Bitch Ass Review — Bitch Ass (2022) Film Review from the 29th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival, a movie directed by Bill Posley, written by Jonathan Colomb and Bill Posley and starring Teon Kelley, Tunde Laleye, Me’lisa Sellers, Kelsey Caesar, Sheaun McKinney, A-f-r-o, Belle Guillory, Tony Todd, Jarvis Denman Jr., Tim J. Smith, [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Bitch Ass: Old School Horror Returns to the Screen in a Routine Fashion [SXSW 2022]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Bitch Ass: Old School Horror Returns to the Screen in a Routine Fashion [SXSW 2022]...
- 3/19/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
SXSW 2022 Review: Bitch Ass is an Incredibly Enjoyable Slasher with Incomparable, Blood-Soaked Kills
It’s 2022 and except for a few films like Candyman, Blacula, Bones, and Us, there is still a frustrating lack of Black horror villains. Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Ghostface all have their own successful franchises, but genre film clearly still has a lot of work to do as far as representation and diversity. Filmmaker Bill Posley (Culty) is not only putting in the work, but he also created a unique slasher film with the potential to be the first Black horror franchise. Written by Posley and Jonathan Colomb, and directed by Posley, Bitch Ass, features the first Black masked serial killer, as well as an entirely Black cast, and is having its World Premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival.
In Bitch Ass, horror legend Tony Todd (Candyman) is the host of a show called Hood Horror Stories, where he introduces the story of a kid named Cecil,...
In Bitch Ass, horror legend Tony Todd (Candyman) is the host of a show called Hood Horror Stories, where he introduces the story of a kid named Cecil,...
- 3/15/2022
- by Michelle Swope
- DailyDead
Invoking an oft-overlooked canon, actor turned director Bill Posley fabricates a highly entertaining homage to the Black horror of decades past with “Bitch Ass,” a slasher picture set in 1999 aiming to become the heir of cult classics the likes of “Blacula” or “Bones.” Posley’s genuine fondness for his predecessors in the genre is first visible in the perfect casting of Tony Todd, who played the title part in the original 1992 “Candyman,” as a TV horror host — think the famed Elvira, the Cryptkeeper from “Tales from the Crypt,” or Mr. Simms from “Tales from the Hood” — to introduce his
Reveling in an appropriately malevolent laugh, Todd describes Bitch Ass as “the first Black serial killer to don a mask” and then immerses us into his world through an old television set and a VHS tape. Right off the bat, Posley announces his murderous protagonist’s fascination with games of all...
Reveling in an appropriately malevolent laugh, Todd describes Bitch Ass as “the first Black serial killer to don a mask” and then immerses us into his world through an old television set and a VHS tape. Right off the bat, Posley announces his murderous protagonist’s fascination with games of all...
- 3/15/2022
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Indiewire
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