Some questions should never be answered.
The new first look trailer for What Did You Do? asks one anyway, and D.C. Douglas is a big reason you might not want to hear the answer.
The film is the feature directorial debut of Stephen Romano, the Austin writer behind Showtime’s Masters of Horror. It was shot entirely on location in Austin, Dripping Springs, and Elgin, Texas. D.C. plays Reggie. Reggie is not a nice man.
Who Is Reggie?
Every story like this needs someone pulling the strings. In What Did You Do?, that someone is Reggie: brutal, patient, and rarely where you expect him to be. He watches from the shadows while the people around him come apart.
“I’ve waited 30 years for a role like this,” D.C. says. “Granted, I also needed to age 30 years to be right for it! Playing Reggie was a dream. A sadistic dream, so I loved it even more.”
D.C. has spent decades voicing some of the most feared villains in games. This one is different. No recording booth. No motion capture suit. Just a face, a room, and a very bad attitude.
Inside the Safe House
The setup is simple, and that is what makes it so unnerving. A war-haunted ex-soldier named Alice, played by Jonathan Stoddard, is hired to guard a man duct-taped to a chair, played by Brian Villalobos. The location is a remote Texas safe house. The instructions are vague. As the two men talk, identities fracture, secrets bleed out, and the violence Reggie has set in motion starts closing in.
Romano favors slow-burning dread over cheap jump scares. When the mayhem finally arrives, it lands hard.
“It’s so rare to land a role in a film you can actually see becoming an indie darling,” D.C. says. “Stephen has constructed something bloody and delicious.”
The Ensemble
Jonathan Stoddard (Bone Cold, Falling for a Killer, The Young and the Restless) leads the cast as Alice. Brian Villalobos (Apollo 10½, Love & Death) plays Jack, and Ashton Leigh (For The Love of Lily, Quail Hollow) plays Marion.
Horror fans should keep an eye out for Caroline Williams as Donna. She is Stretch from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and she is back in Texas horror where she belongs.
Behind the Camera
A Writer Steps Up to Direct
Romano’s genre career began in 2005 with Don Coscarelli on Masters of Horror. Since then he has written the award-winning illustrated book Shock Festival, the novels Resurrection Express and Metro, and more than fifteen produced screenplays. He wrote What Did You Do? with Teighlor Darr, and it plays like the work of someone who has been waiting a long time to call “action.”
A Soundtrack From Another Era
The music earns its own mention. The film features obscure 1960s bubblegum rock written and performed by Romano’s father, Rock Romano, a minor chart topper of that era and a local legend in the Houston nightclub blues scene. Sweet melodies over very dark material. It is every bit as unsettling as it sounds.
The Poster
The retro poster comes from legendary poster artist Robert Tanenbaum. His style suits a story soaked in vintage Americana and sweat.
A Career Built on Bad Guys
On Camera
D.C. has played villains on screen in Z Nation, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Young and the Restless, Drowning in Secrets, The Encounter, Isle of the Dead, and Sharknado 2. Next up is Make The Devil Pay from Loonbird Films.
In Games and Anime
Gamers know the voice. He is Albert Wesker in nine Resident Evil games, Yoshikage Kira in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Rayvis in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Suguru Kamoshida in Persona 5, and Legion in Mass Effect. Reggie now joins a long line of characters you would never want to meet in a dark hallway.
Watch, Share, Follow
Watch the trailer above or on the official site at whatdidyoudomovie.com. Follow D.C. on Instagram at @MrDCDouglas for news as the film makes its way to audiences. Press and media can download the trailer, headshot, and poster here.
Somewhere in a Texas safe house, a man is taped to a chair, a soldier is losing his grip, and Reggie is smiling. He already knows what you did. The real question is whether you have the nerve to find out what he plans to do about it.
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