Glenda to shock audiences in debut horror movie by Irish brothers

AFTER Charity You’re a Star and the excuse for a summer we’re experiencing, you’d have thought there was enough real-life horror on this rattled little island without inventing more.

But one brotherly duo seemingly feel sufficient colour has not yet been drained from the nation’s whitened faces and are busy planning further dastardly acts to freeze-dry the marrow in our collective bones.

Their weapon of mass disturbance? None other than Irish model Glenda Gilson and a roll of cling film.

Glenda, who has already branched out from modelling into presenting pop programmes and breaking world endurance records for the non-stop use of hair-straightening irons, is now developing her talents in another direction courtesy of a horror flick by Irish film-making siblings, Jason and Jonathan Figgis.

Their movie short, All The Little Things, which also stars actresses Sonya Macari, Maria Manton and Alice Li, will open the Irish Film Institute’s annual Horrorthon feast of cinematic spine-chillers this coming Halloween.

Unlike her co-stars, Glenda isn’t experienced in the art of the silver screen.

She plays one of a trio of man-eaters who wreak revenge on men who think they’re silver-tongued smoothies but are really as attractive to women as a toenail fungus infection.

The girls slink around a slick Miami nightclub in little black dresses, twiddling their earrings seductively while picking out potential prey and the hapless males drawn to them only have to utter one trite chat-up line to spring the trap.

Before they know it, they’re back at the girls’ pad saying ‘black with two sugars, please’ but find themselves drugged, shrink-wrapped in cling film and dismembered before the kettle’s even boiled. Hell hath no fury like a woman bored, it seems.

The film is Glenda’s first foray into cinema but insiders say she has certainly developed a taste for it — the movie business, not male flesh, that is.