PopHorror Let's Get Scared
Anyone who’s read my review of Mark Savage’s film, Painkiller (2021), knows how much I love that film. Bringing to light the opioid crisis and combining it with a passionate, pissed off avenger who will do anything to try and quell the grief of his daughter’s passing was exactly what …
Read More »Interview With ‘Painkiller’ Filmmaker Mark Savage
Painkiller (read our review here), the new, deeply personal vigilante thriller, directed by Mark Savage and written by Savage and Tom Parnell, was released on DVD and VOD May 4, 2021. The revenge flick, an unofficial sequel to the writers’ previous Stressed to Kill, is about a broken father working through …
Read More »Interview With ‘Painkiller’ Actor Bill Oberst, Jr. And Scriptwriter Tom Parnell: The Opioid Epidemic
When I first heard about the film, Painkiller, I became almost obsessed with seeing it. Not only does it star one of my favorite people on this planet, Bill Oberst, Jr., but it is also about a subject that I am extremely passionate about—the current opioid epidemic. Sure, it’s a …
Read More »Bill Oberst, Jr. Takes On The Opioid Crisis in Mark Savage’s ‘Painkiller’ (2021) – Movie Review
The opioid crisis. We’ve heard about it. We’ve read news articles about it. We may even have been affected by it. But what can we do about it? Grieving father Bill Johnson (Circus Of The Dead’s Bill Oberst, Jr.) has an idea about that in Mark Savage’s 2021 film, Painkiller. …
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