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‘The Id’ Is A Film Fueled By Emotion! – Blu Ray Review & Star Interview

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Thommy Hutson makes his directorial debut with his feature The Id which releases today on Blu-Ray and VOD platforms. Winning Best Thriller at The Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, The Id is proving to live up to the hype as a psychological thriller delivering suspense and terror into the minds of audiences.

In May of 2016 iHorror caught up with The Id star Amanda Wyss at Texas Frightmare to speak about her new short October 23rd. The Id was also a topic of discussion and a very excited and speechless Amanda told us, “It is my role of a lifetime, it is such a beautiful gift. I can’t wait for you to see it.” Hearing those words and witnessing the pride and happiness as Amanda spoke made me excited for this film, and wanting to see it.

The film follows Meridith Lane (Amanda Wyss) a middle-aged woman caring for her wheelchair-bound father (Patrick Peduto) who is an outright bully and suffering from a horrible cough. Meredith has spent years caring for her father, preparing his meals, bathing him, dressing him every day. Preying on Meridith’s low self-esteem, her father is always getting his way and does not allow Meridith to live a normal healthy life, insulting her at every given moment. Meridith, stuck reminiscing her high school years, is a prisoner and the victim of her father’s rage and abuse. Eventually, Meridith slips away from reality and like a strong tidal wave reacts to her father’s vile, ugly threats.

The Id is a well-constructed authentic film driven by a powerhouse of emotion and rage. The Id does not offer the typical plot of a horror slasher rather giving viewers a look at the human psyche and a defined look at what mental abuse does to a person over time, especially when dished out by your very own father.

For years now Amanda Wyss has been known as Tina Gray of A Nightmare On Elm Street. In The Id, Amanda has broken away from the typecast of “Freddy’s first victim,” and gave a monumental performance and has reinvented herself as an artist. This film is for sure Amanda’s performance of a lifetime, and I know fans will enjoy it as much as I have.

This past weekend the cast and production team gathered together at the popular genre bookstore Dark Delicacies in beautiful Burbank, California for a Blu-Ray signing, and it was a spectacular scene. The Blu-Ray is quite impressive, offering many extras which are quite out of the ordinary for an independent film, but hey who am I to complain!

Blu-Ray Special Features:

  • Featurette: Needs, Wants & Desires: Behind The Scenes of The Id
  • Audio Commentary with Director/Producer Thommy Hutson and Actress Amanda Wyss
  • Deleted & Alternate Scenes
  • Behind-the-Scenes Footage
  • Audition Clips
  • Photo gallery
  • Trailers

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Actress Amanda Wyss was so kind as to grant an interview with us to speak about her experiences on The Id.

iHorror: The ID is a film charged with deep dark emotion. The emotion behind your performance is very real and powerful, what did you do to prepare for your role as Meridith Lane?

Amanda Wyss: I really tried to put myself in her shoes…Imagining what her life was like. Imagining her history with her father. Feeling it. Taking it in. I knew I had to go all in with Meridith. It’s not a role you can play cautiously or with half measures.

iH:  What did you love most about playing the character, Meridith Lane?

AW: I loved the challenge of finding the truth and humanity in her. I loved stepping into her world and making it mine for a while. Meridith is definitely my role of a lifetime to date.

iH: What was the most difficult scene to shoot in the film? Did you do anything to decompress at the end of a day’s shoot?

AW: The most difficult scenes to shoot were the more physical ones. Just logistically, and for me physically they were taxing. At the end of every day, before going back to the hotel, the director Thommy Hutson and I would go to dinner and talk over the day and go over the next day’s scenes. It was how we decompressed. We were very in sync throughout the entire shoot. It took me many months to really let Meridith go. She was deep in there!

iH: Any fun or crazy situations that you would like to share from your experience with The Id?

AW: The movie was so serious, and we were on such a tight schedule there wasn’t much room for fooling around. The crew was very protective of me and so supportive. They had my back all day every day. They called me Panda.  I look back on the experience with the most profound affection.

iH:  What future projects are you working on?

AW: I have a few movies coming out next year. The Capture, The Watcher of Park Ave, Sleep Study. I am in a Virtual Reality immersive horror short that is currently playing on youtube, apple, and google. And hopefully another collaboration with Thommy Hutson and Sean Stewart.

iH: Are you going to be making any appearances in the near future?

AW: I don’t have anything on the calendar as of now.

The Id Blu-Ray can be purchased by clicking here.

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Check Out The Trailer Below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h96y13weKP8

 

 

-ABOUT THE AUTHOR-

Ryan T. Cusick is a writer for ihorror.com and very much enjoys conversation and writing about anything within the horror genre. Horror first sparked his interest after watching the original, The Amityville Horror when he was the tender age of three. Ryan lives in California with his wife and Eleven-year-old daughter, who is also expressing interest in the horror genre. Ryan recently received his Master’s Degree in Psychology and has aspirations to write a novel. Ryan can be followed on Twitter @Nytmare112

 

 

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New to Netflix (U.S.) This Month [May 2024]

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Another month means fresh additions to Netflix. Although there aren’t many new horror titles this month, there are still some notable movies well worth your time. For instance, you can watch Karen Black try to land a 747 jet in Airport 1979, or Casper Van Dien kill giant insects in Paul Verhoeven’s bloody sci-fi opus Starship Troopers.

We are looking forward to the Jennifer Lopez sci-fi action movie Atlas. But let us know what you are going to watch. And if we have missed something, put it in the comments.

May 1:

Airport

A blizzard, a bomb, and a stowaway help create the perfect storm for the manager of a Midwestern airport and a pilot with a messy personal life.

