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SXSW ’11: Bloody Disgusting Selects Acquires Apocalyptic Thriller ‘Fase 7’!
I’m starting to lose track of all the awesomeness that’s coming your way starting this May.
While Anchor Bay acquired The Divide, Bloody Disgusting and The Collective have acquired domestic rights to Nicolás Goldbart’s Fase 7 (Phase 7), a Spanish-language end of the world thriller that carries a more lighthearted approach to the apocalypse. It premiered last week at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
Those of you who are into conspiracy theories will enjoy the in-your-face connection to the N.W.O.
Executive Produced by Steven Schneider (Insidious, Paranormal Activity), Fase 7 stars Berlin Silver Bear winner Daniel Hendler (Lost Embrace) as “A husband who has just moved into a new apartment with his seven-months-pregnant wife when their building is quarantined due to a deadly epidemic. Soon the residents of the building become unexpected enemies, and the husband is forced to join forces with his loony next-door neighbor to defend the contents of his fridge and keep his pregnant wife safe.”
Phase 7 taps into early Romero and can be described as a cross between The Crazies, Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later. We’re told Goldbart loves John Carpenter and used Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing and Escape From New York as a template for the score.
The film will hit AMC Theaters (every Wednesday and Friday night, don’t forget that!) at a further date, before also arriving on VOD, internet and DVD. Other films you guys will be able to enjoy in theaters are Atrocious, Rammbock, YellowBrickRoad and the ball-to-the-wall insane Cold Fish.
EXCLUSIVE CLIP
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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