Australian actors Sharni Vinson (pictured above) and Xavier Samuel have been cast in directors Russell Mulcahy and Kimble Rendall’s upcoming creature-feature Bait 3-D. Set in a serene beach community overcome by a deadly tsunami, the film centers on a group of survivors trapped in a supermarket with man-eating tiger sharks.

I’m totally sportin’ a woody over this premise. When hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the streets flooded, I remember hearing that the sharks from the Aquarium of the Americas had been broken free and were feeding on a buffet of floating dead bodies.

Turns out that wasn’t true, but since then I can’t see a news story about a tsunami or flood without thinking how awesome terrifying it would be if maneaters became part of the equation.

Mulcahy, whose director creds include Resident Evil: Extinction and Highlander, further explained his vision in a video interview released awhile back.

Check it out:

Vinson cut her teeth in the States with guest spots on such popular shows as “Cold Case,” “NCIS,” and “CSI: NY.” The 27-year-old sheila scored her major motion picture debut this year in Summit Entertainment’s horrifying Step Up 3-D.

Xavier Samuel landed his own breakthrough role this summer as vampire Riley Biers in the Twilight Saga: Eclipse. He will next play the abducted crush of a psychotic wallflower in writer/director Sean Byrne’s award-winning TIFF darling The Loved Ones.

Bait 3-D also stars “Nip/Tuck” bad boy Julian McMahon, Alice Parkinson (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), cute up-and-comer Phoebe Tonkin, Damien Garvey (The Daybreakers), Lincoln Lewis (Voodoo Lagoon), Martin Sacks, Alexander Russell, Qi Yuwu, and Adrian Pang.

A full-length trailer for Warner Bros/ Legendary Pictures’ girl-power fantasy-actioner Sucker Punch has hit the web. Written and directed by Zack Snyder (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole), the film stars Emily Browning as a madhouse loon in a sexy schoolgirl outfit slowly surrendering her grip on reality while attempting to deal with the loss of her loved ones.

Peep the trailer suckas:

The film’s official—and ridiculously—long synopsis reads:

“Sucker Punch” is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality.  Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, and her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary.

She has been locked away against her will, but Babydoll has not lost her will to survive.  Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls—the outspoken Rocket, the street-smart Blondie, the fiercely loyal Amber and the reluctant Sweet Pea—to band together and try to escape their terrible fate at the hands of their captors.

Led by Babydoll, the girls engage in fantastical warfare against everything from samurais to serpents, with a virtual arsenal at their disposal.  Together, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice in order to stay alive.  But with the help of a Wise Man, their unbelievable journey—if they succeed—will set them free.

Do they pay publicists by the word these days? Seems to me all they needed to say was “Hey, we got young girls in revealing fetish wear fighting Nazi robots and shit.”

Sucker Punch costars Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jaime Chung, Carla Gugino, and Jena Malone. Vagina-less cast members include “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm, Scott Glen,  and Oscar Isaac.

The film swings into theaters on March 25, 2011.

Emily Browning made Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-Fi Today.

Scarlett Johansson is set to star as a horny killer alien with magnificent breasts in director Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of author Michel Faber’s novel Under the Skin. The news was announced by studio FilmNation at the American Film Market (AFM) being held in Santa Monica, CA this week.

FilmNation states:

Johansson plays an alien on earth, disguised as the perfect aesthetic form of a mesmerizing woman. She scours remote highways and desolate scenery looking to use her greatest weapon to snare human prey — her voracious sexuality.

She is deadly efficient, but over time becomes drawn to and changed by the complexity of life on earth. With this new found humanity and weakening alien resolve, she finds herself on a collision course with her own kind. Taking her point of view throughout, the film presents a unique look at our world through alien eyes.

Glazer, who cowrote the kinky 2004 Nicole Kidman psychological-thriller Birth, penned the script with some guy named Walter Campbell. The film goes into production in spring of 2011.

Johansson’s genre creds include Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 2, Frank Miller’s The Spirit, Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, Eight Legged Freaks, and Michael Bay’s highly underrated The Island. She is also reprising her Iron Man 2 role of Natasha Romanov/Black Widow in geek-messiah Joss Whedon’s upcoming Avengers film, set to shoot in Feb. of 2011.

Playboy cover model and Bitch Slap star America Olivo plays potential serial killer fodder in Indican Pictures’ new frightener Circle, available on DVD and VOD on Nov. 16. The film follows a group of graduate students trying to stay alive in the childhood house of a vicious killer who has just returned home.

