Back in 2013, first-time filmmaker Randy Moore made headlines with Escape from Tomorrow, an indie horror movie covertly shot on location inside Disney World and Disneyland without permission.
13 years later, Moore is back with a sequel titled Return to Tomorrow. The first image, pictured above, has been revealed.
In the subversive follow-up, after the loss of his father, a middle-aged dad has a crisis of masculinity while on a family vacation in Miami.
Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, and Annet Mahendru return to star, joined by Brianna Brown, Apollonia Love Pratt, Ryan Farrell, Roger Davies, Brittney Rae Carrera, and the late Udo Kier in one of his final roles.
Moore writes and directs, in addition to producing alongside Misha Makeev and cinematographer Lucas Lee Graham.
Return to Tomorrow will have its world premiere at the Florida Film Festival on April 11.
Per the festival’s description, “Randy Moore’s follow-up to the (in)famously filmed-in-secret Disney World fever-dream Escape from Tomorrow is an absurdist paranoid conspiracy thriller featuring the original cast in a completely new scenario.
“After the loss of his father, a middle-aged dad spirals into a Lynchian crisis of masculinity while on family vacation in Miami. As his inadequacies and unspoken desires drift him further away from his wife, he uncovers a mysterious plot involving his father, the gas company, cocaine, prostitution, and… Walt?
“Trading in its predecessor’s 2010’s micro-budget DSLR aesthetic for glorious 35mm film, Moore ratchets up both the budget and insanity, including an Eyes Wide Shut-style orgy with Disney princesses, a machine-gun massacre in a baby store, and impeccably recreated ‘50s-era Davy Crockett sequences with an R-rated edge.
“Return from Tomorrow uses nostalgia itself as weapon, transforming familiar Florida iconography into something both subversively hilarious and deeply unsettling.”
Stay tuned for more on Return from Tomorrow as we learn it.
