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Trailer Brings ‘Vicious Fun’ Back to the 1980s [Exclusive]
Cody Calahan heads back to the 80s with his indie Vicious Fun, which pits a horror movie critic <gulp> against a group of serial killers attending a 12-step meeting.
Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive trailer and poster premiere for Black Fawn Films, Particular Crowd, and Breakthrough Entertainment’s Vicious Fun, which looks like a slasher dropped into Kill Bill with tons of little nods to the best decade ever (lead Evan Marsh is even dressed like Marty McFly).
Marsh plays “Joel, a caustic 1980s film critic for a national horror magazine, who finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers.
“Can he match wits with five killers and make it through the night alive? Stuck with only two options – kill or be killed, Joel will have to find his inner serial killer and muster a hidden strength to defeat the maniacs in his midst.”
Shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Vicious Fun also stars David Koechner (Anchorman, Cheap Thrills), Amber Goldfarb (TV’s Bad Blood), Ari Millen (TV’s Orphan Black, I’ll Take Your Dead), Julian Richings (TV’s Supernatural, Man of Steel), Robert Maillet (300, Immortals), and Sean Baek (TV’s Killjoys).
It is produced by Chad Archibald and Calahan and written by James Villeneuve.
Out today in select theaters and on digital platforms is heartfelt and playful documentary Mockbuster, which sees a director cold call a studio and ask to helm a lost-world dinosaur epic.
Inexplicably, they say yes.
Our exclusive clip below highlights both the comedic nature of this bizarre scenario as well as the pressures of shooting dino feature The Land That Time Forgot in a mere six days, with no real feature experience.
A dino attack scene causes friction on set in this scene.
In the documentary, “A struggling filmmaker’s opportunity collides with chaos and compromise when Sharknado’s notorious studio, The Asylum, invites him to direct a ‘mockbuster.’ With six days, a micro budget, and mounting pressure, Mockbuster is a comedic, behind-the-scenes documentary exploring the balance between low-budget filmmaking and creative ambition.”
More than just an inside look at filmmaking via low-budget film studio The Asylum, it doubles as one man’s pursuit of his dreams to charming, humorous effect.
“Mockbuster is a documentary about my own journey, but it’s also a love letter to one of the last grindhouses still functioning in Hollywood. We get to meet the characters and creators of some of the most infamous (and most hated) B-movies of the last few decades. People who make movies purely for profit – no pretension, no artistry, just monsters, C-listers, and chaos. A film that both genre fans and cinephiles can enjoy. But Mockbuster isn’t just about filmmaking, it’s about losing sight of your dreams, and reclaiming them in your own twisted way,” Director Anthony Frith said in a statement.
From Executive Producer and famed documentarian David Farrier, Mockbuster opens in select theaters and on digital platforms beginning July 10.
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