White Lion Studios, LLC has announced that Attack of the Killer Shrews! will make its Lone Star state debut at Comicpalooza 2017 on May 14, 2017 with a 3pm screening at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX.
Attack of the Killer Shrews!, the wildly entertaining splatstick remake of the 1959 cult classic Killer Shrews, stars Bill Kennedy as Sheriff Martin Blake, Elizabeth Houlihan as B-movie Scream Queen Fiona Rae, and Jonathan Rogers as high brow professor and author Charles Perry. This deliberately awful display of puppetry follows a group of misfits as they defend the world against an invasion of monstrous killer shrews.
Says Ken Cosentino, CEO of White Lion Studios, LLC and creator of Attack of the Killer Shrews!, “We’re all very excited to have our film playing in Comicpalooza. I entered us into the festival with the intention of expanding the Shrewniverse and now our company is geared up for the screening. We’ll be in Houston the entire weekend and it’s sure to be a memorable event.”
Complete with horrible shrew puppets and a special cameo by Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment, Attack of the Killer Shrews! combines Mel Brooks style humor with a classic drive-in creature feature.
“Ken Cosentino is a brilliant director,” says Kaufman who first met Ken on Troma’s Return to Return to Class of Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1 & Volume 2. “Troma has a history of finding young, talented filmmakers, including Trey Parker and James Gunn, and I believe Ken Cosentino will have his place among them,” says Kaufman.
Other cast members include: Marcus Ganci-Rotella (Lewis) who is Professor Perry’s slimy literary agent, Cheryl Szymczak (Cassandra) Lewis’ better half, Mick O’Keefe (Murdock) the crazy scientist responsible for the madness, Baird Hageman (Wayne) Sheriff Blake’s deputy and “his cousin”, Bill Brown (Wilkens) the disgruntled Scotsman who is enduring Round 2 with the Shrews, and James Ventry (Captain Jack Frost) leader of the military sent to end this outbreak.
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