Writer/director David Ferino’s feature directorial debut, “Wardcliffe,” starring Joel McKinnon Miller and Shane Coffey.
Inspired by real events, Ferino’s script takes place over the course of a single day as Dennis (Miller) and his son Ronnie (Coffey) quarantine together during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Decades of tension escalate to a boiling point when the two find themselves confined inside. And as the outside world is seized by confusion and terror, the gulf between the men becomes ever more pronounced, and ever more destructive.
“Wardcliffe” is produced and independently financed by Roger M. Mayer through his production company, Brooklyn Reptyle.
“When I first heard of this news event in 2020, I knew it had the right criteria for a first feature. The film could be made on a small production scale, but with big emotional weight. It’s a tragedy that encapsulates the heightened anxiety we collectively shared throughout the pandemic,...
Inspired by real events, Ferino’s script takes place over the course of a single day as Dennis (Miller) and his son Ronnie (Coffey) quarantine together during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Decades of tension escalate to a boiling point when the two find themselves confined inside. And as the outside world is seized by confusion and terror, the gulf between the men becomes ever more pronounced, and ever more destructive.
“Wardcliffe” is produced and independently financed by Roger M. Mayer through his production company, Brooklyn Reptyle.
“When I first heard of this news event in 2020, I knew it had the right criteria for a first feature. The film could be made on a small production scale, but with big emotional weight. It’s a tragedy that encapsulates the heightened anxiety we collectively shared throughout the pandemic,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Demetrius Grosse (Cabinet of Curiosities) has signed on for a role in George Tillman Jr.’s untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony Pictures and Affirm Films.
He joins a cast that also includes Khris Davis, Sullivan Jones, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro, Shein Mompremier, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sam Trammell, Erica Tazel, Matthew Glave and Al Sapienza, as previously announced.
The film will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship at age 45, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Grosse is playing Foreman’s biological father, Leroy Moorehead. Though he’s proud that he’s never missed watching...
He joins a cast that also includes Khris Davis, Sullivan Jones, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro, Shein Mompremier, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sam Trammell, Erica Tazel, Matthew Glave and Al Sapienza, as previously announced.
The film will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship at age 45, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Grosse is playing Foreman’s biological father, Leroy Moorehead. Though he’s proud that he’s never missed watching...
- 3/10/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to “Stanleyville,” starring “Goodnight Mommy’s” Susanne Wuest, ahead of the film’s world premiere at this month’s Fantasia Film Festival.
One of the high-profile Fantasia deal announcements, the pick-up, brokered with Yellow Veil Pictures, will see Oscilloscope open “Stanleyville” in U.S. theaters this Winter.
“Stanleyville” marks the feature film debut of Canadian actor-turned-director Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, who has appeared in a slew of movies and TV series, including “Antibirth,” “Lars and the Real Girl,” “The Incredible Hulk” and “Tin Star.”
Directed by Bruce McDonald, McCabe-Lokos’ first feature screenplay, “The Husband,” which he starred in, premiered at Toronto 2013. His directorial debut, 2016 short “Ape Sodom,” and 2017 short “Midnight Confession” were also both selected for Toronto.
Written by McCabe-Lokos and Rob Benvie, who also took a co-scribe credit on “Midnight Confession,” “Stanleyville” brings McCabe-Lokos’ satirical vision of the state of the modern world to...
One of the high-profile Fantasia deal announcements, the pick-up, brokered with Yellow Veil Pictures, will see Oscilloscope open “Stanleyville” in U.S. theaters this Winter.
“Stanleyville” marks the feature film debut of Canadian actor-turned-director Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, who has appeared in a slew of movies and TV series, including “Antibirth,” “Lars and the Real Girl,” “The Incredible Hulk” and “Tin Star.”
Directed by Bruce McDonald, McCabe-Lokos’ first feature screenplay, “The Husband,” which he starred in, premiered at Toronto 2013. His directorial debut, 2016 short “Ape Sodom,” and 2017 short “Midnight Confession” were also both selected for Toronto.
Written by McCabe-Lokos and Rob Benvie, who also took a co-scribe credit on “Midnight Confession,” “Stanleyville” brings McCabe-Lokos’ satirical vision of the state of the modern world to...
- 8/2/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
We are living in the age of extraordinary horror films. The cinematic offerings to satisfy our cravings for a good scare or a story so terrifying it gives us nightmares have taken on many new forms, all exciting — and sometimes challenging. With the 2021 Sundance Film Festival wrapping up, let’s acknowledge that the Park City event has consistently been a great launching pad for new genre voices from around the world (Check out the AMC+ collection of past Sundance winners and festival favorites). Movies that begin their journey there go on to haunt audiences and often reshape our perception of the genre.
In the robust library of AMC+, you can see quite clearly how horror is no longer limited to studio-made films. In indie auteurs’ hands, horror has become the vehicle for stories with distinct points of view. And there are even non-fiction efforts that dig deeper into the significance and craft of revered classics.
In the robust library of AMC+, you can see quite clearly how horror is no longer limited to studio-made films. In indie auteurs’ hands, horror has become the vehicle for stories with distinct points of view. And there are even non-fiction efforts that dig deeper into the significance and craft of revered classics.
- 2/1/2021
- by IndieWire Staff
- Indiewire
Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries actress Penelope Mitchell has been set to star opposite Toby Kebbell (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes) in psychological thriller Becoming, with Jason Patric (Sleepers) also joining the cast. Double Dutch International will be touting the movie in Cannes next week. Traverse Media reps North America.
Written and directed by Omar Naim (The Final Cut), the two-hander follows a couple (Mitchell and Kebbell) on a road trip through America where they encounter a terrifying dark force older than the country itself. An evil that transforms loved ones into someone terrifying, the entity has left a trail of murdered families going back hundreds of years. Patric will play a mysterious survivor of the entity’s crimes.
Kebbell, Mitchell and Patric are supported by Jeff Daniel Philips (Lords Of Salem), Beth Broderick (Echoes of War) and Stephen Rider (Netflix’s Daredevil). Kebbell, who stars in Nicole Kidman’s upcoming crime-drama Destroyer,...
