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Jennifer Lynch Had ‘Hisss’ Taken Away From Her
Where the heck is Jennifer Lynch’s Hisss? Starring the beautiful Mallika Sherawat as a snake woman who can take on various forms, the film was set to premiere at this past October’s Screamfest Horror Film Festival, before being yanked at the very last second. All signs point to “bad movie”, and now Lynch is even opening up stating that the film isn’t even hers anymore! All of the details can be found inside.
Fenilandbollywood contacted director Jennifer Lynch who revealed this shocker of a statement: “Hisss was taken away from me in the edit. I have no idea what the film looks like. I came close to a directors’ cut, which Mallika, Venus and producers (Govind Menon and Vikram Singh) referred to as `European, languid and sensual’ all the things I thought were compliments.”
She continues, “Apparently, that did not make them happy. I have no idea what is out there. Good or bad, I cannot take credit for it. Aside from shots and performances that I pray have not been butchered.”
Jennifer wanted to make the film a love story. She added, “They took the songs out; they wanted more horror.”
Despite all this, the director hopes to return to India someday. Will bygones be bygones for her? She says, “My name is all over it (the film). I can do nothing. But I want to come back.”
WOW. This should be an interesting film should it ever find a release here in the States.
After a record-breaking debut weekend, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms was already a massive success story, and the liminal horror movie just passed another milestone.
Backrooms scared up an estimated $25.9 million at the U.S. box office in its second weekend, finding itself in the #3 spot behind Scary Movie and Masters of the Universe. That’s a 70% drop from the film’s massive opening weekend total of $81.4 million, which was expected.
The current domestic total for Backrooms is now $135 million, while Backrooms just passed $200 million at the worldwide box office. The current worldwide take is $212.6 million!
Backrooms is already the second highest grossing horror movie of 2026, and it’s now nipping at the heels of Obsession to claim the #1 spot. Obsession‘s worldwide total is $224.7 million at the time of this article being written, while the domestic total is currently $152.1 million.
A huge part of the story here is that the production budget for Backrooms was a reported $10 million, the kind of budget that often doesn’t result in $200+ million movies. This one was a massive success literally from the first Thursday night of release, and everything from this point forward is just adding more and more profit onto the pile for Blumhouse and A24.
Read our Backrooms movie review now!
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
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