Sally Struthers has a screen acting career that goes back more than fifty years, with one of her earliest appearances being in the 1970 Bob Rafelson / Jack Nicholson classic Five Easy Pieces. As the decades have gone by, she has racked up more than seventy more credits, including a memorable role in Gilmore Girls, a role in the 1972 version of The Getaway, and of course the gig she’s best known for, playing Gloria Bunker-Stivic in 184 episodes of the sitcom All in the Family. A character she also played in 5 episodes of the follow-up Archie Bunker’s Place and 22 episodes of her own spin-off, Gloria. But while Struthers has done a lot of work, one genre she never ventured into was horror… Until now. She has worked on a few thrillers, but her first all-out horror movie is called Evil Sublet – and Deadline reports that Lion Heart Distribution has acquired North American rights to the film.
- 5/24/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Lion Heart Distribution has acquired North American rights to director Allan Piper’s Evil Sublet, an upcoming horror-comedy starring Sally Struthers (“All in the Family”).
Deadline first reported the news this morning.
Jennifer Leigh Houston also stars in the film, stylized as “eVil Sublet.”
The film “follows the misadventures of a New York couple who think they have hit the jackpot when they move into a cheap apartment. They soon discover they have landed landlords quite literally from hell, who want them to pay the rent with their lives.”
Deadline notes, “The film is based on real-life mysterious events in Piper’s apartment which he shares with his wife (Leigh Houston) in New York’s East Village (aka “the eVil’).”
“I’d rather be part of the scaring than be scared,” Sally Struthers said in a statement. “Horror films frighten the poop out of me. And then they stay with me.
Deadline first reported the news this morning.
Jennifer Leigh Houston also stars in the film, stylized as “eVil Sublet.”
The film “follows the misadventures of a New York couple who think they have hit the jackpot when they move into a cheap apartment. They soon discover they have landed landlords quite literally from hell, who want them to pay the rent with their lives.”
Deadline notes, “The film is based on real-life mysterious events in Piper’s apartment which he shares with his wife (Leigh Houston) in New York’s East Village (aka “the eVil’).”
“I’d rather be part of the scaring than be scared,” Sally Struthers said in a statement. “Horror films frighten the poop out of me. And then they stay with me.
- 5/16/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Los Angeles-based Lion Heart Distribution has acquired North American rights to Allan Piper’s horror-comedy eVil Sublet co-starring All In The Family star Sally Struthers and Jennifer Leigh Houston.
It follows the misadventures of a New York couple who think they have hit the jackpot when they move into a cheap apartment. They soon discover they have landed landlords quite literally from hell, who want them to pay the rent with their lives.
The film is based on real-life mysterious events in Piper’s apartment which he shares with his wife (Leigh Houston) in New York’s East Village (aka “the eVil’).
“Doors fling open. Objects fly off shelves. Jen’s heard crying voices and been grabbed by a cold hand in the dark. But none of this would push us out, because we’re lucky to have an affordable, sitcom-sized New York apartment.
The film is produced by Beth Ann Mastromarino,...
It follows the misadventures of a New York couple who think they have hit the jackpot when they move into a cheap apartment. They soon discover they have landed landlords quite literally from hell, who want them to pay the rent with their lives.
The film is based on real-life mysterious events in Piper’s apartment which he shares with his wife (Leigh Houston) in New York’s East Village (aka “the eVil’).
“Doors fling open. Objects fly off shelves. Jen’s heard crying voices and been grabbed by a cold hand in the dark. But none of this would push us out, because we’re lucky to have an affordable, sitcom-sized New York apartment.
The film is produced by Beth Ann Mastromarino,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
I’m super-excited about this year’s Q-Fest….and I’m not even gay!
There are a pair of must-see gay-themed films making their St. Louis debuts; I Am Divine, a documentary about the late crossdresser and John Waters frequent star, and James Franco’s Interior Leather Bar, a high-concept recreation of scenes that were cut from William Friedkin’s notorious 1980 gay serial killer movie Cruising. Divine was one of the biggest, most outrageous, and proudly different gay cultural icons the world has known and the new documentary about the performer I Am Divine plays at Q-fest this Friday night at 7pm. A high (or low) point in Divine’s career was John Waters 1972’s masterpiece Pink Flamingos where he/she competes for the title of “filthiest person alive” by eating fresh dog poop. With antics like that, it’s no surprise that the emerging punk scene adopted his visage on t-shirts.
There are a pair of must-see gay-themed films making their St. Louis debuts; I Am Divine, a documentary about the late crossdresser and John Waters frequent star, and James Franco’s Interior Leather Bar, a high-concept recreation of scenes that were cut from William Friedkin’s notorious 1980 gay serial killer movie Cruising. Divine was one of the biggest, most outrageous, and proudly different gay cultural icons the world has known and the new documentary about the performer I Am Divine plays at Q-fest this Friday night at 7pm. A high (or low) point in Divine’s career was John Waters 1972’s masterpiece Pink Flamingos where he/she competes for the title of “filthiest person alive” by eating fresh dog poop. With antics like that, it’s no surprise that the emerging punk scene adopted his visage on t-shirts.
- 6/3/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
No one can deny the issue of gay marriage in this country. Over the last decade many states have debated the allowance or denial of gay marriage, especially in California where a new law seems to take effect every other year. Only a handful of states currently allow gay marriage while many others have passed civil union laws. What do you do when you’ve been with someone for twenty-five years and you still can’t legally marry in your state of residence? For Stephen Mosher and Pat Dwyer the answer is simple: you get married in all the states that will let you. Married and Counting, directed by Allan Piper, is a testament to love and human rights. Mosher and Dwyer met at the University of North Texas as college students and have been together ever since. They wanted to celebrate their love for each other and thought the...
