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Bloody Disgusting Selects Acquires Horror Comedy ‘Chop’!
We have some very exciting news as Bloody Disgusting Selects is proud to announce the acquisition of Chop, the directorial debut of Deadgirl screenwriter and Troma alumni Trent Haaga, for VOD and DVD later this year!
I caught the film back in February and LOVED it. Here’s what I had to say: ” ‘Chop’ delivers on all sides by jam-packing the movie with laughs, gore and some insane twists that are guaranteed to get the room in a buzz…you owe it to yourself to watch this with a group of friends so you can all chatter about how f*cked it truly is.”
The pic, which carries a finale you have to see to believe, is “a revenge thriller with a comedic edge that centers on a seemingly innocent young couple, forced by a psychotic stranger to confront their duplicitous past.”
Chop was an official selection of the Boston Underground Film Festival, Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, Grimm Up North Film Festival and Dead by Dawn Film Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. It also received the “Director’s Choice Feature Award” at the Boston Underground Film Festival. It’ll be screening at the 6th Annual FantaSpoa Film Festival in Brazil in July.
Director Trent Haaga has been involved in over 50 feature films as an actor, screenwriter, and Producer including such titles as Hell Asylum, Bonnie & Clyde vs Dracula, and the cult hit Deadgirl.
Her Private Hell actor Diego Calva is the latest to join the cast of writer-director Parker Finn‘s remake of Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 psychological horror movie Possession, Deadline reports today.
Calva joins previously announced cast members Margaret Qualley, Callum Turner, and Paul Dano.
Parker Finn is writing, directing and producing the new take on Possession.
No word on character or plot details yet, but the original film starred Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill as married couple Anna and Mark in Cold War-era West Berlin whose relationship spirals into a supernatural nightmare. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
If Finn is adhering closely to the 1981 film, then Calva could be up for playing Heinrich, Anna’s lover who finds himself in way over his head with Anna and Mark’s emotional baggage.
For Possession‘s 40th anniversary, Brian Keiper captures why a remake of this particular film feels so daunting and curious: “Few movies depict emotional turmoil as effectively and daringly as Andrzej Zulawksi’s Possession. It is a challenging and sometimes inscrutable film, both for the mind and the emotions. Zulawski struggles through a number of deep issues throughout the course of the film; issues that speak to some of humanity’s deepest pains and fears. In many ways it is about loss— loss of political ideals, loss of faith, and loss of innocence. But most of all, Possession is about the fear, pain, and anger that comes from the loss of a marriage.”
Isabelle Adjani previously gave the remake, and Qualley’s casting in particular, her blessing.
Producers include Jonathan Fass, Roy Lee, Andrew Childs, and Robert Pattinson. Marc Bienstock will executive produce.