According to a new report over at Variety, Welcome Villain Films (the company behind the recent Malum) has acquired the rights to bring Sam Curtain’s Beaten to Death to North American audiences this summer, in both a limited theatrical release and via digital.
Says Variety:
“Beaten to Death unfolds after a desperate choice leads a man named Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature, and his own insanity. According to the official logline, Jack, ‘stranded in the middle of nowhere after barely surviving a horrific assault, encounters one local after another and quickly learns that a sick game of cat and mouse is about to begin. Battling the deranged country psychos and the harsh landscape, Jack must go to extreme lengths to survive.'”
Extreme, indeed. Curtain describes the film as a “violent and visceral experience,” while Luke LaBeau (Welcome Villain Films’ head of development) says Beaten to Death is “loaded with extreme, unrelenting violence.” Welcome Villain’s head of creative, Eric Kleifield, classifies the film as “Outback horror” (a genre we simply don’t see enough of) while calling it “a very dangerous film that will stick with viewers long after the credits roll.” Consider us sold!
Beaten to Death – which stars Thomas Roach, David Tracy, Justan Wagner, and Nicole Tudor – doesn’t have a release date yet, nor a trailer, nor any further images that one might wish to include in a post like this, but based on everything said above it sounds like a film we’d do well to keep an eye on. Stay tuned for further updates as they roll in, gang.
