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Charisma Carpenter on Her Role in ‘Human Target’
She’s been a cheerleader, goddess, trophy-wife, twins and now… a journalist? Former “Buffy” and “Angel” actress Charisma Carpenter has confirmed she will play investigative journalist Lori Stoltz in thriller Human Target.
The film sees Stoltz team-up with a renegade police detective (is there any other kind?) to uncover the truth behind the sinister disappearances of the Homeless population in Metro City.
Speaking from the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in Australia, Carpenter told Bloody Disgusting she’s “excited” to join the ranks of fellow female fictional journalists like Lois Lane, Veronica Guerin and, dare we say it, Carrie Bradshaw.
“I’m a journalist acting like a detective uncovering a horrible plot to do with the pharmaceutical industry, which I have to expose,” she said.
“You know, pharmaceutical companies are the natural evil now days.”
Human Target was originally set to be Michael Madsen’s directorial debut, before the film’s co-writer and producer Chaz Fatur was announced as his replacement. With only a short film under his belt, Fatur is (slightly) better known for his work as an extra on flicks like Pearl Harbor and Flags Of Our Fathers.
Carpenter’s The Expendables co-star Eric Roberts will join her in Human Target, along with everyone’s favorite Mexican Danny Trejo. Carpenter said although she’s seen Trejo “around“, she’s looking forward to the opportunity to work with him professionally.
“I’ve admired Danny Trejo for a lot of years,” she said.
Carpenter said she “hasn’t heard” when they will begin shooting in New York City, but she expects it to be within the next few months. The $10 million dollar film is pegged with a late 2011 release date. Carpenter will next be seen playing twins in the horror/thriller Deadly Sibling Rivalry.
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Katharine Isabelle Battles Cosmic Horror in Exclusive ‘Junction Row’ Teaser Trailer [Fantasia 2026]
Among Fantasia 2026‘s massive final wave of programming this morning is Raven Banner’s Lovecraftian creature feature Junction Row, starring Canadian horror icon Katharine Isabelle, and we’re exclusively unveiling the teaser trailer.
Junction Row will celebrate its World Premiere at Fantasia on July 28.
Watch a housing compound fall under siege from Lovecraftian creatures more dangerous than drug dealers in the trailer below.
Junction Row follows “Juno, a recovering addict who leaves a fringe housing compound for a better life, leaving her beloved Ruby behind. When she learns that Ruby has gone missing, Juno returns, only to find Junction Row has become a hotbed of criminal activity, but she encounters much more than menacing drug dealers on her mission to find Ruby.”
Isabelle stars as Juno, with Natalie Brown (FX’s The Strain) as Ruby.
The creature feature marks the feature debut by director Ashlea Wessel, who has directed festival-favorite shorts like 2018’s “Tick” and 2020’s “Weirdo”.
Wessel co-writes Junction Row with Clown in a Cornfield author Adam Cesare and Matt Serafini.
Katharine Isabelle is coming off a brief appearance in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, and more recently appeared in holiday horror It’s a Wonderful Knife. The horror icon is arguably best known for her turn as the eponymous werewolf in Ginger Snaps and for her roles in American Mary and Freddy vs Jason.
Fantasia teases that Junction Row tells “a story where the fear of the unknown isn’t confined to what lies above, but what waits beneath.”
Stay tuned for more from Fantasia as the festival gets underway later this month.