Written and directed by Omar Naim (The Final Cut), the two-hander follows a couple (Mitchell and Kebbell) on a road trip through America where they encounter a terrifying dark force older than the country itself. An evil that transforms loved ones into someone terrifying, the entity has left a trail of murdered families going back hundreds of years. Patric will play a mysterious survivor of the entity’s crimes.
Kebbell, Mitchell and Patric are supported by Jeff Daniel Philips (Lords Of Salem), Beth Broderick (Echoes of War) and Stephen Rider (Netflix’s Daredevil). Kebbell, who stars in Nicole Kidman’s upcoming crime-drama Destroyer,...
- 5/2/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Masterfully Macabre Entertainment announced the Us premiere of To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story. Continue reading for more details on its debut at ScareFest 2017. Also in today's Highlights: a sneak peek at Two Sentence Horror Stories and the lineup at this year's London Horror Festival.
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story Us Premiere Details: Press Release: “Los Angeles, CA September 20, 2017- Masterfully Macabre Entertainment (“Mme”) announced today that their highly anticipated documentary, To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story is having its Us Premiere as the headliner at the ScareFest convention launch party on Thursday, September 28, 2017, at The Grand Reserve Event Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Launch party events begin at 4:30 pm, with the film introduction at 8:00 pm, and the film's premiere screening at 8:30 pm. The film's star subject, Kane Hodder, Director Derek Dennis Herbert, and Producer Andrew Barcello will attend the premiere...
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story Us Premiere Details: Press Release: “Los Angeles, CA September 20, 2017- Masterfully Macabre Entertainment (“Mme”) announced today that their highly anticipated documentary, To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story is having its Us Premiere as the headliner at the ScareFest convention launch party on Thursday, September 28, 2017, at The Grand Reserve Event Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Launch party events begin at 4:30 pm, with the film introduction at 8:00 pm, and the film's premiere screening at 8:30 pm. The film's star subject, Kane Hodder, Director Derek Dennis Herbert, and Producer Andrew Barcello will attend the premiere...
- 9/21/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
After dropping out for close to a decade, Natasha Lyonne is finally at peace with her past. Now the Orange is the New Black star teams up with best friend Chloë Sevigny in the new horror shocker
If you’re going to watch anyone stumbling around a dump of a trailer while in the throes of a pus-oozing freak alien pregnancy, let it be Natasha Lyonne. In body-horror movie Antibirth, Lyonne is Lou, a wisecracking wastoid in ripped-up fishnets and shorts, living in her dead dad’s trailer, with Chloë Sevigny as her hard-partying sidekick. What’s wrong with her is unclear. Is she the subject of a government conspiracy, the victim of a blackmarket opioid gone wrong or simply the uterine host for a full-blown alien takeover? Who knows, in this big, trippy mess of a movie. But Lyonne, belly grossly distended with alien progeny ... well, she carries it.
If you’re going to watch anyone stumbling around a dump of a trailer while in the throes of a pus-oozing freak alien pregnancy, let it be Natasha Lyonne. In body-horror movie Antibirth, Lyonne is Lou, a wisecracking wastoid in ripped-up fishnets and shorts, living in her dead dad’s trailer, with Chloë Sevigny as her hard-partying sidekick. What’s wrong with her is unclear. Is she the subject of a government conspiracy, the victim of a blackmarket opioid gone wrong or simply the uterine host for a full-blown alien takeover? Who knows, in this big, trippy mess of a movie. But Lyonne, belly grossly distended with alien progeny ... well, she carries it.
- 4/6/2017
- by Hermione Hoby
- The Guardian - Film News
Horror and sci-fi fans have a big day of releases to look forward to on Tuesday, February 7th, as there over 20 titles coming home to Blu-ray and DVD. Paramount has put together the complete box set of the Penny Dreadful series on both formats, and the latest season of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series arrives on both Blu-ray and DVD as well.
Scream Factory and IFC Midnight have teamed up for the release of Antibirth, which was an official selection of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and Severin Films is resurrecting the cult classic Wild Beasts in HD, too.
Other notable releases for February 7th include Abattoir, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, Dead West, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series, Recovery and Dr. Orloff’s Monster.
Antibirth (Scream Factory/IFC Midnight, Blu/DVD Combo)
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange In The New Black...
Scream Factory and IFC Midnight have teamed up for the release of Antibirth, which was an official selection of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and Severin Films is resurrecting the cult classic Wild Beasts in HD, too.
Other notable releases for February 7th include Abattoir, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, Dead West, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series, Recovery and Dr. Orloff’s Monster.
Antibirth (Scream Factory/IFC Midnight, Blu/DVD Combo)
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange In The New Black...
- 2/7/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Natasha Lyonne takes viewers on a mend-bending journey in Danny Perez’s Antibirth, and with the IFC Midnight movie coming out on Blu-ray and DVD on February 7th from Scream Factory, we’ve been provided with one Blu-ray / DVD combo pack copy to give away to a lucky Daily Dead reader.
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Prize Details: (1) Winner will receive (1) Blu-ray / DVD combo pack copy of Antibirth.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Antibirth Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on February 12th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Antibirth Blu-ray / DVD: “Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange In The New Black) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny,...
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Prize Details: (1) Winner will receive (1) Blu-ray / DVD combo pack copy of Antibirth.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Antibirth Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on February 12th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Antibirth Blu-ray / DVD: “Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange In The New Black) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny,...
- 2/6/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Reviewed by Jonathan Weichsel,
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Antibirth is written and directed by Danny Perez. The film stars Natasha Lyonne, Chloe Sevigny, and Meg Tilly.
Antibirth is billed as a psychedelic horror film, which is what interested me in seeing it. While the film does have one striking psychedelic scene right in the middle, for the most part Antibirth is more drunk than high.
Antibirth is about a heavy-drinking, whip-it huffing, drugged-out woman, Lou, who mysteriously becomes pregnant, even though she doesn't remember having had sex in the last six months. Of course we know right away that the fact that she doesn't remember having had sex doesn't actually mean that she actually hasn't, but she doesn't seem to know this, and neither do the other characters. As her pregnancy progresses she shows unusual symptoms, but instead of taking any meaningful action she just mopes around.
The cast of Antibirth is all around excellent,...
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Antibirth is written and directed by Danny Perez. The film stars Natasha Lyonne, Chloe Sevigny, and Meg Tilly.
