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First Look at Gregory Lamberson’s ‘Johnny Gruesome’
Red Hill Movies LLC has released the first official images from Gregory Lamberson‘s long awaited horror thriller Johnny Gruesome, currently shooting in Western New York. Lamberson created the screenplay in 1984, and an award-winning novelization was published in 2007. The story concerns a murdered teenager, Johnny Grissom, who returns from the grave as supernatural creature craving vengeance against those who conspired against him.
Johnny Gruesome stars Anthony De La Torre, Byron Brown II, April Ann and Michael DeLorenzo. The supporting cast includes Chris Modrzynski, Kim Piazza, Richard Lounello and Madison Amey. Lamberson serves as the screenwriter, director and producer, with Tamar Lamberson and John Renna as co-producers and Erin Heald as executive producer. Special makeup effects artist Craig Lindberg designed and applied the Johnny Gruesome makeup. Matthew A. Nardone of NDstudios is the cinematographer.
“We have a fantastic cast and a top notch crew,” says Lamberson. “We’re three quarters of the way done, and we’ve firing on all cylinders every day. I think this is a great step for the Buffalo Niagara region: a film written, produced and financed locally, with total creative freedom and high production values.”
Johnny Gruesome is filming in Akron, Buffalo, Cheektowaga, Clarence, Lancaster and Niagara Falls, and wraps principal photography July 30th.
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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery
One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.
Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”
In the SXSW 2024 horror film…
“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.
“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”
Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.
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