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Mind-bending Sci-fi Short “Mainline” to Premiere at Screamfest this October [Exclusive]
Described as in the vein of Looper and “Black Mirror”, “Mainline” is a time-travel story that explores the dark side of advanced technology. “Mainline” will have its world premiere on October 14th at Screamfest, the nation’s largest and longest-running horror and sci-fi film festival, playing alongside highly anticipated genre titles like Leatherface, Tragedy Girls, and Netflix’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1922.
“Confined to his makeshift lab, a reclusive bioengineer must grapple with the gruesome and deadly consequences of his injectable, time-traveling serum.“
A lifelong sci-fi and horror fan, writer/director Eric Kleifield spent a year developing the film’s time-travel mechanics: “It took a lot of narrative experimentation, and many headache-inducing diagrams, to create a new take on time-travel that feels fresh and packs an emotional punch. ‘Mainline’ shows how even 30 minutes of contained, controlled time-travel can have unpredictable and deadly consequences. I’ve always found time-travel to be an inherently dangerous and scary concept, so ‘Mainline’ pushes that to the extreme.”
The world premiere is set for October 14th, 2017 @ 2PM (Short Film Block #2) – TCL Chinese Theaters, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028.
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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery
One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.
Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”
In the SXSW 2024 horror film…
“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.
“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”
Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.
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