TERROR HOTTIES

Dylan’s Wake To Pack In The Terror Hotties

(Amy Smart)

If you’re as excited as I am by the concept of Rose McGowan and Amy Smart in the same movie, then you’ll definitely be looking forward to the upcoming Dylan’s Wake.

Described as both a “supernatural love story” and a “horror mystery”, Dylan’s Wake centers on a young funeral parlor worker trying to unravel a ten-year-old mystery.  Filming is already currently underway in Iowa, and oddly enough, the whole thing is being bankrolled by a combination of private equity and Iowa tax incentives.

It’s a ballsy move, especially in this economy, to make a movie on private money and tax incentives, especially not knowing where it’d go from there.  Hopefully it can get distribution, or at least make a splash on Amazon, if nothing else.  Of course, with the cast list, it should manage to at least catch Lions Gate or Anchor Bay’s attention.

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Amy Smart Pick Up As A Terror Hottie

Amy Smart, part of the dynamic terror hottie duo that steamed up our Mirrors, is well on her way to full terror hottie status as she joins up with The Blair Witch Project director Eduardo Sanchez to bring us Seventh Moon.

Basically, a couple newlyweds go on their honeymoon to China, but they go during the seventh lunar month—the titular seventh moon. This of course leads to the newlyweds running afoul of lots and lots of unpleasant things, and we’re not talking lost luggage.

I’m prepared to call this interesting—especially since everything I’ve ever seen Amy Smart in has been at least pretty good—but it’ll be a while before we get a chance to see it. It’ll be an official selection at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on September 20^th, so if you get a chance to see it, it should be worth at least a try.

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Mirrors Got Downright Steamy For A Horror Flick

It was clear that our Mirrors were getting fogged from the second that sucker hit theatres—between Paula Patton and Amy Smart we were definitely getting our terror hottie quotient out the door and into the street—and they definitely played it to the hilt with their promotional material.    The last time I saw promotional material so devoted to wet chicks it was the posters for Cleavagefield.  A bit over the top?  Sure.  But that’s the horror industry; we forgot where the top actually is, so we always aim for over.

Okay, sure…so Mirrors was actually better called “Jack Bauer: Monster Slayer” because Kiefer Sutherland is somehow mentally locked into his 24 mode ever since he started on the show, and the ending is better suited to a comic book than a horror movie, but you can definitely say that we got a few good shocks out of it and plenty of terror hottie.

And though Paula Patton doesn’t look to be coming back to horror any time soon, the same cannot be said for Amy Smart, but more on that one later.

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The Mirrors Show Us Loads of Terror Hotties

(Amy Smart)

Paula Patton, Erica Gluck and Amy Smart all unify to give us a three-pronged burst of terror hottie in the upcoming nightmare-fuel maker, Mirrors.

Now, I saw the trailer on this sucker not too long ago and it definitely looks like it might well qualify for creepy status.  Especially when we discover that any reflective surface qualifies as a mirror for purpose of this movie…including water.  So the synopsis makes things even scarier as, apparently, there’s some kind of evil force in the world on the other side of our own, and said evil force is using mirrors to try and get into our own world.

This is actually a fairly scary thought—looking in the mirror, and seeing yourself, only different, isn’t exactly a comfortable thought to share over Sunday morning coffee.  Worse yet if that mirror image starts talking back to you…oh yeah, tell me that doesn’t have you a bit freaked out.

And with plenty of terror hottie juice to keep things rolling, well, we’re probably in for a cool treat this August.

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