While not a horror film – it’s a comedy, actually – Catfight features brutal, no-holds-barred fights between Sandra Oh and Anne Heche.
Now only that, but it comes from one of my favorite independent filmmakers around, Onur Tukel, who directed the hilarious vamp comedy Summer of Blood, and 2015’s Applesauce.
Next up is Catfight, which was a huge success at last September Toronto International Film Festival. We now get front row seats to the brutal beatdown when it arrives on VOD March 3rd.
One-time college pals Veronica (Sandra Oh) and Ashley (Anne Heche) run into each other at a party. The women, now in their forties and having not seen each other since school, find that their lives have taken radically different paths. Ashley is barely scraping by as a painter of politically charged canvases, while Veronica is married to a wealthy businessman who’s about to profit hugely off yet another US-led war in the Middle East.
Within minutes of their reunion, a rivalry is revived, old wounds are torn open, and a Manhattan stairwell becomes home to a woman-on-woman brawl the likes of which are seldom seen outside of martial-arts epics. And now the gloves are off. The new feature from writer-director Onur Tukel takes a set-up that in most films would lead to a heartwarming story of female friendship — and uses it instead as the springboard for an outrageously madcap black comedy.
