Elisabeth Shue is set to join Jennifer Lawrence in director Mark Tonderai’s (Hush) new thriller House at the End of the Street. The film marks Shue’s quick return to horror after starring in Alexandre Aja’s fish-&-chicks frightener Piranha 3-D, in theaters Aug. 20.

House at the End of the Street revolves around a teen girl (Lawrence) who discovers that the house across from her new home was the scene of a double homicide. Things complicate further when she befriends the murdered family’s surviving son (Thieriot).

Shue will play mother to Lawrence’s character. Production on the film begins next month in Ottawa.

Shue’s horror creds include Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man, the Robert De Niro/ Dakota Fanning thriller Hide and Seek, and the indie-release First Born.

Lawrence, hot off her critically acclaimed performance in the award-winning indie-drama Winter’s Bone, has been cast as a young Mystique in director Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men origins reboot X-Men: First Class.

Anchor Bay has set an Aug. 3 release date for the DVD and Blu-ray disc editions of its psychological thriller After.Life, starring Liam Neeson, Justin Long, and a very naked Christina Ricci. This is great news for those of us who drove out to the boonies in search of a theater playing it, but got lost and ended up spending our $15 on a pregnant stripper in a truck stop dive bar.

Check out the new home edition promo trailer (if you dropped trou the minute you read the post headline, you can skip down to peep some nude Ricci screen captures) :

After.Life, which held its premiere back in November as part of the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, is writer/director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s long-awaited feature film debut. The film’s plot centers on a young woman (Ricci), the victim of an automobile accident, who awakens to find that she is being prepped for burial by a mysterious mortician (Neeson) who insists that she is ready to crossover to the hereafter.

After.Life was released in theaters for a limited run back in April. The film was rated R for its disturbing images, language, and generous helping of Ricci nudity. Reviews have been mixed.

Bonus features on the After.Life DVD/Blu-ray include audio commentary with Vosloo, the featurette “Diving into the After.Life: The Art of Making a Thriller,” and the film’s theatrical trailer (WTF! No photo gallery?) .

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Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body, Chloe) will headline Gattaca director Andrew Niccol’s new dystopian sci-fi thriller I’m.mortal.

The film is set in the future where people physically stop aging by 25 and must then purchase time to determine life expectancy. Those with lots of money can live forever. Those without are totally fucked.

Seyfried will play a rich woman taken hostage by a man accused of having stolen time from some wealthy bastard. The two will fall in love and attempt to make the most of their time together.

Hmm. Sounds like Logan’s Run meets The Island. I’m.there.

I’m.mortal will go into production this year. Twentieth Century Fox will distribute.

One night stands always lead to awkward feelings the morning after, especially if you wake up to find your huckleberry with their face bashed in and you’re bathed in enough blood splatter to give Dexter Morgan a chubby.

So is the setup to fledgling director Chris R. Notarile’s short film One Night Stand, starring 22-year-old newcomer Zoe Sloane.

Peep the trailer:

Sloane will next be seen in Notarile’s upcoming full-length feature Daddy’s Girl and in indie-director Mike Nichols’ (Dead Calling) long-delayed Hansel & Gretal inspired thriller BreadCrumbs, opposite genre queens Alana Curry and Kristina Klebe.

Nortarile reportedly shot One Night Stand in less than three hours and for the cost of $100. No word on whether that included a reach-around/happy ending.

“True Blood” leads Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer visit with Brian Geraghty and “Battlestar Galactica” hottie Tricia Helfer in Lionsgate’s upcoming straight-to-DVD home-invasion thriller Open House. The film marks the directorial debut of Anna’s brother Andrew Paquin, a producer on last year’s Renee Zellweger vehicle New in Town and his sister’s 2007 rom-com Blue State.

Open House stars Geraghty and Helfer as homicidal house squaters taking up residence at an open house. Anna has been cast as a friend to the homeowner, played by Rachel Blanchard (pictured above), who is taken captive early on by the killers. Moyer’s role appears to be that of a guy with a butcher knife in his neck.

Take a look:

Andrew tells indieWire :

I have always loved movies as long as I can remember but growing up mainly in New Zealand it never really seemed like a viable career path. But after my sister Anna [Paquin] won an Academy Award for “The Piano” my eyes were opened.

My first foray into the film world was working in development and then as a producer. Writing was something I did on the side. But the more time I spent on set the more I realized I wanted to try directing. “Open House” is my first go at it.

I am very proud of the performances from my actors. I think they have all done an amazing job. And I think both Brian Geraghty and Tricia Helfer manage to create sympathetic characters despite the fact that they do terrible, evil things.

I think that people who go in to the film expecting to see a horror movie like any other will be pleasantly surprised to find it is, I hope, much more.

I once tried to get my sister to do a movie for me, but it never happened. But, that’s OK. I’m still friends with the eight naked black guys I had hired for the shoot.

