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John Hawkes (born John Marvin Perkins; September 11, 1959) is an American actor and musician. He co-founded the Big State Productions Theatre Company and appeared in the group's original play, "In the West", at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He took on the stage name "John Hawkes" because another actor shared his birth name, John Perkins. Hawkes starred in the critically-acclaimed, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which received wide praise and was awarded the special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Camera d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Additional feature credits include A Slipping-Down Life (1999), Identity (2003), Miami Vice (2006), Playing God (2004), The Perfect Storm (2000), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and Caçadores de Perigo (1997). Hawkes also starred in and co-produced the independent film, Buttleman (2003), for which he received a Breakout Performance Award at the 2004 Sedona Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Deep Ellum Film Festival. Hawkes' television credits include a lead role in the critically-acclaimed HBO series, Deadwood (2004), in which he played "Sol Star", a spirited entrepreneur in a lawless town.
John Hawkes
Professor Kenneth Varrin
for Professor Kenneth Varrin in The Hollow Veil
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The Hollow Veil is a neo-gothic horror film set in the desolate, long-abandoned town of Elden Hollow, hidden deep in the Pennsylvania woods. Once wiped out by a supposed "plague" in 1782, the town is chosen centuries later as the setting for a live-streamed reality show. Forty-six participants—college students, influencers, and crew—arrive at the decaying Blackmoor Estate, lured by the promise of fame and a $50,000 reward. But when an ancient bell tolls and one contestant is found gruesomely murdered, the line between legend and reality dissolves. As panic escalates, the group uncovers the dark legacy of Dr. Vale, a colonial-era physician who believed in curing illness through bloodletting, lobotomies, and torture. Now, a masked killer stalks the survivors, reenacting Vale’s twisted “treatments.” Is it a ghost, a madman, or something even worse—an inherited madness fed by forgotten rituals? Trapped by fog, time, and terror, the survivors must confront history itself before they too become part of the Hollow’s story.
