Entertainment Factory’s Death House is an indie frightener helmed by Harrison Smith, written by Gunnar Hansen, the actor who portrayed Leatherface in Tobe Hooper’s 1974 masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, starring a who’s who of horror icons.

Cast includes Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th), Michael Berryman (Hills Have Eyes), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Sid Haig (Devil’s Rejects), Bill Moseley (Devil’s Rejects), Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), Dee Wallace (Cujo), Camille Keaton (I Spit On Your Grave), and Danny Trejo (Machete).

If that ain’t enough to get you excited, Death House is toplined by sexy scream queen Cortney Palm of recent horror-comedy hit Zombeavers and 2012’s remake of Silent Night. Palm plays one of two FBI agents caught in a secret prison during a breakout of its most hellish inmates.

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The first wave of movies to be screened at the 16th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival has been revealed. Set to run Oct. 18 – 27 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theater in Hollywood, CA, the announced lineup features seven L.A. premieres and one U.S. premiere from Finland.

Screamfest founder Rachel Belofsky said:

We’re so thrilled to announce such a diverse group of films this year. Even in our 16th year, filmmakers continue to push the envelope and amaze us with their incredible imagination, creativity, passion and hard work.

Screamfest is the biggest and longest-running horror film festival in the U.S. The show is a star-studded event where actors and directors talk horror with each other and the public. Festival badges are now available for purchase at the Screamfest website.

The first eight films announced are:

THE MASTER CLEANSE (USA) 2016
Directed by Bobby Miller
Written by Bobby Miller
Produced by Jordan Horowitz, Johnny Galecki, Aaron L. Gilbert
Cast: Anna Friel, Johnny Galecki, Anjelica Huston, Oliver Platt
LA Premiere
Down, out, and heartbroken, Paul attends a spiritual retreat to cleanse himself and fix his broken life but soon discovers that the cleanse releases more than everyday toxins…a lot more. The feature debut from Bobby Miller (TUB), THE MASTER CLEANSE is a trippy and fantastic journey that examines how we deal with the things that weigh us down in life, ultimately asking the all-important question: given the opportunity to literally face your demons, what would you do?

TRASH FIRE (USA) 2016
Directed by Richard Bates, Jr.
Written by Richard Bates, Jr.
Produced by Lawrence Mattis, Matt Smith, David Lawson Jr.
Cast: Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, Fionnula Flanagan, AnnaLynne McCord, Matthew Gray Gubler, Sally Kirkland, Ezra Buzzington, Ray Santiago, Molly McCook
LA Premiere
When Owen is forced to confront the past he’s been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll be scarred for life.

THE CRUCIFIXION (USA) 2016
Directed by Xavier Gens
Written by Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes
Produced by Leon Clarance, Ara Keshishian, Peter Safran
Cast: Sophie Cookson
LA Premiere
THE CRUCIFIXION is a supernatural thriller based on true events that touches on the universal themes of life vs. death and good vs. evil. The project stars Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service), is written by the Hayes Brothers (The Conjuring) and produced by Peter Safran with Xavier Gens (Hitman) directing.

MY FATHER DIE (USA) 2016
Directed by Sean Brosnan
Written by Sean Brosnan
Produced by Sanja Banic, Alma Bogdan-Turner, Orian Williams, Sean Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan
Cast: Joe Anderson, Gary Stretch, Candace Smith
LA Premiere
Deaf and mute since having his hearing knocked out at the age of 12, Asher has been training for almost two decades to avenge himself on Ivan, the man that killed his older brother 21 years ago. And now that his nemesis is out of prison, he gets his chance. But Asher’s target also happens to be his father.

FEAR, INC. (USA) 2016
Directed by Vincent Masciale
Written by Luke Barnett
Cast: Lucas Neff, Caitlin Stasey, Chris Marquette, Stephanie Drake, Mark Moses, Abigail Breslin
LA Premiere
Produced by Luke Barnett, Vincent Masciale, Natalie Rose Masciale, Heather Kasprzak
Fear, Inc. follows a company of degenerates who can be hired for a premium to bring your greatest fears to life. But when horror junkie Joe Foster’s customized scare seemingly begins, he and his friends must decide if this company is there to scare them, or make them pawns in their own sick game.

