PRESS NOTES March 2019 INFORMION 114 Minutes Ratio: 2:35 color Red Dragon DCP • AUDIO: 5.1 PRESS Emma Griffiths [email protected] PRODUCERS Larry Fessenden [email protected] Chadd Harbold [email protected] Jenn Wexler [email protected] PRINT TRAFFIC GLASS EYE PIX 172 East 4th Street #5F New York, NY 10009 WEBSITES A film by Larry Fessenden glasseyepix.com depravedfilm.com GLASS EYE PIX & FORAGER FILM COMPANY present DAVID CALL JOSHUA LEONARD and ALEX BREAUX "DEPRAVED" ANA KAYNE MARIA DIZZIA CHLOË LEVINE OWEN CampBELL and ADDISON TIMLIN cinematography CHRIS SKOTCHDOPOLE James SIEWERT production design APRIL LASKY costume design SARA ELISABETH LOTT makeup effects GERNER & SPEARS EFFECTS visual effects james SIEWERT music WILL bates sound design JOHN MOROS mix TOM EFINGER executive producers JOE SWANBERG EDWIN LINKER PETER GILBERT co-executive producerS andrew MER SIG DE MIGUEL STEPHEN VINCENT co-producer LIZZ ASTOR producers CHADD HARBOLD JENN WEXLER writer director editor producer LARRY FESSENDEN (c) 2019 DEPRAVED PRODUCTIONS INC. 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A Glass Eye Pix COSTUME Lucy Double POST PICTURE "depRAVEd" Forager Film Company assistant costume designer ASHLEY MORGAN BLOOM Finishing Written and Performed by production ARIS BORDO Polidori Double CONTACT POST UNWANTED HOUSEGUEST wardrobe supervisor COLIN VAN WYE colorist publisher Tavistock Records CREW ALANNA GOODMAN Child Singers BLASE THEODORE BELLA MAGGIO "Wheels on the Bus" writer director editor Uniforms Edit and Online Facilities LARRY FESSENDEN KAUFMAN’S ARMY & NAVY JOEY MAGGIO THE STATION Performed by NIA AMALIA MOROS UNWANTED HOUSEGUEST producers additional animation LARRY FESSENDEN MAKEUP TV Voices BEN DUFF JAMES LE GROS "Pleasant Street" CHADD HARBOLD hair and makeup dept. head titles JENN WEXLER ADELINA ATASHI TOBY HUSS JAMES FELIX MCKENNEY Written by Dalton Salisbury TOMMY NOHILLY performed by HOLIDAY co-producer Prosthetics LARRY FESSENDEN LIZZ ASTOR BRIAN SPEARS ANA ASENSIO Stock Footage publisher HOLIDAY executive producers PETER GERNER RIGO GARAY POND 5 JOE SWANBERG ASHLEY K. THOMAS JOHN SPEREDAKOS THANKS TO EDWIN LINKER STEVE SATURN POST SOUND production consultants PETER GILBERT Shop Crew stunt coordinator supervising sound editors RICK PORRAS co-executive producer HR SPEARS COREY PIERNO TOM EFINGER WREN ARTHUR stunts ANDREW MER BROCK SPEARS JOHN MOROS STEVE BUSCEMI SIG DE MIGUEL DYLAN HINTZ re-recording mixer PETER PHOK JASON IANNACONE STEPHEN VINCENT PRODUCTION TOM EFINGER ROB BAUNOCH cinematographers production assistants MICHAEL VIOLA sound designer TARA SICKMEIER dog handler CHRIS SKOTCHDOPOLE CAL ZITO JOHN MOROS JACOB JAFFKE JAMES SIEWERT SYDNEY CLARA BRAFMAN SHERRY RALPH additional fx editor BRENT KUNKLE production design HENRY JOHNSTON NEIL FAZZARI RENEE TAB APRIL LASKY ZAC SWANNER VENDORS dialogue editor ROBYN BENNETT costume design Camera TOM EFINGER casting consultants SARA ELISABETH LOTT Additional production Assistants DOMINIK FILMS INC foley LAURA ROSENTHAL special makeup effects MARIAM RODRIGUEZ Equipment TOMMY STANG LOIS DRABKIN and creature design AMEER KAZMI EASTERN EFFECTS adr recordists SUSAN SHOPMAKER GERNER & SPEARS Swing Crew