Gordon Casts His Masters of Horror
Genre stalwart Stuart (RE-ANIMATOR) Gordon has lined up the leads for his MASTERS OF HORROR segment THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE, scripted by Dennis Paoli from the H.P. Lovecraft story. Jeffrey Combs will indeed be playing Mazurewicz, The heros bizarre neighbor, Gordon tells Fango. Ezra Godden, who starred in Gordons DAGON, joins Combs as the films protagonist, the obsessed student Walter Gilman.
THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE has always been one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, the director notes. The image of a witch showing up in your bedroom in the middle of the night and dragging you out of bed and forcing you to murder babies is a nightmare thats hard to get out of your head. And while most witches have black cats for their familiars, Keziah Masons is Lovecrafts most memorable monster: Brown Jenkin, the rat with a human face. Besides Jeff and Ezra, Ive got some babies and rats to cast.
Oddly enough, back in the 80s, Combs starred in a segment of the uncompleted Charles Band anthology PULSEPOUNDERS, which lifted WITCHs storyline and co-starred David Gale as the rat thing. Combs, meanwhile, is all over the place these days, with supporting turns in ALL SOULS DAY, ABOMINABLE and the recent season finale of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE. The actor is currently directing a play in Los Angeles. Showtime will air the Vancouver-lensed MASTERS in October, and creator Mick Garris will give us the scoop on the series Saturday at the Burbank Weekend of Horrors convention.
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