For one evening, and one evening solely, discovered footage followers are getting a particular, restricted screening of a brand new horror film from two Missouri filmmakers. To lift the stakes even greater, as soon as the movie leaves theaters, the filmmakers have promised that it’ll by no means be launched on-line. The discovered footage horror movie It Doesn’t Get Any Higher Than This, by co-directors and stars Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti, will display screen at choose Alamo Drafthouse cinemas solely on January 10. The movie facilities on a pair of filmmakers, Kempf and Toti, who purchase a haunted duplex to movie their indie horror film, which by no means goes in response to plan, and shortly grow to be obsessive about the strangers who collect exterior, staring in a trance.
The award-winning movie has solely been seen at movie festivals and some dwell occasions, so the one-night screening would be the widest launch the self-distributed movie will presumably ever get. Rising its acclaim by means of phrase of mouth, the filmmakers are taking an unconventional and intimate path to distributing their movie. It Does not Get Any Higher Than This is coming to Alamo Drafthouse theaters within the following 10 cities subsequent week:
- Austin, TX at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
- Chicago, IL at Alamo Drafthouse Wrigleyville
- Dallas, TX at Alamo Drafthouse Richardson
- Denver, CO at Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake
- Los Angeles, CA at Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
- New York, NY at Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn
- Raleigh, NC at Alamo Drafthouse Raleigh
- San Antonio, TX at Alamo Drafthouse Park North
- San Francisco, CA at Alamo Drafthouse New Mission
- Twin Cities, MN at Alamo Drafthouse Woodbury
In response to Bloody Disgusting, Toti stated that regardless of curiosity from distributors to buy and launch the movie, the truth that It Does not Get Any Higher Than This wouldn’t be heading to the streaming world after its theatrical run scared them away.
“Conventional distributors have expressed curiosity within the film, however as quickly as we inform them that we don’t need the film to be launched on-line, they mainly run away screaming. Apparently, our technique makes no enterprise sense, however we’re sufficiently small to do issues the incorrect method. We don’t have any promoting finances or traders we have to repay, so we will be much less conservative in how we join with audiences.”
By embracing trendy, area of interest horror traits, the brand new discovered footage movie is bringing the usually missed style again into the dialog. The trailer for It Does not Get Any Higher Than This evokes the identical type of ominous and unclear storytelling that the rising style of analog horror captures so nicely. Analog horror is most like discovered footage in its use of “discovered media” to inform a narrative, however is marked by its disjointed narratives and restricted data given by means of dialogue and visuals.
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Unbiased creators, usually posting their brief movies or collection on YouTube, have introduced the rising style into the limelight, the place it’s now creeping into the movie world with the avant-garde and extremely divisive movie Skinamarink and the upcoming A24 movie The Backrooms by younger analog horror YouTuber Kane Parsons. With analog horror filmmakers testing the waters, the long run is trying vibrant for indie horror followers. Discovered footage movies simply may be circling again to the glory of experimental and genre-defining movies like The Blair Witch Challenge.
In the event you’re a fan of dangerous filmmakers and exploratory artwork that breaks the mould, then you definately higher strive your greatest to get to one of many collaborating Alamo Drafthouse theaters on Jan. 10. You will not wish to miss this one-night-only screening, as a result of as soon as it is over, the movie will grow to be as illusive as discovered footage itself.
It Does not Get Any Higher Than This will display screen in Alamo Drafthouse theaters in choose cities solely on January 10 and won’t be launched to view on-line.