2017
01.12

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Aussie actress Jessica De Gouw stars in The Rezort, a curious re-imagining of Jurassic Park with zombies in place of dinosaurs. Gouw plays Melanie, a zombie apocalypse survivor on safari at a resort where guests can hunt and slaughter the undead in a controlled environment.

Melanie is at the resort to work out her rage. Having lost her family during the zombie uprising, she remains deeply traumatized despite humanity’s eventual victory over the outbreak. Unfortunately, death finds a way and all hell breaks loose again. Content Media releases the film on all digital platforms Jan. 17.

De Gouw is best known for her portrayal of sexy vigilante Helena Bertinelli (aka: Huntress) on The CW’s “Arrow,” Horror fans know her, however, from her role as Dracula’s love interest Mina Murray on NBC’s short-lived series “Dracula.”

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2017
01.09

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Showtime has set a May 21 premiere date for David Lynch’s much anticipated “Twin Peaks” revival. The show debuts with a two-hour episode and will run for 18 mind-bending hours on Sundays until its closed-ended finale.

The official synopsis reads:

Widely considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential broadcast series of all time, TWIN PEAKS followed the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town who were stunned after their homecoming queen Laura Palmer was shockingly murdered.

The town’s sheriff welcomed the help of FBI agent Dale Cooper, who came to town to investigate the case. As Cooper conducted his search for Laura’s killer, the town’s secrets were gradually exposed.

The mystery that ensued set off an eerie chain of events that plunged the inhabitants of Twin Peaks into a darker examination of their very existence. Twenty-five years later, the story continues…

The “Twin Peaks” revival series features an all-star cast that includes Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Monica Bellucci, Jessica Szohr, Laura Dern, Sara Paxton, Jeremy Davies, Michael Cera, and series originals Sheryl Lee, Sherilyn Fenn, Mädchen Amick, Ray Wise, David Duchovny, and, of course, Kyle MacLachlan as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper.

2017
01.09

Stripping Mermaid Sisters Have Us on the Hook for ‘The Lure’

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Remember the romantic comedy Splash? Tom Hanks falls in love with mermaid Daryl Hannah and they live happily ever after under the sea? It’s a delightful movie, but let’s be honest – it needed a couple of mermaid strippers hungry for human flesh.

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska improves on Ron Howard’s classic with the Feb. 1 VOD release of The Lure. Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszanska play the mermaid sisters, one looking to fall in love and the other in search of dinner.

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2017
01.08

Drew Barrymore Whets Our Appetite for ‘The Santa Clarita Diet’

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Netflix continues to bring home our missing movie crushes with its upcoming new series original “The Santa Clarita Diet,” starring 90s sweetheart and sometime scream queen Drew Barrymore. Set to premiere Feb. 3, the horror-comedy marks Barrymore’s return to the genre since 1996’s Scream.

Barrymore stars in the new Netflix series with Timothy Olyphant (“Justified”) as unhappily married realtors in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita whose lives take a devastating and life-altering turn when she’s turned into a functioning zombie with a voracious appetite for living flesh.

Barrymore’s horror creds are from early in her career: Altered States, Firestarter, Cat’s Eye, Poison Ivy, Waxwork II: Lost In Time. But, her role as Casey Becker in Wes Craven’s Scream remains one of horror’s most brutal and memorable scenes. She also appeared in and produced the 2001 cult fav Donnie Darko.

Like Winona Ryder’s triumphant return in Netflix’s enjoyably brilliant “Stranger Things,” we’re looking forward to “Santa Clarita Diet” and Barrymore’s return to horror. We also really like Santa Clarita. There’s a really great Walmart there.

2017
01.08

Hand Job: Yvonne Strahovski Co-stars in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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Hulu is set to premiere its adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale on April 26. The series stars the one unattractive girl from “Mad Men” as an enslaved woman valued for her fertility in a dystopian, male-dominated society in which they are used in an effort to repopulate the ending world.

If sexual servitude wasn’t bad enough, these enslaved fertile Handmaids must eat a bag of shit sandwiches daily from their male owners, the owner’s wives, and other Handmaids.

“Dexter” and “Chuck” stunner Yvonne Strahovski (pictured above) co-stars as Serena Joy, wife to the man who owns the unattractive girl from “Mad Men’s” character. Regrettably, she’s nowhere to be seen in the first teaser released for the series.

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2017
01.07

We’re So Ready to Spend a Week with Samara in ‘Rings’

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Paramount Pictures has released a new and much better trailer for its second full-length sequel to its horrifying 2002 blockbuster The Ring. The film is titled Rings and is directed by Spanish filmmaker F. Javier Gutierrez (Before the Fall).