- 10/12/2012
- by Caitlyn Collins
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
It’s a film festival! It’s a sideshow! It’s both! It’s the 12th annual Coney Island Film Festival, which will be taking over the world famous Sideshows by the Seashore and other venues on Sept. 21-23 at one of the most wonderful places on Earth: Coney Island!
This year’s fun begins on the 21st with the knock-’em-dead (literally) Opening Night film Play Dead, co-directed by underground journalist Shade Rupe and the world’s greatest silent magician, Teller. The film is a documentary performance of Teller and Coney Island’s own Todd Robbins hit live off-Broadway gore-a-thon.
Play Dead will then be followed by a wild Opening Night Party featuring a performance by Mr. Robbins, plus lots of burlesque performances, Go Go dancers and other crazy surprises.
Some of the other highlights of this year’s Ciff include the Mark Mori’s documentary Bettie Page Reveals All...
This year’s fun begins on the 21st with the knock-’em-dead (literally) Opening Night film Play Dead, co-directed by underground journalist Shade Rupe and the world’s greatest silent magician, Teller. The film is a documentary performance of Teller and Coney Island’s own Todd Robbins hit live off-Broadway gore-a-thon.
Play Dead will then be followed by a wild Opening Night Party featuring a performance by Mr. Robbins, plus lots of burlesque performances, Go Go dancers and other crazy surprises.
Some of the other highlights of this year’s Ciff include the Mark Mori’s documentary Bettie Page Reveals All...
- 9/18/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Running Entertainment
Three pathetic, sadistic guys in desperate need of a good therapist terrorize an L.A. laundromat in this ludicrous, grating drama. Writer-director-producer Dan Patton reaches for psychological edge and affecting revelations, but all that comes out in the wash is overacted soap. During its engagement at the Los Feliz 3, "Wash Dry & Spin Out" is unlikely to entice audiences beyond the friends of cast and crew.
To lift the spirits of Jeff (Randy Thomas), who's moping over a breakup and needs to do laundry, trash-talking Carl (Tyler Lindsay) and Gil (Jason Morck) accompany him to the coin-o-mat for a night of stupid, mean behavior. Armed with pint bottles of booze -- and, in the case of their angry and, alas, impotent leader Carl, a switchblade -- the trio drunkenly rove the premises, careening from melodrama to melodrama.
There's the lingerie-laundering prostitute (Zoska Aleece) who services each of the three guys in the restroom, the moody paraplegic (Damian Trevor), the self-proclaimed dwarf (Eugene Pidgeon) with a stalled acting career, the bickering lesbian couple (Nina Tapaninen, Nicole Krauter) and the dorky screenwriting duo (Darrel Guilbeau, Allan Piper), hunkering behind washing machines to observe the verbal and physical abuse from a safe distance, madly typing notes into a laptop. One can only hope they make better use of the material.
Viewers will suspend not an ounce of disbelief. Flashbacks meant to provide character insights only induce the same degree of irritation as the main action, while proving even less credible. That someone -- say, the security guard? -- doesn't call the cops sooner, perhaps when the louts are playing catch with the laptop or tearing through the aisles in the wheelchair, is one of the story's ridiculous postulations. Aggravating the preposterousness, the customers not only submit themselves, one by one, to the boys' Psych 101 harangues, but they engage in heated explanations of their personalities, essentially defending themselves to these creeps. The hooker's conversation with Carl is the only halfway interesting patch of dialogue in the film, but, as does every exchange here, it collapses into a lame confession of trauma.
Tech credits on the vid-shot feature are basic, and the unfortunate music score sounds like recycled remnants from a soft-porn soundtrack.
Three pathetic, sadistic guys in desperate need of a good therapist terrorize an L.A. laundromat in this ludicrous, grating drama. Writer-director-producer Dan Patton reaches for psychological edge and affecting revelations, but all that comes out in the wash is overacted soap. During its engagement at the Los Feliz 3, "Wash Dry & Spin Out" is unlikely to entice audiences beyond the friends of cast and crew.
To lift the spirits of Jeff (Randy Thomas), who's moping over a breakup and needs to do laundry, trash-talking Carl (Tyler Lindsay) and Gil (Jason Morck) accompany him to the coin-o-mat for a night of stupid, mean behavior. Armed with pint bottles of booze -- and, in the case of their angry and, alas, impotent leader Carl, a switchblade -- the trio drunkenly rove the premises, careening from melodrama to melodrama.
There's the lingerie-laundering prostitute (Zoska Aleece) who services each of the three guys in the restroom, the moody paraplegic (Damian Trevor), the self-proclaimed dwarf (Eugene Pidgeon) with a stalled acting career, the bickering lesbian couple (Nina Tapaninen, Nicole Krauter) and the dorky screenwriting duo (Darrel Guilbeau, Allan Piper), hunkering behind washing machines to observe the verbal and physical abuse from a safe distance, madly typing notes into a laptop. One can only hope they make better use of the material.
Viewers will suspend not an ounce of disbelief. Flashbacks meant to provide character insights only induce the same degree of irritation as the main action, while proving even less credible. That someone -- say, the security guard? -- doesn't call the cops sooner, perhaps when the louts are playing catch with the laptop or tearing through the aisles in the wheelchair, is one of the story's ridiculous postulations. Aggravating the preposterousness, the customers not only submit themselves, one by one, to the boys' Psych 101 harangues, but they engage in heated explanations of their personalities, essentially defending themselves to these creeps. The hooker's conversation with Carl is the only halfway interesting patch of dialogue in the film, but, as does every exchange here, it collapses into a lame confession of trauma.
Tech credits on the vid-shot feature are basic, and the unfortunate music score sounds like recycled remnants from a soft-porn soundtrack.
- 6/19/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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