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Title Media Sneaks First Look at ‘Painkillers’
Following last night’s international premiere at the renowned Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), we have the first stills from Roxy Shih’s (Dark/Web, The Tribe) Painkillers, a dramatic thriller from Title Media and Lone Suspect. Kew Media is handling sales on the project.
The film will feature Mischa Barton (Sixth Sense, Homecoming, The Basement), alongside Adam Huss (“Power”), Madeline Zima (“Californication”, “Twin Peaks”), and Grant Bowler (“Defiance”, “True Blood”), with Debra Wilson (“Mad TV”) and Naomi Grossman (“American Horror Story”).
In the film, “After a terrible car crash in which his son dies, brilliant surgeon John Clarke, tormented by guilt, becomes prey to an unbearable physical pain. While his marriage starts disintegrating, John soon finds out that the only thing that can ease his pain is the taste of human blood. When he encounters Herb Morris, a man who claims he can help him get his life back, John embarks upon a nightmarish journey through which he will either have to come to terms with his pain… or become a monster.”
Luke Barnett (Fear, Inc.) and Vincent Masciale will produce under their Lone Suspect banner alongside Giles Daoust and Catherine Dumonceaux on behalf of Title Media. Mike Macari (The Ring franchise) and Alain Berliner (Golden Globe Winner for “My Life in Pink”) are executive producing.
Roxy Shih is an internationally acclaimed Taiwanese-American director whose work has screened at an array of festivals such as The LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, SXSW, Toronto Independent, and Dances with Films. Her feature-length debut, The Tribe, won multiple awards on the festival circuit, including Best Director at Other Worlds Austin. She most recently directed the first season of Dark / Web (Hannah Marks, Nicholas Brendon), a horror and sci-fi anthology series that explores the dangers of living in a totally connected world.
Lone Suspect also partnered with Title Media on their last film, Fear, Inc., which stars Lucas Neff (Raising Hope), Caitlin Stasey (A.P.B.), and Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin (“Scream Queens”). Fear, Inc. premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival where it sold to Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment.
Title Media’s credits include Starry Eyes (SXSW 2014) and the upcoming films Radius(Diego Klattenhoff, Charlotte Sullivan) and Hostile (Xavier Gens).
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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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