Vertical has acquired North American rights to the horror film “The Exorcism,” starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe. It will be released this summer.
If this sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because Crowe also starred in an exorcism movie last year, the underrated “The Pope’s Exorcist.”
The new film follows Anthony Miller (Crowe), “a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film.” His estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) then starts to wonder if he’s slipped back into his addict past or if there’s something more supernatural at work.
“The Exorcism” was directed and co-written (with M.A. Fortin) by Joshua John Miller, who started his career as an actor (one of his first roles was as the little vampire kid in Kathryn Bigelow’s classic “Near Dark”). His father Jason Miller portrayed Father Damien Karras in “The Exorcist,” while his mother Susan Bernard appeared in “Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!...
If this sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because Crowe also starred in an exorcism movie last year, the underrated “The Pope’s Exorcist.”
The new film follows Anthony Miller (Crowe), “a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film.” His estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) then starts to wonder if he’s slipped back into his addict past or if there’s something more supernatural at work.
“The Exorcism” was directed and co-written (with M.A. Fortin) by Joshua John Miller, who started his career as an actor (one of his first roles was as the little vampire kid in Kathryn Bigelow’s classic “Near Dark”). His father Jason Miller portrayed Father Damien Karras in “The Exorcist,” while his mother Susan Bernard appeared in “Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!...
- 4/22/2024
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
A road trip. A mix-up. A fast-talking hero, prone to tossing off bewilderingly verbose sentences. Some criminals who run the gamut from eccentric to psychotic to painfully inept. (Sometimes, they’re all three at once.) Dangerously sudden violence. Dangerously dark humor. Dangerously outrageous hairdos. The feeling that you’re watching a vintage film noir story run through a Looney Tunes filter. You are in the presence of a Coen brothers movie — whaddaya need, a road map?!
Actually, some sort of Gps system would be a blessing for both you, the viewer,...
Actually, some sort of Gps system would be a blessing for both you, the viewer,...
- 2/23/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
The Chattanooga Film Festival returns for its eleventh year, unleashing another summer camp for cinephiles from June 21-28, 2024. For this outing, the acclaimed fest is venturing into “The Twilight Zone.”
As it did in its 10th edition, the festival will be presented in a hybrid format, with in-person and virtual programming available. The festival’s in-person dates, June 21-24, will again be staged at Chattanooga’s historic haunted hotel, The Read House. Along with its dates, Cff also teased a handful of films and special events 2024 attendees can look forward to and put 2024 all-access VIP badges on sale with special Early Bird pricing and discounts in effect until March 20.
Anchoring this year’s festival is a tribute to the influential anthology sci-fi/horror series “The Twilight Zone” and the fascinating life and career of its legendary creator Rod Serling. Presiding over this salute is Rod’s daughter, author Anne Serling,...
As it did in its 10th edition, the festival will be presented in a hybrid format, with in-person and virtual programming available. The festival’s in-person dates, June 21-24, will again be staged at Chattanooga’s historic haunted hotel, The Read House. Along with its dates, Cff also teased a handful of films and special events 2024 attendees can look forward to and put 2024 all-access VIP badges on sale with special Early Bird pricing and discounts in effect until March 20.
Anchoring this year’s festival is a tribute to the influential anthology sci-fi/horror series “The Twilight Zone” and the fascinating life and career of its legendary creator Rod Serling. Presiding over this salute is Rod’s daughter, author Anne Serling,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Horror Exploitation usually has a limited budget, so the filmmakers must make do with outrageous dialogue and over-the-top situations. These pictures hit hard and fast in the realm of the Russ Meyer seminal classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), the early work of Herschell Gordon Lewis and many others. Subtlety is not a mark in this style be it set in a Women’s Prison, a jungle, a small town, an island or simply a last house on the left. Toss in this modern entry into that cesspool of guilty pleasure and you have the Australian film My Cherry Pie (2021). This film is not a reference to the 1990 song Cherry Pie by American glam metal band Warrant although both were odd genre homages to eras that were changing.
