Earlier this year, I attended the world premiere of Mickey Keating's Carnage Park, which stunned audiences during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. In just a short amount of time, Keating has established himself as a masterful genre storyteller, and his latest effort is a blisteringly taut masterclass in both tension and terror. Following its screening at SXSW, IFC Midnight acquired US distribution rights to Carnage Park, and we have official word on when you can see the film for yourself.
Carnage Park will be heading to select theaters and will also be available on demand starting on Friday July 1st, with an additional theatrical rollout to follow in select cities. Directed and written by Mickey Keating, the film stars Ashley Bell, Pat Healy, Alan Ruck, Darby Stanchfield, Larry Fessenden, Graham Skipper, James Landry Hébert, and Michael Villar.
"The year is 1978. After botching an ill-conceived bank robbery in a desolate California town, two wannabe crooks named Scorpion Joe and Lenny flee the scene with a hostage, Vivian, and lead the local lawmen on a dangerous high-speed chase. With his partner suffering from a gunshot wound and losing blood fast, Joe takes to the back roads to dodge the heat, but he unwittingly steers them into the path of a far more dangerous evil: a psychotic ex-military sniper who doesn’t take kindly to strangers. Thrust into a wicked game of cat and mouse with a highly trained and mentally imbalanced killer, they begin a harrowing fight for survival."
Carnage Park is definitely one film that horror fans will not want to miss, so be sure to check it out once it’s released later this summer. To learn more about Carnage Park, check out seven exclusive stills below, along with our recent coverage links:
Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.
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