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Three Genre Surprises In the SXSW Film Festival Announcement!

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While we won’t get the full list of horror films playing at this year’s SXSW Film Festival this coming March in Austin, Texasuntil next week, we did identify three genre offerings that warrant our attention.

First, and most notably, is Snakes On a Plane and Gothika writer Sebastian Gutierrez‘s Elizabeth Harvest, which hails out of the UK. Pictured above, “Elizabeth Harvest is a science fiction reimagining of the French folktale of Bluebeard, in which a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives is confronted by a new wife trying to avoid the fate of her predecessors.” It stars Abbey Lee, Ciaran Hinds, Carla Gugino, Matthew Beard, and Dylan Baker.

Then there’s Septian director Michael Tully‘s Don’t Leave Home, starring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Lalor Roddy, Helena Bereen, David McSavage, and Karrie Cox. In the film set to World Premiere, “An American artist’s obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story’s origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.

Another interesting find is Nightwatch and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director Timur Bekmambetov‘s Profile, which looks inspired by the secretly-filmed Unfriended sequel. In the film, “Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.” Having its North American Premiere at the festival, it stars Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Morgan Watkins, and Amir Rahimzadeh.

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One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.

Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”

In the SXSW 2024 horror film…

“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.

“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”

Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.

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