There are some really interesting ideas threaded throughout Clara’s Ghost, the new possibly supernatural (?) comedy from writer/director Bridey Elliott. Using the paranormal as a means of examining family dynamics, Elliott clearly wants to say something about motherhood, about selfishness, about the fear of being forgotten. Unfortunately, it only occasionally comes through in what is otherwise an abrasive comedy about abrasive people, like a Noah Baumbach movie that might have a ghost in it.
The movie’s cast is made up mostly of Elliot’s real-life family as they spend an evening in their Connecticut home: the writer/director also plays Riley, a former child TV star, and her sister Abby (of Saturday Night Live fame) plays her sister Julie, who is still a successful actor and is freaking out about her wedding in a number of months. Their dad, Chris Elliott plays their dad, also an actor, but...
The movie’s cast is made up mostly of Elliot’s real-life family as they spend an evening in their Connecticut home: the writer/director also plays Riley, a former child TV star, and her sister Abby (of Saturday Night Live fame) plays her sister Julie, who is still a successful actor and is freaking out about her wedding in a number of months. Their dad, Chris Elliott plays their dad, also an actor, but...
- 6/25/2018
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
(Aotn)-Smt Heads, you’ve never thought of yourself as a rat, we’re sure… But tonight, maybe it’s time to think about rats. Especially as you ponder the latest documentary offering from Cinema Guild Pictures, “Rat Film.”
Yes, “Rat Film” is what it sounds like. Yet you’ve never seen a film like it, either. Check out the trailer, right here:
Rat Film: Rats, Maps, and Extermination in an American City.
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them–to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s always been a people problem.”
Rat Film director Theo Anthony is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker currently based in Baltimore,...
Yes, “Rat Film” is what it sounds like. Yet you’ve never seen a film like it, either. Check out the trailer, right here:
Rat Film: Rats, Maps, and Extermination in an American City.
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them–to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s always been a people problem.”
Rat Film director Theo Anthony is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker currently based in Baltimore,...
- 9/22/2017
- by Jason Stewart
- Age of the Nerd
Mark Proksch is proclaiming that humanity is at war with the spirit world in the upcoming horror film, ‘Another Evil.’ In support of the comedy’s release in select theaters and on VOD and Digital HD by Dark Sky Films this Friday, Shockya is premiering an exclusive clip from the movie. In the video, Proksch’s character, […]
The post Mark Proksch and Steve Zissis Confirm the Spirit World is Real In Another Evil Exclusive Clip appeared first on Shockya.com.
The post Mark Proksch and Steve Zissis Confirm the Spirit World is Real In Another Evil Exclusive Clip appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 5/3/2017
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
May 2017 is going to give genre fans plenty of reasons to stay home this month, as we have a lot of cool titles to look forward to. The month kicks off with Even Lambs Have Teeth on May 2nd, and just a few days later, Take Me (the latest from Pat Healy) and the horror comedy Another Evil make their digital debuts. Jordan Peele’s Get Out makes its digital bow on May 9th before hitting VOD platforms just a few weeks later, and the Australian thriller Hounds of Love gets released on May 12th. And, for those of you who might have missed it in theaters, A Cure for Wellness arrives on Digital HD at the end of the month, too.
Other notable VOD releases for May 2017 include The Black Room, The Survivalist, Breakdown Lane, and 96 Souls.
American Exorcism (Uncork’d Entertainment) – May 2nd
After narrowly surviving a harrowing possession,...
Other notable VOD releases for May 2017 include The Black Room, The Survivalist, Breakdown Lane, and 96 Souls.
American Exorcism (Uncork’d Entertainment) – May 2nd
After narrowly surviving a harrowing possession,...
- 5/1/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Dark Sky Films will bring a strange story, to the screen. The film is titled Another Evil. From director Carson D. Mell, the film is a blend of horror and comedy. Recently, it showed at SXSW, in Austin and the Fantasia Film Festival. Another Evil is now set to see a few theatres in May and Video-on-demand. The film stars: Steve Zissis (Roadies), Jennifer Irwin (The Goldbergs) and Mark Proksch ("Better Call Saul"). A preview for the film's launch is hosted here. Os Bijourn is more than an alcoholic. He is also an unwanted boarder. But still, there are more demons to track down, in Dan's home. With no end on the horizon, Dan will have to take extreme measures to rid himself of both ghosts and this lonely ghosthunter. The film's official trailer is hosted here. It shows Dan and Os putting together various ghost traps. Some are more effective than others.
