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Directed by | Martin Owen |
Produced by | Daniel Sollinger Shree Patel Jonathan Willis Abigail Wright Martin Owen Jeffrey Wright |
Screenplay by | Martin Owen |
Story by | Abigail Wright Elizabeth Morris Tim Burke |
Starring |
Mischa Barton Eric Roberts Dave Bautista Drake Bell Brooke Hogan Abigail Wright Elizabeth Morris Korrina Rico Tori Black Frank Collison Marisa Laurén Danny Trejo Andy Dick |
Music by | Mac Quayle |
Cinematography | Chase Bowman |
Edited by | Emanuele Giraldo Keith Croket |
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JWright Productions
The Ideas Factory |
Distributed by | Archstone Distribution |
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Running time
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85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2,421 |
L.A. Slasher is a 2015 American horror-comedy film co-written and directed by Martin Owen. The film stars Andy Dick, Drake Bell, Mischa Barton, and Dave Bautista. The film was released on June 26, 2015 in a limited release by Arthur Jones.
Incensed by the tabloid culture which celebrates it, the L.A. Slasher publicly abducts a series of reality TV stars, while the media and general public in turn begin to question if society is better off without them.
A theatrical trailer was released on September 24, 2014. on June 24, 2015, the official theatrical poster was released.
On February 9, 2015, Archstone Distribution had acquired all North American distribution rights to the film and planned to release the film through AMC Theatres in 2015. The film was released in a limited release on June 26, 2015, with December 1, 2015 DVD and December 8, 2015 VOD releases to follow.
The film holds a 0% rating on the review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes; the average rating is 2.5/10 based on five reviews. Camilla Jackson of Fangoria gave it a positive review of 3 out of 4 stars, describing it as a "colorful feast for the eyes." Clayton Dillard of Slant Magazine gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four stars and wrote, "It [the film] inflates the meta conceit (already borderline overblown) of a pop-obsessed, sex-negative serial killer to excessive but trite proportions." Martin Tsai of the Los Angeles Times called the film "vile" and "worthless", writing that it "actively wishes harm" on the subjects of its criticism.