Writer / Director Addison Health and co-director Jasmine Jakupi have put together this rather unoriginal story of a trio of sleazy, drug-taking low-life criminals...
Writer / Director Addison Health and co-director Jasmine Jakupi have put together this rather unoriginal story of a trio of sleazy, drug-taking low-life criminals...
- 6/9/2023
- by Terry Sherwood
- Horror Asylum
Eight years ago, the most famous Thai director in the world told IndieWire that was finished making movies in Thailand. After the release of his haunting “Cemetery of Splendour,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul said the threat of censorship had become too much for him. “I’ll say about a topic, ‘Hey, you cannot say that because you’ll be in jail,’” he said. “I’ve started to feel suffocated by this limitation.”
Weerasethakul — he goes by “Joe,” perhaps as an act of mercy for Westerners who struggle to pronounce his name — has only started the international phase of his career. “Memoria,” his first movie made outside of Thailand, became the country’s official Oscar submission in 2021. He’s already planning another one in Sri Lanka.
Yet Thailand remains the one place he feels most comfortable even as his work takes him elsewhere. He was calling from the northeastern region of the country while visiting his mother.
Weerasethakul — he goes by “Joe,” perhaps as an act of mercy for Westerners who struggle to pronounce his name — has only started the international phase of his career. “Memoria,” his first movie made outside of Thailand, became the country’s official Oscar submission in 2021. He’s already planning another one in Sri Lanka.
Yet Thailand remains the one place he feels most comfortable even as his work takes him elsewhere. He was calling from the northeastern region of the country while visiting his mother.
- 5/4/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Movie memorabilia collectors are having quite the weekend. Hot off the news that Judy Garland’s original “Wizard of Oz” dress was found in a shoebox and is set to be auctioned off next month, Lana and Lilly Wachowski have announced plans to auction off a sizable portion of their personal archives to raise money for at-risk trans children.
Lana Wachowski came out as a trans woman in 2012, and her sister Lilly did the same in 2016. Since then, they have been outspoken advocates for LGBT rights in Hollywood and beyond, particularly focusing on the unique problems faced by trans people. Now, the filmmakers are opening up their personal collections to help raise money for the cause.
On Saturday, Lilly Wachowski tweeted “hi youse! So me and Lana have been doing some spring cleaning at our Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse and have happily decided to pass on some of...
Lana Wachowski came out as a trans woman in 2012, and her sister Lilly did the same in 2016. Since then, they have been outspoken advocates for LGBT rights in Hollywood and beyond, particularly focusing on the unique problems faced by trans people. Now, the filmmakers are opening up their personal collections to help raise money for the cause.
On Saturday, Lilly Wachowski tweeted “hi youse! So me and Lana have been doing some spring cleaning at our Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse and have happily decided to pass on some of...
- 4/24/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Stars: Morgan Shaley Renew, Senethia Dresch, Shelby Lois Guinn, Mike Amason, Dove Dupree, Micah Peroulis, Cleveland Langdale, Jonathan Benton, Shane Silman | Written by Christopher Bickel, Shane Silman | Directed by Christopher Bickel
We recently reviewed Bae Wolf from writer/director David Axe, a filmmaker who got his start in features writing The Theta Girl, from director Christopher Bickel who – unlike Axe – hasn’t followed up that 2017 film with any further features. Instead Bickel has, in the intervening years, spent his time making shorts and music videos. Now however Bickel makes his return to filmmaking by directing and co-writing Bad Girls, a girl-gang homage to the films of Russ Meyer and Jack Hill.
Bad Girls follows three “troubled” women – Val (Morgan Shaley Renew), Mitzi (Senethia Dresch), and Carolyn (Shelby Lois Guinn) – who, after spending their youth in and out of detention halls and jail, work together at a strip club. However the...