- 4/11/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
"Meet Os. A Straight Up Ghost Assassin." Dark Sky Films has released a trailer for a horror comedy titled Another Evil, about a wacky ghost exterminator named Os who is hired to get rid of a ghost in a summer home. Steve Zissis (from "Togetherness") stars as Dan, the guy who moves into his family's vacation home and encounters a ghost. The cast includes Jennifer Irwin, Mark Proksch as Os, Dan Bakkedahl, Dax Flame, Steve Little, and Mariko Munro. This looks very fun, I'm glad that we finally get to see another comedic take on haunted house and ghost exterminators (one of the only other ones I can think of is The Frighteners). It feels like this would be a nice double feature with What We Do in the Shadows. Have fun. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Carson D. Mell's Another Evil, direct from YouTube: After encountering a...
- 4/10/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When you hear that a movie was one of the funniest things anyone saw at SXSW and then follow it up with info that the writer/direct has also written for "Eastbound and Down" and "Silicon Valley," one naturally prepares for laughs. At least I did when I sat down to watch Carson D. Mell's Another Evil.
The thing with comedy is that, even more so than other genres, it's very particular and what works for some doesn't work for others and as much as I've enjoyed Mell's other work, this really isn't for me.
The concept for Another Evil is pretty typical horror stuff. Dan, an artist, is spending some time at his vacation home with his wife Mary and their teenage son when they begin to see apparitions. Convinced that the house has become haunted, Mary finds an exorcist to co [Continued ...]...
The thing with comedy is that, even more so than other genres, it's very particular and what works for some doesn't work for others and as much as I've enjoyed Mell's other work, this really isn't for me.
The concept for Another Evil is pretty typical horror stuff. Dan, an artist, is spending some time at his vacation home with his wife Mary and their teenage son when they begin to see apparitions. Convinced that the house has become haunted, Mary finds an exorcist to co [Continued ...]...
- 10/25/2016
- QuietEarth.us
"I may be dead, but I'm still pretty." Whether you want to watch Buffy Summers and company battle supernatural beings for the first time or re-live all your favorite moments from the show, reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer are playing now on Pop TV. Also: The Drawing short film starring Clarke Wolfe in its entirety, a trailer / acquisition news for Gehenna: Where Death Lives, an excerpt from Duncan Ralston's Woom, the lineup for Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival, and The Master Cleanse at Screamfest.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Pop TV: Reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer are now playing on Pop TV.
To learn more, visit:
http://poptv.com/buffy_the_vampire_slayer/
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Watch Short Film The Drawing in its Entirety: Press Release: "Los Angeles, CA: The Drawing is coming! The Drawing is here! The Drawing is a modern monster horror short infused with 80s synth overtones.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Pop TV: Reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer are now playing on Pop TV.
To learn more, visit:
http://poptv.com/buffy_the_vampire_slayer/
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Watch Short Film The Drawing in its Entirety: Press Release: "Los Angeles, CA: The Drawing is coming! The Drawing is here! The Drawing is a modern monster horror short infused with 80s synth overtones.
- 10/25/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
★★★★☆ Ghosts from Our Past: Both Figuratively and Literally, the title of a controversial book co-authored by Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and Abbey Yates (Melissa McCarthy), in Paul Feig's Ghostbusters, serves as a handy description of Carson Mell's superb horror comedy, Another Evil. Vacationing at his mountain cabin property, Dan (an abstract painter) and his family experience and witness ghostly events. Calling in a psychic medium, who tells them there's definitely a problem, the artist's friend recommends a guy he knows in the to exorcise the house of evil spirits. Big mistake.
- 8/30/2016
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Exclusive: Toronto sales company will shop the SXSW premiere in Cannes.
Toronto-based Raven Banner has come on as international sales agent on SXSW Midnighter selection Another Evil and has begun talks with buyers here.
Carson D. Mell’s exorcism comedy screened in the market on Wednesday and stars Steve Zissis and Jennifer Irwin as a married couple who hire an exorcist to rid their vacation home of evil forces. Mark Proksch plays the exorcist.
Raven Banner’s Michael Paszt and James Fler negotiated the deal with Another Evil producers Riel Roch Decter and Sebastian Pardo.
Toronto-based Raven Banner has come on as international sales agent on SXSW Midnighter selection Another Evil and has begun talks with buyers here.
Carson D. Mell’s exorcism comedy screened in the market on Wednesday and stars Steve Zissis and Jennifer Irwin as a married couple who hire an exorcist to rid their vacation home of evil forces. Mark Proksch plays the exorcist.
