Writer/director Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) dropped me an email with news about his new thriller The Dark Below. The film is sure to chill you to the bone as it will have its world premiere at the prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival this July. Read on for more information about the screening as well as a few new images from the film.
From The Press Release
The Dark Below will have its world premiere at the prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival this summer in Montreal (July 14th thru Aug 4th). Douglas Schulze’s bone chilling new thriller will bow in Montreal at the festival Moviemaker magazine dubs “One of the most prominent genre festivals in the world”.
In this visually stunning, experimental thriller set on Michigan’s wintry frozen Great Lakes, a brutish serial killer imprisons his still-living latest victim in the watery depths. Thus begins a uniquely chilling story of survival and shocking revelation.
Fangoria says “You haven’t seen anything like it. This accomplished experiment in narrative storytelling tears every convention apart.” Co-starring Veronica Cartwright. World Premiere.
The Dark Below is a terrifying tale about a divers struggle to stay alive beneath a frozen lake while a killer hunts them from above. Set largely on and beneath a frozen lake the production crew filmed The Dark Below outdoors in temperatures that, at times dropped to minus 20 degrees. Schulze explains; “There’s no green screen here; we filmed this almost entirely in real locations with real elements.”
Schulze’s previous films include the top selling MIMESIS (Anchor Bay / Starz) about role players that recreate Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead complete with flesh eating, Dark Fields (with the late David Carradine).
Fantasia will also premiere Marvel’s new megabudgeted superhero flick “Ant Man” and previous premieres include Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” (North American premiere) and “Shaun of the Dead”.
For more information and screening times visit the official facebook page for the Dark Below at https://www.facebook.com/darkbelowmovie
