Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood are set to star in some dude named Adam Bahala Lough’s Splatter Sisters, an ode to old-school slashers.
The film is described as a “sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movie circa 1989.”
Producer David Gordon Green says:
This is a role Marilyn Manson was born to play, and with Evan Rachel Wood bringing dramatic gravity to the ensemble, I have no doubt this will take the horror genre to a new level.
If by new level Green means lots more naked chicks and frivolous violence, I’m all in. But, really, I’m just hoping Manson getsPhantasmagoria:The Visions of Lewis Carroll off the ground.
Twilight star Nikki Reed is headlining director Deon Taylor’s upcoming indie-slasher Chain Letter. The soon-to-be 22-year-old Los Angeles native plays a high school senior stalked by a killer known as the Chain Man.
Check out the trailer:
Chain Letter stars Reed is Jesse Campbell, a popular student whose friends systematically get murdered when they fail to pass along a chain email.
The film costars Betsy Russell (Saw 6), the very cute Cherilyn Wilson (The Roomate), Keith David (Coraline), and Brad Dourif (Halloween 2).
Chain Letter arrives in theaters on Aug. 6. If you read this post, you must tweet it to 20 of your friends now or a great evil will befall you … like losing your cable connection. That’s right. Don’t fuck with my voodoo.
Remember when Rachael Leigh Cook was all that? Well, after a decade of unmemorable indies and TV work, the now 30-year-old stunner is taking a bite out of the horror genre in Japanese director Iwai Shunji’s American film debut Vampire.
Vampire revolves around a bloodsucking schoolteacher who falls in love with suicidal coeds before feeding on them.
The film costars Kristin Kreuk (“Smallville”), Adelaide Clemens (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Amanda Plummer (Mimic: Sentinel), Kevin Zegers (Frozen), Keisha Castle-Hughes (Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith), Trevor Morgan (Mean Creek), and cute Japanese starlet Yu Aoi.
Pretty newcomer Jordan Trovillion will soon be seen opposite Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, and John Leguizamo in director Brad Anderson’s (Sessions 9) upcoming last-people-on-earth frightener The Vanishing on Seventh Street.
While it’s unclear what part the 24-year-old actress will play in the thriller, the fact that the film’s website doesn’t list her in its cast credits regretfully suggests that she may only have a short amount of screen time.
That would be a shame considering her ModelMayhem page cites Trovillion as having five years stage combat experience, including broadsword, dual wakizashi, pistols, and hand-to-hand. In other words, kitten got claws.
But, let’s hope for the best. And, if she is in the flick for a nano-second, may it be as the naked girl that wakes up next to the dude who goes on to save the world.
Warner Bros. is finally pulling the trigger on promotional material for its upcoming Jonah Hex film adaptation, starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, and Michael Fassbender.
Just a day ago, we saw a stroke-worthy photo of star Megan Fox in a corset, thigh-high boots, and wielding a hatchet. Now, we have sexy and glossy poster featuring Fox as Hex’s hooker-girlfriend Leila.
The studio also released posters showcasing the film’s vagina-less stars.
IFC has picked up the North American distribution rights to director Josh Reed’s Primal, a brutal and gory survival-frightener set in Australia.
An ecstatic Reed tells Fearnet:
IFC’s a great company with a great eclectic vision that includes a taste for the weird and blood-soaked wonderful. Primal couldn’t be in better hands.
Primal centers on a group of friends that turn savage after skinny-dipping in a remote waterhole during an expedition to find an aboriginal painting. Aussie babes Zoe Tuckwell-Smith and Krew Boylan headline.
Rachael Taylor will face-off against alien invaders with indie-star Olivia Thirlby in Summit Entertainment’s soon-to-shoot sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour.
Directed by Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door), The Darkest Hour follows a group of American students vacationing in Moscow during an alien invasion. Shooting will take place in Moscow over the summer.
Taylor’s casting adds serious stroke-value to Gorak’s film, picking up the slack on Thirlby’s semi-cute-Sonic-Youth-fan-next-door looks.
Taylor’s horror/sci-fi creds include Michael Bay’s Transformers, the J-horror remake Shutter, and former-pornographer-turned-mainstream-director Gregory Dark’s See No Evil.
Imagine living in a city where the police serve as your judge, jury and executioner. What’s that? You’ve been to Los Angeles?
Well, then you’ll feel right at home watching director Pete Travis’ (Vantage Point) ode to Mega City One and its notorious law enforcer Judge Dredd, the U.K.’s most brutal comic strip character.
Adapted by screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later), Judge Dreddfollows “Judge” Joe Dredd as he brings down the hammer on lawbreakers found in the dystopian metropolis known as Mega City One.
Unlike the 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle, the new Judge Dredd film aims to be true-to-the-source-material.
Says Garland, via press release:
I grew up reading Judge Dredd. The incredible writers and artists of 2000 AD were formative influences on me.
Andrew [Macdonald], Allon [Reich] and I have developed this adaptation of Judge Dredd with an emphasis on adrenaline and realism, but with all the scale and spectacle of Mega-City One.
We think Pete’s propulsive, edgy style is a perfect match for the project.
I just hope there still a part for comedy genius Rob Schneider in the remake. I think he’s at least earned himself a cameo.
Judge Dredd is budgeted at $45 million and will be released in 3-D through Reliance Big Pictures.
This is Megan Fox as hatchet-wielding prostitute Leila in Warner Bros. upcoming sci-fi western mash-up Jonah Hex.
Jonah Hex is directed by Jimmy Hayward and costars John Malkovich (Transformers 3), Will Arnett (Monsters Vs. Aliens), Michael Shannon (Bug), David Jensen (The Mist), Brandi Coleman (Battle: Los Angeles), Aidan Quinn (The Eclipse), and Josh Brolin (Planet Terror) as Hex.
To see Fox get sweaty, see the film’s trailer here.
Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies) has replaced Sharlto Copley (District 9) in DreamWorks soon-to-start-shooting sci-fi actioner I Am Number Four. “Scheduling conflicts” were cited as the reason for Copley’s departure (A-Team promotional obligations to be exact).
This is terrible news because I now have to go back and rewrite all my I Am Number Four posts where I mention Copley as starring in the film. There are at least three posts! This is going to really cut into my daily afternoon vodka-induced nap time.
Other than that, I don’t really care what actors they cast just as long as slutty-looking Teresa Palmer stays in place.
I Am Number Four is an adaptation of the upcoming HarperCollins young-adult novel written by James Frey (”A Million Little Pieces”) and Jobie Hughes. The story revolves around John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), an alien living incognito as a human high school student in Paradise, Ohio up until he’s discovered by the extraterrestrial enemies that destroyed his home planet.
D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) directs. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg produce.
