His additional production company and media outlet, Rebeller, also ended abruptly after producing one movie, 2020’s taboo school-shooter Run Hide Fight. During this time, Sonnier was forced to sell Fangoria to Go Multimedia. Last year, New Line let the option expire on Shut In. (Williamson told the Daily Beast he’d done nothing wrong.) When female crew members reported the offenses, Sonnier and Presmyk reportedly told them it would be too expensive to fire Williamson and that they should use a ‘buddy system’ whenever they needed to interact with him.” Fred Williamson and William Sadler in VFW ĭ Magazine‘s Peter Simek writes, “Crew members claimed that 82-year-old veteran blaxploitation actor Fred Williamson attempted to grope a costume designer and made sexual overtures to someone in hair and makeup who quit the production over the abuse. More stories about Cinestate productions began creeping out as well, including a female star ordered to perform sex scenes with a producer’s friend who had replaced an actor in the film at the last minute, women being harassed in a makeup trailer, an extra’s account of being groped during a shoot, and extras claiming they were severely hurt during fight scenes involving the lead cast on the set of VFW. According to Dallas Observer, however, over a dozen people alleged the pair knew what was going on and turned “a blind eye to it.” The Daily Beast began calling Donaghey “the Harvey Weinstein of Dallas.” Audio of Donaghey’s aggressive behavior toward crew members on the set of 2016s Occupy Texas was released, essentially putting Sonnier and Presmyk in the crosshairs. In early 2020, Sonnier’s Cinestate partner Adam Donaghey was accused of raping a sixteen-year-old on the set of David Lowrey’s 2016 film A Ghost Story. Craig Zahler’s films Bone Tomahawk (under Caliber Media), Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete, among others like Joe Begos’ VFW and Chelsea Stardust’s Satanic Panic.
Over the prior eleven years, Sonnier had been producing some of the edgiest films out there. He was the head of Fangoria and was co-head of the production company Cinestate. It all seemed to be lining up.īefore 2020, producer Dallas Sonnier was on fire.
#The shut in trailer movie
Shut In had even attracted the eye of Jason Bateman, who was initially supposed to direct the movie for New Line. Toast’s screenplay made 2019s Black List / Blood List, making it one of the hottest scripts in the business. Shut In was written by Melanie Toast and has been in production hell since the writer’s script was picked up by producers Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk in 2018. Sometimes, it’s better to understand what you’re getting yourself into rather than dealing with the conscientious consequences of having decided to watch it. I’ve watched my fair share of controversial films like Cannibal Holocaust, which is infamous for its scenes depicting animal abuse, as well as Victor Salva’s notorious Clownhouse, where the director was accused of sexual abuse by the film’s young stars during post-production then later convicted of the crime. Now, I am not the type to tell anyone what they can and can’t do. And though the trailer looks harrowing, before you decide to see Shut In, it may be best that you know there are also plenty of reasons not to. Controversy has surrounded this production since it started. Caruso, who brought us Eagle Eye, Disturbia, Taking Lives, and The Salton Sea. Shut In‘s trailer tell us that the film is directed by D.J. Hell, the movie even looks like it has potential, but as I started researching the film to write up, various red flags surrounding the film began to pop up. Shut In looks like a low-budget indie film but has all the markers of a much larger Hollywood production. This week, Shut In kept rearing its head in my search for the Trailer of the Week. Or maybe it’s something written in the synopsis of the trailer on YouTube. Maybe it’s a big-name Hollywood actor, actress, or director in a low-budget production.
Have you ever watched a trailer, and though the plot seemed clear, you didn’t understand something.
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