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Official Website for ‘Plague Town’ Fully Launched
The official website has upgraded in anticipation of the May 12th DVD and Blu-ray release of the Dark Sky Film production Plague Town and includes an EPK featuring behind-the-scenes footage, exclusive new stills and screening information (also available below). The film tells the tale of a dysfunctional family’s vacation to the Irish countryside that encounters a village of diseased, deformed and decidedly homicidal residents.
This Wednesday and Thursday, April 29th and 30th, PLAGUE TOWN will have it’s final East Coast theatrical screenings in New York City and Arlington, VA.
On Wednesday, April 29th PLAGUE TOWN will unspool twice at The Anthology Film Archive at 32 2nd Ave (2nd & 2nd). Screenings are at 7:00PM and 9:30PM and will be followed by cast & crew Q & A with Director David Gregory, Producer Derek Curl and actors Lindsay Goranson and James Warke.
On Thursday, April 30th Dark Sky Films & Severin Films present a shocking double feature of PLAGUE TOWN and THE SINFUL DWARF! At the Arlington Drafthouse (for tickets go here: www.arlingtondrafthouse.com), 2903 Columbia Pike, VA. PT will show at 7:30 followed by a Q&A with Director David Gregory and Co-Writer and DC area native John Cregan. Then a rare 35mm screening of a battered and worn print of the mother of all dwarfsploitation films: THE SINFUL DWARF. Expect guests and giveaways all night. We’re trying to persuade local anti-Sinful Dwarf activist John Dols to come and warn us against the dangers of THE DWARF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PQV57S7I-s
PLAGUE TOWN will also play at the Deep Red Festival of Fantastic films in Seattle, WA on Friday, May 8th at 7:00PM at the Grand Illusion Cinema.
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.