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Shout! Studios Plays a Prank with ‘Let’s Scare Julie’ This October
A Halloween prank goes terribly wrong in Let’s Scare Julie (previously titled Let’s Scare Julie to Death), an indie thriller written and directed by Jud Cremata that Shout! Studios will release in Home Theaters on Digital and On Demand everywhere October 2, 2020.
Bloody Disgusting previously shared the first ever photos from the film in which a group of teen girls set out to scare their reclusive new neighbor, but the prank turns to terror when some of them don’t come back.
The film stars Isabel May, from the Emmy-nominated Netflix comedy series “Alexa & Katie”, as the party’s host, who helps plan the scare-prank.
The full cast includes Odessa Adlon, Brooke Sorenson, Jessica Sarah Flaum, Blake Robbins, Valorie Hubbard, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, and Bill Timoney.
When originally announced, it was reported that Cremata’s script will be used as a blueprint from which performers will improvise, creating a gritty realism.
“Let’s Scare Julie was filmed in one uninterrupted, continuous take; once the camera started rolling, it never stopped until the end,” says the release. “There were no cuts, alternate takes or additional footage used during filming. These events happened in real time.”
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After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.