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[Trailer] ‘Shutter’ Director Returns With Thai Horror ‘The Medium’!
A story about shamanism in Thailand.
Early 2000s Asian horror cinema peaked around the release of Banjong Pisanthanakun‘s Thai horror masterpiece Shutter (2004), which was eventually remade here in the States by 20th Century Fox and the producer behind The Ring and The Grudge.
Pisanthanakun is back with The Medium, a supernatural horror flick that was produced by Korea’s Na Hong-jin, who was behind classics such as The Wailing, Yellow Sea and The Chase, explained THR when news broke.
Now, Variety has the exclusive trailer frop for The Medium, described as a “horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand.
“But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not be as benevolent as it first appears.”
The Medium opens in Korea this July. Watch for U.S. distribution news as it comes in.
Fresh off his brief appearance as Longlegs in Scary Movie, Deadline reports that Chris Elliott will star alongside Michael Ian Black in Sasquatch creature comedy Bad Day for Bigfoot.
Sara Tomko (Resident Alien), Oliver Cooper (Project X) and James Duval (Donnie Darko) also star in the film from filmmakers Zach Green and Devin O’Rourke (Foil).
Deadline details in today’s exclusive report, “The film follows a Bigfoot hoax that goes horribly wrong in the middle of an actual Sasquatch hot spot, leading to a chaotic struggle between the hoaxers, investigators, and a supernatural force that defies explanation.”
“I have always been drawn to cryptids and monster lore, and the over-the-top sincerity of 80s and 90s protagonists,” director Zach Green said in a statement. “Bad Day for Bigfoot is a love letter to those creature-filled adventure comedies. I couldn’t be more proud of the cast and crew we’ve assembled, and for the support and enthusiasm from the people of La Grande [Oregon]. It was their gumption that proved to us that making this thing was very possible, and that what’s lurking in those woods may be very real indeed.”
The cast also includes Ashley Rae Spillers, Brian McGuire and Kyle D. King.
Stay tuned for more on Bad Day for Bigfoot as we learn it.
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