According to Bloody-Disgusting.com, Milla Jovovich is set to star in the movie adaptation of a videogame called “Clock Tower” for The Weinstein Company. “Clock Tower” is one of those “survival horror video games” where you, the player, gets to fight ghosts, aliens, dimensional demons, or serial killers (basically, what it is that wants to kill you and, more likely than not, eat your brains) in dark alleyways, buildings, and what-have-you. Basically, games design to freak you out. This will be the second horror movie series (and possible franchise?) based on a survival horror game that Jovovich has headlined, the first being, of course, the “Resident Evil” movies. Both RE and “The Clock Tower” are based on games by game developers Capcom.

Here’s more about the game from Wikipedia:

Clock Tower is a survival horror video game series created by Human Entertainment and continued by Sunsoft. The series plays like a horror film and unlike other survival horrors, the Clock Tower series does not focus on shooting creatures or using violence, but rather using your surroundings to hide and escape while solving puzzles and following the twisting storyline. The main character is usually quite helpless compared to the villains, so the main emotional connection to the game is the fear of being captured or discovered.

Jovovich will be playing the lead, Alyssa Barron, and word is that Martin Weisz (”The Hills Have Eyes 2″) has been given the directing gig. He’ll be directing from a script by Eric Poppen. Brittany Snow and Alyssa Jayne Hale are also in the cast.

Time stands still at the old Hamilton Inn. On its grounds, a town once took vengeance on a brutal killer - displaying his body from the ghostly hands of the Inn’s ominous clock tower for all to see. Known only as the “Scissor Man,” the killer’s years of silence are about to be broken by a beautiful college coed with a terrifying connection to the old hotel. When 18-year old Alyssa Barron receives a haunting phone call from her estranged birth mother on the eve of her summer vacation, she will find herself almost unwittingly drawn toward the rundown inn and the secret of a mother, a family, and a murder too horrifying to be real. Coming face-to-face with the “Scissor Man” one last time, Alyssa will trade in every luxury of her new life to make one last desperate bid for survivalbefore her time is up!

I’m guessing the movie will eschew the “18-year old” character for a more age-appropriate one with Jovovich in the lead. I mean, the girl is pretty, but let’s face it, she ain’t gonna pass for 18.

Below: She’ll need more than that conveniently placed handbag to fight the Scissorman…