Oh My! Indican Pictures might just have the number
one cult horror entry for 2018 on its hands!
Seriously, the directing
team of Devon Downs and Kenny Gage’s Cynthia is the sort of genre entry
that we will be talking about ten, 15, 20 years from now. It is
in the same class as Larry Cohen’s 1974 gem, It’s Alive or Frank
Henenlotter’s 1982 indie feast, Basket Case.
Not only is the film
delivered with humor, but Downs and Gage — who have already served up Twisted
Sisters and Buried Secrets — are working with a script from Girls & Corpses Magazine publisher Robert
Steven Rhine and have recruited a number of horror icons to chew on the scenery
(in a very good way).
For example, Sid Haig
plays against type as a detective assigned to make sense out of what is going
on and Bill Moseley goes way, way over the top as a homeless transvestite named
Buttercup.
But in the excitement of
the moment, we’ve gotten a little ahead of ourselves. Cynthia played a few film festivals
earlier this year, garnered nice buzz and opened theatrically in selected spots
at the end of August … and now the word from Indican Pictures is that Cynthia
will be available on DVD this coming Oct. 23. For the
record, the ARR is a quick-turn of just 53 days (timed to take full advantage
of the Halloween promotional period).
Robin (Scout
Taylor-Compton — as Laurie in Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II reboots,
plus such films as Ghost House, Return to Sender, etc.) and her husband, Michael
(Kyle Jones — Graduation Day, The Body Tree), have been working overtime to
start a family. Finally, after the use
of some rather sketchy drugs from an Asian source, they get the good news. Twins!
No, wait, just one baby and some sort of “growth.”
Turns out the “growth” is
a little monster which we come to know as Cynthia, who, once separated from her
mother, is on a mission from hell to be reunited. And that means bloodbath city as the little
darling (a one-eyed, one-legged hellion) proves to be very resourceful in its
quest for home!
If you don’t have a
chance to enjoy Cynthia in a theatrical setting, then be sure to pick it up on
DVD on Oct. 23 … Halloween party screenings would be very appropriate!!
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