Tricia Helfer pours the red in 'Open House'

Open House also stars “Try Calling” and Leprechaun 4: In Space actress Jessica Collins.

The film arrives on DVD on Aug. 3.

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Australian actors Xavier Samuel (Twilight Saga: Eclipse) and newcomer Robin McLeavy headline writer/director Sean Byrne’s award-winning TIFF darling The Loved Ones.

Described as Pretty in Pink meets Wolf Creek, the indie-thriller follows an emotionally unstable wallflower named Lola (McLeavy) as she abducts and holds captive the boy (Samuel) that rejected her advances and invitation to attend the “End of the Year” dance.

Peep the trailer:

While the film looks gleefully gruesome and funny, I’m not sure horror geeks will feel much sympathy for a guy who is kidnapped by a very cute chick who only really wants to bang him.

I mean most of us you ended up going to school dances with our your fat sisters, who didn’t even put out after making us you dance to “You Spin Me Round” all night.

The Loved Ones costars Victoria Thaine, Jessica McNamee, Richard Wilson, and John Brumpton. The film has yet to acquire distribution in the States, but will be released later this year in Australia.

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The day I finally overdose on cocaine (or Pixy Stix), I hope the last post I put up on this site is the most interesting, funniest, inspiring, sexiest, informative piece ever. I would hate to be eternally linked to a post about Lucy Lawless’ freakishly big areolas.

That said …

Anchor Bay Entertainment has set an Aug. 24 release date for the DVD and Blu-ray editions of director Michael Feifer’s low-budget thriller Abandoned. The film marks the final performance of late actress Brittany Murphy, who met her unfortunate drug-induced doom last Christmas at the age of 32.

Abandoned stars Murphy as a woman frantically trying to find her boyfriend after he disappears from a hospital during a routine procedure. The film costars Dean Cain (”Lois & Clark”), Kristen Kerr (Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane), and busty straight-to-DVD queen Mimi Rogers (Penny Dreadful).

No word from rental service Redbox on whether they will carry Abandoned at their crime-riddled kiosks locations, but chances are they will considering the box art isn’t quite as disturbing as Murphy’s second-to-last final movie Deadline.

I'm going to get you!

Warner Bros. has released a character-driven featurette for director Chris Nolan’s upcoming mind-bender Inception. The clip introduces us to many of the film’s key players, including The Extractor, The Architect, The Point Man, The Forger, The Shade, and The Mark.

It’s a big bowl of trippy goodness. Look:

Inception stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a business man involved in a process that allows him access into people’s minds and dreams. Things get complicated, however, when a rival (Ken Watanabe) begins to blackmail him.

The film costars Ellen Page (Hard Candy), Joseph Gordan-Levitt (G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra), Cillian Murphy (Red Eye), Marion Cotillard (Big Fish), Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road), Lukas Haas (While She Was Out), Telulah Riley (”Dr. Who”), and Michael Cain (Dark Knight).

Inception arrives in theaters on July 16.

To see BTS photos of DiCaprio, Page, and Cotillard, click here and here.

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As most married men know, it’s not uncommon to see one’s hot wife eventually morph into the kind of chick you’d see during a pan-shot of the Dr. Oz audience. But, what if one’s hot wife actually turned into an even hotter wife?

IFC Midnight has released the first official trailer for French director Marina de Van’s new psychological thriller Don’t Look Back. The film stars Sophie Marceau (Braveheart) as a happily married mother of two who believes she’s changing into an Italian sexpot, played by Monica Bellucci (Matrix Reloaded).

Take a look:

The film’s official synopsis reads:

Jeanne a writer, married, with two children starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice.

Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne realizes that something far deeper, far more disturbing is taking place.

A photograph at her mother’s house sends her in search of a woman in Italy. Here, transformed into another woman, RosaMaria, she will discover the strange secret of her true identity.

Don’t Look Back will be available On Demand on June 23.

Bellucci can also be seen this summer in Disney’s fantasy-adventure The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Marceau hasn’t starred in an American film since the 2003 rom-com Alex & Emma.

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos reminds us how difficult it is for fathers to keep their families safe from outside evils in his new coming-of-rage story Dogtooth.

Below you’ll find both the domestic trailer and the NSFW teaser.

Happy Father’s Day:

Confused?

Read the official synopsis:

A hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy, DOGTOOTH is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents’ isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen – an inscrutable scenario that suggests a warped experiment in social conditioning and control.

Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days devising their own games and learning an invented vocabulary (a salt shaker is a ‘telephone,’ an armchair is ‘the sea’) – until a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the son’s libidinal urges, plants the seeds of rebellion by trading VHS tapes for sexual favors.

Now, check out the boobies:

Dogtooth opens in New York City on June 25. No word yet on whether it will be released nationwide.