It’s called Hunger, folks, and it’s part of the steadily growing subgenre of “people trapped in a room”.  It’s getting tough to find good examples of this one any more, as they’re rapidly getting played out.  But Hunger may be a bit more than the rest, and it’s making the festival rounds literally as we speak.

Featuring terror hotties Laura Albyn, Linden Ashby, Lori Heuring and Lea Kohl, Hunger is set to be a “dark exploration into the breakdown of humanity”.  Five strangers are, somehow, trapped in an underground bunker without food, part of the social experiment of a lunatic.  How long before the gravity of the situation overwhelms their capacity for reason and compassion?

Sounds interesting–I’ve personally heard that society is about four meals away from collapse at any given time, so seeing something that helps to cement that theory definitely gives me a chill in the old spine.  No clue when this one will be available OFF the festival circuit, so keep it here for the latest.

The SIXTH teaser poster has emerged for All About Evil, a movie that will feature a whole slew of terror hotties, including Natasha Lyonne, Cassandra Peterson, and in a huge twist, drag star Peaches Christ will be involved too, playing…herself.

Yes, the story of the mousy librarian who takes over the local movie house and decides to spark things up by making her own snuff films is still well underway, and it’ll actually get its debut at the Castro Theater as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival May 1st.

Admittedly, the new teaser poster isn’t exactly pleasant to look at, but still, the movie itself might well be interesting.  Kind of like a cross between To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar and Midnight Movie.

Assuming, of course, you’re a chick.

See, this is a REALLY clever concept that doesn’t have a whole lot of life to it, but is a clever concept nonetheless.  Basically, Last Call, a movie that features the fairly cliched plotline of a heroine charging through an abandoned sanatorium that seems to have a few uninvited–and unlikely–guests.  And as the heroine goes charging through, she’ll take out her mobile phone and, get this, CALL THE AUDIENCE.

Basically, this is the first ever movie in which you’re encouraged to keep your mobile phone on.  You’ll submit your phone’s number before the movie starts, and at random points throughout the show, a speed-dialling service will call a submitted number at random.  You’ll then be asked a question, by the heroine, and your response will determine what happens next.

I’m sorry but that just sounds BRUTALLY cool, and I’d love to give it a try.  And ladies, this means that you too can become a terror hottie.

Okay, we’re all well aware by now that there will be PLENTY of terror hotties involved in the upcoming release of Piranha 3-D, right?  But despite the fact that the movie comes out August 27th, it’s true–they’re adding cast.

But what are they adding for?  Apparently, they’re setting up a couple of extra trailers, and early word suggests they’re making one of them in the style of a Girls Gone Wild parody that will likely be attacked by piranhas.

The question at this point, of course, is, is this awesome or just horrendously stupid?  There’s a couple different ways to look at it, and your particular bent will depend on how you feel personally about the idea.  Some will say it’s a clever parody, others will just cry exploitation.  Me, I think it’s a mix of both–a fairly clever idea less than well executed.

And this summer, we’ll get to find out just how it comes out.



Terror hottie Kinsey Packard is coming back for more with the upcoming release of Nuclear Family.  And that’s not even the best part–she’ll be joined by small-time genre favorites Corin Nemec and Ray Wise.

The early word about Nuclear Family is that it’s going to be, get this–”a post-apocalyptic action / drama with lots of fighting, blood and gunplay.”

As for the plot, that centers on a small family out looking for their missing son, trying desperately to survive in the post-apocalyptic nightmare they find themselves in, and on top of that, keep ahead of a homicidal group of madmen known as the Berserkers.

They were looking to wrap production on the twentieth, with webisodes soon to follow, and man, this sounds like some good stuff.  No word on release dates yet as they don’t actually have a distributor yet, from the sounds of it.

