“Friday Night Lights” star Aimee Teegarden will be playing haunted house with Dennis Quaid in director Martin Guigui’s Beneath the Darkness. The film is currently shooting in Smithville, Texas and costars Tony Oller, Stephen Lunsford, Devon Werkheiser, the very sexy Amber Bartlett, and Melody Chase (A Scanner Darkly).
Beneath the Darkness follows a 16-year-old boy struggling with the death of his best friend as he sets out to expose the “secrets” of a local haunted house.
Teegarden most recently completed work on Wes Craven’s upcoming sequelScream 4. She also guest starred as a teenage confessor in the “Touched” episode of ABC Studios’ fantasy TV series “Legend of the Seeker.”
The MPAA has banned the poster for director Stevan Mena’s indie-slasher Bereavement over its depiction of a six-year-old boy carrying a very big knife alongside the serial murderer who abducted him (shown above). The film is a prequel to Mena’s 2005 feature film debut Malevolance.
He tells Fangoria:
The MPAA has banned the poster for depicting a child holding a weapon. It’s hugely disappointing, because that poster really encapsulated the plot of the film with an intriguing image. It’s a real setback for us, considering the challenges we already face competing for attention with a small budget.
The film’s synopsis reads:
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim’s screams were drowned out by the rural countryside.
For five years, Martin’s whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller (Alexandra Daddario) comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan (Michael Biehn). While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren’t quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet’s nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed.
Personally, I think the MPAA have read the poster all wrong. Yes, it conveys the film’s horrific plot, but it also speaks to how rewarding it is to mentor children. Sure, teaching a kid how to gut a hot chick isn’t going to provide much of a future for that kid, but it would boost the killer’s self esteem, something they commonly lack. Just saying.
Albanian born actress Alma Saraci is set to star in writer/director John Regan’s Robin Hood-inspired vampire thriller Sherwood Horror. The 26-year-old upstart will play the vampire maiden Marion.
The synopsis reads:
Ex-con Rob Locksley returns home after a six-year absence to find his town under the rule of vampires. He must join forces with his old roughneck hunting buddies to wage war against the evil Sheriff and his horde of blood-sucking minions.
Saraci will take on the role of Marian, an elitist vampire, who is taken hostage by Locksley and his companions and begins to see Rob as someone worthy of being by her side.
Cameras are expected to roll on this disaster next year in Virginia.
To see Saraci in action, check out the direct-to-DVD releases Don’t Look Up, Diary of a Serial Killer, and 666: The Beast.
A creepy new trailer for director Brad Anderson’s (Sessions 9) The Vanishing on Seventh Street has appeared online. The film stars Hayden Christensen (Jumper), Thandie Newton (2012), John Leguizamo (The Happening), and pretty newcomer Jordan Trovillion as survivors of a mysterious event that appears to have disintegrated most of the earth’s population.
Peep it:
The footage is definitely engaging and the plot seems intriguing (kind of like ABC’s “FlashForward” minus the unionized extras). I also like the shot of Christensen stepping on a pair of eyeglasses as he exits a building to find that he is alone in the city, and imagine that it is a nod to the “Twilight Zone” episode “Time Enough at Last.”
Horror movie queen Amber Heard dropped some unexpected news this weekend while walking the red carpet at GLAAD’s 25th anniversary party in Hollywood: She likes girls.
I think GLAAD is one of the many reasons that I, as a 24-year-old, can come out. I think that organizations like GLAAD make that possible because if it weren’t for opinions being changed, people being influenced, people being engaged to do the right thing, then there would be no prerogative for anyone to come out.
I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I’m with who I’m with, I love who I love and I’m if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that. I think that the injustice of people staying in the closet is more than I can bear with a clear conscience and I couldn’t sleep at night if I was a part of that problem, if I was part of the lies.
I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you’re inadvertently admitting it’s wrong. I don’t feel like I’m wrong. I don’t feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.
If your penis is like mine (large and bulbous), Heard’s revelation has probably caused it to have mixed feelings. But, rather than focus on the defection of Heard’s vagina to tuna town, we should instead imagine Heard making sweet, sweet love to someone like Odette Yustman underneath a waterfall while little birds chirp Linda Perry songs (that’s how lesbians have sex right?).
Oops. There goes that fantasy:
Amber Heard & Girlfriend Tasya van Ree
Heard will play it straight next year in the Nicolas Cage supernatural-actioner Drive Angry 3-D. She can also be seen this month opposite Yustman in Studio Canal’s abduction thriller And Soon the Darkness. Her additional horror creds include Zombieland, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Stepfather, and John Carpenter’s upcoming all-girl thriller The Ward.
Selma Blair (Hellboy II: The Golden Army) and Rachel Miner (Penny Dreadful) have been cast in music video director Jeremy Regimbal’s feature film debut The Replicas. The home invasion thriller costars James D’Arcy (An American Haunting) and Josh Close (The Exorcism of Emily Rose), who also penned the script.
