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Writer/Director Peter Klausner Challenges Horror Fans
To STOMACH IT
With Bloody Gut-Wrenching Sneak Peek and New York Premiere
New body horror film scares up rave reviews, major festival premieres from Screamfest to NYC Horror and releases a gruesome first-look scene that asks the viewer, “Can you STOMACH IT?”
“Klausner sets the tone perfectly, inciting fear and nausea from the very beginning.”
~ Bloody Flicks
“Writer/director Peter Klausner does a terrific job of delivering a film that deals in an increasingly eerie atmosphere and gory body horror.”
~ Horror Fuel
NEW YORK (November 20, 2024) – ISOTRE Films announces the New York premiere of STOMACH IT at NYC Horror Fest on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 7pm at LOOK Dine-In Cinema located at 657 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10019. STOMACH IT also releases a first-look clip daring horror fans to “Stomach It.” The psychological body horror film written and directed by Peter Klausner (Coasting) stars Jon Lee Richardson (Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F). The film was produced by Klauser and Torey Rubin (RWBY, Zall Good). STOMACH IT continues its festival circuit with its New York premiere after garnering rave reviews at the Oscar-qualifying Nashville Film Festival, the Chicago Horror Film Festival, Screamfest, Atlanta Horror Film Festival and Mórbido Fest, with more to come.
Click here for tickets and more information on STOMACH IT at NYC Horror Fest
In STOMACH IT, a crime scene cleaner struggles with emotionally detaching from the deceased’s personal possessions. While on a late night job, he convinces himself a monstrous presence is toying with him.
“I became fascinated by the psychological aspects of crime scene cleaners and how you are expected to emotionally detach. This body horror story goes to the core of the most raw and visceral parts of the human psyche and aims to connect with audiences at the deepest levels,” said Klausner. “In the spirit of connecting with audiences on the most profound levels, it’s important to note how therapeutic the horror genre is for me (and many others) because through making these projects, it forces one to confront fear and anxieties which can easily be ignored in everyday life. It’s vital for collaborators to viscerally relate to these terrors. It challenges them to tackle something in themselves through different fields and mediums like cinematography, production design, score, sound design, etc. By the end of making a horror project, I feel a sense of catharsis having dealt with something in myself,” he continued.
STOMACH IT explores what happens when a sensitive soul struggles to cope with experiencing trauma on a daily basis. Emotions take residence within our physical selves, growing and rotting when not released, acting like a ticking time bomb. It asks the most fundamental of human questions: Do we have the guts to face our problems straight on or do we let them fester until they become something increasingly monstrous?
STOMACH IT’s main character, Joel (Richardson), fixates on objects left behind by the deceased such as a child's wooden horse at an accidental shooting or a colorful toy at an overdose. Joel tries to detach by turning photos around, disposing of final meals, covering photos on mirrors, and covering personal objects like stuffed animals, but it doesn’t work. Joel has an incredibly difficult time trying to digest his trauma. Literally.
"Joel was hands down one of the toughest roles I've ever taken on, but also one of the most rewarding. I genuinely loved every second of the project.” Said Richardson.
Gut Reactions
Rue Morgue says, “Stomach It” is a brutal and haunting meditation on the cost of bearing other people’s horrors,” Horror Buzz reports that “Filmmaker Peter Klausner delivers an atmospheric and provocative squirm piece that entertains and disturbs.” Reel News Daily has called the film “particularly unhinged and most certainly genius.” While Bloody Flicks says, “Klausner sets the tone perfectly, inciting fear and nausea from the very beginning.” And, Horror Fuel concludes, “Writer/director Peter Klausner does a terrific job of delivering a film that deals in an increasingly eerie atmosphere and gory body horror.”
The Methods Behind the Madness
Inspired by how Black Swan utilizes body horror to visualize the character’s mental deterioration, STOMACH IT visualizes and takes a deep dive into the main character’s internal issues. Drawing from the practical effects in 1980s horror movies such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Videodrome, the team worked diligently with the film’s special effects make-up artist, Michael Dinetz (Avengers: Infinity War), to create a stomach air bladder. When inflated, the bladder emulates a pulsating stomach. When an intestinal mattress was needed to protrude in the background during a scene, the film’s carpenter was tasked with creating a 3D wooden stomach which was attached with rods and puppeteered through a fitted sheet for maximum effect. And these are just some of the practical special fx in the film.
