{"id":427153,"date":"2025-09-15T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427153\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:43:09","slug":"dolly-teaser-extreme-folk-horror-tale-premieres-next-week-at-fantastic-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427153\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dolly&#8217; Teaser &#8211; Extreme Folk Horror Tale Premieres Next Week at Fantastic Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dolly<\/strong> blends inspiration from gritty 1970s American horror like <strong>The Texas Chain Saw Massacre <\/strong>and <strong>The Hills Have Eyes <\/strong>with the New French Extremity movement that yielded such works as <strong>High Tension, Martyrs, <\/strong>and<strong> Inside<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Shot on Super 16mm film, the twisted folk horror tale premieres at <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3893230\/fantastic-fest-2025s-massive-lineup-includes-black-phone-2-shelby-oaks-bryan-bertinos-vicious-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fantastic Fest<\/strong><\/a> in Austin, TX, on September 21 before heading to the <strong>Sitges Film Festival<\/strong> in Spain next month. Watch the teaser below.<\/p>\n<p>A young woman, Macy, fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise Macy as their child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rod Blackhurst<\/strong> (\u201cAmanda Knox,\u201d Night Swim) directs from a script he co-wrote with <strong>Brandon Weavil<\/strong>, based on their 2022 short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BTomghgt750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Babygirl<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fabianne Therese<\/strong> (John Dies at the End), <strong>Seann William Scott<\/strong> (American Pie), <strong>Ethan Suplee<\/strong> (Mallrats), and pro wrestler <strong>Max the Impaler<\/strong> star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDolly is an elegant and twisted fairy tale born out of a deep love of gritty genre films and wanting to see something bonkers that a 13-year-old me would pine to rent (somehow) from the local video store (that was also the jewelry and appliance repair store) in rural upstate New York,\u201d said Blackhurst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew this film needed to have a strange, deranged beating heart not just for our protagonist, Macy, but the titular Dolly, who I hope is a shockingly complex and ultimately oddly sympathetic figure \u2013 and a character who will bring much madness to audiences for years to come,\u201d Blackhurst continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause as outsiders, this film is a renewed investment in our ethos as filmmakers, our proud tribe of misfits, and our families, especially our children, who I hope never meet a life sized, blood-soaked doll in the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blackhurst has franchise aspirations for the film, with a prequel exploring Dolly\u2019s origins and mythology already written and slated for production.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly blends inspiration from gritty 1970s American horror like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Hills Have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[61354,77,145734,122424,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-427153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-dolly","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fabianne-therese","11":"tag-fantastic-fest","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115210263232947374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}