Rings shares the title of the 2005 Jonathan Liebesman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) short film bridging The Ring and The Ring 2, both starring Naomi Watts. In the short, cults called Rings have emerged and challenge each other to watching the cursed videotape.

Gutierrez’s Rings stars Italian actress Matilda Lutz as a woman desperately trying to save her boyfriend after he gets caught up in “a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it.”

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2017
01.07

‘Dexter’s’ Julie Benz Returns to Horror in ‘Havenhurst’

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“Dexter” alumna Julie Benz joins scream queen Danielle Harris (Rob Zombie’s Halloween) in the supernatural thriller Havenhurst. Set for limited theatrical release Feb. 10, the supernatural thriller stars Benz as an alcoholic MILF fighting the evil forces behind the disappearance of a close rehab buddy.

Benz plays Jackie, a hot mess of an alky released from rehab with a new job and furnished apartment at the Havenhurst complex. Things go bad quick when she attempts to figure out the disappearance of the previous apartment tenant and hot rehab buddy Danielle, played by Harris.

It’s exciting to see Benz back in horror. Her previous creds have included Saw 5, 8MM 2, Satan’s School for Girls, and the TV series “Angel,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and “Roswell.” She is best known, of course, for her tragic role as Dexter Morgan’s hot, nagging wife Rita on Showtime’s “Dexter.” The character was named one of Clatto’s 5 Horror Victims That Deserved to Die.

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2017
01.07

Uh-oh … They Made Gemma Arterton Frumpy in ‘Girl with All the Gifts’

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The Girl With All the Gifts is set in Britain where the population has been nearly wiped out by a fungal outbreak. Its only hope for salvation is a group of hybrid zombie children, created by a team of scientists to experiment on for a cure.

Helmed by Colm McCarthy (Outcast) and based on Mike Carey’s 2014 novel of the same name, The Girl With All the Gifts stars Sennia Nanua as a potential child savior, Glenn Close as the ruthless scientist experimenting on her, and Gemma Arterton as her former teacher and self appointed guardian.

The film – with its fast running zombies – looks frightening and fun, but regrettably, Arterton’s wardrobe is all frumpy sweater and no skintight leather. It’s a huge mistake hiding her curves and boobage. How are we supposed to care about what happens to her if she looks like your mom?

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2017
01.04

Teri Hatcher Brings ‘Madness in the Method’

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Teri Hatcher (“Desperate Housewives”) is set to star in Jason Mewes’ directorial debut Madness in the Method. She joins frequent Mewes collaborator Kevin Smith, Danny Trejo (Machete), Judd Nelson (Breakfast Club), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), and her “Lois & Clark” co-star Dean Cain.

Madness in the Method finds Mewes playing himself and discovering he has a knack for murder while researching a role as a serial killer. No word on Hatcher’s character, but based on the film’s meta storyline, she’s probably playing herself and has burnt through her “Desperate Housewives” royalties.

Hatcher is best known for playing milfy ditz Suzanne Mayer on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” and Lois Lane on the network’s 1993 series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.” She also played a memorable role as a woman with real and spectacular breasts on NBC’s “Seinfeld.”  Madness in the Method is her horror debut.

2017
01.01

The 5 Hottest Nude Acting Performances In Horror 2016!

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This is our list of The 5 Hottest Nude Acting Performances of 2016. There were plenty of nude roles for women this year, but we only honor those whose nudity is so impactful you could watch them on mute while the spouse sleeps and still feel their power.

Among those celebrated are a Playboy Playmate, a veteran actress in her biggest role to date, an indie darling, two model-turned-actresses, and a superstar back from a three-year nudity hiatus. Roles include two dead girls, an android, an infected camper,a lesbian makeup artist, and a queen of dragons.

We salute these nude thespians and ask you to comment and contribute in the comments. Check out our lists for 2015 and 2014. And… don’t forget to check out our list of The 10 Sexiest Horror Films of 2016.

Happy New Year!

5. EMILIA CLARKE (DAENERYS TARGARYEN, GAME OF THRONES)

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Emilia Clarke went nude this year on season six of HBO’s Emmy award-winning fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” The scene marked the first time Clarke had gone nude on the show since its third season. Fans were thrilled to see the once oft-nude actress back in all her glory, but remained a tad skeptical after her previous and much publicized refusal to do nudity.

Clarke put doubts to rest when she told EW:

I’d like to remind people the last time I took my clothes off was season 3. That was awhile ago. It’s now season 6. But this is all me, all proud, all strong. I’m just feeling genuinely happy I said ‘Yes.’ That ain’t no body double!

