SAAM Studios Chilling New Noir Film THE SCARAPIST to Debut on Tubi
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Indie sensation and best horror picture winner The Scarapist from Seasons & a Muse (SAAM) will debut on Tubi later this month. The Scarapist garnered over one million views every month of its run on Amazon Prime. It recently secured a new distribution agreement with InFuse Releasing, a Los Angeles-based distributor, joining the ranks of iconic movies like Wings from Tinseltown rebel William Wellman and the 1937 A Star is Born, as well as 1950s cult horror classics like The Wasp Woman and It Came From Outer Space.
The Scarapist was penned by multi-award-winning writer, director, and actress Jeanne Marie Spicuzza (Night Rain). The chilling suspense movie is based on the essay with the same title published by Rachel Thompson and the horrifying true story of an abusive hypnotherapist in Pacific Palisades, the wealthy ocean suburb recently ravaged by the Los Angeles fires, and a corresponding litigation. Helping bring the story to life are actors Katy Colloton (TV Land’s Teachers), R. Michael Gull (Cactus Jack), and Kyle Walsh (The Dark Knight). Synthian Sharp (Jorja Fox’s How I Became an Elephant) co-directs.
Lana (Spicuzza), a novelist struggling with career and family problems, is seduced into “treatment” by a demented therapist named Ilse (Colloton). Her “patients,” like Sweenie (Gull), assist in terrorizing Lana, Lana’s daughter and husband (Walsh).
Dubbed “The New Noir” by publicist Jeremy Walker (The Blair Witch Project), The Scarapist ushered in a new era of female-driven, multi-genre psychological movies and television series like Greta, Homecoming and more. A suburban setting provides the backdrop. The cinematography and autumnal Midwestern landscape offer panoramic beauty and unease.
Festival and Theatrical run.
The film made its world premiere at LA Femme International Film Festival, and garnered awards like the Verein Deutscher Und Filmemacher Award for Best Film at Berlinale. It enjoyed a limited theatrical release at Landmark Theatres before its first streaming appearance in 2016.
Called “[O]riginal, disturbing” by celebrated film critic and historian David Luhrssen, The Scarapist is the first motion picture devised by the subject PTSD and abuse survivor. It exposes the dark side of hypnosis, with a sinister therapist who prefers controlling to curing, where her own issues turn her into a new kind of villain – one who perverts the tenets of the New Age pseudo-spirituality she preaches. “The Scarapist” is also the first film to use a gun of its opposite purpose, as a tool for forgiveness instead of violence.
Spicuzza is currently touring and prepping a horror-comedy series titled “#VAMPOUT” and features Making Angels and Breath of God.
Link to The Scarapist on Tubi HERE
Seasons & a Muse is a woman-owned entertainment conglomerate comprised of Seasons & a Muse, Inc., Seasons and a Muse Productions, LLC and Seasons & a Muse Studios. Web site: SeasonsAndaMuseStudios.com
InFuse Releasing is a distributor located in Los Angeles, California, that specialized in curated studio and independent films. Web site: InFuseReleasing.com
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