A love letter to John Waters written in blood, Joshua Grannell’s debut feature, All About Evil, dares to be everything a gushing fan boy, or girl, or drag queen could want. The film opens with a wink and a nod to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? as little Deborah Tennis is gearing up to take the stage for her first performance at her father’s movie theater, before a screening of The Wizard of Oz.
Dressed as Dorothy, and visibly nervous, even after a pep talk by her father. Sadly things don’t go well, as she is heckled by her peers and further embarrassed by her literal wicked witch of a mother who laughs when things go awry for the poor girl. Cut to present day, all grown up, and surely none the better for it considering her upbringing, Deborah (Natasha Lyonne) has inherited her father’s movie...
Dressed as Dorothy, and visibly nervous, even after a pep talk by her father. Sadly things don’t go well, as she is heckled by her peers and further embarrassed by her literal wicked witch of a mother who laughs when things go awry for the poor girl. Cut to present day, all grown up, and surely none the better for it considering her upbringing, Deborah (Natasha Lyonne) has inherited her father’s movie...
- 8/23/2011
- by Derek Botelho
- DailyDead
Director Joshua Grannell has always had a deep love of all those cheesy type horror movies that they used to air late at night. He's also had a passion for old school style theaters that play revivals of those late night cheesy movies. So it's no wonder he managed to create a valentine to those theaters and to those movies with his very first feature length film, All About Evil. He also gave one of his idols, Elviria aka Cassandra Peterson, a great little role sans costume as a concerned mom trying to understand her son's love of the horror genre. All About Evil features an all star cast of players including Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Dekker, Noah Segan, Mink Stole, Jade Ramsey, Nikita Ramsey, Ariel Hart, Lyndsy Kail, Santia Andrews and Julie Caitlin Brown. Here's what director Joshua Grannell had to say about his film, All About Evil which is...
- 12/12/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
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