Talk about a shocker, folks–there’s word from Alice Braga about the upcoming “Predators” that’s almost too bizarre to be believed.  Here’s what she had to say about the movie coming out July 9th:

“I don’t know that, I think they might try to do PG-13, but I’m not sure. I’m not sure, I hope not actually. You know what, I think they [might] not [be able to do it PG-13] because there are some dark scenes in it, like the other films. So I think it’s going to be R. But going back to [a previous] question about editing, we never know what’s going to happen. But it looks really dark and really nice. I think, I had fun.”

A PG-13 Predator?  Can such a thing be possible without epic levels of bribery?  I can’t imagine it either, frankly, not without neutering it so badly that it’s almost unrecognizable.  We’ll have to wait and see, though–this hits theaters July 9th.

For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the return of Night of the Demons, especially given that the remake is going to be so crammed full of terror hotties that it’s not even funny, you’ll be happy to know that a release date has, finally, been announced.

It’s September 23rd.

Featuring Diora Baird, Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Bobbi Sue Luther and Tiffany Shepis, Night of the Demons sends a bunch of kids out for a Halloween party in an abandoned–and ultimately demonically possessed–house that they’ll never forget.

Some are already quite concerned–this isn’t the FIRST such release date we’ve heard, and moreover, September 23rd is a Thursday.  Most video releases occur on Tuesdays and theatrical releases are Fridays.  So what gets released on a Thursday?

We’ll have to keep an eye on this one, but it’s still one to watch.

All right, fellow horror geeks, I know we’re all looking forward to a SyFy channel original movie for the first time in like forever because they finally made a really bright casting move.  Yes, our beloved Felicia Day–whom you’ll remember from Dollhouse, The Guild and Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog–will be back soon, and the first images of her in the midst of her new duties are just now coming out.

And yes, the title is legit–Felicia Day will portray a descendant of the original Little Red Riding Hood, whose family has apparently sworn to destroy werewolves wherever they find them.  Not surprisingly, Felicia’s character has become engaged (after all, she looks like Felicia Day.  How could she NOT get a boyfriend?) and she’s taking him to meet the folks.  But in the midst of this, Red’s family business rears its ugly head and the fiance gets bitten by a werewolf.  Now Red’s got to find a cure before the rest of the family follows through on its mission and kills the fiance but good.

This will hit the air in 2011, so keep your eyes front.

It’s one of the biggest film festivals around, folks–South By Southwest storms into Texas this time every year, and in its wake, we get lots and lots of great newsy bits about upcoming movies.

Chances are that, when you think Jamie Lynn Sigler, you think “The Sopranos”.  And that’d be a fair guess, because that was sort of her big thing.  But she’s also a terror hottie, following her appearance in the After Dark Horrorfest title Dark Ride.  And she’ll cement that reputation a little further with Wake.

Wake is already being compared to The Shining, and features a young couple on their way to a wedding in Los Angeles.  To get there, of course, they’ll have to go bombing through the Mojave Desert.  They stop for the night at the oh-so-picturesque Roy’s Motel and Cafe, where they meet Frank, the front desk manager, and his wife Sandy, who seems most interested in humping everything that moves.  Except, of course, Frank.  Anyway, turns out the male half of our young couple had a nasty secret in his past (when DON’T they have nasty secrets in these movies?) and it’s about to come bursting out in the middle of the Mojave.

It doesn’t have a distributor–yet–so no word on release dates, but keep it here and we’ll pass on all the latest about this one as we get it.

For those of you who’ve been looking forward to the terror hottie packed bacchanal that is Descent 2, you’ll be happy to know that a trailer has emerged and is already making the rounds.

We’ll be rejoining Sarah, who’s just been hijacked by the local constabulary following the disappearance of everybody else who went with her on a caving expedition.  Said local constabulary doesn’t much approve of Sarah’s story about subterranean pseudo-people who lunched up on her party, and thus pick her up and take her back to the caves so that she can lead a new party down.  Of course, this party will be significantly better armed than the previous (they ARE the law, after all) but will that be enough to tackle the subterranean hordes?

