who made her feature acting debut at the age of 19 in the Alyssa Milano cult-fav Embrace of the Vampire, has starred in a number of noteworthy frighteners, including Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever and Hostel 2, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, and Paul Solet’s must-see demon-spawn mind-fuck Grace.

Kate Beckinsale has revealed that she and Jessica Biel engage in a no-holds barred cat-fight in director Len Wiseman’s upcoming remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi classic Total Recall. The British stunner, who can be seen this month in Screen Gems Underworld: Awakening, plays Lori Quaid.

She tells Collider:

I’m beating everyone up. Fighting with Colin [Farrell], fighting with Jessica [Biel]. The fight with Jessica is going to be great. I like the fact that it’s a proper fight.

It’s not two girls, and one of them, the shoulder is ripped off, and the bra comes out. It’s not like one of those stupid girl fights. It’s a proper fight.

Lori, if you recall, is wife to Doug Quaid, a man who is either a humble factory worker with a memory implant or a wanted super-spy. The part was memorably played in the original film by a then up-and-coming Sharon Stone.

While we all know a “proper fight” between attractive women should involve pillows, mud or Jell-O, Beckinsale’s fight scene with Biel, who plays resistance fighter Melina, sounds promising, especially by the looks of the wardrobe (click here and here).

Total Recall arrives in theaters on Aug. 3.

The dead have returned to fuck the living in the Japanese horror-comedy Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead. Directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu (Erotibot), the film follows the aftermath of a mysterious explosion in Tokyo that has turned its male victims into horny undead rapists.

Japanese porn star Arisu Ozawa (Arisu Ozawa’s Massage Salon) and genre babes Yui Aikawa, Saya Kobayasi and Asami (The Machine Girl) portray a band of survivors determined to stop the rape zombies by any means necessary (uh-oh).

Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead opens in Japan on March 3.

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Horror fans will soon get a chance to see Katrina Bowden’s (“30 Rock”) bedside manner when she stars alongside Paz de la Huerta (“Boardwalk Empire”) in Lionsgate’s upcoming slasher Nurse 3-D. The 23-year-old stunner speaks about the role in the February issue of Maxim magazine.

She spills:

It’s definitely different from what I’ve done. It’s kind of like “Dexter” meets Single White Female. Paz de la Huerta and I are both nurses. But she’s a serial killer and she kind of becomes obsessed with me.

Bowden, who is featured on the magazine’s cover and in a sexy butt-cheek baring pictorial, recently wrapped Lionsgate’s Piranha 3-DD, due out later this year. She can also be seen in the hill-billy horror-comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Nurse 3-D is directed by Douglas Aarniokoski (The Day) and costars Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), Boris Kodjoe (Resident Evil: Afterlife) and Adam Herschman (Bucky Larson).

Posted below is video of Bowden’s Maxim shoot. To see pics, visit their site.

Freestyle Digital Media has set a Jan. 17 home-DVD release date for director Elise Robertson’s cannibal frightener Donner Pass. “Teen Wolf” recurring Desiree Hall stars as part of a group of snowboarding teens consumed by an ancient curse while snowboarding in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The film’s official synopsis reads:

DONNER PASS tells the story of settlers in 1846 that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive.

Some 150 years later, a group of teens on a snowboard trip discover that the curse of the Donner Party still haunts those mountains when members of their group start turning up not only dead, but half-eaten.

Nothing – and no one – is what it seems in this provocative dark thriller. And history doesn’t always stay in the past.

Donner Pass was picked up by Freestyle Digital Media at the American Film Market in November.

Hall is best known for playing Beacon Hills’ sexy school nurse Jennifer on MTV’s new “Teen Wolf” series. The pretty redhead has also guest starred on the TV shows “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “CSI: Miami,” and NBC’s short-lived Jimmy Smits-courtroom drama “Outlaw.” Donner Pass is Hall’s feature film debut.

IFC Films has released a trailer for  director David Brooks’ feature film debut ATM. Written by Buried scribe Chris Sparling, the confined-space thriller follows three coworkers as they’re stalked late at night at an ATM vestibule by a lunatic eager to withdraw blood from their heads.

The film stars gorgeous Brit Alice Eve and two dudes that hopefully will perish violently within the first 20 minutes so that we can concentrate on Eve and her clingy white blouse and fantasize about how she would reward us if we came to her rescue—I’m guessing bangers and mash, her treat.

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Open Road Films and Liddell Entertainment have released a trailer for Open Water directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau’s new thriller Silent House, an American remake of the Uruguayan haunted house film La Casa Muda.

Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy, May, Marlene) stars in the real-time, inspired-by-true-events frightener as a woman consumed by horror as she finds herself trapped inside her family’s deteriorated old lake house.

Silent House opens March 9.

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It appears that after starring as Lois Lane on The CW’s long-running Superman series “Smallville,” Erica Durance is now ready to fight crime as a costumed superhero. The pretty 33-year-old Canadian actress will play a delusional vigilante who thinks she’s Wonder Woman on NBC’s David E. Kelly-produced lawyer dramedy “Harry’s Law.”

Set to premiere Jan. 11, the episode finds the Wonder Woman wannabe up on criminal charges and in need of counsel from Harriet Korn’s (Kathy Bates) Cincinnati-based law firm. Durance, who in the episode wears the costume originally designed for Adrianne Palicki in Kelly’s aborted “Wonder Woman” pilot, spoke to TV Guide about the character and outfit.

She says:

Having been in the comic world for a while now, I’m really very respectful of the people that love this character. I do take it very seriously.  As a side note, just to be light about it, any woman wearing tight pants is not super excited the first time she puts them on. [Laughs] I wasn’t exactly, you know, tight pants- or underwear-ready.

I’m very grateful for the pants. I know that people were very excited about the underwear and seeing them. To be quite frank, I don’t know if I could’ve done the underwear justice at this point in time and it might have been more upsetting for people to see me in them than to not, so I think the pants are a safe bet for me.

I’ll say it again. Wonder Woman in pants makes as much sense as having the Kool-Aid Man in a pair of cargos.

Durance, who played Lois Lane on “Smallville” for 10 seasons, has got a few genre creds under her belt, namely the 2002 indie Canadian frightener Sasquatch, Uwe Boll’s 2003 movie adaptation of Sega’s zombie shoot’em up House of the Dead, and the 2006 New Line sequel Butterfly Effect 2.

She’s also guest starred on the TV shows “Stargate SG-1,” “Tru Calling,” and “Andromeda.”