Antibirth is billed as a psychedelic horror film, which is what interested me in seeing it. While the film does have one striking psychedelic scene right in the middle, for the most part Antibirth is more drunk than high.
Antibirth is about a heavy-drinking, whip-it huffing, drugged-out woman, Lou, who mysteriously becomes pregnant, even though she doesn't remember having had sex in the last six months. Of course we know right away that the fact that she doesn't remember having had sex doesn't actually mean that she actually hasn't, but she doesn't seem to know this, and neither do the other characters. As her pregnancy progresses she shows unusual symptoms, but instead of taking any meaningful action she just mopes around.
The cast of Antibirth is all around excellent,...
- 1/31/2017
- by admin
- MoreHorror
What is growing inside of Lou (Natasha Lyonne)? Danny Perez’s Antibirth can be yours on Blu-ray and DVD beginning February 7th. Also in today’s Horror Highlights: The Field Guide to Evil crowdfunding campaign, a clip from Friday’s episode of Paranormal Lockdown, Volumes of Blood trailer and poster, and the poster for Dead Squad.
Antibirth Blu-ray / DVD Release Details: Press Release: “Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange in the New Black) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny, Boys Don’t Cry, American Horror Story) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who — or what — is growing inside of her? Making its Blu-ray and DVD debut February 7th, 2017 from Scream Factory, in conjunction with IFC Midnight, Anitbirth also includes psychedelic clips, storyboards,...
Antibirth Blu-ray / DVD Release Details: Press Release: “Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange in the New Black) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny, Boys Don’t Cry, American Horror Story) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who — or what — is growing inside of her? Making its Blu-ray and DVD debut February 7th, 2017 from Scream Factory, in conjunction with IFC Midnight, Anitbirth also includes psychedelic clips, storyboards,...
- 1/20/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
2016 has been an exceptional all-around year for horror and sci-fi films—from the indie realm, we’ve been gifted with an enormous amount of brilliant cinematic stories throughout the past 12 months, and we even saw studios step up their game with an almost unprecedented amount of quality releases.
And along with this wealth of top-notch entertainment, we also saw an incredible number of fantastic female characters over the course of 2016—some heroic, some villainous, but all endlessly engaging in their own right. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to celebrate some of my favorite female performers from this year who gave us complex, interesting, and wholly compelling reasons to keep falling in love with genre cinema all over again (and again).
Kika Magalhaes – The Eyes of My Mother
Nicolas’ Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother is easily one of the best horror films to be...
And along with this wealth of top-notch entertainment, we also saw an incredible number of fantastic female characters over the course of 2016—some heroic, some villainous, but all endlessly engaging in their own right. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to celebrate some of my favorite female performers from this year who gave us complex, interesting, and wholly compelling reasons to keep falling in love with genre cinema all over again (and again).
Kika Magalhaes – The Eyes of My Mother
Nicolas’ Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother is easily one of the best horror films to be...
- 12/22/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Something hasn't been quite right with Lou (Natasha Lyonne) since that crazy party. She's not alone in her own skin anymore. Something is living inside her, and it's only the beginning of a visceral journey director Danny Perez takes viewers on in Antibirth, which has been slated for an early 2017 Blu-ray / DVD release from Scream Factory.
From Scream Factory: "We are proud to announce that we have a new IFC Midnight film planned for release on Blu-ray & DVD this Feb.
Antibirth - Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange In The New Black) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny, American Horror Story) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness,...
From Scream Factory: "We are proud to announce that we have a new IFC Midnight film planned for release on Blu-ray & DVD this Feb.
Antibirth - Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange In The New Black) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny, American Horror Story) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness,...
- 11/9/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exploring your new and revitalized identity in an unfamiliar territory can be a daunting challenge for many people. But for the characters, as well as the cast and crew, of the new horror film, ‘Antibirth,’ that examination is a compelling experience that truly helped define their lives. Danny Perez powerfully made his feature film writing and directorial debuts on the drama, which features actress Natasha Lyonne in a classic return to leading a movie cast. The complex protagonist played by the performer, who also served as a producer on the movie, enthrallingly learns how to overcome her fears in order to finally take control of her life. ‘Antibirth’ follows the [ Read More ]
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- 10/25/2016
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Cowboys and sinister spirits are coming to Canada this October for the 11th annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival. The fest's first ten films have now been announced, including Ti West's new Western, In a Valley of Violence, Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow, Richard Bates Jr.'s Trash Fire, and more.
Toronto After Dark Film Festival takes place October 13th–21st. To learn more, visit the festival's official website and check out the press release below for full details:
Press Release:September 22, 2016: Toronto After Dark Film Festival is thrilled to officially unveil its first wave of exciting film announcements for 2016! Included in the lineup are some of the most critically acclaimed and eagerly anticipated new horror, sci-fi, action and cult films from this year’s international film festival circuit. These 10 new movies will all screen at Toronto After Dark Film Festival as part of the 11th Annual Edition...
Toronto After Dark Film Festival takes place October 13th–21st. To learn more, visit the festival's official website and check out the press release below for full details:
Press Release:September 22, 2016: Toronto After Dark Film Festival is thrilled to officially unveil its first wave of exciting film announcements for 2016! Included in the lineup are some of the most critically acclaimed and eagerly anticipated new horror, sci-fi, action and cult films from this year’s international film festival circuit. These 10 new movies will all screen at Toronto After Dark Film Festival as part of the 11th Annual Edition...
- 9/22/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Carrie Brownstein might be known as the guitarist for punk trio Sleater-Kinney, as well as writing and co-starring in the IFC sketch comedy series “Portlandia” opposite Fred Armisen, but now she can add “writer-director” to her long list of accomplishments.
Read More: Carrie Brownstein’s Short Film Trailer For Kenzo Features Kim Gordon & Mahershala Ali —Watch
Her new short film “The Realest Real,” created for French fashion brand Kenzo’s fall-winter campaign, is set in an alternate reality where elements of social media are “real” — there are literal followers who walk around with you, an actual cloud contains all of your information, and terms of endearment like “Marry Me” are manifested literally by the Institute of the Real. In the film, Abby (Laura Harrier) discovers from the Institute of the Real that actress Natasha Lyonne can be her actual mother after she posted the comment “Mom” on her Instagram. The...