The trailer suggests that this will be a doozy, one way or the other.  Moreover, we won’t even have too much longer to wait before we get to rejoin Sarah’s caving party–The Descent Part 2 hits DVD April 27th.

Don’t know what it is about werewolves these days (are they the new vampires or what?) but they’re steadily showing up in all sorts of places you’d never expect.  And a new werewolf project has just taken on a whole new life by officially bringing on board Amanda Seyfried.

You probably remember her as the mousy friend from Jennifer’s Body, and she’ll be joining Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke in The Girl With The Red Riding Hood, which is being described as, get this, “a gothic retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with a teenage love triangle at the center”.

As glad as I am to see terror hotties continuing on, I have to admit I’m none too encouraged about this recent putsch to get more werewolves on screen, especially the way it’s currently going down. Sure, The Wolfman was all right and all, but for crying out loud–there’s a limit.

And frankly, this is crossing it.

For those of you out there who kept up with Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog or The Guild, your patience will be rewarded as we discover that Felicia Day has gone terror hottie.

She’ll be joining the cast of Red, a Syfy channel movie featuring Day as the descendent of–get this!–the original Little Red Riding Hood.  She brings her fiance home one day and fills him in on the family business: hunting werewolves.  Naturally, he doesn’t buy this sort of thing one teensy bit, until a werewolf actually bites him.

Red’s family wants him dead now, of course…but Red isn’t so sure about this and thus sets out to save her fiance’s life.

Sounds interesting, though it’s hard to tell how werewolf hunting pays bills sufficently to be a family business.  It’s set to be finished and premiere sometime in 2011, and it’s actually part of a fairy tale-themed horror lineup that will feature five other titles.

I have to admit, this might be good.

So the word is that Juno Temple will be replacing Alison Pill (who in turn replaced Ellen Page) in the upcoming lesbian horror romp Jack and Diane.  Olivia Thirlby fans will be pleased to note that she’s not going anywhere, meanwhile.

I said this was a “lesbian horror romp” and I pretty much meant it–it features two teenage girls who discover that they’ve got a thing for each other find themselves facing a horrible set of circumstances.  The duo are going to have to split up soon as one’s leaving the country, and the one who’s leaving the country is having hallucinations about werewolves.

For those of you who said that this is a Twilight with werewolves and hot lesbians instead of sparkly angsty emo boi vampires, you’re probably not too far off.  But all the same, terror hotties are terror hotties, and we’re always glad to see them in play.

But what about Jennifer Carpenter? you ask.  Well, that’s a little less clear.

For those of you who enjoyed Quarantine as much as I did, the remake is already underway, under the writing AND direction of John Pogue, whom you’ll remember from not much in particular including all three installments of The Skulls and Ghost Ship from Dark Castle.

And the word is that it’ll be leaving the tenement and going to the airport instead–yes, while the first one was a nearly shot for shot remake (and man, did Jennifer Carpenter handle that reporter role well), the second one apparently will be nowhere near.

So will we get more Jennifer Carpenter?  Or will we be too busy hoping that Pogue’s newest work doesn’t completely suck?  Keep it here for all the latest.

There’s something to be said for giving away the entire point of an article in the headline, I say, so you’ll be interested to know that Black Eve is already well underway.

New stills and a teaser trailer have emerged for the film, and here’s the really interesting part of the whole mess (or at least the part that’s interesting to us)–it features Veronika London, who’s already being described as “the Megan Fox of Hollywood North” by no less than Maxim.

And the plot isn’t too bad, either–it features a young woman with psychic powers who follows the trail of recently murdered friends at a Halloween party in an abandoned department store.

So between the fact that this has some sweet terror hottie vibe already involved, and a half decent storyline, we should be in for a pretty good time here.  Of course, we’ll have to wait a bit for this one to hit–there’s no word yet on release dates–but the fact that the teaser trailer has emerged suggests that it won’t be too much longer before we get to see how this turns out.