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EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Bergland (Matlock), Westly Heart Monroe, Corin Liall Douieb (Tiny Romances), Milanka Brooks (Black Mirror), Frankie J. Mitchell (American Primeval) and Aggy K. Adams (The Witcher) are starring successful nan indie psychological scary movie Sweetie, which conscionable wrapped accumulation successful Los Angeles.
Sweetie, which marks nan sophomore characteristic for writer-director Robert Lang, follows a young female named Sweetie (Bergland) connected a disorienting descent into nan bosom of Hollywood’s acheronian promise, driven by a yearning for fame and meaning. But nan city, which is connected separator pinch a serial slayer connected nan loose, reveals itself arsenic a shifting dreamscape that blurs nan statement betwixt capacity and identity. In nan end, fame is offered to her not arsenic a reward but arsenic a total, consuming and irreversible transformation.
Monroe plays rising resistance queen Choker Darling. Conr Kinman, David Todman, Hannah McBride, Kris Alexandrea, Ianthe Mellors, Shaina Rae, Matthew Brown, Anna Newell and Conor Copley information retired nan cast.
Lang, who is besides Deadline’s photograph editor and Arts & Culture writer, is producing nether his banner Monkeys Wedding Productions alongside Marshall Arts Media.
Sweetie serves arsenic nan follow-up to Lang’s characteristic directorial debut, the 2024 indie mockumentary Mind, Body and Soul, which starred Kinman, Bergland and Eric Wu and notably secured an endorsement from nan Satanic Temple. Indican Pictures acquired North American authorities to that pic, which Lang adapted from his short movie astir a precocious exiled Satan (Kinman) who invites a documentary unit into his West Hollywood flat to thief rebrand his nationalist image.
The movie was released pinch a constricted theatrical tally earlier rolling retired connected VOD.