Read More: Carrie Brownstein’s Short Film Trailer For Kenzo Features Kim Gordon & Mahershala Ali —Watch
Her new short film “The Realest Real,” created for French fashion brand Kenzo’s fall-winter campaign, is set in an alternate reality where elements of social media are “real” — there are literal followers who walk around with you, an actual cloud contains all of your information, and terms of endearment like “Marry Me” are manifested literally by the Institute of the Real. In the film, Abby (Laura Harrier) discovers from the Institute of the Real that actress Natasha Lyonne can be her actual mother after she posted the comment “Mom” on her Instagram. The...
- 9/13/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
See larger image Antibirth New From: $6.99 Usd In Stock Release date September 2, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1K4yZW5Ds
I…don’t know where to start here. It’s Antibirth! This movie is totally crazy! Let’s just summarize.
Lou (Natasha Lyonne) is a chainsmoking, hard partying — and I mean Hard — lady. The last thing you would expect or want to see for her is a pregnancy, but after a night of black out she soon discovers that’s maybe the case. Her denial is strong, but she keeps getting bigger and it’s the obvious answer. But then strange things begin happening to her body: bizarre dreams involving mascot characters, infected skin, rotting teeth, extremely blistered feet, and an absurdly distended belly that pulsates. Aided by her friend Sadie (Chloe Sevigny) and a mysterious woman named Lorna (Meg Tilly) who wants to help her, they set...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1K4yZW5Ds
I…don’t know where to start here. It’s Antibirth! This movie is totally crazy! Let’s just summarize.
Lou (Natasha Lyonne) is a chainsmoking, hard partying — and I mean Hard — lady. The last thing you would expect or want to see for her is a pregnancy, but after a night of black out she soon discovers that’s maybe the case. Her denial is strong, but she keeps getting bigger and it’s the obvious answer. But then strange things begin happening to her body: bizarre dreams involving mascot characters, infected skin, rotting teeth, extremely blistered feet, and an absurdly distended belly that pulsates. Aided by her friend Sadie (Chloe Sevigny) and a mysterious woman named Lorna (Meg Tilly) who wants to help her, they set...
- 9/13/2016
- by Mike Hassler
- Destroy the Brain
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches …
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- 9/4/2016
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
“Orange is the New Black” star Natasha Lyonne is a paranoid housewife who has a complicated and tumultuous relationship with her husband, played by “Bates Motel” actor Andrew Howard, in Against Me!’s “333” music video.
Directed by “Say Anything” actress Ione Skye, the clips shows Lyonne wearing a cream slip and pearls, maniacally cleaning her home while her husband is away, always feeling like he’s lurking around the corner.
Read More: ‘Antibirth’ Trailer: Natasha Lyonne & Chloë Sevigny Battle Evil In Maternity Horror-Comedy – Nsfw
“333” is Against Me!’s lead single from their forthcoming album “Shape Shift With Me,” out September 16.
Lyonne can currently be seen in Clea Duvall’s comedy “The Intervention” and the maternity horror-comedy “Antibirth,” which in now in theaters and VOD. She’s also set to appear in David Wain’s “A Futile & Stupid Gesture” and Jeff Garlin’s comedy “Handsome.”
Skye is known for her roles in the 1989 movie “Say Anything,...
Directed by “Say Anything” actress Ione Skye, the clips shows Lyonne wearing a cream slip and pearls, maniacally cleaning her home while her husband is away, always feeling like he’s lurking around the corner.
Read More: ‘Antibirth’ Trailer: Natasha Lyonne & Chloë Sevigny Battle Evil In Maternity Horror-Comedy – Nsfw
“333” is Against Me!’s lead single from their forthcoming album “Shape Shift With Me,” out September 16.
Lyonne can currently be seen in Clea Duvall’s comedy “The Intervention” and the maternity horror-comedy “Antibirth,” which in now in theaters and VOD. She’s also set to appear in David Wain’s “A Futile & Stupid Gesture” and Jeff Garlin’s comedy “Handsome.”
Skye is known for her roles in the 1989 movie “Say Anything,...
- 9/2/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Just like that, it’s fall already. The first round of films fresh out of Tiff and Venice and Telluride are making their ways to theaters and living rooms nationwide. And now, we enter the last third of the year, with plenty of titles to be excited about. Below, you’ll see every planned theatrical release for the month of September, separated out into films with wide runs and limited ones. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
Each week, we’ll give you an update with more specific information on where these films are playing. In the meantime, be sure to check our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. Happy watching!
Week of September 2 Wide
Morgan
Director: Luke Scott
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Boyd Holbrook, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kate Mara, Michelle Yeoh, Paul Giamatti, Rose Leslie, Toby Jones
Synopsis: A corporate troubleshooter is sent to a remote,...
Each week, we’ll give you an update with more specific information on where these films are playing. In the meantime, be sure to check our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. Happy watching!
Week of September 2 Wide
Morgan
Director: Luke Scott
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Boyd Holbrook, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kate Mara, Michelle Yeoh, Paul Giamatti, Rose Leslie, Toby Jones
Synopsis: A corporate troubleshooter is sent to a remote,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
You can tell just by September’s VOD offerings that we are definitely inching our way closer to another Halloween season, as we have 12 different titles hitting VOD and various digital platforms this month. Things kick off on September 2nd with Danny Perez’s surreal Antibirth from IFC Midnight, and just a few days later, The Neighbor (the latest collaboration between Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton) comes home as well.
Both The Neon Dead and The Shallows hit VOD on September 13th, and two more horror films—The Devil's Dolls and Tell Me How I Die—arrive just a few days later on digital platforms everywhere.
Other notable VOD releases for September include Blood is Blood, Halloween Party, The People Garden, A House is Not A Home, Subterranea, and The House on Pine Street.
Blood is Blood (Multicom Entertainment Group) – September 1st
For privileged siblings Brie, Daniel, Crew, and Jess,...
Both The Neon Dead and The Shallows hit VOD on September 13th, and two more horror films—The Devil's Dolls and Tell Me How I Die—arrive just a few days later on digital platforms everywhere.
Other notable VOD releases for September include Blood is Blood, Halloween Party, The People Garden, A House is Not A Home, Subterranea, and The House on Pine Street.