BEDEVILED (USA) 2016
Directed by The Vang Brothers (Berlee and Abel Vang)
Written by Berlee Vang, Abel Vang
Produced by Abel Vang, Burlee Vang, Leng Yang , Cheng Yang, Kirk Roos
Cast: Saxon Sharbino, Mitchell Edwards, Brandon Soo Hoo, Victory Van Tuyl, Carson Boatman, Alexis G. Zall, and Jordan Essoe
LA Premiere
Five teenagers receive an invite to download a Siri-like app. Once they accept this app which calls itself Mister Bedevil, it begins to torment each of them by tapping into their worst fears. To stop this malevolent force, the teens must learn to trust and depend on each other’s wits and courage.

INICUO: THE BROTHERHOOD (MEXICO) 2016
Directed by Alejandro G. Alegre
Written by Alejandro G. Alegre
Produced by Alejandro G. Alegre, Victor Leycegui, Roberto G. Alegre, Enrique Villanueva
Cast: Isaac Pérez Calzada, Marcos Duarte, Verónica de Alba, Guillermo Jair, Rodrigo Ostap
LA Premiere
After a voyage of discovery FEDERICO creates a new religious cult. He kidnaps FERNANDO, a former collaborator, which will try to leave as heir of worship in the midst of a slaughter justified by their own past tragedies.

LAKE BODOM (FINLAND) 2016
Directed by Taneli Mustonen
Written by Aleksi Hyvärinen and Taneli Mustonen
Produced by Aleksi Hyvärinen, Sophie Holden, Callie McGregor, Claudia Troncoso
Cast: Nelly Hirst-Gee, Mikael Gabriel, Mimosa Willamo, Santeri Helinheimo Mäntylä
US Premiere
Every camper’s worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent.

Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment have released a first trailer for Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth installment in the successful and ongoing franchise pitting werewolves against vampires. Anna Foerster (“Outlander”) is at the helm with Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as death dealer Selene.

The trailer kicks off with a stroll down memory lane, reliving Beckinsale’s journey of ass-kicking, gun-slinging and icey-blue stares since the series debut in 2003. A glimpse at the new film follows and we see Beckinsale ass-kicking, gun-slinging, and flashing those blues! It’s all we could want come Jan. 6!

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Universal Pictures has released a second trailer for Ouija: Origin of Evil, a disturbing sequel to its less scary 2014 original. Set in 1965 Los Angeles, the new film follows a single mom and the two young daughters she employs to run a seance scam. Things go horribly wrong when the youngest is possessed.

Oculus director Mike Flanagan is at the helm working from a script he co-wrote with writing partner Jeff Howard. The sequel hasn’t been met with a warm reception by movie bloggers, but screw those stuck-up pricks… this looks genuinely frightening! The imagery is nightmarish and the kid super creepy!

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Alicia Vela-Bailey creeped movie audiences to the core this year in the Warner Bros. supernatural hit Lights Out. The stunning stunt-woman and actress played the film’s murderous spirit Diana. Now, she’s poised to do it again in Annabelle 2.

Annabelle 2 is a James Wan produced sequel to the original Conjuring spinoff that saw a demonically possessed doll wreck havoc on a young family in 1969 Los Angeles. The new film finds Annabelle terrorizing a group of orphans seeking shelter in a doll maker’s home after being run out of the orphanage.

Bailey plays a character called Evil Mrs. Mullins, which immediately suggests she’s gonna freak us out again. She’ll also play a Lycan in the upcoming Underworld: Blood Wars installment and can be seen on ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Okay, so by now you should know that what makes Rob Zombie movies bad is the very thing that makes them good. 31 is the filmmaker’s sixth frightener and it centers on a group of carnival performers abducted on Halloween and made to play a twisted game of survival for the entertainment of eccentric old rich people.

The abducted are an ethnically mixed bunch, but share one trait… they’re not likable. They say funny shit at times and have an undeniably tight bond, but to an outsider watching them on the movie screen the idea of hanging out with these folks would be like visiting with meth heads … while sober.

Watching these peeps die won’t bring a tear to your eye so if there’s anything worthwhile about their ordeals and death it would have to be based on the creativity of the kills. Unfortunately, the editing on 31 blows donkey dicks. It’s choppy and disorienting to the point you have no idea what’s happening and to whom.

We’re sure the dizzying editing was necessary to suggest ultra-violence but maintain a safe R rating, but it’s a scene killer. 31 is the kind of flick that would benefit tremendously from visibly creative death scenes. And, regardless of one’s opinion of Zombie’s movies, the man has a sharp eye for beautiful and frightening imagery, and you see it in everyone of his films, including quieter moments in 31.

But, enough griping. 31 is still a fun ride because what makes a Zombie movie bad is exactly what makes it good. The very traits that make his protagonists unlikable and expendable make for frightening and memorable villains. Why? Because people like that do exist. Zombie didn’t make them up, he just celebrates them. We’ve all seen them at Walmart, the DMV, during an ER visit, even at the Rob Zombie rock show.

