Her perpetually terrified gaze helped make the horror film "The Shining" an unforgettable scary experience. Unlike her shooting partner Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall does not have a big screen career. Your fans can at least look forward to a new horror movie starring Duvall.
A screen legend returns after 20 years as an actress: The US actress Shelley Duvall became particularly famous for her role as Wendy Torrance in the horror film classic "The Shining" by master director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999). Deadline reports that Duvall, now 73, will soon be starring in writer-director Scott Goldberg's indie horror film The Forest Hills, her first comeback since 2002's comedy Manna from Heaven contribute to a film. "Deadline" also features a first production picture of the actress.
The horror thriller "The Forest Hills" is about a confused man who suffers a head injury while on a camping trip. Afterwards, the mentally ill main character Rico, embodied by Chiko Mendez, is afflicted by nightmarish visions. Duvall plays his mother, and is present in the film as the inner voice of the protagonist.
Director Goldberg said in a statement: "We're huge fans of The Shining and it's honestly one of my favorite horror movies of all time [...]". Duvall, who plays Jack Nicholson's wife in The Shining, helped make Kubrick's film "an absolute masterpiece by giving it her all," Goldberg said.
In recent years, the shooting conditions for "The Shining" have been repeatedly criticized. Duvall herself recently told The Hollywood Reporter that during the 56 weeks of filming, she almost always appeared hysterical or the script required her to cry. "After a while," Duvall said in retrospect in 2021, "your body rebels against it. It's like, 'Stop doing this to me. I don't want to cry every day.'"
"The Forest Hills" is scheduled for release next year. Alongside Duvall and the aforementioned Mendez, the indie horror film also stars 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' star Edward Furlong.