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The film’s official synopsis reads:

When sociopath James Bennett commits a series of brutal murders and then escapes a maximum security mental hospital, the FBI teams up with the U.S. Marshalls to stop him.

Unfortunately Bennett is going back to his childhood home, where six graduate students are studying his surroundings for their thesis. Aided by Dr. Green the authorities now must unravel a sociopaths mind, ancient Greek philosophy and all before Bennett slaughters more people!

Olivo, whose creds include Platinum Dunes Friday the 13th remake and the indie-horror The Last Resort, plays an annoying party-girl from South Beach, Miami.

She tells FearNet:

I just tag along because my boyfriend’s a part of the research group. I’m the obnoxious, I-shouldn’t-be-here character. I have a Cuban accent and I’m not having it, the research thing. I’m the party girl of the group. I’m sort of the comic relief of it.

Yeah, only if you find big boobs funny!

Circle costars babes Erin Foster (“The O.C.”), Kinsey Packard (Infestation), Erin Reese (Buried Alive), and milfy Gail O’Grady (“NYPD Blue”). Vagina-less stars include Silas Weir Mitchell (Halloween 2), Michael DeLuise (He Was a Quiet Man), Ryan Doom (The Roommate) and soap star Jason Thompson.

South African model-turned actress Tanit Phoenix is rumored to be in the running for the role of Wonder Woman in writer/producer David E. Kelly’s TV adaptation of DC Comics’ beloved Amazonian heroine. Standing at 5-foot-nine, it’s easy to see the 29-year-old stunner stepping into Lynda Carter’s iconic red boots and tiara.

Until Kelly faces the Lasso of Truth, we won’t know if the rumor is true. What is certain, however, is Phoenix’s role as narrator on Cinemax’s new 13-part mystery series “Femme Fatales.” While producers cite films such as the Wachowski brothers’ Bound and John Dahl’s Red Rock West as inspiration, the show seems to be an American ripoff version of Univision’s sexy anthology series “Mujeres Asesinas (Murderous Women).”

Phoenix can currently be seen as a vampire-romance novelist in the Corey Feldman dead horse Lost Boys: The Thirst. Next year, she can be seen playing an ex-military sniper opposite Danny Trejo in the Universal Pictures’ sequel Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives, available on DVD and Blu-ray disc on Jan. 18, 2011.

Horror icon John Carpenter is set to direct a big screen adaptation of Randy Queen’s bestselling comic book series “Darkchylde.” Carpenter’s Storm King Productions and Queen’s Darkchylde Ent. will produce. Effects will be handled by Academy Award-winning effects house Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings, Avatar).

Queen describes Darkchylde:

[Darkchylde] revolves around a very pretty girl’s curse that allows her to transform into different creatures from her nightmares. Ariel Chylde is a physical pandora’s box, and these creatures borrow her blood and bones to hitchhike over to our world. Everytime Ariel changes, she sets a different creature free in her small southern town.

“Darkchylde” was released in 1996 and featured its heroine in various forms of undress. Not surprisingly, the comic went on to outsell such popular books as Spiderman, Batman, and Superman during its run.

Carpenter made his return to horror after a nine-year hiatus this year with his all-girl madhouse-thriller The Ward, starring Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, and model/actress Laura Leigh.

Pampa Films have released a stroke-worthy teaser trailer for Argentine director Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s new serial killer frightener Sudor Frio (Cold Sweat). The film marks the acting debut of international pop singer and Playboy model Camila Velasco.

Sudor Frio follows a young man as he tracks down his missing girlfriend to an old house where brutal killers have holed themselves up with 25 cases of explosives. Not sure what role Velasco plays, but it appears to include stripping down to wet underwear (now that should be an Oscar category).

Peep the teaser:

The following is part two of Clatto’s ranking of the hottest actresses working in the horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres as selected by my discerning penis. Unlike most scream queen lists, this one does not include starlets from yesteryear, but instead focuses on women that are currently stroke-worthy working.

Rank was determined by the actresses’ looks, body of work, and likelihood of continuing to work in the genres. Feel free to argue and comment (to see #20-to-#11 go here). Now, check out #10-thru-#1:

10. CHRISTA CAMPBELL

If you’re the kind of guy who enjoys watching movies with his penis, then you’ve probably sat through stinkers such as Mansquito and 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams just to catch a glimpse of busty, 5-foot-8 stunner Christa Campbell.

