The best indie film out of the Tribeca Film Festival was Kevin Phillips’ teenage nightmare Super Dark Times, which was actually penned by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, who wrote our V/H/S spinoff SiREN.
I raved about the psychological thriller, explaining that “Super Dark Times is tragedy in its purest of forms, removing the safety blanket from suburbia, tormenting the town with a morbid tale that will leave scars on each and every person who lives there. It’s an authentic, honest and emotional experience that could be this generation’s Mean Creek or Donnie Darko.”
The Orchard has already scheduled it for release, putting it in select NY/LA theaters on September 29th with a full VOD release slated for October 3rd.
The film follows teenagers Zach and Josh, who have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
This atmospheric ‘90s-set mystery-thriller stars Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, and Amy Hargreaves.
