Lindsay Lohan & Vanessa Minnillo: Knife-Wielding Maniacs

Yikes. Vanessa Minnillo may want to supplement her DVD collection with something other than The Departed and reruns of The Sopranos.

The MTV hottie finds herself the center of unwanted attention as disturbing photos have surfaced - pics taken in the early hours of June 16, 2006, in N.Y. City.

The photos show Vanessa Minnillo tugging at the top of Lindsay Lohan and engaging in bizarre and dangerous acts of knife-wielding lunacy.

The pics were taken at 4:50 a.m. in a home in Greenwich Village after a night of partying at NYC club Bungalow 8, and were later "stolen" from Lindsay Lohan's camera.

Much like the pic of Cisco Adler naked "stolen" from Paris Hilton's locker. Only not nearly as disgusting. And a little bit sexy in a twisted way.

Minnillo, who at that point had been dating Nick Lachey for just a few weeks, "got caught up in the moment and thought it would be fun," as a source puts it.

But she's not having fun now. "It was stupid and she regrets it," says the source. "They were only fooling around."

And not the sort of fooling around Calum Best was used to, peeps.

Anyway. Who thought when they woke up this morning, they'd see Vanessa with a knife held to her throat? And Lindsay Lohan holding it!?

These photos are only slightly less disturbing than the Jason Wahler gun pictures that surfaced a few months back... and a lot more unexpected.

Much as we rejoice at the demise of Firecrotch, who's back in rehab now, we never literally wish her or any other star harm. These pics are pretty messed up.