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Rainey Qualley, Shane West, Shiloh Fernandez Star in ‘Pig Hill’ for ‘Willy’s Wonderland’ Director
Post-production is complete on Pig Hill, a supernatural horror feature from Willy’s Wonderland director Kevin Lewis.
Rainey Qualley (Shut In), Shane West (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead) lead the cast, which also includes genre favorite R.A. Mihailoff (Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III).
Variety reports that Concourse Media will be shopping the film at the upcoming Cannes market.
Carrie (Qualley), a girl haunted by the mysterious disappearances of women in her small town, becomes embroiled in a dark tale of family betrayal. As she investigates the folklore surrounding the so-called “pig people,” she uncovers a terrifying truth about her own brother, Chris (Fernandez), who has been has been hiding a sinister past since childhood.
As she fights for survival in a twisted game of cat and mouse, Carrie and her friend Andy (West) realize that the legends of Pig Hill are rooted in a gruesome reality, ultimately leading to a violent confrontation that reveals the depths of madness and the lengths Carrie will go to reclaim her life.
Jarrod Burris penned the script, based on Nancy Williams‘s 2019 novel Pig.
“Pig Hill is a punk-rock fever dream mind trip of a movie,” said Lewis. “It is adapted from Nancy Williams novel and is a poignant story of obsession, love, and the terrible consequences of what happens when reality and fantasy blur. It is a tale of the remarkable power of the mind and how it will do anything to protect itself.”
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Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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