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‘Guillotine’ Trailer – Sean Young Narrates Historical Horror Comedy Anthology
Heads will roll when Guillotine slices through VOD on October 31. Watch the trailer below.
Narrated by Blade Runner‘s Sean Young, the historical horror comedy anthology uses the guillotine as a centerpiece to explore human nature through genre-bending narratives.
The guillotine was built on the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, an attempt to instill grace to an otherwise brutal expression of justice. The film examines the killing machine’s role in history through the lens of five true tales, from the French Revolution to the fall of Saddam Hussein.
At times humorous and ironic, poignant and thoughtful, these stories reflect the morality of their times, tracing the philosophical attitudes about capital punishment and the power structure that allows it to be. From a necessary evil to cold-blooded amusement, the blade falls with no less detachment.
Ray Izad-Mehr makes his feature directional debut from a script he co-wrote with Sara Vahabi, Nabor Cabanillas, Melinda Molenda, and Lisa Molenda.
“With Guillotine, I wanted to take something historically final and kind of reimagine it — making it bloody, absurd, and unsettlingly funny — to cut through the layers of what makes us human. Each story peels back a different part of human nature… but with a bit of a twisted grin,” says Izad-Mehr.
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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