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Blumhouse’s ‘Stephanie’ Going Direct-to-Video
While there’s yet to be an official press release sent out, Amazon lists Akiva Goldsman’s Stephanie for release on DVD May 1, 2018, through Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. A VOD release is presumably happening somewhere around that date.
Kalyn caught the world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival and wrote that “Stephanie is a mixed bag of innovative ideas and an overabundance of exposition.”
Stephanie is, a supernatural horror-thriller written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the duo behind our SiREN as well as The Orchard’s excellent Super Dark Times.
“The story centers on a young girl named Stephanie (Shree Crooks) who is abandoned by her parents, forced to survive on peanut butter and conversations with her toy turtle. When her parents return to claim their daughter, they find dark supernatural forces are wreaking havoc, with Stephanie at the center of the turmoil.”
It stars Frank Grillo (The Purge: Anarchy), Anna Torv (“Fringe”), and Shree Crooks (“American Horror Story”). Thanks to Fabien M. for the link.
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.
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