The Sundance Film Festival kicked off last night in Park City, Utah, and one of the highlights are the Midnight titles. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Greener Grass, Hereditary, Assassination Nation, The Little Hours and The Babadook. Which of the following will be this year’s big horror hit?!
One of the most talked about is Shana Feste‘s Blumhouse-produced “social horror” film Run Sweetheart Run, which is being described as Get Out meets Rosemary’s Baby.
The terror begins when a blind date turns violent and the woman (Ella Balinska) has to get home through Los Angeles, with her date (Pilou Asbaek) in pursuit.
Feste tells EW that, in her early 20s, she went on a date with a man “who looked incredible on paper,” she recalls, but “it went bad very quickly, and I think at, like, one in the morning, I ended up running out of his house in the Hollywood Hills.” With no shoes, no phone, and no purse, Feste ran all the way home to West L.A. in her little black dress.
“That night was terrifying and illuminating,” she says. “People that I didn’t think were going to help me did help me, and the people I thought were going to help me didn’t really help me so much as they could have. It was almost — what happened on foot, going back to my house — worse than what happened on the date.”
The magazine shares this tense new photo of Asbaek backing a seemingly bruised and beaten Balinska into a corner.
Watch for Meagan’s review out of the World Premiere.
