Judith O’Dea, she who would be Barbara from George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has just been cast in STUDIES as Senator Gayle Hamlin, the mentor to the film’s lead. As a refresher, STUDIES is a horror film about a pregnant grad student and her friends who are held captive at a women’s academy that’s actually a cult of psychotic feminists bent on enslaving and/or murdering men. These cultfeminists indoctrinate college age girls under their dogma then send them out into the world to take high powered jobs from men, run for public office, and take away men’s social power. They’re also ordered to seduce then murder men with high intelligence or stamina in order to create a “pure Goddess race.” The pregnant grad student is forced to choose between joining their sect or risking death by trying to escape from the academy.
Least to say the folks behind the film are honored as hell to have such a horror film legend in their movie- yes, she may have only had that one role, but damnit- it’ll be the one she’s remembered for. Production is set to start filming this July, with a release date hitting sometime in 2008. Horror and women cults…. as long as it’s nothing like THE WICKER MAN remake, I think they’ll do ok… For more on WOMEN’S STUDIES, check out the film’s OFFICIAL WEBSITE, and stick around for more news and updates as we hear them!