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Kevin Greutert Talks to BD from the Set of ‘Saw VII 3D’
Now that the storm has passed (for now), we caught up with Kevin Greutert from the set of Saw VII 3D, which is currently lensing in Toronto, Canada for an October 22 release via Lionsgate. While the director of Saw VI is still unhappy about being pulled off of Paranormal Activity 2, he’s looking at the bright side of things while working through a head cold.
“I’ve finished my first week of filming, and while my attitude toward the situation remains unchanged, film directing is still the greatest job in the world, and I have an excellent cast and crew working through this with me,” Greutert tels Bloody Disgusting from set in Toronto, Canada.
“At this point I view it as getting paid to go through a $17 million dollar one-man 3D film school program, so how’s that for looking at the bright side of a dark situation? Still scratching my head over how all this happened, but the die is cast, and I’m rolling with it,” he continues. “I’ve had a severe cold since Tuesday, and lost my voice entirely for a few days, but I’m not a much of a screamer anyway, so it was more amusing than anything else. As usual with SAW movies, we start with the simpler scenes first and then progress to the really crazy stuff, so given the state of the production at the moment, we’re moving into some very interesting times.”
If there’s one positive thing to come from all of this it’s that Kevin did a bang up job on Saw VI, maybe he can keep the franchise afloat?
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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