Jug Face

Jug Face (2013)

The pit wants what it wants

When a supernatural pit worshipped by a remote community in the woods demands a new blood sacrifice, a young woman struggles to find a way to survive as the pit lashes out in anger.

Date of release
2013-08-09
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (199)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Horror, Thriller, Drama
Director
Chad Crawford Kinkle

Casting

Interesting facts

Jug Face is a 2013 American independent Southern Gothic supernatural horror film written and directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle, and starring Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Larry Fessenden, Sean Young and Daniel Manche. The story follows a teen, played by Carter, who is pregnant with her brother's child and tries to escape from a backwoods community, only to discover that she must sacrifice herself to a creature in a pit.

Production

In 2011, Jug Face writer/director, Chad Kinkle won the Slamdance Screenwriting Competition, and it was announced at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival that Modernciné's Andrew van den Houten and Robert Tonino would produce the film in Nashville, Tennessee.

It was announced in January 2012 that Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Larry Fessenden, and Sean Young were cast in the film. Young said that she found it difficult to play an unsympathetic character, but she enjoyed working with Carter and Fessenden. Young was deliberately made to look old, which she said was helped by the custom-made clothing.

Potter and sculptor Jason Mahlke designed and created the face jugs for the film.

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