Blood is Blood (Multicom Entertainment Group) – September 1st
For privileged siblings Brie, Daniel, Crew, and Jess,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Antibirth feels like a movie retrofitted to justify its climax. Ending with an enjoyably gonzo gross-out sequence that’s the love child of David Cronenberg and Takashi Miike, it spends the prior 90 minutes meandering through a series of vignettes and confused half-justifications for the eventual destination, none of which cohere in any satisfying, or even sensible, way. It strives for arthouse abstraction but lands on choppy patchwork storytelling. Thankfully, what it does have is Natasha Lyonne, who almost singlehandedly keeps this misconceived endeavor afloat, or at least not actively unwatchable.
The actor has experienced a remarkable resurgence in the past few years, thanks in part to her profile-boosting turn on Orange Is The New Black and an addiction-to-sobriety path to rival Robert Downey Jr. Here, she channels her storied past to play Lou, the kind of drug-addled but charming fuckup that plays to Lyonne’s strengths—a bluntly outsized ...
The actor has experienced a remarkable resurgence in the past few years, thanks in part to her profile-boosting turn on Orange Is The New Black and an addiction-to-sobriety path to rival Robert Downey Jr. Here, she channels her storied past to play Lou, the kind of drug-addled but charming fuckup that plays to Lyonne’s strengths—a bluntly outsized ...
- 9/1/2016
- by Alex McCown-Levy
- avclub.com
Burnouts, pregnancy and aliens – Antibirth is a twisted concoction of “Wtf” puzzle-piecing drenched in prenatal paranoia. Filmmaker Danny Perez keeps us guessing through second-hand-haziness, as his stoner prophecy plays like a bad trip caught on film. The entire rabbit hole is built on munchie runs and bong hits, but as Perez’s characters stay sufficiently buzzed, a larger story turns into sci-fi weirdness supplied in tablet form. Drugs act as a foreshadowing mechanism in themselves, hinting at far-out conclusions that no rational mind would calmly predict – even with all the flashy lights, neon costumes and experimental narcotics.
All well and good, except for the fact that I was entirely too sober for whatever the hell Antibirth is laying down.
Natasha Lyonne stars as Lou, a strung-out party girl who wakes up with pains and aches after a particularly blurry night. As Lou attempts to recall what nastiness she got herself involved in,...
All well and good, except for the fact that I was entirely too sober for whatever the hell Antibirth is laying down.
Natasha Lyonne stars as Lou, a strung-out party girl who wakes up with pains and aches after a particularly blurry night. As Lou attempts to recall what nastiness she got herself involved in,...
- 8/31/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Both unflinchingly realistic and strangely surreal, the new film Antibirth boldly blazes a path into a genre all its own. With IFC Midnight releasing Antibirth in select theaters and on VOD this Friday, September 2nd, I had the opportunity to catch up with writer/director Danny Perez for our latest Q&A feature to discuss working with Natasha Lyonne and Mark Webber, mixing contrasting elements in settings and tone, and much more.
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Danny, and congratulations on Antibirth. It’s definitely a film that will stick with me for a long time to come. Had this story been brewing within you for a while? How long did it take you to write the screenplay?
Danny Perez: Thanks for your support. The script had gone through about twenty drafts over about four years. I had been interested in various elements...
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Danny, and congratulations on Antibirth. It’s definitely a film that will stick with me for a long time to come. Had this story been brewing within you for a while? How long did it take you to write the screenplay?
Danny Perez: Thanks for your support. The script had gone through about twenty drafts over about four years. I had been interested in various elements...
- 8/31/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Approaching psychedelic levels of strangeness, our exclusive clip from Antibirth makes the case ... well, I don't know what case it makes, but it sure is weird. It's also Nsfw (Not Safe For Work), and Pnsfpwotp (Probably Not Safe For Pregnant Women Or Their Partners). Synopsis: Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who -- or what -- is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up. Spiked with blasts of hallucinatory color, surreal...
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- 8/31/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Leading today’s Horror Highlights is four clips from IFC Midnight’s Antibirth. Following Danny Perez’s trippy debut, is a new trailer for Daylight’s End, Kickstarter information on Steve Johnson’s Rubberhead Sex, Drugs, and Special FX, and release details for a Slime City double feature Blu-ray.
Watch Four Clips from Antibirth: “Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up. Spiked with blasts of hallucinatory color, surreal shocks, and subversive comedy, the audacious feature debut from Danny Perez is a no-holds-barred descent into delirium.”
Written and directed by Danny Perez,...
Watch Four Clips from Antibirth: “Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up. Spiked with blasts of hallucinatory color, surreal shocks, and subversive comedy, the audacious feature debut from Danny Perez is a no-holds-barred descent into delirium.”
Written and directed by Danny Perez,...
- 8/26/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Chloe Sevigny attended the premiere of Antibirth during the final night of The Women of Cinefamily Festival in Los Angeles Sunday. Chloe Sevigny’s Latest Look Sevigny’s look Sunday for the Antibirth premiere and the festival’s closing night bash included a Gucci two-toned embroidered knee-length dress. The jersey number, which featured a black short-sleeved top and […]
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- 8/22/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Tonight at midnight, New York's Spectacle Theater presents He Walked by Night (1948), the "template for Dragnet and a direct inspiration for dozens of police procedurals… It’s Alfred Werker’s name as director, but most film historians put the bulk of the work on the shoulders of Anthony Mann." In Los Angeles, Women of Cinefamily Weekend is on through Sunday. Tonight, Brie Larson presents Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground. Tomorrow, Sky Ferreira will perform a tribute to Lou Adler's Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. Sunday sees the La premiere of Antibirth, with director Danny Perez and star Natasha Lyonne slated to make a showing. Dennis Lim will introduce screenings of films by David Lynch in Berkeley this weekend. Plus, noir and Scout Tafoya's I Am No Bird in Chicago—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/19/2016
- Keyframe
Tonight at midnight, New York's Spectacle Theater presents He Walked by Night (1948), the "template for Dragnet and a direct inspiration for dozens of police procedurals… It’s Alfred Werker’s name as director, but most film historians put the bulk of the work on the shoulders of Anthony Mann." In Los Angeles, Women of Cinefamily Weekend is on through Sunday. Tonight, Brie Larson presents Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground. Tomorrow, Sky Ferreira will perform a tribute to Lou Adler's Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. Sunday sees the La premiere of Antibirth, with director Danny Perez and star Natasha Lyonne slated to make a showing. Dennis Lim will introduce screenings of films by David Lynch in Berkeley this weekend. Plus, noir and Scout Tafoya's I Am No Bird in Chicago—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/19/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Greenlight Essentials has combined science and art to revolutionize how movies are made. The studio, created by Jack Zhang, started a Kickstarter campaign to fund his horror film, “Impossible Things.” But this isn’t a thriller like any other, the movie is co-written by artificial intelligence (A.I.).
