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‘Umma’ Scares Up a Blu-ray Release in May
This past Friday, Iris K. Shim‘s horror movie Umma was quietly released for at-home PVOD rental, and now we’ve learned that the film is headed to Blu-ray in just one month.
Umma comes to Blu-ray and DVD on May 24, 2022.
Umma follows Sandra Oh as Amanda, living a quiet life with her daughter (Fivel Stewart) on an American farm. But when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.
The cast also includes Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee and Tom Yi. Iris K. Shim wrote the script in addition to directing Umma for Sony.
Through Raimi Productions, Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi are the producers. Umma is also executive produced by André Øvredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark).
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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