Tyler Russell directed, co-wrote Frightfest selection.
Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner has acquired worldwide rights on creature feature and recent Frightfest premiere Cyst and will launch sales at AFM 2020 Online.
Tyler Russell directed the story of a plastic surgeon who will stop at nothing to patent his cyst removal device.
When the doctor’s invention inadvertently turns a patient’s tumour into a monster that runs amok in the work place, a nurse’s last day of work turns into a fight for survival.
Russell co-wrote the screenplay with Andy Silverman, and the pair produced with Travis Ayers. The film...
Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner has acquired worldwide rights on creature feature and recent Frightfest premiere Cyst and will launch sales at AFM 2020 Online.
Tyler Russell directed the story of a plastic surgeon who will stop at nothing to patent his cyst removal device.
When the doctor’s invention inadvertently turns a patient’s tumour into a monster that runs amok in the work place, a nurse’s last day of work turns into a fight for survival.
Russell co-wrote the screenplay with Andy Silverman, and the pair produced with Travis Ayers. The film...
- 11/6/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Greg Sestero, Eva Habermann, Jason Douglas, Gene Jones, George Hardy, Darren Ewing, Francesca Santoro, Kyle Roberts | Written by Tyler Russell, Andy Silverman | Directed by Tyler Russell
It’s the early 1960s and a small-town doctor invents a machine that uses laser technology to remove skin abnormalities. He pulls out all the stops to make sure his final chance to get the patent on his ‘Get Gone’ appliance goes smoothly. But his nurse thinks the contraption is dangerous and not ready. The struggle between the two causes the apparatus to malfunction creating a giant cyst monster that goes on a bloody rampage.
Very much in the vein of the William Castle and Rgoer Corman flicks of the 50s and 60s, Cyst is – like the remake of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die which also screened as part of Frightfest – very much an homage to the films of that period, with set and costume design,...
It’s the early 1960s and a small-town doctor invents a machine that uses laser technology to remove skin abnormalities. He pulls out all the stops to make sure his final chance to get the patent on his ‘Get Gone’ appliance goes smoothly. But his nurse thinks the contraption is dangerous and not ready. The struggle between the two causes the apparatus to malfunction creating a giant cyst monster that goes on a bloody rampage.
Very much in the vein of the William Castle and Rgoer Corman flicks of the 50s and 60s, Cyst is – like the remake of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die which also screened as part of Frightfest – very much an homage to the films of that period, with set and costume design,...
- 10/25/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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