THR writes about an under-the-radar new indie werewolf film that’s heading to this week’s Cannes Virtual market.
Amelia Moses directed the female-driven body horror Bloodthirsty, a Canadian werewolf movie that sounds like it follows in the footsteps of films like Ginger Snaps and Raw.
Bloodthirsty stars Lauren Beatty as Grey, a young singer whose antipsychotic drugs don’t put a stop to early dream sequences about being a wolf. That’s before she’s invited after the success of her first album to work with a notorious music producer, played by Greg Bryk, at his remote studio mansion in the woods.
“We have a hybrid, a mix of a human and a wolf. It’s a bit more grotesque, a bit weirder, and we still get the emotion of the main character, even when she’s a werewolf,” Moses told THR of her work on the wolf transformation with Dave Trainor, a veteran make-up and prosthetics maker on TV series like “Fargo” and “Wynonna Earp”.
In a bit of a spoiler, the site teases the film’s iconic werewolf transformation scene — “where Grey’s wolf body bursts from her human body with muscle mass, bloodshot eyes and hair growth — sees the driven young singer discovering who she is, who her family really is and the price to be paid for becoming a great artist.”
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