Death Comes to Life with the STOMACH IT Filmmaking Team
Peter Klausner, born and raised in Los Angeles, was heavily influenced by his grandfather, Milt. Milt showed Peter the power of storytelling through his personal experiences and stories living through the Great Depression. However, it wasn’t until Peter’s girlfriend, Giselle, introduced him to the horror genre that everything clicked. Combining his new obsession for the art of horror and his love of storytelling, Peter found an outlet that allows him to express himself through a visual lens turning some of his own fears into some of the greatest horror content today.
As he dove head first into all things horror, Peter found himself connecting to some of the greats like Wes Craven and David Cronenberg, Peter channeled his emotions into some of the bloodiest, goriest films of the year that have helped him gain a loyal cult following at festivals. Moving forward, Peter wants to explore the vast subgenres of horror and is busy writing feature scripts he plans to make in the future.
STOMACH IT is Klausner’s third collaboration with close friend and longtime cinematographer, Emily Tapanes. Tapanes’ credits include The Morning Show (Apple TV+), A Man on the Inside (Netflix), The Sex Lives of College Girls (Max). Klausner also worked with his good friend/editor, Liam Molina, who also happens to be Tapanes’ fiancé. Molina’s credits include Fallout (Prime Video), Chief of War (Apple TV+), and The Mosquito Coast - Season 2 (Apple TV+).
Jon Lee Richardson is an actor known for his roles in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Bug, and I Met My Murderer Online. Based in Los Angeles, Jon is currently studying at The Groundlings and creates weekly sketch comedy content with his wife, Vanessa. He is repped by Momentum Talent and Mills Kaplan Entertainment.
Audiences in New York will get a chance to STOMACH IT first-hand, followed by Q&As with cast and crew at NYC Horror Fest on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 7pm at LOOK Dine-In Cinema located at 657 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Click here for tickets and more information on STOMACH IT at NYC Horror Fest
~ Bloody Flicks
“Writer/director Peter Klausner does a terrific job of delivering a film that deals in an increasingly eerie atmosphere and gory body horror.”
~ Horror Fuel
NEW YORK (November 20, 2024) – ISOTRE Films announces the New York premiere of STOMACH IT at NYC Horror Fest on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 7pm at LOOK Dine-In Cinema located at 657 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10019. STOMACH IT also releases a first-look clip daring horror fans to “Stomach It.” The psychological body horror film written and directed by Peter Klausner (Coasting) stars Jon Lee Richardson (Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F). The film was produced by Klauser and Torey Rubin (RWBY, Zall Good). STOMACH IT continues its festival circuit with its New York premiere after garnering rave reviews at the Oscar-qualifying Nashville Film Festival, the Chicago Horror Film Festival, Screamfest, Atlanta Horror Film Festival and Mórbido Fest, with more to come.
Click here for tickets and more information on STOMACH IT at NYC Horror Fest
In STOMACH IT, a crime scene cleaner struggles with emotionally detaching from the deceased’s personal possessions. While on a late night job, he convinces himself a monstrous presence is toying with him.
“I became fascinated by the psychological aspects of crime scene cleaners and how you are expected to emotionally detach. This body horror story goes to the core of the most raw and visceral parts of the human psyche and aims to connect with audiences at the deepest levels,” said Klausner. “In the spirit of connecting with audiences on the most profound levels, it’s important to note how therapeutic the horror genre is for me (and many others) because through making these projects, it forces one to confront fear and anxieties which can easily be ignored in everyday life. It’s vital for collaborators to viscerally relate to these terrors. It challenges them to tackle something in themselves through different fields and mediums like cinematography, production design, score, sound design, etc. By the end of making a horror project, I feel a sense of catharsis having dealt with something in myself,” he continued.
