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Adam Schimberg’s new film A Different Man is many things. It’s funny, tense, scary, sad, heart-warming, and a little gross, all while centering on two incredible performances from Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson. It’s a story that goes to uncomfortable places, especially in how it confronts how we perceive ourselves and the people around us and how insecurity can slowly destroy you.
In the film:

An aspiring actor (Sebastian Stan) undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. However, his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare as he becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

While A Different Man isn’t a horror film, per se, Schimberg is still playing in that sandbox, especially when it comes to crafting his own personal brand of body horror. And that’s ignoring the pervasive sense of dread that builds in each frame. It’s almost like Cronenberg meets the weirdest episode of Seinfeld.

Schimberg, Stan, and Pearson spoke with Dread Central at Fantastic Fest about the power of prosthetics, why we love horror, and Poltergeist.
Dread Central: Congratulations on showing A Different Man to a horror crowd. I loved when you said last night before the screening that you wanted to show this to a horror crowd. Why have you been so excited for horror people to see this?

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