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BD’s Got Your ’30 Days of Night: Dark Days’ Casting!
Bloody Disgusting just got the exclusive drop on the first official casting for the Ben Ketai directed 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures’ direct-to-video sequel to the Steve Niles adaptation from 2007. Filming officially kicked off TODAY and beyond the break Bloody Disgusting has your official cast. Enjoy!
Here’s the casting breakdown for you guys, exclusive to Bloody Disgusting:
Rhys Coiro, who plays the infamous Billy in “Entourage” and takes on a major role in Screen Gems’ Straw Dogs remake, takes on one of the lead roles.
Mia Kirshner of The Black Dahlia and Party Monster) plays the lead vampire villain “Lilith”.
Also starring are Harold Perrineau (“Lost”, 28 Weeks Later), the beautiful Kiele Sanchez (A Perfect Getaway, Insanitarium, “Lost”) and genre vet Diora Baird (Night of the Demons, Texas Chiansaw Massacre: Te Beginning, Stan Helsing). Rhys Coiro and Monique Ganderton round out the cast.
Coiro starred in The Unborn and the forthcoming remake of Straw Dogs. Ganderton is the stunt double in tons of horror movies ranging from Joy Ride: Dead Ahead to Underworld: Evolution, White Noise 2: The Light and the forthcoming The Cabin in the Woods.
Plot crunch: After nearly a year of struggling to expose the truth, a desperate and lonely Stella decides to join a group of rogue vampire hunters to seek revenge on Lilith, the powerful vampire responsible for the attack on her Alaskan town…
Pictured in order of mention: Rhys Coiro, Mia Kirshner, Harold Perrineau, Kiele Sanchez and Diora Baird
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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