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First Photo From ‘The Killing Room’
If you’re a fan of the incredible short film RINGS (that came with THE RING DVD set) or New Line Cinema’s TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING, then you should be pumped for Jonathan Liebesman’s latest project, The Killing Room, which stars Michael Byrnes, Nick Cannon, Clea DuVall, Timothy Hutton, Meade Patton, Joan Roberts and Chloë Sevigny. In the film four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program. Beyond the break you can read a bunch of info on the film, and check out the first still.
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The wellness industry gets turned upside down in a blood-soaked cultural reckoning in the teaser for Namaslay.
The genre-bending horror satire that “reclaims the spirit of masala cinema while skewering the commercialization and appropriation of yoga in the West” releases in NYC/LA theaters on August 6 before expanding nationwide on August 13.
In Namaslay, “After arriving in Los Angeles, Gayatri accepts an invitation from her friend Judy to try an upscale yoga studio she’s been dying to attend. When the owner, Reyna, offers Gayatri a chance to join her instructor training program, Gayatri decides to look past the obvious eccentricities and accept the job. As she reconnects with the practice of Yoga she first learned from her grandmother, Gayatri is eventually asked to attend the prestigious instructor’s retreat, where she discovers the ulterior nature of her invitation.”
Starring in the film are Kirunthuja Srikanth-Talim, Angela Sant’Albano, Alicia Mitchell-Mangual, with Usha Krishnan and Christina Moore.
Namaslay is written by Rish and Kanish (Rish Arhant-Sudhir and Kanish Arhant-Sudhir).
The film marks the first feature project from Junghal Studios, an independent production company founded by the directing duo in 2019. With the new label, Rish and Kanish are building a slate of ambitious masala event films inspired by artistic traditions from around the world.
For the uninitiated, Masala films rose to prominence in the ’70s and blend a variety of unlikely genres; they’re also often musicals.
The first chapter in Junghal Studios’ mission, Namaslay, blends horror, satire, and the maximalist energy of masala cinema in its first teaser and poster below.
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