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Airport ’75

When a Boeing 747 loses its pilots in a midair collision, a member of the cabin crew must take control with radio help from a flight instructor.

Airport ’77

A luxury 747 packed with VIPs and priceless art goes down in the Bermuda Triangle after being hijacked by thieves — and time for a rescue is running out.

Jumanji

Two siblings discover an enchanted board game that opens a door to a magical world — and unwittingly release a man who’s been trapped inside for years.

Hellboy

Hellboy

A half-demon paranormal investigator questions his defense of humans when a dismembered sorceress rejoins the living to wreak brutal vengeance.

Starship Troopers

When fire-spitting, brain-sucking bugs attack Earth and obliterate Buenos Aires, an infantry unit heads to the aliens’ planet for a showdown.

May 9

Bodkin

Bodkin

A ragtag crew of podcasters sets out to investigate mysterious disappearances from decades earlier in a charming Irish town with dark, dreadful secrets.

May 15

The Clovehitch Killer

The Clovehitch Killer

A teenager’s picture-perfect family is torn apart when he uncovers unnerving evidence of a serial killer close to home.

May 16

Upgrade

After a violent mugging leaves him paralyzed, a man receives a computer chip implant that allows him to control his body — and get his revenge.

Monster

Monster

After being abducted and taken to a desolate house, a girl sets out to rescue her friend and escape from their malicious kidnapper.

May 24

Atlas

Atlas

A brilliant counterterrorism analyst with a deep distrust of AI discovers it might be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

The Camp Cretaceous gang come together to unravel a mystery when they discover a global conspiracy that brings danger to dinosaurs — and to themselves.

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Panic Fest 2024 Review: ‘Never Hike Alone 2’

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There are fewer icons more recognizable than the slasher. Freddy Krueger. Michael Myers. Victor Crowley. Notorious killers who always seem to come back for more no matter how many times they are slain or their franchises seemingly put to a final chapter or nightmare. And so it seems that even some legal disputes cannot stop one of the most memorable movie murderers of all: Jason Voorhees!

Following the events of the first Never Hike Alone, outdoorsman and YouTuber Kyle McLeod (Drew Leighty) has been hospitalized after his encounter with the long thought dead Jason Voorhees, saved by perhaps the hockey masked killer’s greatest adversary Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) who now currently works as an EMT around Crystal Lake. Still haunted by Jason, Tommy Jarvis struggles to find a sense of stability and this latest encounter is pushing him to end the reign of Voorhees once and for all…

Never Hike Alone made a splash online as a well shot and thoughtful fan film continuation of the classic slasher franchise that was built up with the snowbound follow up Never Hike In The Snow and now climaxing with this direct sequel. It’s not only an incredible Friday The 13th love letter, but a well thought out and entertaining epilogue of sorts to the infamous ‘Tommy Jarvis Trilogy’ from within the franchise that encapsulated Friday The 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter, Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning, and Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. Even getting some of the original cast back as their characters to continue the tale! Thom Mathews being the most prominent as Tommy Jarvis, but with other series casting like Vincent Guastaferro returning as now Sheriff Rick Cologne and still having a bone to pick with Jarvis and the mess around Jason Voorhees. Even featuring some Friday The 13th alumni like Part III‘s Larry Zerner as the mayor of Crystal Lake!

On top of that, the movie delivers on kills and action. Taking turns that some of the previous fils never got the chance to deliver on. Most prominently, Jason Voorhees going on a rampage through Crystal Lake proper when he slices his way through a hospital! Creating a nice throughline of the mythology of Friday The 13th, Tommy Jarvis and the cast’s trauma, and Jason doing what he does best in the most cinematically gory ways possible.

The Never Hike Alone films from Womp Stomp Films and Vincente DiSanti are a testament to the fanbase of Friday The 13th and the still enduring popularity of those films and of Jason Voorhees. And while officially, no new movie in the franchise is on the horizon for the foreseeable future, at the very least there is some comfort knowing fans are willing to go to these lengths to fill the void.

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New Vampire Flick “Flesh of the Gods” Will Star Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac

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80s nostalgia is still going strong in the horror community. As proof of this, Panos Cosmatos (Mandy) is developing a new 80s themed vampire film. However, unlike some of the other nostalgia bait films that have come out recently, Flesh of the Gods is packing some serious talent.

First, the film is written by the legendary Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en). If that wasn’t enough, the film will star Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight) and Kristen Stewart (Underwater).

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Variety gives us a glimpse into the story line, stating that: “Flesh of the Gods is set in glittering ’80s L.A., where married couple Raoul (Oscar Isaac) and Alex (Kristen Stewart) each evening descend from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into the city’s electric nighttime realm. When they cross paths with a mysterious and enigmatic figure known as Nameless and her hard-partying cabal, the pair are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence.”

Cosmatos offers his own opinion of the film. “Like Los Angeles itself, ‘Flesh of the Gods’ inhabits the liminal realm between fantasy and nightmare. Both propulsive and hypnotic, ‘Flesh’ will take you on a hot rod joy ride deep into the glittering heart of hell.”

Producer Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up) seems to also be excited about The Flesh of the Gods. “This director, this writer, these incredible actors, vampires, choice ’80s punk, style and attitude for miles… that’s the film we’re bringing you today. We think it’s wildly commercial and wildly artful. Our ambitions are to make a movie that ripples through popular culture, fashion, music and film. Can you tell how excited I am?”

Flesh of the Gods is set to begin filming later this year. It will launch at Cannes with WME Independent, CAA Media Finance, and XYZ Films. The Flesh of the Gods does not currently have a release date.

That’s all the information we have at this time. Make sure to check back here for more news and updates.

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