The Replicas follows a husband and wife as they attempt to survive an unexpected visit from a murderous couple the Sakowskis while visiting a family cottage to grieve the loss of their youngest son.
While it’s easy to see either Blair or Miner in the film’s homicidal hottie role, I’m hoping the part will go to Miner. Her bad girl performance as submissive-assistant-turned-ball-ripping-agent Dani on Showtime’s “Californication” is as infuriating as it is sexy. I’m eager to see just how mean she can play.
Clatto favorite Rachel Nichols has been cast as a regular on the long-running CBS crime show “Criminal Minds.” Nichols will play FBI Agent Ashley Seager, a profiler with giant breasts whose family history with a serial killer leads to her participation in a case with the bureau’s Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico, Virginia.
Nichols was initially set to appear on the show for a three episode arc, but her natural talents once again made it rain for the 30-year-old model-turned-actress.
Nichols creds include Platinum Dunes 2005 Amityville Horror remake, Summit Entertainment’s underrated P2 thriller (her first starring role), and last summer’s blockbuster G.I. Joe. She also held a memorable role as black-ops agent Rachel Gibson on the final season of J.J. Abrams’ “Alias.”
Nichols will next be seen in Lionsgate’s upcoming Conan the Barbarian remake.
Amber Heard (Drive Angry 3-D) and Odette Yustman (The Unborn) can be seen next month headlining Studio Canal’s sexy new abduction thriller And Soon the Darkness. Images from the film featuring Heard and Yustman in peril (and bikinis) have hit the web (see gallery below).
If you’re one of those weirdos who needs a plot to go along with their Amber Heard/ Odette Yustman movies, the film’s synopsis reads:
Stephanie (Heard) and Ellie’s (Yustman) vacation to an exotic village in Argentina is a perfect “girl’s getaway” to bask in the sun, shop and flirt with the handsome locals.
After a long night of bar-hopping, the girls get into an argument, and Stephanie heads out alone in the morning to cool off. But when she returns, Ellie has disappeared. Finding signs of a struggle, Stephanie fears the worst, and turns to the police for help. But the local authorities have their hands full already – with a string of unsolved kidnappings targeting young female tourists.
Skeptical of the sherifs competency, she enlists help from Michael (Karl Urban), an American ex-pat staying at their hotel. Together they go on a frantic search for Ellie, but Stephanie soon realizes that trusting his seemingly good intentions may drag her farther from the truth. With danger mounting, and time running out, Stephanie must find her friend before darkness falls.
And Soon the Darkness is Studio Canal’s remake of the 1970 British abduction-thriller starring old-school scream queen Pamela Franklin (The Food of the Gods, Satan’s School for Girls). The film is directed by newbie Marcos Efron and costars Karl Urban (Dredd), Adriana Barraza (Drag Me to Hell), Michel Noher, and Gia Mantegna.
Here you see writer/director Kevin Smith’s new Red State character one sheet showcasing up-and-comer Kerry Bishe as “The Virgin.” Fans of the long-running sitcom “Scrubs” may recognize Bishe as med student Lucy Bennett from the show’s hilarious, but barely watched 9th and final season.
Red State is the Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps-inspired horror project Smith has been trying to get made since 2007. Along with Bishe, the film costars John Goodman, Melissa Leo, Kevin Pollak, Anna Gunn, Stephen Root, Michael Parks, Michael Angarano, Kyle Gallner, and Nicholas Braun.
Red State has been accepted into next year’s Sundance Film Festival. Now, check out some stills why don’tcha:
CBS Films is hoping to remind your Twitter-happy, ADD-afflicted kids about its long-delayed “Beauty and the Beast” update Beastly with a new trailer and photos. The film stars British newcomer Alex Pettyfer as a handsome high schooler who, after being cursed to look like R&B artist Seal, nonetheless finds his way into Vanessa Hudgenspants heart.
Peep the trailer:
The official synopsis reads:
Kyle Kingson (Pettyfer) has it all — looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity — and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating “aggressively unattractive” classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school’s extravagant environmental bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion.
She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is — a task he considers impossible.
Repulsed by his appearance, Kyle s callous father banishes him to Brooklyn with a sympathetic housekeeper (Lisa Gay Hamilton) and blind tutor (Neil Patrick Harris). As Kyle ponders how to overcome the curse and get his old life back, he chances upon a drug addict in the act of killing a threatening dealer.
Seizing the opportunity, Kyle promises the addict freedom and safety for his daughter Lindy (Hudgens) if she will consent to live in Kyle’s Brooklyn home. Thus begins Kyle’s journey to discover true love in this hyper-modern retelling of the classic ‘Beauty and the Beast’ story.
Beastly is directed by Daniel Barnz (Phoebe in Wonderland) and is based on the novel of the same name by author Alex Flinn. Costars include Neil Patrick Harris, May-Kate Olson, Peter Krause, Lisa Gay Hamilton, and Dakota Johnson (daughter to Don Johnson & Melanie Griffith).
The film, which was originally slated for release in July of 2010, is now set to hit theaters in March 2011.