Raven Banner’s Michael Paszt and James Fler negotiated the deal with Another Evil producers Riel Roch Decter and Sebastian Pardo.
- 5/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Part of director Carson D. Mell’s research for the horror comedy “Another Evil” was going on actual ghost hunts with people who truly believe in the supernatural. “I just love people who are super passionate about things that might not exist,” Mell said at TheWrap’s SXSW interview studio. “But they’re a hundred percent convinced.” Star Mark Proksch told TheWrap that Mell helped him get get into character as the industrial-grade exorcist Os by taking him on fake ghost hunts through the back entrances of Los Angeles malls. Watch the video above.
- 3/24/2016
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
For his feature debut Another Evil, writer/animator Carson D. Mell tackles the risky horror-comedy genre. A husband and wife discover that their vacation home may be populated by malign spirits, bringing in two separate exorcists to deal with the problem. Comedy is courtesy of a cast of familiar TV presences (including Togetherness‘ Steve Zissis and Veep‘s Dan Bakkedahl), horror courtesy of the tone established by Mell and Dp Drew Bienemann. Prior to the film’s SXSW premiere, Bienemann talked about being guided style-wise by My Dinner with Andre, getting a recommendation for the job from Jody Lee Lipes and the importance of shooting on an Alexa. […]...
- 3/15/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Multi-hyphenate Carson Mell has been known in the independent film world for some of the most subversively entertaining animated shorts of recent years, including Bobby Bird: The Devil in Denim. He’s acted, appearing recently in Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl. And he’s now an established television writer, having written for the series Eastbound and Down and Silicon Valley. Which is all to say that the subject matter of his first feature would have been anyone’s guess. Beating a comedy about alcoholic astronauts to the punch is his SXSW-premiering, Ifp Narrative Lab selection, Another Evil, a comedy about […]...
- 3/12/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Those in the know (his following might have discovered him via his pair of novels in The Blue Bourbon Orchestra and Saguaro) appreciate his off the beaten track humor and array of trippy characters and their limitless inscribed legends. The fanfare has steadily grown in Park City with trio of animated short films in Bobby Bird: The Devil in Denim (2007), Chonto (2008), Field Notes from Dimension X : Oasis (2009). Running the full gamut of Sundance Institute’s workshops with Ajax (this could logically be his sophomore feature film), production on Carson Mell‘s directorial debut took place in November of 2014 in Arizona. With recent writing creds for Eastbound & Down and Silicon Valley, described as a supernatural comedy, the live-action Another Evil in definitely in ready mode after showing up at Champs-Élysées Film Fest’s U.S. in Progress this past June. Steve Zissis stars and somewhere in the mix…you’ll...
- 11/23/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Shaz Bennett has her own unique history with the Sundance Film Festival having worked for them as a programmer before it was even known as Sundance. Flash-forward a couple of decades later, and Bennett took her 2012 short of the same name and elongated it into a feature length film. Alaska is a Drag is self-described as if Rocky and Hedwig had a love child and not only did the Lgbt friendly, loud and proud Diy title become a hit on Kickstarter but this summer emerged as the big winner at the Us in Progress in Poland this October landing major post production coin. No doubt this feels a little reckless, spirited and memorably micro.
Gist: Leo dreams of becoming an International Superstar, but these dreams are hard fought stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska.
Production Co./Producers: Bennett, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller.
Prediction: Next section or a Narrative Comp item at SXSW.
Gist: Leo dreams of becoming an International Superstar, but these dreams are hard fought stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska.
Production Co./Producers: Bennett, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller.
Prediction: Next section or a Narrative Comp item at SXSW.
- 11/23/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s not just the writer, director and docu lab fellows that are the long term beneficiaries of the support offered by the Sundance Institute. In this last decade, they’ve added a full gamut of artist programs ranging from theatre, film composing, new platforms and producer labs — even the mythic ranch services at Skywalker Sound are involved. While at the Sundance Film Festival this past January, I had the chance to interview Riel Roch Decter (he just launched a conceptually cool side project for short films), a burgeoning film producer who recently benefitted from the lab experience.
We discussed how he whetted his appetite for indie film production (learned the ropes from working on projects such as Rabbit Hole and Beginners for Leslie Urdang’s prod co. Olympus Pictures), we brought up his experience with the Sundance Institute workshopping on Aaron Beckum’s Microchip Blues at the Creative Producing...
We discussed how he whetted his appetite for indie film production (learned the ropes from working on projects such as Rabbit Hole and Beginners for Leslie Urdang’s prod co. Olympus Pictures), we brought up his experience with the Sundance Institute workshopping on Aaron Beckum’s Microchip Blues at the Creative Producing...