Shot for the episode “Book of the Stranger,” the scene comes at the end of the episode when Clarke’s character, Daenerys Targaryen, sets the Dothraki leaders who have kept her captive and threaten to gang rape her when she demands to lead their people ablaze in their temple, emerging from the flames unharmed and nude.

4. THANDIE NEWTON (MAEVE MILLAY, WESTWORLD)

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Thandie Newton plays “host” and brothel madam Maeve Millay on HBO’s hit new series “Westworld,” a re-imagining of the 1973 sci-fi classic about androids run amok in an amusement park for humans to indulge in their lust for blood and sex.

Starting with episode two and onward, Newton is seen nude throughout as she becomes self aware and begins to solve her maze … maybe. One thing that is certain, she looks amazing. Of course, we’re supposed to learn something about humanity’s ugliness through the eyes of the androids.

Newton tells EW:

The hosts are treated like carcasses of meat, and that nudity relates to our vulnerability, to our complete lack of dignity, as seen by our programmers. What you’re seeing shouldn’t be happening. It’s not of a sexual nature — of course, there are scenes in the show that are sexual where there is nudity.

But because you’ve seen nudity in this vulnerable, awful [Westworld backstage facility] it also translates into those prostitution scenes — because that’s been placed in your mind it will make you more conscious of the nudity in general. You will feel that when you see those girls as prostitutes naked because you’ve seen that vulnerability.

True… but boobs and butts, right?

3. OLWEN CATHERINE KELLY (JANE DOE, AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE)

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Olwen Catherine Kelly plays the titular corpse in director André Øvreda’s The Autopsy of Jane Doe, a supernatural thriller set in a small town morgue where father and son coroners experience strange and frightening things while examining an unidentified female, found half buried in a basement and believed to have been murdered.

Kelly plays dead in the film and not since the dude playing the dead guy in 1989’s Weekend at Bernie’s has such a performance been so engaging. For starter’s, Kelly is quite stunning and totally nude! But, to be fair, she does a great job of playing possum – so good, you’ll creep yourself out for being such a necro-perv. Imagine what her scene partners felt!

Co-star Brian Cox tells Observer:

You have to get used to the idea of this rather beautiful woman lying absolutely stark naked before you. But after a while she became like what a cadaver would be. It was something de-human about her, which was actually quite scary. She developed a whole thing of shallow breathing.

That almost caught me, her incredible focus of lying there, day after day after day, with all the stuff we had to do vis-à-vis the cutting up of her, and all of that. Of course there was an artificial body we used, but there was also a lot of stuff that was done on her body, where she wore prosthesis.

It really was remarkable. If there’s an award for dead acting, she should get it.

And, she has! Okay, it’s not an award per se, but we’re sure making this list is a unique reward nonetheless – one that will catapult her to bigger fame… or get her a few more creepy tweets from Clatto readers.

2. NADINE CROCKER (MARCY, CABIN FEVER REMAKE)

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Model and actress Nadine Crocker plays victim to a flesh-eating in producer Eli Roth’s remake of his own 2002 classic Cabin Fever. Crocker is quite a stunner, making the tragic fate of her character all the more heartbreaking. Did they really need to off the hottest girl in such a gruesome way? Couldn’t she have passed peacefully and nude in her sleep? Maybe from an undiagnosed childhood affliction?

Well, regardless, Crocker’s nude scenes are spectacular and you’ll probably rub your own skin off enjoying them.

1. TIED: JENA MALONE, CODY RENEE CAMERON (RUBY, EMBALMED CORPSE, THE NEON DEMON)

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In an unprecedented outcome, we have a tie topping our esteemed list: indie darling Jena Malone and Playboy Playmate Cody Renee Cameron earn top honors for their tragic and naked roles in Nicholas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon.

Malone is seen nude throughout the film as lesbian makeup artist Ruby, flashing bush and boobs and peeping a shower between stunners Bella Heathcote and model Abbey Lee (also nude). But, it’s her outrageous girl/girl scene with an embalmed corpse, played by super-sexy Cameron, that blows the mind.

Cameron tells Broadly:

Originally it was supposed to be a really quick scene of just her touching my hands and giving me a kiss. It sounds weird to say the chemistry between a corpse and a person, but her chemistry with me—like, she felt comfortable to like take it further.

Nicolas Winding Refn is directing and he’s like, ‘Oh, spit in her mouth, and sit here, and rub here,’ and the scene escalated. So that was really cool to be a part of that.

Oh, Refn, you sly dog. If the Oscar evades you, there’s a shitload of AVN Awards awaiting your crossover into porn.