Thursday 22 November 2012

American Mary - Arriving in 2013

UPDATE - DECEMBER 10 2012

The trailer for American Mary has just been released.

Please understand that this is not easy viewing, the movie is a horror pic, and do not click the link if you are likely to be distressed. Click here to view the trailer

However, The Soska Sisters appear to have created a graphic film that presents a feminine angle on exploitation and which is expected to be as intelligent in its structure, as it is gruesome to watch.

The film opens on January 11 2013 at selected cinemas, before a DVD release later that month.





It is rare, in fact, its never happened, that I have promoted a film's press release on this blog. However, come January 2013, The Soska Sisters' latest movie, American Mary is released in the UK.

In 2009, these innovative twins released the cult hit, Dead Hooker In A Trunk. An unashamedly funny, gory, wacky tale, set in their native Vancouver, produced on the tiniest of budgets, and with nearly all cast members doubling up in at least one crew role, as well. The film represented the very best of what low-budget independent film making should be about.

Their commitment to telling a good story is evident - the press release below tells its own story and if you enjoy well crafted horror, then you can expect this movie to be a cracking ride!

JB





The Soska Sisters (aka The Twisted Twins), co-creators of the award winning, cult indie smash hit Dead Hooker In A Trunk make an awe-inspiring return with their second feature AMERICAN MARY, a stylish, sexy, disturbing and darkly comic “body-mod” horror-thriller that many critics are hailing as the best and most genuinely original horror movie of the year.

Co-written and co-directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska (Dead Hooker In A Trunk) and featuring an outstanding, career-best lead performance by Katharine Isabelle (Being Human; Freddie vs. Jason; Ginger Snaps) in the title role, AMERICAN MARY has been wowing audiences at international film festivals (including London’s Film4 Frightfest) throughout 2012 and has already garnered Five Star reviews from Horror-Movies.ca and BoxOfficeBuz.com and Four Star reviews from Fangoria and Dread Central.

A provocative and thought-provoking combination of the horrors of a feminist “Frankenstein” with a fetishist twist and the visceral thrills of the “female revenge” genre, the film boasts a strikingly original script, laced throughout with a wicked sense of humour and a darkly erotic charge, that admirably takes the horror genre in a fresh and new direction. Simultaneously beautiful, repulsive, shocking and endearing, AMERICAN MARY is an unmissable experience that firmly establishes the Soska Sisters as two of the hottest new talents working in cinema today.

SYNOPSIS

Struggling to make financial ends meet while studying to be a surgeon, talented medical student Mary Mason (Katharine Isabelle) finds herself reduced to applying for work at a local strip joint in order to pay off her mounting debts. During her interview, she is unexpectedly called upon to perform some illegal emergency surgery on one of the club’s clients and is instantly rewarded with a significant cash payment.

Word of Mary’s scalpel-work soon reaches one of the club’s dancers, Beatress Johnson (Tristan Risk), who approaches her offering to pay handsomely for some off-the-books, extreme body-modification work on a friend. The ensuing surgery is a huge success and Mary’s skills soon attract the attention of an underground network of high-paying clientele, all looking for someone to administer procedures and body-mod work unavailable through the usual legal channels.

However, the allure of the easy money and the increasingly bizarre work she is commissioned to perform begins to leave a mark on Mary, and when an incident involving the established surgeons she once idolized leaves her traumatised, “Bloody Mary”, as she has come to be known, responds in the only way she knows how.

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