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Horror Nights ’09: Danielle Harris Talks ‘Stake Land’
Friday night Bloody Disgusting hit up the red carpet premiere of the Chiller Eyegore Awards, which kicked off the annual Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood (it’s also open at Uni Orlando). While on the red carpet we caught up with the beautiful Danielle Harris who chatted with us briefly about her forthcoming role in Stake Lane, the second feature film from Mulberry Street director Jim Mickle.
“I don’t know what happened!,” Harris says with a smile in reference to her being cast in a bunch of new films this year. As for STAKE LAND, the star of Rob Zombie’s two HALLOWEEN films explains that it’s a cross-breed of genres. “STAKE LAND is like post-apocalyptic road trip vampire movie, which takes place over the course of a few years. It’s really cinematically beautiful, hardcore, very real and not your typical “TWILIGHT”… it’s more for these fans,” she says of the hardcore horror junkies.
Jim Mickle’s MULBERRY STREET is an incredible low budget film that is highly praised among the horror community. Harris tells BD that his style is what brought her on to do the film.
“Yeah, the reason I wanted to do it was because I saw MULBERRY STREET and was like `WOW’. I watched it with my boyfriend before I started to do the movie and I called my manager and asked if the same people were doing it `cause I loved [the] style. He [Jim Mickle] did that movie in one room with a crew of five. So I thought, `my god, he’s got a much bigger budget now, a great cast, amazing script and we’re shooting all over the place…’.”
“It’s a really cool plot,” she adds, “I read a lot of vampire movies and I really wanted to make sure that I did one that I wanted to do and it was. So it went great!”
The film takes place following a global spread of vampirism. McGillis plays a nun who joins a small team of survivors (including Damici, Danielle Harris and Conor Paolo) as they make a treacherous journey north to safety through the war-torn U.S. McGillis’ character, “Sister,” faces a crisis of faith during the vampire bloodshed, ultimately taking up arms to do battle with her newly formed family unit.
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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