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First Look at Valentine’s Day-Themed ‘Pretty Boy’, the Psycho Slasher Set for a Popcorn Frights World Premiere [Exclusive]
Fans of slashers like My Bloody Valentine and Valentine (2001) get ready for Marcel Walz‘s indie Pretty Boy, his own Valentine’s Day-themed slasher that’s set to hold its World Premiere at the forthcoming Popcorn Frights, the South Florida-based horror film festival that returns to theaters next month, from August 12-19, 2021.
“In this gloriously melodramatic suspense slasher, a masked killer named Pretty Boy takes a blind woman from her home in the Hollywood hills and crashes a Valentine’s Day party where the bloodshed continues as he runs amok with his butcher’s knife,” explains the festival guide. It stars Sarah French, Jed Rowen, and Devanny Pinn.
Bloody Disgusting is excited to share the first art and still from Pretty Boy, which is actually a spinoff of a character in Walz’s Blind (2020)!
“Horror fans reacted well to Pretty Boy’s appearance in Blind and how vile he is,” Walz tells Bloody Disgusting, adding: “With that reaction to the first film, now we decided to focus more on Pretty Boy. Blind was inspired by ‘70s horror, it was a slow burn like the original Black Christmas. Pretty Boy is heavily ‘80s-inspired and a love letter to all our favorite slasher franchises we all grew up with!
“The movie is bloody, funny, and sexy,” he adds, while the fest itself says we should, “Expect disco lights, glitter, a killer soundtrack, and lots and lots of gore!”
Pretty Boy will be world premiering on Friday, August 13th at Popcorn Frights Film Festival in South Florida.
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‘Dancing Village: The Curse Begins’ – Exclusive Clip and Images Begin a Gruesome Indonesian Nightmare
Indonesian filmmaker Kimo Stamboel (Macabre, Headshot, The Queen of Black Magic) is back in the director’s chair for MD Pictures’ Badarawuhi Di Desa Penari (aka Dancing Village: The Curse Begins), a prequel to the Indonesian box office hit KKN Curse Of The Dancing Village. Lionsgate brings the film to U.S. theaters on April 26.
While you wait, whet your appetite for gruesome horror with a gnarly exclusive clip from Dancing Village: The Curse Begins below, along with a gallery of bloody exclusive images.
In the horror prequel, “A shaman instructs Mila to return a mystical bracelet, the Kawaturih, to the ‘Dancing Village,’ a remote site on the easternmost tip of Java Island. Joined by her cousin, Yuda, and his friends Jito and Arya, Mila arrives on the island only to discover that the village elder has passed away, and that the new guardian, Mbah Buyut, isn’t present.
“Various strange and eerie events occur while awaiting Mbah Buyut’s return, including Mila being visited by Badarawuhi, a mysterious, mythical being who rules the village. When she decides to return the Kawaturih without the help of Mgah Buyut, Mila threatens the village’s safety, and she must join a ritual to select the new ‘Dawuh,’ a cursed soul forced to dance for the rest of her life.”
Kimo Stamboel directs from a screenplay by Lele Laila.
Aulia Sarah, Maudy Effrosina, Jourdy Pranata, Moh. Iqbal Sulaiman, Ardit Erwandha, Claresta Taufan, Diding Boneng, Aming Sugandhi, Dinda Kanyadewi, Pipien Putri, Maryam Supraba, Bimasena, Putri Permata, Baiq Vania Estiningtyas Sagita, and Baiq Nathania Elvaretta star.
KKN Curse Of The Dancing Village was the highest grossing film in Indonesian box office history when initially released in 2022. Its prequel is the first film made for IMAX ever produced in Southeast Asia and in 2024, it will be one of only five films made for IMAX productions worldwide. Manoj Punjabi produces the upcoming Indonesian horror prequel.
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