There are many things about our beloved genre that aid in how awesome it is. There’s no need to go through the list, I’ll just get right to it: Women. Females are a large reason on why horror flicks are so awesome. Am I right? There’s been countless scream queens throughout the years that’ve shown off their vocal chords (and breasts) for our enjoyment. Where am I going with this? Check it!
What if I told you there’s a flick coming our way that reunites a half-dozen scream queens? Did your ears just perk up? Of course they did. Something you might be interested in? Hell yeah! The flick I’m getting at is called THE BUTTERFLY ROOM and stars Heather Langenkamp, Adrienne King, Erica Leerhsen (below), Barbara Steele, Camille Keaton and P.J. Soles. I’m not kidding folks. Ready for the synopsis?
Alice is an eleven-year-old girl who entices women in their sixties; by trickeries she makes friend with them, until becoming the cure for their “empty nest syndrome”. And once she’s become part of their lives, once they can’t live without her, she benefits by asking for tips that gradually become actual fees. A small price to pay to feel like mothers again… But one day she meets the wrong lady. One day she meets Ann. And she disappears.
Ann is a lonely lady; she lives with her collection of butterflies and her memories from the past, memories of Alice as well, whom she misses much… But Ann is also a very busy lady. She’s busy throwing quicklime and acid in an elevator shaft, to make a body disappear; she’s busy with that handyman and his assistant who know too much and need to be taken care of … and her daughter Dorothy, whom she’s never seen again after something horrible happened when she was a kid. Something that Ann has desperately tried to bury in her past, a ghost that Alice, with her malicious behavior might have evoked. And there’s the banging coming from the butterfly room…
Next to Ann’s door lives Claudia, a recently divorced, attractive single mother, struggling with her newfound independence. Claudia asks Ann to tend her daughter, Julie, for a weekend. Will Julie discover what happened to Alice? Will Dorothy realize something wrong is going on soon enough to spare other kids what she went through? And what’s in the butterfly room?
Intense. What do you guys think? With a cast like that how can this thing not turn out awesome, right? We shall see I suppose. Along with the lovely ladies above THE BUTTERFLY ROOM also stars Ray Wise, James Karen and Joe Dante! Mind you Dante is strictly an actor here considering Jonathan Zarantonello is directing.
Above and below you’ll find four new stills from the film, with the ones above and directly below coming from over at Dread Central. Just click on either shot for a look at the full stills and be sure to keep it here for more on THE BUTTERFLY ROOM as we hear it!
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