‘Bitch Ass’ Director and Stars Talk Creating a New Kind Of Slasher Villain [Watch]
Slasher villains have a few things in common. They love to kill and they’re almost all white. But, in his new film Bitch Ass, director and co-writer Bill Posley wants to flip the script. Harkening back to films such as The People Under The Stairs, Posley centers his film not only on a Black villain, but on a Black community, too.
Read the full synopsis below:
The year is 1980. Young Cecil is bullied by kids in the 6th Street gang for being fat, shy, and always playing board games. They all pick on him and call him Bitch Ass. On a gang initiation night, they jump him and leave him for dead. Fast forward to 1999. No one has seen or heard from Bitch Ass since, and he has become an urban legend. Now, a new crop of 6th Street recruits are gearing up for another initiation night. They get tasked with robbing a house, but little do they know they’re walking into Bitch Ass’ house, and he has been plotting his revenge by building deadly versions of the childhood games they bullied him for playing. Let the games begin!
Dread Central spoke with Bitch Ass director Bill Posley and stars Tunde Laleye and Me’lisa Sellers about creating a Black slasher villain, the difference between stage performance and movie performance, and more.
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