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Jill Gevargizian is the director behind horror film, The Stylist, which follows a young hair stylist who has a penchant for snipping and scalping her clients in order to imagine herself in their hair. Ghouls Magazine writer, Ariel Baska, was lucky enough to chat to Jill all about her latest film and the inspiration behind it.
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