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S’more Entertainment Release Two Indie Films
S’more Entertainment will release both CRIPPLED CREEK (2005) and DARK AWAKENING (2007) on DVD February 24th. AWAKENING comes with a few extras including: Audio commentary by Senese, a production photo gallery, cast biographies, and of course the trailer. Inside you can check out the DVD cover art, along with long synopses for both.
In CRIPPLED CREEK: This is the retelling of real events that took place on an otherwise pleasant weekend, April 23, 2004. Three young women, overjoyed by getting away from their hectic lives, enter the woods to spend time at afamily cabin. On their way in, a park ranger warns them about the old hermit who lives there. Their joy soon turns to terror as the threesome realize that the forest contains other dangerous secrets. The girls’ initial anxiety turns to attraction when they encounter two handsome guys. The feeling they’re being watched grows, then the hermit appears, threatening them to “leave or die.” The gruesome murders, or should we say feast, begins. Snares, knives, bear traps and branches become the backwoods maniac’s tools of torture and death.
In DARK AWAKENING: On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He’s a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he’s finding harder to hide. Ray’s nightmares are giving way to visions of his abusive father, unlocking a suppressed violence he’s unable to control. When ray brutally assaults a man in a parking lot, it leads to an investigation by an aging detective with a connected past. Neither is prepared as the secrets begin to unfold over a thirty-year-old murder they’ve both struggled to keep buried.
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.