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Shelley Duvall finally returns to horror after a long hiatus from acting. With today’s announcement of Deadline That The shining actress to appear in writer-director Scott Goldberg’s indie horror thriller The forest hillsDuvall will star in her first film in 20 years.
From producer Scott Hansen, Dreznick Goldberg Productions and Digital Thunderdome Studios, with Goldberg co-producing, The forest hills movie stars Duvall, Edward Furlong as Billy (perhaps a werewolf), Chiko Mendez as Rico (billed as a man who convinces Billy that he is a werewolf), and Dee Wallace. According to DeadlineDuvall will “play the mother of the mentally and emotionally disturbed Rico (Mendez), who serves as his inner voice.” The plot centers on a deranged man who is haunted by nightmarish visions after suffering head trauma while camping in the Catskill Mountains.
“It’s fun to work on something that has a lot of love in it. I love it. It’s therapeutic. I’ve enjoyed working with Scott Goldberg,” Furlong said in a statement earlier, per Damn disgusting.
Shelley Duvall returns to acting after more than 20 years
Duvall rose to fame in the 1980s for her leading roles, including Olive Oly in Robert Altman’s live-action version of popeye in 1980 and Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The shining in 1980 (a role for which she was unfairly nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actress). And if you were a kid of the 80s, you might remember the 1982s too fairytale theater, a show Duvall narrated, hosted, and executive produced. Although Duvall continued acting through the late 1990s, her last on-screen appearance was a small role in the 2002 indie film. manna from heaven.
“We are big fans of The Shining, en it’s honestly one of my all-time favorite horror movies, up there with John Carpenter’s Halloween and George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead with the dark tones they delivered in their films, along with perfect scores and elements that make them my personal favorites,” said Goldberg. “Shelley contributed to The shining being an absolute masterpiece by giving her everything, and performing in a way that really showed the fear and horror of a mother in isolation.”
The forest hills trailer is said to be released on October 31, 2022. If you are one of the legions of horror fans considering The shining to become an annual tradition, it looks like this trailer should be added to this year’s list! Here’s Shelley!