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‘Sew Torn’ Exclusive Featurette Gets Twisty Ahead of National Sewing Machine Day Release on VOD
A struggling seamstress reveals almost supernatural-like abilities in twisty crime thriller Sew Torn, and it’s fittingly set to debut on VOD on National Sewing Machine Day.
Sew Torn will be available on VOD starting this Friday, June 13 and you can pre-order now.
Pairing with the digital release news is a special making of featurette, which we’re exclusively unveiling below. It gives a closer look at the almost Rube Goldberg levels of thread-weaving that aids the seamstress in her crime exploits.
Eve Connolly (“Vikings”), Calum Worthy (Bodied), K Callan (Knives Out), Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List), and John Lynch (The Watchers) star in the feature debut by writer-director Freddy Macdonald.
The film follows Barbara Duggen (played by Connolly), ‘The Mobile Seamstress’, who is struggling to keep her fabric shop alive. After a botched sewing appointment sets her on a quest to replace her client’s lost button, she unexpectedly stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad. Faced with two downed motorcyclists, guns, and a briefcase – Barbara is completely torn.
She is forced to pick between three choices: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or drive away. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three decisions and the deadly confrontations that result from each as she gets entangled with the case’s owner. Using thread to free herself, Barbara stops at nothing to save her store.
“I’m incredibly excited to release Sew Torn on digital after a wonderful theatrical run, thanks to Vertigo Releasing and Sunrise Films. This film has had a surreal journey – and it all began with our passionate cast and crew family who brought it to life, with love, on set in the Swiss Alps. You can see that journey unfold in our behind-the-scenes featurette,” said director Freddy Macdonald, Student Academy Award winner and the youngest Directing Fellow ever accepted to the AFI Conservatory.
His AFI admission film, “Sew Torn” (the short film of the same name), was executive produced by Peter Spears (Nomadland, Call Me By Your Name) and was acquired by Searchlight Pictures. It also received a theatrical release nationwide, playing in front of Ready Or Not.
I wrote in my review, “Macdonald nestles Run Lola Run’s loop-like structure inside a cozy crime thriller, the type that’s more intimate and self-contained in scale and comes heavily armed with a sense of whimsy.”
Pregnancy nightmare Son of Sara aims to be the next generation’s take on the horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, and Bloody Disgusting is exclusively debuting the trailer this afternoon.
Son of Sara will be available in the U.S. and Canada on Digital & VOD July 31.
Watch the official trailer from Saban Films below.
In Son of Sara, “A pregnant woman’s cravings turn sinister as her estranged boyfriend’s return coincides with a terrifying secret about the life growing inside her.”
The film stars Chloe Van Landschoot, Tymika Tafari, Garret Hnatiuk and Jane Moffat.
Canadian filmmaker Houston Bone directed Son of Sara.
Houston Bone said in a statement, “After gagging Toronto at Blood in the Snow this past winter, we are excited to be working with Saban to bring our grisly horror movie, and our new little monster, to audiences across the United States. This film has been a passion project for all of us since we shot it back in October 2023. Real blood, sweat, and tears went into bringing Son of Sara to the screen. We are humbled and thrilled by the response from film festival audiences so far. It is a dream come true to be sharing this film at this scale internationally.”
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