Lou Ferrigno Talks Playing a Cannibalistic Pig Farmer in Horror Movie ‘The Hermit’ as Marketing Trailer Debuts: ‘He Loves to Eat People Who Cuss’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Famed bodybuilder and “The Incredible Hulk” star Lou Ferrigno clearly enjoyed playing a murderous, cannibalistic pig farmer in horror film “The Hermit,” marking his first creature role since the CBS TV series in which he played a raging green monster. “This guy, he’s kind of possessed,” Ferrigno tells Variety. “So you see the pain.
You see the demons in him.” Los Angeles-based sales company Scatena & Rosner Films is at the European Film Market with the completed cut of horror film “The Hermit,” in which Ferrigno plays a gigantic pig farmer whose mother taught him how to cook humans and make them into jerky.
Variety has exclusive access to its marketing trailer (watch above). “The Hermit” is directed by U.S.-based Italian helmer Salvatore Sclafani and produced by Los Angeles- and New York-based Gerry Pass via his Chrome Entertainment shingle in tandem with Sclafani’s First Child Prods.
It centers on two self-absorbed teens named Lisa and Eric – respectively played by Malina Weissman (“A Series of Unfortunate Events”) and Anthony Turpel (“Bloody Bridget”) – who go on a fishing trip and stumble across a farm with animal heads hanging from the wall.
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