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Mena Suvari And Danielle Harris Starring In Murder Thriller ‘Anne, With Love’

Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”) and Danielle Harris (the Halloween franchise, the Hatchet series, “The Conners”) have joined the cast and production team of the psychological thriller feature Anne, With Love starring Blaine Morris (“Skins”). George Henry Horton (Dreadspace) will direct from the script he co-wrote with Blaine Morris. Horton and Morris are producing under JesterLads and Giant Nugget Productions along with Suvari, Harris, and Matt Simonelli. Jaime Gallagher (Nightshade), Luke Barnett (Faith Based), Rocky Perez (“Gotham”), Anwar Wolf (“High Maintenance”), Leonard Amoia, Lucy Werner, Hunter Brown, and Robert H. Lambert (Burying Yasmeen) are among the supporting cast. The story centers on Anne (Morris), a painter who struggles with inner demons after being forced into a life of solitude when her husband leaves mysteriously. Suvari will play the role of her closest confidant Maya, who has a dark secret of her own. Harris will play Anne’s neighbor, who has several striking similarities in both her appearance

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 22, 2021

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A Mother Fights To Save Herself And Her Daughter In The New Heist Thriller ‘Locked In’

Mena Suvari (Don’t Tell a Soul) and Jeff Fahey (“Lost”) star in the pulse-pounding new heist thriller Locked In. Carlos V. Gutierrez makes his feature film directorial debut with the action-packed film. In Locked In, “After a diamond heist takes a fatal turn, a pair of thieves must entrust their fortune with an accomplice at a high-tech storage facility while they lay low. Hiding the goods within the labyrinth of storage units, the thieves’ inside man pays the ultimate price when he turns against them. Now, hellbent on recovering the missing stones, they seize the facility and kidnap surviving employee Maggie (Suvari), threatening her family unless she helps them. Locked in with nowhere to run, Maggie’s only chance to escape alive is to fight back and stay one step ahead of her captors in a deadly game of cat and mouse.” Manny Perez, Costas Mandylor, Bruno Bichir, and Jasper Polish also star in Locked In, premiering in select theaters, On

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 21, 2021

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Dark Secrets Drive Brothers To Do Terrible Things In ‘Don’t Tell A Soul’

Some secrets should stay buried, but this March they may surface in the dark thriller Don’t Tell a Soul. The feature debut of director Alex McAulay (Flower), Don’t Tell a Soul stars Primetime Emmy® nominee Rainn Wilson (2007, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, “The Office”; 2008, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, “The Office”; 2009, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, “The Office”), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk, TV’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”, The Children Act), Jack Dylan Grazer (It, It Chapter Two, Shazam!), and Mena Suvari (TV’s “American Woman”, “American Horror Story”, American Pie franchise). In the film, while stealing money to help their sick mother (Mena Suvari), teen brothers Matt and Joey (Fionn Whitehead and Jack Dylan Grazer) are surprised by Hamby (Rainn Wilson), a security officer who gives chase and is then trapped in a well. Over the next few days, Joey and Hamby forge an uneasy relationship. Hamby tells Joey he’ll keep quiet if Joey

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 26, 2021

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Mena Suvari Faces A Dangerous Stranger In ‘Paradise Cove’ This February

This February, BAFTA Nominee Mena Suvari faces a dangerous stranger in Paradise Cove. Todd Grinnell (“One Day at a Time”) and Kristin Bauer van Straten (“True Blood”) also star in the thriller that centers on a contractor and his wife who move to Malibu to flip his mother’s beach house and are terrorized by the deranged homeless lady living under the home. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Martin Guigui (Beneath the Darkness, The Bronx Bull) and written and executive produced by Sherry Klein, Paradise Cove premieres on digital on February 12, 2021, from Quiver Distribution.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 20, 2021

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Movie Review: What Lies Below

For the first several scenes in What Lies Below, I was wondering what I had gotten myself into: Mena Suvari hamming it up, Trey Tucker emerging out of a lake in a swimsuit like something out of a romance novel, and so on. Once the film kicked in and things got bonkers, though, I was all in on Braden R. Duemmler’s mashup of horror, science fiction, thriller, and family drama elements. Suvari — who does a fine job here, and it soon becomes obvious why her character acts the corny way she does in the opening scenes — plays Michelle Wells, a writer whose teenage daughter Liberty (Ema Horvath of The Mortuary Collection) has just finished her annual summer camp session. Liberty, viewers are told, is somewhat socially awkward and coming into her own about liking boys — which Michelle presses her on — and when she sees mom’s new boyfriend John Smith (Tucker of The Outpost) emerge from the

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Joseph Perry

Dec 4, 2020

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There’s Something Dark Under The Surface Of ‘What Lies Below’ (Trailer)

Writer-director Branden R. Duemmler (Locked In) makes his feature debut with horror-thriller What Lies Below which has a new trailer that you need to see! Just from the trailer, you can tell that something is definitely wrong with Mr. Right. Starring Mena Suvari, the film centers on a 16-year-old girl returning home from camp who learns that her mother has a new boyfriend, one she intends to marry, a man whose charm, intelligence, and beauty makes him look like he’s not human at all. The cast also includes Ema Horvath, Trey Tucker, Troy Iwata, and Haskiri Vazquez. What Lies Below is set to be released On Demand on December 4, 2020, from Vertical Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 9, 2020

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Witness ‘Apparition’ This December

Vertical Entertainment has acquired the rights to Waymon Boone‘s supernatural horror Apparition starring Mena Suvari and Kevin Pollack. “Apparition follows a group of millennials at an abandoned castle, experimenting with a spiritually guided app that connects the living with the dead. This ominous, historic site of murder and torture is linked to each of them in ways they’ll soon discover.” Apparition haunts theaters and VOD on December 27, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 23, 2019

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Production Begins On Thriller ‘Paradise Cove’ Starring Mena Suvari

Principal production has begun on the scenic psychological thriller Paradise Cove. The Martin Guigui-helmed feature is now filming in Los Angeles. Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”, pictured) and Todd Grinnell (Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” and “Grace and Frankie”) and “True Blood” and “Once Upon a Time” alum Kristin Bauer van Straten star. In the film, “A contractor and his wife (Grinnell, Suvari) head to Malibu to flip his late mother’s beach house and are terrorized by the deranged homeless woman (Bauer van Straten) living underneath.” Paradise Cove is the latest feature for director Martin Guigui, who has enjoyed a long career as both a feature director and Grammy-nominated music producer. The script was penned by executive producer Sherry Klein, making her first foray into the thriller genre after starting her career on TV’s “Star Trek: Voyager” and recently working on the animated fantasy film franchise Ever After High. Mena Suvari is repped by APA

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 1, 2019

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