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Tony Amendola and Jamison Jones (The Wretched) have joined the cast of the horror short The Agreement at Clivemore, which is set to begin filming next month.

The short film follows “the retiring Hospital Director of the mysterious Clivemore Hospital, who meets his successor and reveals a disturbing secret: a haunting contract every new employee must sign – no exceptions.”

Amendola will play Doctor Burgos, while Jones will play Paul Echols.

The Agreement at Clivemore is directed by Ryan Godoy (Every Night I See Them) and written by David Draper. Draper’s script was initially adapted into a podcast by UK creators Miscreation and featured in an audio-drama anthology on Spotify, Audible, and Apple Podcasts.

Godoy and Draper’s short is described as “having a nostalgic nod to the classical mysteries of Night Gallery and the creepiest episodes of The Twilight Zone,” evocative of “more recent chills, such as Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor,...

This mid-‘sixties black comedy from the mischievous George Axelrod defines and dissects ‘crazy California culture’ just as West Coasters were being slandered as godless weird-oh hedonists. It’s partly a sarcastic put-down, citing anecdotal extremes like drive-in churches (how 2020 can you get?), perverse youth encounter groups and mindless beach party movies. But Axelrod’s paints indelible images of maladjusted women of three age groups: Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright and Ruth Gordon. Where Roddy McDowall fits in is anybody’s guess — he’s meant to glue the satire together and instead turns it into a big Question Mark.

Lord Love a Duck

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1966 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 105 min. / Street Date September 22, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon, Harvey Korman, Sarah Marshall, Lynn Carey, Donald Murphy, Max Showalter, Joseph Mell, Dan Frazer, Martine Bartlett, Jo Collins, Judith Loomis, Gay Gordon,...