We recently reviewed Bae Wolf from writer/director David Axe, a filmmaker who got his start in features writing The Theta Girl, from director Christopher Bickel who – unlike Axe – hasn’t followed up that 2017 film with any further features. Instead Bickel has, in the intervening years, spent his time making shorts and music videos. Now however Bickel makes his return to filmmaking by directing and co-writing Bad Girls, a girl-gang homage to the films of Russ Meyer and Jack Hill.
Bad Girls follows three “troubled” women – Val (Morgan Shaley Renew), Mitzi (Senethia Dresch), and Carolyn (Shelby Lois Guinn) – who, after spending their youth in and out of detention halls and jail, work together at a strip club. However the...
- 2/17/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
It’s fair to think that a lot of people that aren’t into 60s movies might never have heard of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, but Norman Reedus has, and he’s planning on rebooting the movie and making it into a series on AMC at some point. The movie is decidedly different in that it features three female antagonists that are out to take what they want, do what they want, and not care about the consequences. It didn’t exactly do well back in its day, but like a lot of movies that were seen as strange a little off-putting, it did
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! TV Reboot is Happening With AMC Studios...
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! TV Reboot is Happening With AMC Studios...
- 6/1/2021
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Britney Spears has refuted reports she has accepted a role in Quentin Tarantino's next project as a "murderous lesbian stripper".
British newspaper the Daily Mirror claims Spears was set to play exotic dancer Varla in a remake of the 1965 movie Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
But a spokesman for Spears denies she is working with Tarantino.
The representative says, "Though she definitely intends to explore acting roles down the road, right now she.s concentrating on recording her next album."...
British newspaper the Daily Mirror claims Spears was set to play exotic dancer Varla in a remake of the 1965 movie Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
But a spokesman for Spears denies she is working with Tarantino.
The representative says, "Though she definitely intends to explore acting roles down the road, right now she.s concentrating on recording her next album."...
- 8/7/2008
- WENN
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is desperate to cast porn star Tera Patrick in his forthcoming film.
The Kill Bill moviemaker is reportedly looking to hire Patrick for his remake of the 1966 cult film Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, about three women on a violent road trip.
A source tells New York gossip column Page Six, "Quentin loves her, and she's a dead ringer for original star Tura Satana."
And the adult film star insists she would love to take on the role.
She adds, "It would be the hottest remake ever, and I'm honoured to be considered. I was built for this part."...
The Kill Bill moviemaker is reportedly looking to hire Patrick for his remake of the 1966 cult film Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, about three women on a violent road trip.
A source tells New York gossip column Page Six, "Quentin loves her, and she's a dead ringer for original star Tura Satana."
And the adult film star insists she would love to take on the role.
She adds, "It would be the hottest remake ever, and I'm honoured to be considered. I was built for this part."...
- 6/30/2008
- WENN
Russ Meyer, the filmmaker who helped put "sexploitation" films on the map and whose name was practically synonymous with big-busted vixens, died Saturday at his home in Hollywood Hills; he was 82. According to a spokeswoman from his company, RM Films International Inc., Meyer had suffered from dementia and complications from pneumonia. A combat photographer who began working in Hollywood upon his return from World War II, Meyer found fame with his 1959 filmmaking debut The Immortal Mr. Teas, a movie that changed the standard "nudie film" format by working in an actual plot . as well as the amazingly endowed women that would become his trademark. In essence creating a new film genre, Meyer cemented his reputation (and his legacy) in the 60s with cult classics like Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! And Vixen, which poured on violence as well as healthy doses of sex antics. It was the latter film's success that attracted the interest of 20th Century Fox, which signed him to helm the 1970 major studio release Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which was scripted by film critic Roger Ebert; a year later he made his most mainstream film, The Seven Minutes, which featured then-wife Edy Williams. With the advent of hard-core pornography (Meyer's films were titillating but never explicit) and the demise of drive-ins, Meyer found his career success waning, but he continued to promote his movies on video and DVD through the 80s and 90s. Meyer was married and divorced three times, but left behind no children. --Prepared by IMDb staff...
- 9/22/2004
- WENN
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