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Uncork’d Nabs Slender Man-esque ‘Flay’
Uncork’d Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to horror fantasy Flay from director Eric Pham, reports Deadline.
Pham, who is known for his special effects work on Grindhouse and Sin City directs a cast including Violette Beane, A. Michael Baldwin, Elle LaMont, Dalton Gray, Johnny Walter, Aaron Spivey-Sorrells, Peggy Schott, Kaylee King and Noe de la Garza.
The story follows an estranged daughter who, after the death of her mother, struggles to save her brother and those around her from a malevolent faceless spirit.
“I’ve always been fascinated with ghost stories and the mythologies behind ghosts and spirits,” said Pham. “I see Flay as a contemporary mashup of the Japanese legend of the Noppera-bo, or faceless ghost, and Native American legends.”
Here’s a trailer.
Neon is hitting the road this summer with Gen Z horror hangout movie It Ends.
The feature debut by writer-director Alex Ullom will officially arrive in theaters on August 21.
In It Ends, “Four recent college grads on a night time drive find themselves stuck on a road that sprawls on forever, with seemingly no end in sight. They are occasionally attacked by stragglers and have to find a routine to plan their rest stops, but after a few thousand miles it all feels the same. Still, they keep on driving, only in the belief something better will come eventually.“
Starring in the film are:
- Akira Jackson as Day
- Phinehas Yoon as James
- Mitchell Cole as Tyler
- Noah Toth as Fisher
“This was always a movie that was more about how we live with horror than about the actual horror. I make this joke too much, but I always wanted to see the family in Hereditary give a postgame interview and just be like, ‘Yeah, that was terrifying. That was absolutely terrifying.’ Then, they all die, obviously, but like they go about their lives. The movie is constantly recontextualizing the things that happen in it,” Ullom previously told BD of his existential horror film.
It Ends premiered at SXSW earlier last year and went on to win Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
I wrote in my review, “It Ends captures a universal fear, that anxiety-inducing transition into full-blown adulthood where we’re all expected to become responsible contributors to society. It’s a lot of pressure with no clear guide. As such, it runs through every emotion that comes with that journey.”
Ullom is already a filmmaker to watch; the newcomer has already been tapped to helm 4 X 4: The Event, which is described as Battle Royale meets Saw meets Climax.