Las Vegas Weekly

July 29, 2009 · 1:29 PM

Strip Scribbles: ‘Scream Queen’ to film new horror film in Las Vegas

By Robin Leach

Scream Queen Rachel Grubb will star in the upcoming film Haunting Kira, which will shoot in Las Vegas in early 2010.

Photo: Courtesy

Actress Rachel Grubb and horror film director Teresa Fahs promise that their next shock flick Haunting Kira, to be filmed on location in Las Vegas next year, will be the goriest and bloodiest zombie movie ever made! The announcement was made the day after Comic-Con in San Diego wrapped last weekend.

Rachel is known as “The Scream Queen” from her 30 horror films, which include Terror Overload, Tales of the Dead, 13 Hours in a Warehouse, Strip Club Slasher and Cave Women on Mars. Rachel says she can’t wait to get started on the project.

“I love the script,” Rachel said. “It’s got lots of original gory goodness with some fun added to the plot. It won’t be like the majority of zombie movies. Most are about the world being chased by animated corpses, with the living fighting to stay alive. Haunting Kira is about one zombie, not an epidemic, a spirit who’s discovered a way to infiltrate a corpse, and this time the audience has a relationship with his mind. He feels what’s happening to him in the rotting vessel, and we experience that along with him.”

Teresa, dubbed “The Goddess of Gore,” has been a special FX makeup artist for the past decade. She will make her directing debut with Kira, which is scheduled for release on Mother’s Day! She said: “The gore is oozing from every page, and it keeps getting weirder. We will have awesome special effects and makeup and add a sexy spin to the horror.” She promises the film will be filled with paranormal activity, re-animated and decaying corpses, realistic gore, frenzied kills, plus nudity and a see-it-again-and-again ending. ArrowintheHead.com has branded the flick as having “major potential.”

Rachel is the main attraction in David Byron’s latest book Queens of Scream: The New Blood alongside Brenna Lee Roth, Bianca Barnett, Nikki Homicide K, Seregon O’Dassey, April Monique Burril and Monique Dupree. Fans can haunt Kira on Facebook and MySpace.

Photo: TVT

Magician Jeff McBride.

*Las Vegas magician Jeff McBride has arrived in China for the World Championships of Magic, and this week he teams up on StreetofCards.tv for the first-ever live reporting from the prestigious magic competitions in Beijing. Jeff is using a tiny pocket camera with instant uploads to Street of Cards. If you're a magic fan and always wanted to visit the world’s biggest magic event but couldn’t make it in person, now you can be there virtually. Click HERE for Jeff’s reports.

Photo: Larry Burton

Scott Kelly.

Photo: Larry Burton

Scott Kelly.

*NASA astronaut Scott Kelly hosted an educational forum for Clark County students over two days at Fremont Street Experience as part of downtown’s One Giant Leap celebration of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. Scott was kept busier than a spacewalk with three one-hour Q&A sessions each day. He discussed his two space shuttle missions and showcased a NASA spacesuit and an Apollo 11 replica. Scott greeted and signed autographs for more than 450 enthusiastic students, several of whom told him they’d like to become astronauts, too!

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The Cannery presents Wheel of Fortune jackpot winner Helen Jenner with a check for $1,058,096.

*Congratulations to local Helen Jenner when she became an instant millionaire playing a Wheel of Fortune slot at the Cannery. Helen hit the jackpot and walked away with a check for $1,058,096. The locals hotel has had a number of big winners since opening a few years ago, including two Megabucks jackpots.

Photo: Scott Berry/Hard Rock Hotel

Music producer Damizza and rapper Bishop Lamont at Body English.

Star surveillance

Hip-hop artist Bishop Lamont and music producer Damizza made a surprise appearance at Body English in the Hard Rock Hotel and joined DJ Clinton Sparks onstage. Junior Seau of the New England Patriots also was spotted at the Hard Rock working out. … Monte Carlo headline magician Lance Burton once again proved his love of the community by performing a free charity show for those unable to get to his theater. … NFL free agent Brian Simmons was spotted at Tao in The Venetian with friends and family enjoying Patron on the rocks to the sounds of DJ Reach.

Photo: Wayne Bernath

Lance Burton.

Photo: Wayne Bernath

Lance Burton.

Tonight’s tips

It’s been 30 years, and Huey Lewis & the News are still working for a living. The band with heart and soul performs at the Star of the Desert Arena in Primm. … And now for something completely different, as Monty Python would say, RollerCon ’09 skates into the Imperial Palace for the next five days with tattooed skaters blocking, tackling and felling their rivals. Just like NASCAR, it’s left turn only as they spin in circles and crash, er, crush their lipstick opponents! … Cross Canadian Ragweed is a group not to sneeze at as they play the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay.

Photo: Scott Doctor/www.greatscottstudios.com

Beyonce.

Tomorrow’s teases

Superstar singer and actress Beyonce arrives to take Las Vegas by storm as she moves into the Wynn for four magical nights of concerts to wrap up the U.S. leg of her I Am … world tour. Can Jay-Z be far behind? It’s a nonstop, jet set, five-day-weekend of parties and fashion shows for the first lady of song and glamour, and we’ve got the rundown.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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