The project is the “first A.I. co-written feature film, marking the next step in human-computer collaboratively-created original content,” states the Kickstarter page. “Aside from being an awesome horror film, ‘Impossible Things’ is engineered using big data and artificial intelligence from the initial creative stage to ensure that it is the scariest and creepiest horror film out there!”
The thriller centers around a career-driven mother who, in the aftermath of her young daughter’s death, moves to a secluded country home with her husband and becomes a stay-at-home mom to their remaining kids: a twin daughter and baby boy. Once they settle in,...
The project is the “first A.I. co-written feature film, marking the next step in human-computer collaboratively-created original content,” states the Kickstarter page. “Aside from being an awesome horror film, ‘Impossible Things’ is engineered using big data and artificial intelligence from the initial creative stage to ensure that it is the scariest and creepiest horror film out there!”
The thriller centers around a career-driven mother who, in the aftermath of her young daughter’s death, moves to a secluded country home with her husband and becomes a stay-at-home mom to their remaining kids: a twin daughter and baby boy. Once they settle in,...
- 8/6/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Greenlight Essentials has combined science and art to revolutionize how movies are made. The studio, created by Jack Zhang, started a Kickstarter campaign to fund his horror film, “Impossible Things.” But this isn’t a thriller like any other, the movie is co-written by artificial intelligence (A.I.).
The project is the “first A.I. co-written feature film, marking the next step in human-computer collaboratively-created original content,” states the Kickstarter page. “Aside from being an awesome horror film, ‘Impossible Things’ is engineered using big data and artificial intelligence from the initial creative stage to ensure that it is the scariest and creepiest horror film out there!”
The thriller centers around a career-driven mother who, in the aftermath of her young daughter’s death, moves to a secluded country home with her husband and becomes a stay-at-home mom to their remaining kids: a twin daughter and baby boy. Once they settle in,...
The project is the “first A.I. co-written feature film, marking the next step in human-computer collaboratively-created original content,” states the Kickstarter page. “Aside from being an awesome horror film, ‘Impossible Things’ is engineered using big data and artificial intelligence from the initial creative stage to ensure that it is the scariest and creepiest horror film out there!”
The thriller centers around a career-driven mother who, in the aftermath of her young daughter’s death, moves to a secluded country home with her husband and becomes a stay-at-home mom to their remaining kids: a twin daughter and baby boy. Once they settle in,...
- 8/6/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Here's a bit of wackiness to kick off your weekend: the batshit crazy trailer for Danny Perez's Antibirth.
The movie which debuted at Sundance and recently played at Fantasia, stars Natasha Lyonne (of "Orange is the New Black" fame) as Lou, a hard living party animal who wakes from a particularly great night of partying not feeling too good.
She soon discovers she's pregnant – by her account it's immaculate conception – and believes that the baby is making her crazy.
Along with Lyonne, the movie also stars the great Chloë Sevigny as Lous best friend and roommate Sadie and Meg Tilly.
To call this trailer weird is an understatement. It's downright bonkers. I can't tell if Lou is just high all the time and hallucinating or if she's actu [Continued ...]...
The movie which debuted at Sundance and recently played at Fantasia, stars Natasha Lyonne (of "Orange is the New Black" fame) as Lou, a hard living party animal who wakes from a particularly great night of partying not feeling too good.
She soon discovers she's pregnant – by her account it's immaculate conception – and believes that the baby is making her crazy.
Along with Lyonne, the movie also stars the great Chloë Sevigny as Lous best friend and roommate Sadie and Meg Tilly.
To call this trailer weird is an understatement. It's downright bonkers. I can't tell if Lou is just high all the time and hallucinating or if she's actu [Continued ...]...
- 8/5/2016
- QuietEarth.us
The general advice for pregnant women is to stay clear of cigarettes, recreational drugs, and copious amounts of alcohol. But it’s a little unclear if those guidelines still apply when one is giving birth to an immaculately conceived demon baby. That’s what first time feature director Danny Perez set out to investigate with Antibirth, his trippy pregnancy-themed horror movie that aims to make Rosemary’s Baby look like a walk in the park.
Orange Is The New Black’s Natasha Lyonne plays a grungy party girl who wakes up from a bad trip to discover she’s pregnant. She and her best friend (Chloë Sevigny) try to figure out what’s going on while body horror, “surreal shocks,” and black comedy unfold around them. The unsettling film made its debut as a midnight release at this year’s Sundance film festival, and it will be delivered into theaters...
Orange Is The New Black’s Natasha Lyonne plays a grungy party girl who wakes up from a bad trip to discover she’s pregnant. She and her best friend (Chloë Sevigny) try to figure out what’s going on while body horror, “surreal shocks,” and black comedy unfold around them. The unsettling film made its debut as a midnight release at this year’s Sundance film festival, and it will be delivered into theaters...
- 8/5/2016
- by Caroline Siede
- avclub.com
Best friends Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and Sadie (Chloe Sevigny) enjoy hard nights out on the town, but after one crazy night of partying, Lou discovers that she is pregnant! Watch all of this madness play out in the new poster and the rather intense trailer for Danny Perez’s Sundance darling, Antibirth, coming out in select theaters and on VOD this September courtesy of IFC Midnight.
Synopsis: “Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up. Spiked with blasts of hallucinatory color, surreal shocks, and subversive comedy, the audacious...
Synopsis: “Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up. Spiked with blasts of hallucinatory color, surreal shocks, and subversive comedy, the audacious...
- 8/5/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Antibirth was easily one of the most batshit crazy films that I saw at Sundance this year. The movie stars Natasha Lyonne (American Pie, Orange is the New Black) as a crazy, hard-partying woman who finds herself pregnant. What’s strange about this pregnancy is that she hasn’t had sex in months and her weird condition escalates into complete whacked-out madness! The ending of the film is definitely something you’ll never forget. Here’s the synopsis:
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up. Spiked with blasts of hallucinatory color,...
