Addison Heimann has put together one of the weirdest and most hilarious movies of the year, Sundance 2025's Touch Me.
Director Addison Heimann has put together one of the weirdest and most hilarious movies of the year. Called Touch Me, the psychosexual horror-comedy stars Oliva Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Marlene Forte, and Paget Brewster. Touch Me premieres on January 28 at 10:15 p.m. MT at The Ray Theatre as part of
Yeah. you know, it’s so funny how kind of like technical sex scenes are in movies, especially kind of alien sex scenes. Especially alien sex scenes are very technical. But because we were doing like completely you know, practical effects, it was like all hands on deck. She came about it in an interesting way. I had an actress that was attached to it that I wrote it for. booked another gig, and unfortunately had to drop out. So Olivia actually came pretty late to the game, and we were a month out from shooting, and she was about to go shoot another movie.
She’s also an executive producer on the movie because ultimately that was it, right? When you’re doing something like this and I’m asking you to do all these things, I can’t help but give you creative help to create this movie and create the look and have some agency and creative control of over this. And she was wildly helpful. She was with us from the shoot through the edit, through all of the design stuff. helped shape it. I owed that to her because I asked her to do crazy.
Yeah, that’s a great point. I’m glad you mentioned Resurrection. I didn’t put those two together, but now I can totally see that throughline. That film is just crazy as well. It’s wonderful.I need to lie and be like, “Yeah, this is…” But I really just thought it was funny. Like, I really wish it was just like, “Oh, yeah, there was a friend I knew who always wore tracksuits and did hip-hop dancing.
I’ve been learning Japanese for five years, and I was really entrenched in the cinema of the seventies. And obviously that is all a part of that kind of world. I couldn’t make my anxiety and depression go away, and I wanted to use that and explore. And I think if I can like volunteer as tribute in order to just talk, and it’s also therapeutic for me because I think I’m gonna spend my entire kind of career deep diving into this like, nebulous world of mental crap that I’ve been forced to deal with.
I was like, “Well, what if we did silent film records as Grindr notifications?” And then everybody was like, “That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.” And I was like, “I really hope this works.” And it tickles me a lot, I think.
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