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Jack Ketchum’s ‘Offspring’ Fully Casts Up
This morning we scored the first casting news for Modercine’s latest Jack Ketchum adaptation, Offspring, which will be directed by Andrew Van Den Houten. OFFSPRING features veteran actor of film and television Art Hindle (The Brood, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and actress Polyanna McIntosh, with Tommy Nelson, Spencer List, Michael Biehn and John Savage rounding out the cast. Read on for the press release.
MODERNCINÉ, director/producer ANDREW VAN DEN HOUTEN, and critically acclaimed horror author JACK KETCHUM reunite to bring one of the author’s most haunting and gruesome tales to the big screen. “Who’s the scariest guy in America? Jack Ketchum, quite simply, is one of the best in the business,” says literary master of the macabre Stephen King.
Adapted for the screen by author JACK KETCHUM, who broadened the landscape of our worst nightmares with such stories as “The Lost,” “The Girl Next Door,” and “Red,” comes this shocking tale of rural horror adapted by the master storyteller himself – OFFSPRING. Something deadly has returned to the woods and seaside cliffs of Dead River, Maine. An evil thought to have been exterminated has returned with their insatiable appetite for human flesh. David and Amy Halbard’s family and their house guests are about to come face to face with a blood-thirsty pack of wild children lead by a woman, the last survivor of a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages. The only one who can possibly save them and put an end to the reign of terror is retired sheriff George Peters.
Directed by VAN DEN HOUTEN and screenplay by KETCHUM, OFFSPRING’s cinematographer and producer is William M. Miller, with a score by Ryan Shore and special effects by Anthony Pepe. OFFSPRING features veteran actor of film and television ART HINDLE (The Brood and Invasion of the Body Snatchers) as George Peters and actress POLLYANNA MCINTOSH as Claire. Young TOMMY NELSON plays the heroic Luke and his co-star SPENCER LIST, who stars opposite Michael Biehn and John Savage in the upcoming “Malevolence: Bereavement,” is the sinister Rabbit.
Out today in select theaters and on digital platforms is heartfelt and playful documentary Mockbuster, which sees a director cold call a studio and ask to helm a lost-world dinosaur epic.
Inexplicably, they say yes.
Our exclusive clip below highlights both the comedic nature of this bizarre scenario as well as the pressures of shooting dino feature The Land That Time Forgot in a mere six days, with no real feature experience.
A dino attack scene causes friction on set in this scene.
In the documentary, “A struggling filmmaker’s opportunity collides with chaos and compromise when Sharknado’s notorious studio, The Asylum, invites him to direct a ‘mockbuster.’ With six days, a micro budget, and mounting pressure, Mockbuster is a comedic, behind-the-scenes documentary exploring the balance between low-budget filmmaking and creative ambition.”
More than just an inside look at filmmaking via low-budget film studio The Asylum, it doubles as one man’s pursuit of his dreams to charming, humorous effect.
“Mockbuster is a documentary about my own journey, but it’s also a love letter to one of the last grindhouses still functioning in Hollywood. We get to meet the characters and creators of some of the most infamous (and most hated) B-movies of the last few decades. People who make movies purely for profit – no pretension, no artistry, just monsters, C-listers, and chaos. A film that both genre fans and cinephiles can enjoy. But Mockbuster isn’t just about filmmaking, it’s about losing sight of your dreams, and reclaiming them in your own twisted way,” Director Anthony Frith said in a statement.
From Executive Producer and famed documentarian David Farrier, Mockbuster opens in select theaters and on digital platforms beginning July 10.