Yoga Hosers
Short description
Two fifteen-year-old best friends, both named Colleen, live in Winnipeg, where they practice yoga, play in a band and work shifts at a convenience store they dislike. When older boys invite them to a party, the plan runs into an ancient evil stirring beneath their workplace, and the girls must deal with the threat. The legendary man-hunter Guy Lapointe, a figure carried over from Kevin Smith's earlier film Tusk, joins them; their arsenal includes the seven chakras and a single warrior pose.
Kevin Smith directed and wrote the film, the twelfth of seventeen he has directed, following Tusk and preceding Holidays. Lily-Rose Depp and Harley Quinn Smith play the two Colleens, with Natasha Lyonne, Adam Brody, Vanessa Paradis and Ashley McCauley among a credited cast of twenty-four. Made for about five million dollars, it runs eighty-eight minutes and mixes action, comedy, fantasy and horror.
Reception was weak across the board. On IMDb it holds 4.3 from roughly seventeen thousand votes, and on TMDB 4.7 from fewer than five hundred, while the critics' rating stands at 3.6 from sixty-one reviews, placing it below even the modest audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Kevin Smith believed that the American Film Association would give the film a PG-13 rating, but it received an R rating due to allegedly “sexual undertones.” Smith intended to file a lawsuit to compel the American Film Association to lower the film’s rating, but the American Film Association re-watched the film and lowered its rating without going to official proceedings.
- During a fight with one of the monsters, Colleen McKenzie says, "I shouldn't even be here today!" This same phrase appears in Kevin Smith's first film, "Clerks" (1994).
- Kevin Smith met Tyler Posey at the annual international Comic Con festival in San Diego in 2014, where Posey was part of the creative team for the series “Teen Wolf” (2011), and Smith himself participated in promotional photoshoots with berserkers from the show’s 4th season. Smith, a fan of the series, decided to create a character specifically for Posey after meeting the lead actor of “Teen Wolf.” This character became Gordon Greenleaf, one of the characters in “Yoga Hosers.”
- Johnny Depp agreed to star in “Yoga Hosers” for a number of reasons: a) due to his participation in “Tusk,” the first film in Smith’s “Canadian Trilogy” (2014); b) his daughter, Lily-Rose, and Smith’s daughter, Harley Quinn, have been friends since kindergarten; c) Smith’s comedy dramas “Chasing Amy” (1996) and “Jersey Girl” (2004) are among his favorite films. Therefore, the actor always wanted to appear in Kevin Smith’s films.
- Kevin Conroy, the voice of the main character in the 1992 "Batman," played a cameo role in the film "Yoga Hosers."
- Producer, editor, podcaster, and actor Scott Mosier, known for his work with director Kevin Smith, recorded his lines for the film on their joint podcast, “SModcast”.
- Initially, Jason Mewes was supposed to play all the monsters in the film. However, it turned out that the actor suffers from claustrophobia, so he couldn’t even pass the makeup and prosthetics tests, which required a large amount of makeup and headpieces, let alone the need to wear full-body suits. These roles were offered to Haley Joel Osment, but his manager declined the offer. In the end, all the monsters were played by the screenwriter and director, Kevin Smith. He had to shave his beard for the makeup application.
- Michael Parks was initially cast in the role of the mysterious old man, but the actor fell ill at an inopportune time. The role went to Ralph Garman, who had to shave his head for filming.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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