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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.”
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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