‘Guillotine’ Trailer – Sean Young Narrates Historical Horror Comedy Anthology
Heads will roll when Guillotine slices through VOD on October 31. Watch the trailer below. Narrated by Blade Runner‘s Sean Young, the historical horror comedy anthology uses the guillotine as a centerpiece to explore human nature through genre-bending narratives. The guillotine was built on the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, an attempt to instill […]
Heads will roll when Guillotine slices through VOD on October 31. Watch the trailer below.
Narrated by Blade Runner‘s Sean Young, the historical horror comedy anthology uses the guillotine as a centerpiece to explore human nature through genre-bending narratives.
The guillotine was built on the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, an attempt to instill grace to an otherwise brutal expression of justice. The film examines the killing machine’s role in history through the lens of five true tales, from the French Revolution to the fall of Saddam Hussein.
At times humorous and ironic, poignant and thoughtful, these stories reflect the morality of their times, tracing the philosophical attitudes about capital punishment and the power structure that allows it to be. From a necessary evil to cold-blooded amusement, the blade falls with no less detachment.
Ray Izad-Mehr makes his feature directional debut from a script he co-wrote with Sara Vahabi, Nabor Cabanillas, Melinda Molenda, and Lisa Molenda.
“With Guillotine, I wanted to take something historically final and kind of reimagine it — making it bloody, absurd, and unsettlingly funny — to cut through the layers of what makes us human. Each story peels back a different part of human nature… but with a bit of a twisted grin,” says Izard-Mehr.
