Trailer Park: Black Eyed Susan

Legendary underground filmmaker Scooter McCrae’s returns with “BLACK EYED SUSAN”, making its World Premiere at Fantasia on August 2nd.

Legendary underground filmmaker Scooter McCrae (SHATTER DEAD, SIXTEEN TONGUES) returns after a 21-year absence from feature filmmaking with the bold, vulgar, and deeply thought-provoking BLACK EYED SUSAN.

Simultaneously brutally challenging and deeply vulnerable, the latest from the New York-based provocateur appropriates bleeding-edge science fiction concepts to address the seemingly endless lengths men will go to satisfy their darkest impulses without questioning the consequences of their actions.

In the film, down-on-his-luck Derek (Damien Maffei, THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT) is hired by a shady tech industrialist to “test” Susan (Yvonne Emilie Thälker, in a striking feature debut), a lifelike robot built for the purpose of receiving and “enjoying” sexual abuse.

Initially hesitant to take part, Derek accepts but quickly finds himself drawn to Susan’s developing personality and inquisitive nature.

As the robot’s expanding humanity chips away at him and he learns more about his own secret desires, he questions whether what he’s been tasked to do—even to a robot—should ever be condoned.

Scooter McCrae is known for his mix of daring sexuality with horror and science fiction.

McCrae is a low-budget filmmaking icon whose credits include acting, composing, writing, editing, cinematography, and just about every aspect of filmmaking imaginable. He began his career working with Frank Henenlotter as a production assistant on Frankenhooker and Basket Case.

His directorial debut was a zombie film called Shatter Dead, which received a positive review from Joe Bob Briggs. His second feature was Sixteen Tongues, a film that’s been described as Blade Runner meets Salo.

While more than satisfying gore lovers, he’s not afraid to be provocative and thought-provoking, weaving allegory and intellectually stimulating ideas into his macabre and boundary-pushing material.

If you’re not familiar with his work, you can check out his short Saint Frankenstein for free on Vimeo, a film that reworks the Frankenstein myth with historical reality.

His latest film, Black Eyed Susan, is a Vinegar Syndrome Production in association with Not the Funeral Home and Moose + Squirrel. The erotic sci-fi drama was filmed on Super 16mm film and features a luscious musical score from legendary Italian composer Fabio Frizzi (THE BEYOND, ZOMBIE).

Check out the beautiful but haunting trailer below.