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Margaret Malandruccolo’s ‘Coven’ is Being Marketed as “The Craft Meets Suspiria” [Trailer]
In the wake of the Suspiria remake and ahead of the upcoming remake of The Craft, Canadian filmmaker Margaret Malandruccolo‘s Coven is headed our way this summer, and it’s being marketed by distributor Uncork’d Entertainment as “The Craft meets Suspiria.”
Music video director Malandruccolo makes her feature debut with this one. There are indeed shades of The Craft, in particular, in the first trailer for Coven, which you can check out below.
In the film, “Five undergrad witches come together in order to perform a ritual to invoke the ancient powers of the witch Ashura. The leader of the coven gets carried away and accidentally kills one of the witches during the ritual. She needs the strength of a complete coven to invoke Ashura’s powers and sends them out to find a final witch. As she absorbs power the surviving girls plot to take her down but the possessed witch unleashes hell on campus with only one young witch left to stop her.”
Lizze Gordon, Jennifer Cipolla, Margot Major, Adam Horner, and Terri Ivens star.
Uncork’d will release Coven on DVD and Digital July 14.
From director David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury), Heart of the Beast will hit theaters on September 25 from Paramount Pictures, and GQ shares first look images this week.
In the film, a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after suffering a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
Brad Pitt stars in the survival thriller Heart of the Beast, with J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Anna Lambe (“True Detective: Night Country”) also starring.
Cameron Alexander wrote the screenplay for Heart of the Beast. Academy Award winner Mauro Fiore (Avatar, Spider-Man: No Way Home) serves as director of photography.
“I’ll just be really honest: it made me cry,” Ayer tells GQ of the script. “Reading the script, it’s like a tone poem, in a sense. It’s so sparse—just a guy, a dog, mountains, and the calamities and triumphs that unfold, but what’s fascinating about the script is they’re constantly rescuing each other. It’s not like a guy and his pet—they felt like co-equals in this story. Brad wanted to be No. 2 on the call sheet, and rightly so. There was just something profound in the script. It felt like a study in grief, in healing, and of the human heart. So I had to do it.”
Ayer promises, “Don’t worry, the dog lives.”
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