HAND HELD FILMS TOM EFINGER DANIE STREISAND visual effects and animation QUINN HOLMES BELOW THE LINE PROD SUPPLY JEFF SEELYE BRIAN SWARDSTROM JAMES SIEWERT Hole Digger GOTHAM SOUND JOSEPH MAGEE Original score KIM SPURLOCK Housing audio post facility BECK UNDERWOOD WILL BATES BEST WESTERN PLUS, KINGSTON RED HOOK POST JACK FESSENDEN music supervisors assistant editor Transportation additional ADR JOE MAGGIO TIM BICKFORD ROBERT MALONE EDGE AUTO RENTAL DAN SNOW GLENN McQUAID MANDI COLLIER additional assistant editor HUB TRANSPORTATION ANARCHY POST GRAHAM REZNICK casting KYLE MUMFORD Catering HEATHER BUCKLEY SIG DE MIGUEL bts videographer READY TO EAT music coordinator STEPHEN SCHLOZMAN STEPHEN VINCENT JACK FESSENDEN STONE PONY CATERING LUCY ALPER HAL FESSENDEN 2nd assistant director stills photographer assistant to the composer ERIC KRAUS LEO SWARTZ NELSON BAKERMAN LOCATIONS ERIK LUTZ DAN BERK assistant camera EASTERN EFFECTS Recorded at ROBERT OLSEN JESSE LOCASCIO ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY JALOPY TAVERN FALL ON YOUR SWORD, CA LAST PICTURES gaffer additional assistant directors GLASS EYE PIX TV voices Recorded at BRYAN GAYNOR CAITLIN MAE BURKE BENJAMIN DUFF GABE GALVEZ THE MET MUSEUM OF ART UNDERGROUND AUDIO key grip LEO SWARTZ WINDMILL STUDIOS Engineer JAVIER GONZALEZ FRANK MOSLEY ABBEY KILLHEFFER additional assistant camera VIXEN STRIP CLUB MATT ROCKER swing SAM WOOD GLEN ATTY MARY BETH MINTHORN MICHAEL MELAMEDOFF RIGO GARAY additional sound ONTEORA MOUNTAIN HOUSE MUSIC sound mixer, boom ROBBIE KUSH JIM OTTAWAY JR. FILM CENTER “More Than Enough” SEAN REDLITZ ANDREY RADOVSKI MINARD”S FAMILY FARM written by ELIZABETH ZIMAN GALE & CRAIG WEXLER SAMANTHA HAWKINS published by EZIMAN PUBLISHING CAST PETER NEWMAN ART Henry … DAVID CALL GLASS EYE PIX GREG NEWMAN art director Polidori … JOSHUA LEONARD business manager “Bourée” NATALIE HOFFMAN LISA WISELY written by Johann Sebastian Bach TESSA PRICE Adam … ALEX BREAUX JOHN SKOTCHDOPOLE set carpenter Liz … ANA KAYNE office manager performed by ROGER PELTZMAN TRAVIS DeVINE CHRIS SKOTCHDOPOLE recorded at DUBWAY STUDIOS SCOTT FERGUSON Georgina … MARIA DIZZIA LAWRENCE MATTIS Set Construction Lucy … CHLOE LEVINE office coordinator engineer RUSSELL CASTIGLIONE JAMES SIEWERT RIGO GARAY EAMMON BOWLES Alex … OWEN CAMPBELL JOSH BRAUN BEN DUFF Shelley ... ADDISON TIMLIN “Gravity Blues” ABBEY KILLHEFER written and performed by DAN BRAUN Mrs. Beaufort … ALICE BARRETT BUSINESS AFFAIRS RUSSELL FX CHRIS SKOTCHDOLPOLE Mr. Beaufort … JAMES O’CONNOR accounting MARK AMBROSINO JACK FESSENDEN featuring IRVING LOUIS LATTIN LAURENT REJTÖ Mr. Ling … ZILONG PU MICHAEL EISENBERG SCOTT LEVY Set dressers Mr. Zhang … JAMES TAM legal publisher GLOBALLY GROOVY SKY MURRAY PHILIP WARREN Adam Soldier … NOAH LEGROS JERRY L. DATSI KYLE McGROARY ANDRE ROMILLE Sam … ANDREW LASKY SLOSS ECKHOUSE LAW CO "Someone Else" TRAVIS WOOD Written & Performed by BRUCE JONES Flores … HOPE BLACKSTOCK clearance counsel TED GEOGHEGAN Spano … JOHN SPEREDAKOS CHRIS L. PEREZ UNWANTED HOUSEGUEST MICHAEL GINGOLD Concept Drawings Eddie … JACK FESSENDEN DONALDSON + CALIF LLP publisher Tavistock Records ROBERT U. TAYLOR ERIC KOHN Grandmother … PAT