Richard Bates made a big bloody mess on the genre scene with Excision. He’s been away for far too long, but he’s back now with Suburban Gothic, a film that is premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival this month in Montreal.
Bates has, once again, pulled in an eclectic cast that includes: Matthew Gray Gubler, Kat Dennings, Ray Wise, Barbara Niven, Sally Kirkland, Jeffrey Combs, John Waters and Muse Watson.
Gubler plays Raymond, a young man who has a prestigious MBA, but he can’t find work. He can channel the paranormal, but chatting with a cute girl mystifies him. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jock father, and beer-bellied classmates. But when a vengeful ghost terrorizes the small town, the city-boy recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threatening everyone’s lives.
A trailer made its premiere today, you can check it out below.
