Shelley Duvall is back on the movie screen as a tormentor in the upcoming indie horror flick, “The Forest Hills.”
A couple of decades after Duvall announced her retirement, the 73-year-old actress is featured cursing at the main character in the trailer of Scott Goldberg’s upcoming movie.
“You’re a f*****g murderer, Rico!” Duvall’s character says to Rico, played by Chiko Mendez, a man who is “tormented by nightmarish visions, after enduring head trauma while camping in the Catskill Mountains.”
“The character of Rico’s mother is angry because of what her son has become and feels a quiet rage which sometimes turns explosive,” Duvall told People.
Duvall, who is known for appearing in Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film “The Shining,” also praised the two-man crew who filmed her part and told the outlet that it was the first “first time I ever worked with a director who was on FaceTime.”
“It was fun, very satisfying. Welcome to the future,” she added.
Aside from Duvall and Mendez, “The Forest Hills” stars Edward Furlong and Dee Wallace.
The trailer opens with Mendez recording himself as he goes on a two-mile hike in Catskills Mountains in New York to get rid of his boredom. The next scene sees a woman offering Mendez a change of medication to make him feel better to which the latter responds, “I just don’t like the way they make me feel.”
The subsequent scenes show Mendez vigorously washing the bloodstains off his upper body while the body of a man covered in blood is seen in the background. He tells a group of listeners in the woods, “Every day, I try to do my best and I know that you do too.”
“I’m constantly struggling. Deep down inside,” Rico tells the circle of listeners. “I’m trying to be something that I’m not.”
Upon her retirement in 2002, Duvall settled in her home state of Texas where she was interviewed by a crew for “Dr. Phil” in 2016. The “disturbing” interview shocked many fans and friends of Duvall including “The Shining” aficionado Lee Unkrich, director of Oscar-winning Pixar films “Toy Story 3” and “Coco.”
“Unfortunately, on Dr. Phil, the world saw what it’s like to have untreated mental illness,” Unkrich told The Hollywood Reporter.