The 38-year-old actress—and 2007 Playboy cover girl—has appeared in over 50 movies, usually in criminally small supporting roles. To her credit, she’s not afraid to steal scenes with her God-given gifts—as seen during her nude cat-fight with Amber Heard in the absolutely awesome Drive Angry 3-D.

Campbell will, however, be front-and-center in Grindstone’s shape-shifter thriller Hyenas and Nu Image Films’ upcoming theatrical 3-D release Spiders.

9. ODETTE YUSTMAN

Odette Yustman doesn’t have a lot of creds under her Hollywood garter belt, but the 25-year-old starlet whipped horror fans into a frenzy last year when her gorgeous posterior was featured on the poster of Rogue Pictures The Unborn.

Yustman, who is a mix of Cuban and Colombian linage, starred in the supernatural thriller as a woman tormented by the evil spirit of her unborn twin brother. The film earned over $42 million domestically and $76 million worldwide.

Just one year prior to The Unborn, Yustman played damsel-in-distress Beth McIntyre in director/producer J.J. Abrams’ monster hit Cloverfield. That film went on to earn over $170 million in worldwide coin.

Up next for the starlet is a turn in Anchor Bay/Studio Canal’s upcoming remake of the 1970 British abduction-thriller And Soon the Darkness. She and costar Amber Heard play American tourists on a bike-riding excursion in Argentina that goes terribly wrong when one of them is kidnapped. Check out images from the film here.

8. MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

Mary Elizabeth Winstead made her horror film debut in 2005 with a bit part in Japanese director Hideo Nakata’s first American film The Ring 2. A lead role in James Wong’s Final Destination 3 followed in ’06 and quickly put Winstead on track for scream queen status.

Wong, impressed with Winstead’s performance, hired the leggy brunette for his remake of the 1974 slasher Black Christmas. The film was a commercial flop, but earned Winstead a nomination for Best Scream Queen at the Spike TV 2007 Scream Awards.

That same year, she scored the role of aspiring actress Lee Montgomery in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof. Though she doesn’t get much screen time in the flick, her character’s ditzy nature and short cheerleader skirt make her performance quite memorable … especially in the bathroom after the wife has gone to bed.

This year, Winstead was front and center in director Edgar Wright’s big screen adaptation of Byran Lee O’Malley’s graphic-novel series Scott Pilgrim VS. the World. The film got its ass kicked at the box office, but garnered good reviews for the 25-year-old starlet.

Up next for Winstead is a starring role in Universal Pictures remake of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

7. KATIE CASSIDY

Katie Cassidy, daughter to ’70s teen idol David Cassidy, made her horror debut in 2006 as Camilla Belle’s slutty BFF in Screen Gems remake of the 1979 classic When a Stranger Calls. That same year, she took a supporting role in Anchor Bay’s The Lost and nailed the lead in Dimension Films’ redo of the 1974 slasher Black Christmas.

A recurring role as demon-babe Ruby on season three of the CW’s “Supernatural” series followed in ’07. She was replaced after six episodes by Genevieve Cortese due to a reported salary dispute. Cassidy returned to TV in the 2009 CBS horror/mystery series “Harper’s Island,” in which she played the starring role of bride-to-be Patricia Wellington.

Cassidy scored her most successful film to date this year in Platinum Dunes’ reboot of Wes Craven’s 1984 frightener A Nightmare on Elm Street. The 23-year-old starlet played the role of Tina (renamed Kris for the remake), one of Freddy Krueger’s most brutal kills.

Cassidy’s favorite horror films include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (old and new) and The Ring.

6. NATALIE PORTMAN

It may seem surprising to find Oscar-winner Natalie Portman on a list such as this, but the 29-year-old critic’s darling appears to once again be embracing the horror/sci-fi/fantasy genres long after starring as the iconic Queen Padme Amidala in George Lucas’ Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and its sequels Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

Portman, who played anarchist Evey Hammond in the 2006 Wachowski Brothers-produced dystopian-actioner V for Vendetta, spent most of the past four years starring in mind-numbingly dull indies and period pieces that we watched anyway in the hopes that she’d flash some skin ala Hotel Chevalier and/or Closer. This year, however, saw Portman lining up a series of projects guaranteed to please genre fans.

