CRISPIN GLOVER’S NOD TO LON CHANEY

A desperate young man strikes a dark deal, unknowingly offering up his mother as a subject for the twisted experiments of a morally ambiguous physician who is seeking to reverse the aging process in A Blind Bargain. In limited theatrical release, the film opens in New York City theaters April 24 and Los Angeles theaters May 8, with more dates/cities to be announced.

 From visionary writer-producer-director Paul Bunnell (The Ghastly Love of Johnny X) and starring cult icon Crispin Glover (No! You’re Wrong, Willard), A Blind Bargain was shot on Kodak film and is a stylized time capsule set in 1970—an evocative throwback that will captivate cinephiles, fans of classic suspense and lovers of offbeat cinema.

 Also starring Jake Horowitz (Bones and All), Lucy Loken (Teen Wolf), Annalisa Cochrane (Cobra Kai, One of Us is Lying), Amy Wright (Breaking Away, The Amityville Horror, The Deer Hunter), Sean Whalen (Never Been Kissed, Twister, That Thing You Do), Jed Rowen (Pretty Boy, Blind, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X) and Rob Mayes (Mistresses, The Client List, John Dies at the End) as “Vincent.”

 This heart-pounding psychological thriller resurrects and reimagines the long-lost 1922 silent horror classic A Blind Bargain, which originally showcased legendary chameleon Lon Chaney in a remarkable dual role that became one of his most talked-about performances. Deemed too amoral and unsettling for its time, the film faced heavy censorship, with its premiere delayed by extensive rewrites and cuts—yet it ultimately emerged as both a critical triumph and a box-office success.

 Today, it stands as one of the most coveted lost works of Chaney’s career—a holy grail title for film preservationists and Chaney historians—with only a few theatrical lobby cards and photos known to survive as evidence of its existence.