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Crazy Viral Thriller ‘Hall’ Infects a Hotel This October
After holding its World Premiere at last year’s FrightFest, Francesco Giannini‘s excellent indie Hall, a high-tension thriller about a scary virus outbreak within a hotel, will finally infect VOD platforms on October 12, 2021.
In the film, scattered victims are thrust into the fight of their lives, when a hotel hallway is ravaged by a mysterious virus.
“Hall tells the story of Naomi (Yumiko Shaku), a Japanese runaway wife, and Val (Carolina Bartczak), a helpless young mother, both struggling to escape an abusive relationship as well as a hotel hallway, which has been infected by a mysterious airborne virus killing everyone rapidly. In this isolated and despairing space, fear becomes viral as the women run for their lives. In the face of contamination, is there hope at the end of the hall?”
Encountering the special circumstances around the pandemic happening in the world right now, the release explains that Hall coincidentally captures the intrinsic sense of dread that people in society are experiencing yet in an even more visceral manner.
“It’s a strange coincidence that our film is coming out at the same time as the devastating Covid-19 crisis,” director Francesco Giannini previously explained. “I never thought that the fictional story of virus contagion we’ve created in Hall would become a reflection of reality within such a close time frame between the release of the film and the pandemic occurring right now.”
Here’s the previously-released Canadian trailer:
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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