First up is director Darren Aronofsky’s acclaimed supernatural-thriller Black Swan, in which Portman plays a ballerina tormented by evil while competing to land the lead in a production of Swan Lake. She and Mila Kunis share a heated lesbian sex scene.

Portman is also serving as producer on the film adaptation of author Seth Grahame-Smith’s best-selling novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. She was set to star as the book’s heroine Elizabeth Bennet, but scheduling conflicts prevented her from doing so. Up next for the petite stunner is director Kenneth Branagh’s Thor and a possible role in Ridley Scott’s eagerly anticipated Alien prequels.

5. MILLA JOVOVICH

Despite having topped our list of The Ten Hottest Horror/Sci-fi Babes of the Past Decade back in January, Ukrainian-born actress/model Milla Jovovich continues to be one of the genre’s most prolific performers. The 34-year-old stunner’s most recent creds include last year’s creepy alien abduction thriller The Fourth Kind and the white-knuckle survival-frightener A Perfect Getaway.

This year, she reprised her role as Alice in Resident Evil: Afterlife. The film, shot in authentic 3-D, has grossed over $211 million in worldwide coin. Plans for a fifth installment are already underway.

Up next for Jovovich is a starring role in Julien Magnat’s Faces in the Crowd. She plays Anna Marchant, a woman suffering from prosopagnosia (inability to make out faces) after surviving a serial killer attack.

Jovovich made her sci-fi debut as the orange-haired, half-naked Leeloo Dallas in the 1997 Luc Besson actioner The Fifth Element.

4. JAIME KING

Jaime King first made a name for herself at age 15 modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch and posing for fashion mags such as Vogue, Allure, and—your favorite spank publication—Seventeen. Her first lead role in a film was that of kick-ass babe Jade in Lakeshore Entertainment’s failed 2003 adaptation of Michael Avon Oeming’s comic book series Bulletproof Monk.

King fared much better in 2006 when she played twin prostitutes Goldie and Wendy in Robert Rodriguez’s hardboiled actioner Sin City. Starring opposite Mickey Rourke, she goes topless during the flick’s best sequence “The Hard Goodbye.”

The following year, King took roles in the Canadian thriller They Wait and actor-turned-director David Arquette’s ode to old-school slashers The Tripper. She reunited with Sin City graphic-novelist Frank Miller in 2008 for his directorial debut The Spirit.

King scored a major one-two-punch in ’09 when she headlined Patrick Lussier’s surprise box office hit My Bloody Valentine 3-D and was cast to voice bounty hunter Aurra Sing in the George Lucas Cartoon Network show “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.” That same year, she cameoed in hubby Kyle Newman’s much-delayed ode to Star Wars geeks Fanboys.

This year saw King mentoring a slew of wannabe horror starlets on VH1’s reality-competition show “Scream Queens 2.” She will next star as a home-invasion victim in Darren Lynn Bousman’s Mother’s Day.

3. MEGAN FOX

Megan Fox hit instant stardom bent over the engine of a yellow 1976 Camaro in director Michael Bay’s 2007 box office hit Transformers. Her performance as  mechanically-inclined hard-body Mikaela Banes drew ire from fat and ugly women everywhere who watched helplessly as their man-child boyfriends stained their Optimus Prime Underoos.

She reprised the role two years later in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, solidifying her sexpot status early on in the film by straddling a motorcycle while wearing daisy-dukes. Unfortunately, her off-the-cuff criticism of director Michael Bay (she likened him to Hitler) in the media would see her replaced by Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers 3.

Fox headlined director Karyn Kusama’s (Aeon Flux) criminally underrated teen-horror film Jennifer’s Body in 2009. The role of high school man-eater Jennifer Check was written specifically for her by Oscar-winning director Diablo Cody (Juno).

Jennifer’s Body collapsed at the box office, earning only $16 million and a slew of bad reviews for Fox and Cody. The 24-year-old starlet didn’t fare much better in this year’s comic book-based Jonah Hex, despite playing the part of hatchet-wielding prostitute Leila in a corset cinched to give her an 18-inch waist. While it sucks that neither of these films found an audience, it does make the likelihood of seeing Fox in more horror/sci-fi projects all the better.

Fox will next play an angel-like creature trapped at a circus sideshow in director Mitch Glazer’s supernatural-romance story Passion Play.

