{"id":827583,"date":"2026-08-27T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827583\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:00:10","slug":"tara-reid-johnny-pemberton-to-star-in-horror-scissor-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827583\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Reid &#038; Johnny Pemberton To Star In Horror &#8216;Scissor Mouth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Tara\u00a0Reid\u00a0(American Pie) and\u00a0Johnny Pemberton\u00a0(Fallout) are attached to star in the independent horror feature\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/scissor-mouth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scissor-mouth\" data-tag=\"scissor-mouth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scissor Mouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduced by\u00a01905 Films\u00a0and written and directed by\u00a0Deborah Richards,\u00a0Scissor Mouth\u00a0is described as \u201ca contemporary Southern Gothic horror inspired by an ancient Japanese folktale, using horror to explore society\u2019s obsession with beauty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSet in the early 1980s,\u00a0Scissor Mouth\u00a0follows a teenage girl who escapes years of captivity at the hands of her beauty-obsessed mother, leaving a bloody trail of delay \u201cmakeovers\u2019 across rural West Texas. The project is slated to shoot\u00a0in New Mexico in 2027 with Patrick Wirtz producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe screenplay placed second in the horror category at\u00a0the 2025 Slamdance Screenplay Competition, winning\u00a0Filmmatic\u2019s Horror\/Thriller Screenplay Awards, and selected for the\u00a02026 Grey List.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cScissor Mouth\u00a0is my response to the impossible standards of beauty and the scars they leave behind,\u201d Richards explained. \u201cI wrote Johnny Pemberton\u2019s role with him in mind from the very beginning because I knew his unique blend of humor and heart was exactly what the character needed, while\u00a0Tara\u00a0Reid\u00a0embodies the perfect mix of charm, unpredictability, and humanity for this world. I can\u2019t wait to watch them make these characters their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProducer\u00a0Patrick Wirtz\u00a0added: \u201cWe have a provocative, fearless script that speaks directly to the world we\u2019re living in today. It\u2019s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and stays with you. I believe it has all the ingredients to become a cult classic that audiences will want to watch, and rewatch, again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReid\u00a0is represented by Maverick Artists Agency and Wonder Street. Pemberton is represented by Independent Artist Group and Artists First. Richards is represented by Tammy Hunt at Sandstone Artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Tara\u00a0Reid\u00a0(American Pie) and\u00a0Johnny Pemberton\u00a0(Fallout) are attached to star in the independent horror feature\u00a0Scissor Mouth. Produced by\u00a01905 Films\u00a0and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,350568,160771],"class_list":["post-827583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-scissor-mouth","tag-tara-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}