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Watch 16 Minutes of ‘In Memorium’ on Halloween!
After 5 years in limbo, Amanda Gusack’s In Memorium is picking up some serious steam off the heels of Paranormal Activity‘s monster success. To build some fresh awareness, the first 16 minutes of In Memorium will be streamed all day this Halloween at the official site. You can read all about it inside, and also take a peak at the brand spanking new trailer! I can’t wait to see this.
Upon PARANORMAL ACTIVITY’S release in 2009, whispers on internet message boards birthed comparisons to an earlier docu-horror–a 2005 microbudget film, entitled IN MEMORIUM. John Cooper of atomicpopcorn described it as a, “creepy horror film with great jump scares, standing toe-to-toe with Paranormal Activity and knocking that film off its feet.”
Inspired by THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and THE RING, IN MEMORIUM centers on a struggling filmmaker who rents a house with his girlfriend to document his final days after a diagnosis of terminal cancer. To capture their lives without invasion, he installs motion-triggered security cameras in every room. But an invasion of a different sort is captured on the footage–an inexplicable presence in the house. Immediately after the discovery, things get terrifying.
Despite several successful festival screenings (including a world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival) and critical reception, the filmmaker and producers couldn’t find an offer for the film that would cover their selling costs. So, they opted to shelve it, deciding to hedge their bets and wait for another opportunity.
Now, with the expanding landscape of distribution options, and fans still asking to see the “other” docu-horror, the filmmaker will release IN MEMORIUM independently in the fall of 2010. It will premiere as a paid 30-day-rental stream on INDIEFLIX. The date and details will be announced on Halloween on www.inmemorium.com, when, for the first time outside of festivals, the opening 16 minutes of IN MEMORIUM will stream all day for free.
If the response to the INDIEFLIX streaming release is strong enough, the filmmaker plans to expand the film’s availability to additional outlets and media, including a DVD authored specifically for fans.
If anyone wonders: Can a no-budget docu-horror without the driving force of a studio behind it be any good?
Find out for yourself.
Go to www.inmemoriumthemovie.com all day on Halloween to watch the first 16 minutes free.
Written and Directed by Amanda Gusack, Produced by Lydia Cedrone and Meredith Freeman, Starring Erik McDowell, Johanna Watts, Levi Powell, and Mary Portser.
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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