Return to Babylon

Return to Babylon
Directed by Alex Monty Canawati
Produced by María Conchita Alonso
Stanley Sheff
Written by Alex Monty Canawati
Bruce Pitzer
Stanley Sheff
Starring Jennifer Tilly
María Conchita Alonso
Debi Mazar
Ione Skye
Laura Harring
Tippi Hedren
Cinematography Scott Dale
Cricket Peters
Edited by Stanley Sheff
Release dates
11 August 2013 (USA)
Running time
75 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Return to Babylon is a black-and-white silent film about the silent movie era. It was directed by Alex Monty Canawati. It stars an ensemble cast of Jennifer Tilly, María Conchita Alonso, Ione Skye, Debi Mazar, Laura Harring, and Tippi Hedren.

Plot

Photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lupe Vélez, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor.

Background

Features locations in and around Hollywood, California, including the original home of Rudolph Valentino - Falcon Lair, the Norma Talmadge estate and the Canfield-Moreno Estate, as well as the Magic Castle in the Hollywood Hills.

The feature was shot using 19 rolls of 16mm film supposedly found sitting on a sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Reports of paranormal activity

The film has garnerned a reputation for being haunted. This is because of reports that the actors faces can be seen "morphing" into grotesque shapes in certain shots. Other reports include actors having elongated and webbed fingers, full bodied apparitions, seeing the faces of dead actors manifest in shots, and shadows resembling demons or skeletons. Much of cast and crew had confirmed many of these reports and stated they experienced odd events during production, with Jennifer Tilly in particular describing feeling "watched" and "touched" by unseen forces during filming.[1]

Cast

Release

The film was released 11 August 2013 in the United States.[2]

References

  1. "Return to Babylon". Return to Babylon. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
  2. Return to Babylon, 11 Aug 2013, retrieved 2015-06-02

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