In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to read an incantation from a magic book and swap bodies as we review the 2023 film “Suitable Flesh”…
Screenwriter Dennis Paoli cut his teeth working under famed horror director Stuart Gordon when he wrote both “Re-Animator” and “From Beyond” — a pair of stories fashioned after original works by author H.P. Lovecraft — and released in the mid-1980s.
Paoli remained a constant partner with Gordon throughout his career working on a total of five films together. Sadly, Gordon passed away in 2020 but Paoli had another idea that felt like something his old friend would have enjoyed after he decided to adapt another Lovecraft tale called “The Thing on the Doorstep.”
After finishing his script, Paoli handed it over to another lifelong friend in Barbara Crampton, who immediately had interest in producing the film and the project eventually landed in the lap of director Joe Lynch. As soon as he saw Paoli was the writer and Crampton as the producer, Lynch was intrigued, although he ultimately wanted some changes from the original script — most notably that the lead protagonists would be two women instead of a pair of men.
Paoli liked the idea and reworked his script and at the last minute, Crampton even signed on to star as the other half of the main duo in the film alongside Heather Graham.
The film follows a psychologist who receives a visit from a disturbed patient, who is convinced that his body is being taken over by his father. Clinically she can’t even begin to believe his story until events start unraveling that cross the boundary between reality and fiction.
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to read an incantation from a magic book and swap bodies as we review the 2023 film “Suitable Flesh”…
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