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Tom Six Hopes to Push Your Buttons with New Film ‘The Onania Club’ [Trailer]
Say what you will about director Tom Six, but he actually has a lot to say. The filmmaker behind the Human Centipede trilogy always ties social commentary to his films, even if he tends to go too far.
Seemingly taking inspiration from David Cronenberg’s 1996 thriller Crash (based on J. G. Ballard’s 1973 novel), Six is hoping to provoke and enrage with The Onania Club, which appears to be about elitists who take pleasure in the suffering of others.
In the film, a woman joins a secret group called “The Onania Club” where its members – all strong, independent L.A.-bound women – get aroused by the misery of others. She meets more misery than she could ever hope for and in the process loses everything she holds dear.
As we can see in the newly released trailer, Six is being quite literal in his commentary and it’s kinda, I dunno, gross? The footage looks like a bad soap opera – and it’s probably in bad taste – but at least he’s trying to say something? I guess…?
“The movie’s main theme is ‘Schadenfreude, which means taking pleasure out of other people’s misery,” Six explains. “It is a social commentary on the ever-growing political correctness in the privileged Western world and the hypocrisy of that.
“It is part ‘Sex and the City’ on evil steroids and part pure, pitch black, comedy.”
“In the movie, women are portrait as very powerful, self-made, independent characters. The women are strong and the men are weak, which is rarely seen in other features.”
The film will be for sale at the forthcoming AFM in Santa Monica, CA this coming November.
It’s now been five years since the release of sequel Happy Death Day 2U, Christopher Landon’s sequel to the Groundhog Day-style slasher movie from 2017. Both films star Jessica Rothe as final girl Tree Gelbman, and director Christopher Landon had been planning on bringing the character – and the actor – back for a third installment. So… where is it?!
We’ve been talking about a potential Happy Death Day 3 for several years now, with the ball in producer Jason Blum’s court. Happy Death Day 2U scared up $64 million at the worldwide box office, a far cry from the first film’s $125 million. But with a reported production budget of just $9 million, that first sequel was profitable for Blumhouse. So again… where is it?!
Chatting with Screen Geek this week while promoting her new action-thriller Boy Kills World, franchise star Jessica Rothe provided a hopeful update on Happy Death Day 3.
“Well, I can say Chris Landon has the whole thing figured out,” Rothe explains. “We just need to wait for Blumhouse and Universal to get their ducks in a row.
Rothe continues in her comments to Screen Geek, “But my fingers are so crossed. I think Tree [Gelbman] deserves her third and final chapter to bring that incredible character and franchise to a close or a new beginning.”
Back in 2020, Christopher Landon had revealed that the working title for the third installment was Happy Death Day to Us, said to be “different than the other two films.”
In the meantime, Christopher Landon is directing a mysterious thriller titled Drop for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes, along with a werewolf movie titled Big Bad for Lionsgate.
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