XLRATOR MEDIA ACQUIRES “SUN CHOKE” FOR NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION ON ITS ACCLAIMED MACABRE LABEL
XLrator Media has acquired North American
distribution rights to the thriller SUN CHOKE and will release the
film this Summer on its acclaimed “MACABRE” genre label. The film has
played over a dozen festivals including FrightFest and the Stanley Film
Festival.
Written and directed by Ben Cresciman
(Negative Space), SUN CHOKE stars iconic horror film actress Barbara
Crampton (You’re Next, Re-Animator, Lords of Salem), Sarah Hagan
(“Freaks and Geeks,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and Sara Malakul Lane
(17 & Life: Jailbait, the upcoming Kickboxer: Vengeance) along with
Evan Jones, Joe Nieves and Jim Boeven. The film features a haunting
score by noted musician/producer Boom Bip (aka Bryan Hollon).
“SUN
CHOKE is a deeply unsettling psychological thriller in the vein of
Roman Polanski’s Repulsion that will leave audiences emotionally shaken
and questioning the line between reality and nightmare. It’s
an impressive, assured work that marks Ben Cresciman as an important
filmmaker to watch,” said XLrator Media CEO Barry Gordon.
ABOUT SUN CHOKEJanie
(Sarah Hagan) is just trying to get well. As Janie recovers from a
recent violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre
holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by
her lifelong nanny and caretaker, Irma (Barbara Crampton). Janie begins
to veer off the road to recovery when she develops an obsession with a
young woman, Savannah (Sarah Malakul Lane), whom Janie feels an
inexplicable yet profound connection to. The obsession turns
increasingly invasive and wedges all three women into an ever-tightening
and terrifying struggle for control. Will Janie pull herself back from
the precipice of insanity? Or will she go over head-first, taking
everyone down with her?
SUN CHOKE is produced
by Georg Kallert, Rob Schroeder and Peter J. Nieves of Lodger Films with
Wandie Kabule, Leigh Jones and Ian Keiser.
The
deal was negotiated by XLrator Media’s Barry Gordon with BoulderLight
Pictures’ Raphael Margules and JD Lifshitz on behalf of the filmmakers.
Ben Cresciman is repped by Marc Manus at Manus Entertainment.