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who—or what—is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up. Spiked with blasts of hallucinatory color,...
- 8/5/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
As a man who is no way resembles Arnold Schwarzenegger in Junior, I cannot become pregnant (as far as I know), yet a new trailer for Antibirth suggests that it is still a horrifying possibility for any person. Natasha Lyonne stars in the movie, and the cast includes Chloë Sevigny and Meg Tilly (*sigh of unrequited love*), and their talents guarantee, I would hope, a great basis for enjoyment. Synopsis: Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who -- or what -- is growing inside her? As...
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- 8/5/2016
- Screen Anarchy
"Yeah I don't think anyone's seen something like this before..." IFC Midnight has released a trailer for the weird Sundance Midnight film Antibirth, a wacky drug-trip-gone-wrong horror-comedy starring Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny. The twisted pregnancy plot involves a "wild-eyed stoner" waking up after a seriously "wild night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions as she struggles to get a grip on reality." The full cast includes Meg Tilly, Emmanuel Kabongo, Corey Pascall and Mark Webber. There's some totally frickin' wacky, disgusting and completely insane stuff in this trailer, I don't even know what to make of it. But if you're into trippy, crazy, unlike-anything-else horror - give this a shot. Here's the first official trailer for Danny Perez's Antibirth, direct from IFC Midnight's YouTube: Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze.
- 8/5/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the stranger films I caught at Sundance this year was Antibirth, a trippy thriller that marks Danny Perez‘s debut feature. Natasha Lyonne stars as Lou, a strung-out, hard-partying veteran who discovers she’s pregnant…despite the fact that she hasn’t had sex in months. And it just gets weirder from there, as Lou sets out to learn what’s really […]
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- 8/4/2016
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
You may have had some rough nights of partying a little too hard, but they surely don’t compare to what Natasha Lyonne goes through in her latest film. Premiering as part of the Midnight section at Sundance Film Festival this past year, Danny Perez‘s Antibirth finds the actress experiencing immaculate conception that turns quite evil. Ahead of a release next month from IFC Midnight, the first trailer has now arrived.
We said in our review, “With a background in music videos and shorts, director Danny Perez strings together a few sequences that seem to work. The opening moments are punk rock trashy as is the film’s over-the-top sequences. Style creeps in over substance in the more surreal moments which, despite the presence of Lyonne and Sevigny, extend their reach. Mysterious figures follow Lou as she goes about her business, either imagined or perhaps real people lurking in...
We said in our review, “With a background in music videos and shorts, director Danny Perez strings together a few sequences that seem to work. The opening moments are punk rock trashy as is the film’s over-the-top sequences. Style creeps in over substance in the more surreal moments which, despite the presence of Lyonne and Sevigny, extend their reach. Mysterious figures follow Lou as she goes about her business, either imagined or perhaps real people lurking in...
- 8/4/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Meeting your significant other’s family can be tough, especially when they have a quirky brother who keeps landing you in a series of unfortunate events. Paramount Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films released the first trailer for the new comedy, “Brother Nature,” which deals with a similar situation.
Taran Killam stars as Roger, a straight-laced politician who has big plans to propose to his dream girl (Gillian Jacobs) at her family’s lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd (Bobby Moynihan): a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger’s best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of ridiculous misfortunes. Roger soon realized that being part of this new family may be harder than he thought.
Directed by Matt Villines and Oz Rodriguez, “Brother Nature” also co-stars Rita Wilson, Bill Pullman,...
Taran Killam stars as Roger, a straight-laced politician who has big plans to propose to his dream girl (Gillian Jacobs) at her family’s lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd (Bobby Moynihan): a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger’s best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of ridiculous misfortunes. Roger soon realized that being part of this new family may be harder than he thought.
Directed by Matt Villines and Oz Rodriguez, “Brother Nature” also co-stars Rita Wilson, Bill Pullman,...
- 8/4/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Pregnancy can be challenging and scary for any young woman, but it’s even more frightening when you don’t know how you got pregnant. In the new body-horror comedy “Antibirth,” hard-partying stoner Lou (Natasha Lyonne) wakes up one morning to discover that she’s pregnant despite not having sex in over a year. Living in a small Michigan town, Lou and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) try to discover how this could happen in a drug-addled haze, but when a mysterious stranger (Meg Tilly) raises the possibility of something otherworldly, it throws everyone for a loop. Suddenly, Lou starts to lose a grip on reality as the person (or thing) growing inside her begins to distort her mind. Watch the trailer below, courtesy of EW.
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The film is the feature-length debut from writer-director Danny Perez.
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The film is the feature-length debut from writer-director Danny Perez.
- 8/4/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
“I always loved posters just like I love scores and soundtracks,” Nicolas Winding Refn once told IndieWire. “It’s just something around cinema that is more about your imagination, more about what you’re going to be seeing rather than what it is you’re actually seeing. I find that very intoxicating.” Unfortunately, the art of the movie poster has become something of a dying breed in the age of blockbusters and studio tentpoles. For every couple ingenious one-sheets, there seems to be about a hundred carbon copies.
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Fortunately, the new documentary “24×36 – A Movie About Movie Posters” is here to take a stand against the boring trends that haunt movie posters today. Directed by Kevin Burke and produced by Snowfort Pictures and Post No Joes Productions, “24×36” chronicles the rise, fall and increasing rebirth of the illustrated movie poster.
Read More: Poster Series Highlights the Greatest Movies Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch & More Never Made
Fortunately, the new documentary “24×36 – A Movie About Movie Posters” is here to take a stand against the boring trends that haunt movie posters today. Directed by Kevin Burke and produced by Snowfort Pictures and Post No Joes Productions, “24×36” chronicles the rise, fall and increasing rebirth of the illustrated movie poster.
- 8/4/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Exclusive: IFC Midnight has acquired U.S. rights to the body horror film Antibirth from writer-director Danny Perez. Starring Natasha Lyonne, Chloë Sevigny, Meg Tilly, and Mark Webber, the story follows trailer dweller Lou (Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Sevigny). Spending their nights in pot and booze-fueled marathon TV binges, they leave only to party with a desolate community of drug-addled ex-marines and other outcasts. Following one such night, Lou experiences…...
