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Exclusive ‘Recovery’ Clip Hallucinates the Dead
SP Releasing shared this exclusive clip from Recovery, opening in the U.S. and Canada in-stores, digitally, and on demand June 4th.
In the film, a violent Afghanistan war hero and struggling addict enters a drug treatment facility, and must confront her demons and question her own sanity as patients are brutally murdered one by one.
“Stephanie Pearson (Insidious: Chapter 2, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) stars as Ronnie Price, a struggling addict and decorated war hero from Afghanistan who suffers from severe PTSD, hallucinations, and violent blackouts. After being admitted to a drug treatment facility, Ronnie blacks out and attacks another patient. A young and idealistic psychiatrist (Hope Quattrocki) is determined to help Ronnie, while other staff attempts to discharge her.
“When a massive blizzard traps everyone in the facility, patients begin to brutally die one by one, and Ronnie must confront her own savage nature and sanity, and fight to overcome her violent past and psychological war trauma.”
“I wanted to explore the darkness of addiction, the struggle to get clean and one veteran’s post-traumatic stress through the lens of horror,” said director and co-writer John Liang. “I wanted to put the audience in the head of a recovering addict who is in a fragile, delicate place and must face an enemy more real than her own demons.”
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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