{"id":54003,"date":"2025-09-09T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/54003\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:46:08","slug":"emile-hirsch-gets-fried-in-first-image-from-horror-comedy-lice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/54003\/","title":{"rendered":"Emile Hirsch Gets Fried in First Image from Horror-Comedy &#8216;Lice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highland Film Group sent over the first image from the upcoming horror-comedy <strong>Lice<\/strong> featuring <strong>Emile Hirsch<\/strong> (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), who looks like he\u2019s about to take a dip in a deep fryer.<\/p>\n<p>Hirsch stars in the gruesome throwback to \u201880s high school classics with <strong>Justin Long<\/strong> (Barbarian) and <strong>Kevin Connolly<\/strong> (\u201cEntourage\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>A gruesome death. A sealed-off high school. Something crawling beneath the skin. When a student\u2019s terrifying breakdown shocks a classroom, an almost invisible parasite spreads through the halls, instantly twisting teens into maniacs. Locked inside with no escape, students and staff spiral into violence and hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the chaos, Principal Van (Long) struggles to maintain control, drowning his anxiety in alcohol before losing his grip on reality \u2013 and his head. Burned-out science teacher Mr. Shanker (Hirsch) steps up as the only adult trying to make sense of the madness, uncovering traces of a government experiment gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the quarantined halls, Detective Sikorski (Connolly) races to contain the outbreak before it consumes the entire town. The real horror isn\u2019t what\u2019s under your skin \u2013 it\u2019s what it makes you do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Bensimon<\/strong> makes his feature directorial debut from a script by <strong>Anthony Musella <\/strong>and<strong> Lizze Gordon<\/strong>, described as \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u00a0meets\u00a0Lord of the Flies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cast also includes <strong>Joelle Farrow<\/strong> (Here for Blood),<strong> Emilie Bierre<\/strong> (\u201cTeacup\u201d), and <strong>Annamarie Kasper<\/strong> (\u201cGood Trouble\u201d), the latter of whom is featured alongside Hirsch in the image below.<\/p>\n<p>Connelly, Jeremy Alter (Inland Empire), and Gary Goldman (\u201cEntourage\u201d) produce under Connolly\u2019s ActionPark Productions banner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3899553\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3899552\/emile-hirsch-gets-fried-in-first-image-from-horror-comedy-lice\/attachment\/lice-emilehirsch-annamariekasper\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lice-EmileHirsch-AnnamarieKasper.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lice-EmileHirsch-AnnamarieKasper\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lice-EmileHirsch-AnnamarieKasper.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lice-EmileHirsch-AnnamarieKasper.jpg?fit=740%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3899553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lice-EmileHirsch-AnnamarieKasper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highland Film Group sent over the first image from the upcoming horror-comedy Lice featuring Emile Hirsch (The Autopsy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[39328,18,39329,117,19,17,39330,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-54003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-annamarie-kasper","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-emile-hirsch","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-lice","15":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}