STOMACH IT explores what happens when a sensitive soul struggles to cope with experiencing trauma on a daily basis. Emotions take residence within our physical selves, growing and rotting when not released, acting like a ticking time bomb. It asks the most fundamental of human questions: Do we have the guts to face our problems straight on or do we let them fester until they become something increasingly monstrous?
STOMACH IT’s main character, Joel (Richardson), fixates on objects left behind by the deceased such as a child's wooden horse at an accidental shooting or a colorful toy at an overdose. Joel tries to detach by turning photos around, disposing of final meals, covering photos on mirrors, and covering personal objects like stuffed animals, but it doesn’t work. Joel has an incredibly difficult time trying to digest his trauma. Literally.
"Joel was hands down one of the toughest roles I've ever taken on, but also one of the most rewarding. I genuinely loved every second of the project.” Said Richardson.
Gut Reactions
Rue Morgue says, “Stomach It” is a brutal and haunting meditation on the cost of bearing other people’s horrors,” Horror Buzz reports that “Filmmaker Peter Klausner delivers an atmospheric and provocative squirm piece that entertains and disturbs.” Reel News Daily has called the film “particularly unhinged and most certainly genius.” While Bloody Flicks says, “Klausner sets the tone perfectly, inciting fear and nausea from the very beginning.” And, Horror Fuel concludes, “Writer/director Peter Klausner does a terrific job of delivering a film that deals in an increasingly eerie atmosphere and gory body horror.”
The Methods Behind the Madness
Inspired by how Black Swan utilizes body horror to visualize the character’s mental deterioration, STOMACH IT visualizes and takes a deep dive into the main character’s internal issues. Drawing from the practical effects in 1980s horror movies such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Videodrome, the team worked diligently with the film’s special effects make-up artist, Michael Dinetz (Avengers: Infinity War), to create a stomach air bladder. When inflated, the bladder emulates a pulsating stomach. When an intestinal mattress was needed to protrude in the background during a scene, the film’s carpenter was tasked with creating a 3D wooden stomach which was attached with rods and puppeteered through a fitted sheet for maximum effect. And these are just some of the practical special fx in the film.
Death Comes to Life with the STOMACH IT Filmmaking Team
Peter Klausner, born and raised in Los Angeles, was heavily influenced by his grandfather, Milt. Milt showed Peter the power of storytelling through his personal experiences and stories living through the Great Depression. However, it wasn’t until Peter’s girlfriend, Giselle, introduced him to the horror genre that everything clicked. Combining his new obsession for the art of horror and his love of storytelling, Peter found an outlet that allows him to express himself through a visual lens turning some of his own fears into some of the greatest horror content today.
As he dove head first into all things horror, Peter found himself connecting to some of the greats like Wes Craven and David Cronenberg, Peter channeled his emotions into some of the bloodiest, goriest films of the year that have helped him gain a loyal cult following at festivals. Moving forward, Peter wants to explore the vast subgenres of horror and is busy writing feature scripts he plans to make in the future.
STOMACH IT is Klausner’s third collaboration with close friend and longtime cinematographer, Emily Tapanes. Tapanes’ credits include The Morning Show (Apple TV+), A Man on the Inside (Netflix), The Sex Lives of College Girls (Max). Klausner also worked with his good friend/editor, Liam Molina, who also happens to be Tapanes’ fiancé. Molina’s credits include Fallout (Prime Video), Chief of War (Apple TV+), and The Mosquito Coast - Season 2 (Apple TV+).
Jon Lee Richardson is an actor known for his roles in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Bug, and I Met My Murderer Online. Based in Los Angeles, Jon is currently studying at The Groundlings and creates weekly sketch comedy content with his wife, Vanessa. He is repped by Momentum Talent and Mills Kaplan Entertainment.
Audiences in New York will get a chance to STOMACH IT first-hand, followed by Q&As with cast and crew at NYC Horror Fest on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 7pm at LOOK Dine-In Cinema located at 657 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Click here for tickets and more information on STOMACH IT at NYC Horror Fest
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