2. DIORA BAIRD

Miami-born model-turned-actress Diora Baird and her mesmerizing 32-DD’s made their horror film debut in Platinum Dunes’ 2006 prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Roles in forgettable comedies and TV guest spots followed up until 2009 when Baird took a role in the unwatchable horror-spoof Stan Helsing. That same year, she scored a part in Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek reboot, but was cut out for not having blown J.J. Abrams.

This year, Baird appears to have finally given up on her childhood dreams of movie stardom and embraced the straight-to-DVD horror market. The 27-year-old starlet appears in Ghost House Pictures’ vampire-frightener 30 Days of Night: Dark Days and director Adam Gierasch’s Night of the Demons remake, in which she experiences demonic possession through anal sex.

Up next for Baird is After Dark Films’ violent bank-heist thriller Transit opposite LOST’s Harold Perrineau and “True Blood’s” James Frain. Her best work, however, can be seen in the pages of Playboy’s August 2005 issue.

1. AMBER HEARD

All the boys love Amber Heard … and for good reason. The 24-year-old Texas starlet has a penchant for going topless and a love of horror that began with the titular role in the little seen 2008 teen-slasher All the Boys Love Mandy Lane.

The film got stuck in distribution hell, but Heard went on to make a name for herself with memorable eye-candy roles in Summit Entertainment’s Never Back Down, Judd Apatow’s Pineapple Express, and Senator Films’ big screen adaptation of author Bret Easton Ellis‘ novel The Insiders—for which she went nude.

On the topic of nudity, she told FHM:

I did plenty of topless scenes too, which are in movies for no reason other than they’re topless. I paid that small price, which you have to do to go further. But I always knew what I was doing in a movie. If my role was nothing but that, I could make the decision, as an adult, whether to use it to my advantage or not.

Heard returned to horror in 2009 as Jesse Eisenberg’s sexy undead neighbor in Columbia Pictures’ horror comedy Zombieland. A bikini-clad role in Screen Gems remake of The Stepfather soon followed. This year, she stars alongside Danielle Panabaker in John Carpenter’s all-girl madhouse thriller The Ward and with Odette Yustman in Studio Canal’s tourists-in-trouble frightener And Soon the Darkness.

Next up for Heard is a ride-along with Nicolas Cage in Summit Entertainment’s supernatural road-rager Drive Angry 3-D. Directed by Patrick Lussier, the film stars Heard as a rough-and-tumble diner waitress out to help a man (Cage) take vengeance on the assholes that killed his daughter and abducted his grandchild.

Don’t forget to check out these lists:

The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-Fi Today: Part One (#20-thr-#11)

The Ten Sexiest Horror Films of 2010

The 11 Sexiest Maneater Babes in Horror/Sci-fi

The Ten Hottest Horror/Sci-Fi Babes of the Past Decade

12 Heroes in Horror/Sci-Fi That Won’t Make You Feel Like an Asshole

15 Vampire Movies That Won’t Make You Gay

The 5 Most Diabolical Dinners in Horror

Walt Disney Pictures has released a one-minute clip from Tron: Legacy, the sequel to its 1982 innovative sci-fi actioner Tron. The footage shows Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), son to original protagonist Kevin Flynn, and Tron program Quorra (Olivia Wilde) shooting the shit as they cruise Mulholland Canyon in their Light Runner.

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The Light Runner car is definitely cool, but I’d much rather see Wilde in a pair of Light Roller Skates.

Tron: Legacy follows Sam Flynn as he attempts to find his father Kevin (Jeff Bridges) inside the Tron mainframe. Costars include Beau Garrett (Turistas), Serinda Swan (Percy Jackson & the Olympians), Amy Esterle (Trick ‘R Trick), Michael Sheen (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans), and James Frain (“True Blood”).

Tron: Legacy rides into theaters and IMAX screens in 3-D on Dec. 17

Photos from the set of director Andrew Niccol’s (Gattaca) upcoming sci-fi dystopian-thriller In Time (formerly entitled Now) have hit the web. Previously entitled I’m.mortal, the film is set in a future society where people don’t physically age past 25, but must purchase life expectancy increments once they hit the magic number.

Pop-star-turned-actor Justin Timberlake headlines the film as Will, a fugitive accused of murdering a wealthy man for his time. Costar Amanda Seyfried plays a busty redhead taken hostage by Will as he attempts to flee from Timekeeper Cillian Murphy. Also along for the ride is Olivia Wilde as Will’s ailing—but ridiculously hot—mother.

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