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SXSW Horror ‘The Cellar’ Acquired by RLJE Films and Shudder for April Release
This March’s SXSW Film Festival is brimming with horror films, many of which already have distribution, including The Cellar, the Irish horror film written and directed by Brendan Muldowney and starring Elisha Cuthbert (House of Wax) and Eoin Macken (The Forest, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter).
Following the film’s World Premiere, RLJE Films will release the haunter in limited theaters and on VOD platforms on April 15th, while Shudder will stream it in North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on the same day, reports Deadline.
“The Cellar centers on Keira Woods (Cuthbert), whose daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country.
“Keira soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family’s souls forever.”
The pic, an Ireland-Belgium co-production, was filmed on location in Roscommon, Ireland and was spawned by Muldowney from his short film “The Ten Steps”.
Conor Barry of Savage Productions and Richard Bolger of Hail Mary Pictures are producers, co-produced with Benoit Roland from Wrong Men Films in Belgium. Executive producers are Patrick Ewald of Epic Pictures Group, Lesley McKimm of Screen Ireland, John Gleeson and Oisín O’Neill for BCP Asset Management, Sarah Dillon of the WRAP Fund and Patrick O’Neill of Wildcard Distribution.
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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