- 6/9/2016
- Deadline
Ugly and occasionally entertaining, the female-led Antibirth is a punk rock horror thriller set in a decaying suburb somewhere in Michigan. Opening in the middle of a hardcore rager, we’re introduced to pals Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and Sadie (Chloe Sevigny), two aging party girls pushing 40 who are living fast in a landscape that offers little else. The film takes this element seriously, even if its surely an ugly one. Lou, a military vet, lives rent free in her dead father’s trailer. To make ends meet she cleans rooms part time at a local budget motel, snorting a few lines of whatever to make it through the day.
With a background in music videos and shorts, director Danny Perez strings together a few sequences that seem to work. The opening moments are punk rock trashy as is the film’s over-the-top sequences. Style creeps in over substance in the more surreal moments which,...
With a background in music videos and shorts, director Danny Perez strings together a few sequences that seem to work. The opening moments are punk rock trashy as is the film’s over-the-top sequences. Style creeps in over substance in the more surreal moments which,...
- 2/5/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Last week at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Danny Perez celebrated the world premiere of his wildly surreal horror movie, Antibirth, which co-stars Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny. Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Perez about what inspired the story of Antibirth, his approach to the material, his experiences collaborating with his cast and more.
What inspired the story for Antibirth? We’ve seen pregnancy horror movies before, but this felt wholly different than anything I’ve ever seen before.
Danny Perez: Thanks, it comes from a couple different sources, but ultimately I was friends with Natasha. I knew I wanted to work with her, so I knew I wanted to write something for her. I wanted to do something with a female lead because narratively and visually I'm more interested in that. I knew that I wanted to subvert a lot of female archetypes, so...
What inspired the story for Antibirth? We’ve seen pregnancy horror movies before, but this felt wholly different than anything I’ve ever seen before.
Danny Perez: Thanks, it comes from a couple different sources, but ultimately I was friends with Natasha. I knew I wanted to work with her, so I knew I wanted to write something for her. I wanted to do something with a female lead because narratively and visually I'm more interested in that. I knew that I wanted to subvert a lot of female archetypes, so...
- 2/1/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Antibirth writer-director and Sundance alum Danny Perez and his two stars, Natasha Lyonne and Chloe Sevigny, stopped by the DeadlineNow Sundance studio to promote their much-discussed midnight section title. With gorgeously bizarre visual style, the film dives into a fascinating community of trailer dwellers and drug-addled ex-marines. Below, Perez talks about bringing his second Sundance-premiering project to the screen, while Lyonne and a very tired Sevigny explain what…...
- 1/31/2016
- Deadline
Despite being real-life, decades-long best friends, Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny had never appeared onscreen together before making director Danny Perez's subversive, pregnancy- and experimental-drug-themed body-horror trip of a feature-film debut, Antibirth, which Lyonne also produced. The movie is a perfect addition to Sundance's "Midnight" section, and features Lyonne and Sevigny as hard-partying best friends in a desolate middle-of-nowhere Michigan town overrun with drug addiction. Lyonne's character Lou blacks out at a warehouse rager, and the next morning, as she's taking her usual five bong hits, she starts feeling a little weird. Like, her titties and her uterus are hurting, but she hasn't got laid in forever, so she can't be pregnant — right? What follows is a trippy mystery filled with body horror and supernatural elements, as Lou's face starts peeling off and her belly starts growing. We eventually learn that the men of the town have taken it...
- 1/29/2016
- by Jada Yuan
- Vulture
During the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Daily Dead had the chance to sit down and chat with two of the stars of Antibirth, Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny. Written and directed by Danny Perez, the film is a wildly surreal examination of the horrors of pregnancy, and the duo discussed what attracted them to the project, how their real-life friendship spilled over into the project and more.
Thanks for speaking with me today, ladies. What I really dug about Antibirth is the fact that it starts out going one way and then in the third act it goes somewhere totally different than I was expecting. It’s very much the type of movie you'd expect to see at Sundance.
Chloë Sevigny: Danny is a real head case. The best partner there is with a one-of-a-kind mind and vision. I do think that, in a way, that was a lot of the appeal for us,...
Thanks for speaking with me today, ladies. What I really dug about Antibirth is the fact that it starts out going one way and then in the third act it goes somewhere totally different than I was expecting. It’s very much the type of movie you'd expect to see at Sundance.
Chloë Sevigny: Danny is a real head case. The best partner there is with a one-of-a-kind mind and vision. I do think that, in a way, that was a lot of the appeal for us,...
- 1/29/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Antibirth is a good old body horror movie. It’s got the suggestion of pregnancy, so you’re dealing with the undertones of a woman’s mixed feelings about her own capacity to give life, but if you don’t want to go there it’s really just gross as hell. Lou (Natasha Lyonne) starts getting sick and the symptoms […]...
- 1/27/2016
- by Fred Topel
- bloody-disgusting.com
First time director Danny Perez has come up with an entertaining grossout riff on Cronenberg-style body horror, featuring a great performance from Lyonne
What if the Dude from The Big Lebowski somehow ended up in David Cronenberg’s The Brood? Well, that’s not exactly what the oddball Sundance midnight film Antibirth is like, but that’s what my summary would be if I was ripping epic bong hits on my scuzzy couch and describing this “epically fucked-up thing” I just saw.
Believe me, this is hardly my usual state of affairs. However, Danny Perez’ first feature goes out of its way to be atypical. Natasha Lyonne, bringing richness to an extremely difficult role, is Lou; a grouchy, swearing, pill-gobbling boozer who still manages, somehow, to be adorable. Antibirth is not set in the La party scene, but in nowheresville Michigan, cold and ugly, where you need to bum a...
What if the Dude from The Big Lebowski somehow ended up in David Cronenberg’s The Brood? Well, that’s not exactly what the oddball Sundance midnight film Antibirth is like, but that’s what my summary would be if I was ripping epic bong hits on my scuzzy couch and describing this “epically fucked-up thing” I just saw.
Believe me, this is hardly my usual state of affairs. However, Danny Perez’ first feature goes out of its way to be atypical. Natasha Lyonne, bringing richness to an extremely difficult role, is Lou; a grouchy, swearing, pill-gobbling boozer who still manages, somehow, to be adorable. Antibirth is not set in the La party scene, but in nowheresville Michigan, cold and ugly, where you need to bum a...
- 1/27/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
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