PATTERSON production insurance BRAHAM REVEL FILM EMPORIUM "Wind" TREVOR DENHAM Written & Performed by New York Film Office Strip club bartender payroll services Hudson Valley Film Commission “Monster and Me” STORMI MAYA MEDIA SERVICES TOM LAVERACK BECK UNDERWOOD publisher Screen Actors Guild Exotic dancers Loft Windows HANNAH TOWNSEND 1 STOP PAST YOUR DESTINATION NEW YORK OLD IRON REV LOVE ©2019 Depraved Productions Props Canine Cops "Alive" B. I. G. REUSE Written and produced by STEVE GARFANTI GLEN ATTY BARN KEITH LEONARD MORGAN Z. WHIRLEDGE Guns MICHAEL MEDEIROS Performed by KEILA ROLDAN THE SPECIALISTS LTD HENRY JOHNSTON publisher POLYPHONIC GOLD Picture Car LOST SOUL PICTURE CARS 1 LOGLINE In Larry Fessenden’s meditative reimagining of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, a disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft. SYNOPSIS Alex (Owen Campbell) leaves his girlfriend Lucy (Chloë Levine) after an emotional night, walking the streets alone to get home. From out of nowhere, he is stabbed in a frenzied attack, the life draining out of him. He awakes to find he is the brain in a body he does not recognize. This creature, Adam (Alex Breaux), has been brought into consciousness by Henry (David Call), a brilliant field surgeon suffering from PTSD after two tours in the Mideast, and his accomplice Polidori (Joshua Leonard), a predator determined to cash in on the experiment that brought Adam to life. Henry is increasingly consumed with remorse over what he’s done. Only Liz (Ana Kayne), Henry’s estranged girlfriend, reaches out to consider the creature’s loneliness. But that can’t save him: when Adam finally discovers a video documenting his own origin, he goes on a rampage that reverberates through the group and tragedy befalls them all. FROM THE DIRECTOR I have always been deeply moved by the archetypes of horror, and have made it my mission to breathe new life into these stories by grounding them in our contemporary world. DEPRAVED is a modern interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, shot on the 200th anniversary of the source material. I have been captivated by the iconic Monster since childhood, and the themes that draw me to the story remain vital. On a fundamental level, Frankenstein is a coming of age tale, in which a bewildered and innocent protagonist learns the harsh realities of the world. This story explores ideas about parenthood, loneliness, memory and the subtle psychological shocks that shape us as individuals. Of course there are also themes about science and human hubris; the book, after all, was subtitled The Modern Prometheus. The 1931 James Whale adaptation of the story introduced the idea of the brain transplant to explain the monster’s behavior. In that telling, the hunchback Igor procures the brain of a criminal, rendering the monster “bad.” But in DEPRAVED, we have met the character whose brain ends up in the monster and he isn’t identifiably bad or violent. It is his circumstances throughout the film that turn him. I saw in this set up an opportunity to explore the theme of nature vs. nurture. Do our circumstances make us bad? Of course, the horrific implications of the question “what