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‘Re-Cut’ at the AFF
Jonathan Haug of Dallas doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would end up in Hollywood. His father was a football player at Oklahoma State. His mother works for the Cowboys. But a little more than eight years ago, after he graduated from the University of Arkansas, he headed to L.A., where his brother Chris had moved, and he’s been there ever since, building a career as a producer and screenwriter.
His new movie ‘Re-Cut,’ a horror flick set in Wisconsin, premiered at the Austin Film Festival Friday night, and it screens again tonight (Sunday) at 7 the Alamo Lake Creek.
Directed by Fritz Manger and produced by Haug, it deals with a documentary team that wants to do a feature on Meredith Phillips, the original “Bachelorette” on the TV reality series. In the movie, she’s a frustrated TV reporter who enlists the documentary team, led by actor Ross Kohn, to help her film a story about a murder of twin girls at a remote farm.
And as the story progresses, the team uncovers far more evidence than it ever expected and becomes entangled with a very sick group of people.
Haug says Phillips signed up for the project after meeting Manger at a cooking class in L.A. They shot for 15 days in Wisconsin on a very low budget, and they’ve sold various foreign and domestic video-on-demand rights already.
Haug says he hopes the video-on-demand market will serve as a marketing tool for the possible theatrical release of the film.
Haug is probably best-known in Hollywood as a producer for “MANswers,” the raunchy, late-night Spike TV hit that focuses on male attitudes — and tips — about sex. Haug says his dad watches the show, but not his mother. And for that, he’s grateful. They’ll be attending the screening tonight at the Alamo Lake Creek.
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