The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley
Arts:Visual Arts
Episode 057 - Izabela & Elizabeta Vidovic and Kathryn Michelle - THE ACCURSED
While horror films and TV series have traditionally been defined by heroic and villainous male characters, women, both good and evil, have also been among the horror genre’s greatest icons.
Besides the truly diabolical - Pamela Vorhees of Friday the 13th, Annie Wilkes in Misery, Red in Jordan Peele’s Us, Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep - heroines like Halloween’s Laurie Strode, Scream’s Sidney Prescott, Alien’s Ellen Ripley, A Nightmare On Elm Street’s Nancy Thompson and Alice from the Resident Evil series have fought back against monsters both human and otherworldly on the screen.
Behind the camera, though, female filmmakers have also captured our biggest nightmares on celluloid. Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow did so with 1987’s Near Dark, as did Ana Lily Amirpour with the 2015 chiller A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and Jennifer Kent with her cult classic nailbiter The Babadook in 2014.
Joining that esteemed sorority are our guests today on the Viewfinder Podcast, actor and filmmaker Izabela Vidovic, her mom Elizabeta, and Kathryn Michelle, whose indie production outfit Almost Normal Productions has committed itself to celebrating authentic female characters on screen while boosting the careers of women filmmakers and craftspeople off of it.
Their latest project is the haunting new feature film The Accursed, premiering November 12th in limited theatrical release, as well as on iTunes and on other streaming services. Izabela co-produced The Accursed with Elizabeta and Kathryn, who co-wrote and co-directed the film.
The Accursed co-stars Yancy Butler as Hana and Melora Walters as Naida, two estranged sisters united only by a deadly curse Hana has tried to bury for over two decades. Hana and her husband Nikola (played by Goran Visnjic) see their family grow when Sunny (played by Izabela) marries their son Petar (played by George Harrison Xanthis). Unfortunately, their joy soon evaporates as the old curse unexpectedly returns, threatening not just to destroy their lives but to also reveal their biggest secrets.
Elizabeta, Izabela and Kathryn are here with me to talk all about their film and how it serves to fulfill the mission of their studio: making films “for women to channel their inner badass”.
Order The Accursed on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-accursed/id1587408901
For more information on The Accursed, visit:
http://www.almostnormalproductions.com/theaccursed.html
Follow Almost Normal Productions:
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On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/almostnormalproductions/
Further links: https://instabio.cc/almostnormalproductions
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