After 20 years retirement.
Shelley Duvall, icon of ‘The Shining’one of the best horror movies in history, has officially come out of retirement.
Rare is the year that we don’t wonder what became of ‘The Shining’ actress Shelley Duvall, since the last time she was seen on the big screen, 20 years agowas in the role of detective Dubrinski in the unpublished in Spain ‘Manna from Heaven’. Now, dead line reports that Duvall will interpret to the mother of the protagonist in the film ‘The Forest Hills’from writer-director Scott Goldberg.
Newcomer Chiko Mendez, Dee Wallace (‘ET the Extraterrestrial’) and Edward Furlong (‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’) who we have also wondered countless times what became of John Connor from ‘Terminator 2’, make up the rest of the main cast.
‘The Forest Hills’ centers on a man whose head injury sustained in the Catskill Mountains causes him to live with hallucinations that turn into nightmares. A creepy synopsis that invites us to think that Goldberg’s work will become part of the list of the best current horror movies to be scared.
Ecstatic that he had lured Duvall back to the movies, Goldberg said in a statement, “We’re huge fans of ‘The Shining,’ and honestly, it’s one of my all-time favorite horror movies, up there with ‘The Night. John Carpenter’s Halloween’ and George A. Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ with the dark tones their movies offered, along with the perfect scores and elements that make them my favorites.”
“Shelley helped make ‘The Shining’ an absolute masterpiece by giving it her all and acting in a way that really showed the fear and horror of an isolated mother.” And all this, despite Stephen King, who whenever he has the opportunity to speak (and badly) about Kubrick’s adaptation.
This casting news comes after Duvall recognized last year in ‘The Hollywood Reporter that playing Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s horror movie took a toll on her mental health.
“After a while, your body rebels, and says, ‘Stop doing this to me. I don’t want to cry every day.’ And sometimes just that thought would make me cry.”
“Waking up so early on a Monday morning and realizing that I had to cry all day because it was scheduled, it made me very sad,” she revealed.
Source: Fotogramas
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