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Natasha Kermani

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A Woman Faces A Mysterious Stalker This August In ‘Lucky’

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Lucky from Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, and has set an August release date. Directed by Natasha Kermani (Imitation Girl, Shattered) and written by Brea Grant (12 Hour Shift), Lucky stars Grant along with Dhruv Uday Singh (“Good Trouble”), Kausar Mohammed (What Men Want), Hunter C. Smith (Alien Expedition), and Kristina Klebe (Hellboy). RLJE Films will release Lucky on DVD for an SRP of $27.97. In Lucky, certified fresh by Rotten Tomatoes, life takes a sudden turn for May (Grant), a popular self-help book author, when she finds herself the target of a mysterious man with murderous intentions. Every night without fail, he comes after her, and every day the people around her barely seem to notice. With no one to turn to, May is pushed to her limits and must take matters into her own

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 29, 2021

MoviesNews

Natasha Kermani’s Feminist Horror ‘Lucky’ Wraps Production

Epic Pictures has announced that they have now wrapped production on Lucky, a dark feminist thriller written by Brea Grant (The Arrangement, “Heroes”) and directed by Natasha Kermani (Imitation Girl). Grant also stars in the feature, which shot in Los Angeles, CA and will see release in the US by Epic’s genre label, DREAD. Lucky centers on May, a self-help book author with all the answers, who suddenly finds herself stalked by a threatening but elusive masked man, and caught in a struggle to get help from the people around her and maintain control on her own life. Grant, stars alongside Kristina Klebe (Hellboy, 2019), Dhruv Uday Singh (Good Trouble), Leith M. Burke (Suburbicon), Kausar Mohammed (What Men Want), Yasmine Al-Bustami (I Ship It), Tara Perry (The Fresh Beat Band) and Hunter C. Smith as menacing villain, The Man. The script for LUCKY peers through the looking glass into a surreal version of our own world, and to me is

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 9, 2019

IndieMovies

Movie Review: Imitation Girl is Thoughtful Sci-Fi at it’s Best!

A wad of black ooze rockets down from the stars and lands on some kids spank mag and assumes the form of Julianna Fox (Lauren Ashley Carter), the world’s leading porn star (I swear to you this is an arthouse sci-fi drama…just bear with me). This creature, Imitation, wanders through the desert before she is taken in by a family from whom she learns about humanity and actually being a human being. Meanwhile, in New York City, Julianna is growing weary of the adult biz (and her drug dealing side hustle), and she jumps at the chance to audition for a prestigious musical conservatory (seems she was a great pianist before she took up the skin flute) after a chance meeting with an old teacher. Eventually our alien protagonist becomes aware of who she copied, and sets off to the city to meet her other half face to face. While the description above sounds like it could easily dovetail into

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DanXIII

Mar 23, 2018

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Imitation Girl Set to Make Its World Premiere At Cinequest

‘Imitation Girl’, from Natasha Kermain, will be making its world debut this March as an official selection at the Cinequest Film and VR Festival. From the Press Release: NEW YORK, New York – February 18, 2017 – Iranian-American filmmaker Natasha Kermani’s film IMITATION GIRL, featuring indie horror actress Lauren Ashley Carter (DARLING, POD), has been included in the Official Selection of the Cinequest Film & VR Festival 2017, and will celebrate its world premiere in March in Silicon Valley. A mysterious being appears in the Southwestern desert and assumes the identity of the first person she sees – a woman on a magazine cover. Taken in by Iranian immigrants, she forms an understanding of her new surroundings, and comes to appreciate the beauty and the sadness of her new world. At the same time, Julianna, Imitation’s world-weary earthly double, knows both glitz and grit working as an entertainer in New York City, where her fraying life and relationships threaten her

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 26, 2017

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