Heather Graham is becoming unhinged playing a slew of characters, including an undead demon, in H.P.
Lovecraft adaptation “Suitable Flesh.”Graham, who also produces the film, stars as psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby who becomes obsessed with a seductive younger patient (Judah Lewis) suffering extreme personality disorder.
Yet Elizabeth soon realizes there is a dark occult danger to being in his presence.Bruce Davison, Johnathon Schaech, and Barbara Crampton also star in the film directed by Joe Lynch.
Dennis Paoli penned the script, based on Lovecraft’s 1933 short story “The Thing on the Doorstep.”“Re-Animator” scribe Paoli first developed the original script for “Suitable Flesh,” then titled “Envy,” with late filmmaker Stuart Gordon, who died in 2020.
After later signing on, director Lynch swapped the gender of the lead psychiatrist character, now played by Graham.“Joe Lynch is such a cinephile,” Graham told IndieWire in an interview conducted during the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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