After acquiring the film ahead of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Dark Star Pictures will release Koko-Di Koko-Da, one of the weirdest and craziest films on the festival circuit, in New York theaters on March 27th. An expansion to Los Angeles and other cities will follow.
Johannes Nyholm’s sci-fi horror is similar in vein to Happy Death Day. In fact, The Hollywood Reporter explained that it “plays like the bastard offspring of Groundhog Day and The Babadook.”
Bloody Disgusting’s Daniel Kurland reviewed the film out of the Brooklyn premiere, writing that the thriller is “time loop horror at its best and most nightmarish.”
In Koko-Di Koko-Da…
“Elin (Katarina Jakobson) and Tobias (Leif Edlund) are a happily married couple who regularly vacation with their young daughter. The family is on a dreamy holiday when an innocuous case of food poisoning derails their plans and forever alters the course of their lives. Three years later, the once loving couple is on the road again to go camping, looking for one last chance to go back to the way things used to be. But what once was is lost, and our characters instead find themselves having to relive the same nightmarish events, as that day and the horrors it brings repeat themselves infinitely. Together, they must overcome their trauma, reconcile with their past and fight for their lives. Over, and over, and over again.”
The film has excited audiences and critics at festivals including Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival and most recently Fantasia Film Festival 2019 (WINNER! AQCC-Camera Lucida Prize) and will soon screen at Fantastic Fest 2019 and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2019.
