When you see the alluring
scream queen Tiffany Shepis’ name in the credits of Image Entertainment’s newly
announced horror film from writer/director B.C. Furtney you can’t help but sit
up and take notice. The film is Do
Not Disturb and it is headed to DVD on Aug. 6.
That was the “calling
card” that got our initial attention and then we realized that this was the
missing in action New Terminal Hotel that was promised back in 2010 and may or
may not have actually been released on DVD (perhaps a rogue/bootleg DVD-R
product offering that quickly disappeared from sight).
The backstory of the
film’s checkerboard history might be fascinating, but time limitations prevent a
trip down that path at this moment in time.
No matter, it is good to see that this film will finally be getting a
proper release … Aug. 6 can’t come soon enough.
With that said, what
makes this film important — especially for genre fans — is that Do
Not Disturb (aka: New Terminal Hotel) not only
showcases the talents of Shepis, but this is Corey Haim’s final screen
appearance.
But wait, there’s more,
the lead is none other than Fright Night’s Evil Ed, Stephen
Geoffreys, who plays a Hollywood screenwriter who has gone over the edge … in a
big way.
The set-up goes pretty
much like this, Don Malek (Stephen Geoffreys) is a screenwriter and Ava
(Shepis) is his agent, who sticks with him despite some obvious issues that
Malek is dealing with. As it turns out
his fiancée (played by Laura Hofrichter) has met an untimely end — the killer
appears to have gotten away with it — and he has become obsessed with revenging
her death … and why not write about the process of that revenge!
With an increasingly
unhinged Malek at work and his agent moving him along (a little unhinged
herself as the film progresses), Do Not Disturb quickly descends into
a bloody rampage which genre fans will take great pleasure in. It is not just a kill-spree film as Furtney
has embedded some well-observed “Hollywood” lifestyle machinations into his
script.
Indeed, anyone who has
walked the streets of Hollywood (north of Santa Monica Blvd and south of the
freeway) knows that strangeness — and strange people — can be the order of the
day. Clearly filmmaker B.C. Furtney
knows his Hollywood and has written in some choice characters — in addition to
Geoffreys and Shepis — and that includes Ezra Buzzington (The Hills Have Eyes, The
Prestige, Secretary, etc.) as Malek’s neighbor Spitz, who is so strange
that even Malek cringes at his peculiar predilections. Which gets us back to the aforementioned well-observed “Hollywood” lifestyle
machinations … so true; so Hollywood.
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