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Erica Leerhsen Gets a Bag on the Head in First ‘Butterfly Room’ Image
Yesterday we reported on a new Italian horror film featuring a major genre cast. The Butterfly Room, which is under the direction of Jonathan Zarantonello, stars Barbara Steele (pictured; “Dark Shadows”) as a main character, alongside Erica Leerhsen (Wrong Turn 2: Dead End), Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Ray Wise (Jeepers Creepers 2), PJ Soles (Halloween), Adrienne King (Friday the 13th), Camille Keaton (Chop, Day of the Woman), James Karen (Piranha, Joy Ride) and even director Joe Dante (Gremlins, Piranha)!
Pictured: Erica Leerhsen
Below you’ll find the first ever photos, along with a long synopsis.
“Alice is an eleven year old girl who entices women in their sixties: by trickeries she makes friend with them, till becoming the cure for their “empty nest syndrome”.
And once she’s become part of their lives, once they can’t live without her, she benefits by asking for tips, that gradually become actual fees.
A small price to pay to feel like mothers again…
But one day she meets the wrong lady: one day she meets Ann.
And she disappears.
Ann is a lonely lady, she lives with her collection of butterflies and she lives with her memories from the past, memories of Alice as well, whom she misses much…
But Ann is also a very busy lady: she’s busy throwing quicklime and acid in an elevator shaft, to make a body disappear, she’s busy with that handyman and his assistant who know too much and need to be taken care of and her daughter Dorothy, whom she’s never seen again after something horrible happened when she was a kid.
Something that Ann has desperately tried to bury in her past, a ghost that Alice, with her malicious behavior might have evoked.
And there’s the banging coming from the butterfly room…
Next to Ann’s door lives Claudia, a recently divorced, attractive single mother, struggling with her newfound independence.
Claudia asks Ann to tend her daughter Julie for a weekend.
Will Julie discover what happened to Alice?
Will Dorothy realize something wrong is going on, soon enough to spare other kids what she went through?
And what’s in the butterfly room?”
Pictured: Barbara Steele
The Wayans are out to cancel the Cancel Culture with Scary Movie, and the cast assures it will do just that.
“They sort of have an across-the-board style,” Anna Faris tells EW. “It’s always been a part of the Wayans Brothers, their electricity. ‘Can we offend you? Will you still love us? Come on, you still love us, don’t you?'”
Regina Hall concurs, promising the “boundary-pushing” sixth installment in the horror parody franchise will “offend everyone.”
EW has shared a batch of behind-the-scenes images from Scary Movie, which hits theaters June 5 via Paramount.
Faris and Hall are joined by fellow franchise favorites Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, and Jon Abrahams in the legacy sequel.
The ensemble includes Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Benny Zielke, Cameron Scott Roberts, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Sydney Park, Kenan Thompson, and Felissa Rose.
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) directs from a script by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, original Scary Movie director Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans (Scary Movie 2), and Rick Alvarez (A Haunted House).
The film will slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final.
Scary Movie launched in 2000, followed by Scary Movie 2 in 2001. The Wayans’ involvement ended there, but the series continued with 2003’s Scary Movie 3, 2006’s Scary Movie 4, and 2013’s Scary Movie 5.
Regina Hall & Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans & Regina Hall on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Michael Tiddes & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Regina Hall & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
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