- 8/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sci-fi thriller wins fourth edition of Us indie showcase in Paris.
James Morrison’s debut sci-fi thriller Diverge has won the fourth edition of indie showcase Us in Progress in Paris.
The time-warp drama revolves around the survivor of a global catastrophe who is given a chance to reclaim his lost former life by stopping the man who caused the cataclysmic event - himself.
It is debut feature for Morrison after shorts Stay True and Little Brother, which travelled the North American festival circuit.
The Paris Us in Progress showcase – a joint initiative between the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris and Black Rabbit Film – aims to connect upcoming Us independent films with distributors and sales agents in Europe.
Last year’s winner, Benjamin Dickinson’s Creative Control premiered at SXSW, where it took the Special Jury Recognition for Visual Excellence award, before being picked up for international sales by Paris-based The Coproduction...
James Morrison’s debut sci-fi thriller Diverge has won the fourth edition of indie showcase Us in Progress in Paris.
The time-warp drama revolves around the survivor of a global catastrophe who is given a chance to reclaim his lost former life by stopping the man who caused the cataclysmic event - himself.
It is debut feature for Morrison after shorts Stay True and Little Brother, which travelled the North American festival circuit.
The Paris Us in Progress showcase – a joint initiative between the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris and Black Rabbit Film – aims to connect upcoming Us independent films with distributors and sales agents in Europe.
Last year’s winner, Benjamin Dickinson’s Creative Control premiered at SXSW, where it took the Special Jury Recognition for Visual Excellence award, before being picked up for international sales by Paris-based The Coproduction...
- 6/12/2015
- ScreenDaily
Deb Shoval’s adaptation of her award-winning short (Awol), Carson Mell’s feature film debut (Another Evil) and Gabe Klinger’s Porto, Mon Amour starring Anton Yelchin and Lucie Lucas (see prod photo above) are among the half dozen projects in post-production that were selected for the U.S. in Progress Paris workshop. With all the buzz surrounding Cannes, we lost track of the unveiling of Champs-Élysées Film Festival’s selection which has also provided us with a possible preview of possible Sundance and SXSW titles for the 2016 campaign. Here are the six projects:
Another Evil, directed by Carson Mell (produced by Riel Roch Decter and Sebastian Pardo)
Awol – Deb Shoval (produced by Jessica Caldwell, L.A. Teodosio and Michel Merkt)
Diverge – James Morrison (produced by David Mandel and Noah Lang)
Live Cargo – Logan Sandler (produced by Thymaya Payne) ;
Porto Mon Amour – Gabe Klinger (produced by Rodrigo Areias, Nicolas R. de la Mothe,...
Another Evil, directed by Carson Mell (produced by Riel Roch Decter and Sebastian Pardo)
Awol – Deb Shoval (produced by Jessica Caldwell, L.A. Teodosio and Michel Merkt)
Diverge – James Morrison (produced by David Mandel and Noah Lang)
Live Cargo – Logan Sandler (produced by Thymaya Payne) ;
Porto Mon Amour – Gabe Klinger (produced by Rodrigo Areias, Nicolas R. de la Mothe,...
- 5/13/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Principle photography on Another Evil, Carson Mell’s supernatural comedy debut is now complete. Starring Steve Zissis, Mark Proksch, Jennifer Irwin, Dax Flame, Dan Bakkedahl and Steve Little of Todd Rohal’s The Catechism Cataclysm fame, Mell, a three-time Sundance Film Festival alumni thanks to a trio of wacko shorts (see below) shot his feature film debut in Arizona this November. Memory’s Riel Roch Decter (The Wait) and Sebastian Pardo (Palo Alto) produced the film.
Gist: After encountering a ghost in his family’s vacation home, Dan (Zissis) a modern artist and his wife Mary (Irwin) hire an “industrial-grade exorcist” named Os (Proksch) to get rid of the beings…turns out something does need to be exorcised but it’s not the spirits.
Worth Noting: Mell’s in the works Ajax (about a band of alcoholic men adrift in outer space become at odds with one another after taking...
Gist: After encountering a ghost in his family’s vacation home, Dan (Zissis) a modern artist and his wife Mary (Irwin) hire an “industrial-grade exorcist” named Os (Proksch) to get rid of the beings…turns out something does need to be exorcised but it’s not the spirits.
Worth Noting: Mell’s in the works Ajax (about a band of alcoholic men adrift in outer space become at odds with one another after taking...
- 11/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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