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Jonathan Davis' Film Career

Making his movie debut in 2002 with a short cameo role in Queen of the Damned, KoRn frontman Jonathan Davis has moved up the ranks, playing title rolls as the Devil and a religious serial killer.

JOB

JOB, a religious new horror flick, is Jonathan Davis' second biggest ever acting role, besides Sin-Jin Smyth.

John Gray, director/co-writer of the religious slasher flick, said: "Casting Jonathan might not appear to be the obvious choice but when you see him in action, you'll completely understand why.

"He is going to bring such a level of talent to it that might just surprise everyone. I hope it makes the film a bit more durable to stand the test of time, and bring a whole new fan base."

Davis, who also has a role in Sin-Jin Smyth, joins a cast comprised of Bill Moseley (The Devil's Recjects), Michael Paré (Bloodrayne), Lee Perkins and Joe Knetter.

"The story centers around the disappearances of several Catholic priests involved with the church's summer camp for young boys," John Gray, the director of upcoming horror flick said. "JOB is a direct killer. An avenging angel... he only kills those who have wronged him.

"No innocent blood will be shed... by the time the end rolls around, you will be rooting for his cause."

MOVIE QUICK FACTS:

Title: JOB

Writers: John Gray/Spencer Gray

Director: John Gray

Produced By: Snapkick Productions

Davis' Role: JOB (Serial Killer)

Release: TBA

Runtime: TBA

Certification: TBA

Sin-Jin Smyth

Written and directed by Ethan Dettenmaier, Sin-Jin Smyth stars Jonathan Davis as the title roll as the devil, in his biggest acting roles yet.

Every Halloween at midnight, the devil simultaneously appears in two places, the high plains of India... and a quiet cemetery in Kansas. On November 2nd "The Day of the Dead" two Federal Marshals report to the town of Shin Bone, Kansas (moments before a tornado warning) to transport a prisoner with no past and no identity. He is known simply as... Sin-Jin Smyth!

Davis told The Rock Radio online about his character and what the film is about: "It's a film that I was asked to play the title character, Sin-Jin Smyth.

"It's a movie about the Devil, he appears simultaneously in two different places on Halloween, and basically the movie is these two guys transport me from a prison to another prison, and they don't know that I'm the Devil. It's a horror film, it's pretty cool. You'll enjoy it, it's me being the Devil."

MOVIE QUICK FACTS:

Title: Sin-Jin Smyth

Writer: Ethan Dettenmaier

Director: Ethan Dettenmaier

Produced By: Snapkick Productions

Davis' Role: Sin-Jin Smyth (Devil)

Release: TBA

Runtime: TBA

Certification: TBA

The Still Life

KoRn frontman Jonathan Davis plays a cameo role as a store clerk in The Still Life.

Released in 2005, The Still Life follows artist Julian Lamont (Jason Barry) as he struggles to pick up the pieces of his tattered life in the poignant drama.

A reclusive alcoholic, Julian creates a new art genre called Destructionism, and his works catapult him into the limelight.

But as his success in the art world grows, Julian loses touch with the artist he truly desires to be, and his personal life soon tailspins out of control.

MOVIE QUICK FACTS:

Title: The Still Life

Writer: Joel Miller

Director: Joel Miller

Produced By: N/A

Davis' Role: Store Clerk

Release: 2005

Runtime: 96 min

Certification: USA: R

Seeing Other People

Jonathan Davis plays his second ever cameo role in film in the 2004 comedy Seeing Other People as drug dealer Ricky (right).

Seeing Other People is about Ed (Mohr) and Alice (Nicholson), a happy couple who are just months away from their wedding.

After accidentally witnessing a friend having anonymous sex at her engagement party, Alice begins to feel inadequate about her own sexual history and she proposes to Ed that they have sex with other people until their wedding.

Though Ed is initially against the idea, Alice is persistent and he relents thinking that she will never follow through with it.

Of course, things don’t go smoothly and despite the rules they mutually lay down, Ed and Alice’s relationship is put to the test, and their friends and relatives (Richter, Charles, Graham, Cranston) can’t help but get involved when the arrangement begins to spiral out of control.

MOVIE QUICK FACTS:

Title: Seeing Other People

Writer: Maya Forbes/Wallace Wolodarsky

Director: Wallace Wolodarsky

Produced By: Pariah

Davis' Role: Ricky (Drug Dealer)

Release: 2004

Runtime: 90 min

Certification: USA: R

Queen of the Damned

2002's Queen of the Damned saw Davis' first ever cameo role in movie but it was just the cameo role that Davis played a significant role in the film.

Davis, along with music composer Richard Gibbs, produced the score for the movie which was a major hit within the KoRn fanbase.

This passed gothic tale now becomes the modern punk for today's generation, that brings Lestat de Lioncourt (Stuart Townsend) from his slumber and bored with his existence has now become this generations new Rock God.

While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha (Aaliyah, 1979 - 2001), the Queen of the Vampires, the Queen of the Dammed. He want's immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen want's him for her King.

Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win the final battle of the vampires and survive?

MOVIE QUICK FACTS:

Title: Queen of the Damned

Writer: Anne Rice

Director: Michael Rymer

Produced By: N/A

Davis' Role: Scalper

Release: 2002

Runtime: 101 min

Certification: USA: R

SEE ALSO

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