We hate them because they’re obnoxious and don’t give a fuck about imposing on your comfort levels. We’re scared of them because there’s no reasoning with a vile bug. The threats they spit are menacing and real. They want to fight. They’re on drugs and, if not, well, that’s even scarier. Now, imagine them with hatchets, guns, and chainsaws.

Richard Brake as Doomhead is the standout here, an angry and sadistic piece of shit with a grin so evil and frightening it will take days to shake it out of mind (we’re still tormented). No offense to Brake, who we’re sure is a sweetheart, but his mouth and teeth are horrific here and when he bares his toothy grin it’s far scarier than the Xenomorph in Alien!

Brake’s got swagger too and with his clown makeup caked on his performance calls to mind Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight and makes us wonder what he’d achieve in that iconic role. We’re so blown away by Brake, we’ve looked at his past roles and discovered he’s played the original (and best) Night King on HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and murdered little Bruce Wayne’s parents in Batman Begins.

Brake does get a run for his money from Chilean actor Pancho Moler, portraying pint-sized Argentinian Nazi enthusiast Sickhead. Moler is a find and a total scene stealer. Watching him torment Sheri Moon Zombie’s Charly is the kind of fun one feels guilty about. He’s what PC folks call a “little person,” but really he’s just a murderous midget prick with a fanciful Hitler mustache.

Doomhead and Sickhead are just two of the homicidal clowns featured in 31. There are other colorful killers, each sent in alone or in pairs to hunt and slaughter the abductees inside a cavernous factory. The game lasts 12 hours. Anyone left alive when time is up wins! There’s no history or explanation for the game, allowing viewers to make up their own if need be.

31 plays like a mashup of films – The Purge, The Running Man, SAW, The Most Dangerous Game, Texas Chainsaw Massacre – but it’s worth a watch and ranks pretty high among Zombie’s movies, trailing behind the excellent Devil’s Rejects and his visual masterpiece Lords of Salem.

A trailer has gone online for Farren Blackburn’s Shut In, a supernatural thriller starring Naomi Watts as a child psychologist tormented by the spirit of the young troubled boy (Jacob Tremblay) she adopted and carelessly allowed to die in a storm.

Her shrink (Oliver Platt), however, believes she’s suffering a psychotic break triggered by the trauma experienced from losing her husband in an automobile accident that also left her teen son comatose. In fact, there may be no boy at all.

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A new trailer for Rob Zombie’s 31 has gone online ahead of its Sept. 1 Fathom Events premiere. Set on Mischief Night, the notorious evening before Halloween when abductions are commonplace, the film follows five kidnapped carnies forced to play a 12-hour game of life and death with murderous clowns.

Cast is made up of Sheri Moon Zombie, Jeff Daniel Phillips (“Westworld”), Meg Foster (They Live), Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (”Welcome Back Kotter”), Richard Brake (Hannibal Rising), and Malcolm McDowell. 31 opens wide on Sept. 16.

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MTV reality star and anal sex queen Farrah Abraham stars in the indie serial killer drama Adam K. Set for a Halloween release on Blu-ray and DVD, the film follows a mild mannered auto insurance claims manager as he goes on a murderous rampage against those who have rejected his friendship.

Abraham came to fame on MTV’s teen exploitation reality shows “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom.” She gained further notoriety taking porn star James Deen up her ass in the Vivid releases Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom and Farrah 2: Backdoor and More. No word on what role she plays here.

Adam K. is written and directed by Joston Theney and co-stars scream queens Brinke Stevens (Teenage Exorcist), Mindy Robinson (VHS 2), Sarah Nicklin (Haunting of Alice D.), Arielle Brachfeld (Chemical Peep), Kristin Wall (Night of the Living Dead: Reloaded), and Jessica Cameron (Silent Night).

Relativity Studios has released a trailer for Kidnap, an abduction thriller starring Halle Berry as the mother of all road ragers while in pursuit of the degenerate that’s kidnapped her five-year-old son. In theaters Dec. 2, the film is directed by Spanish filmmaker Luis Prieto (Pusher) and penned by Knate Gwaltney.

Kidnap is now on our must-see list. The film looks like Ransom on wheels. It also calls to mind Speed and Breakdown. It just looks like a blast and, if you imagine a loved one taken in a similar manner, it’s what you’d hope you’d have the balls to do. Oh, and Berry is always at her best when kicking ass.

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