Handling domestic sales for The Dark, XYZ Films has revealed a new set of stills from the horror film about an undead girl with a haunted past.
Press Release: Los Angeles-based XYZ Films has announced that they will handle domestic sales rights to THE DARK, the debut arthouse horror film from writer/director Justin P. Lange. The film was lensed and co-directed by cinematographer Klemens Hufnagl, and was inspired by Lange’s Columbia University thesis short film of the same name. The XYZ Films announcement comes right after this year’s ‘Frontières Goes to Cannes’ buyers’ showcase, a part of the Marché du Film where the producers screened 15 minutes of the work-in-progress.
THE DARK is produced by Danny Krausz and Kurt Stocker at Vienna-based Dor Film, joined by Laura Perlmutter and Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith at Toronto-based First Love Films. Florian Krügel takes an executive producer credit.
The film stars Nadia Alexander (Best Actress at Tribeca 2017 in “Blame”), Toby Nichols, and Austrian Karl Markovics (starred in “Counterfeiters,” Oscar Foreign Language Film 2007).
THE DARK is the story of a murderous, flesh-eating, undead girl who haunts the remote stretch of woods where she was killed. Years later she befriends a kidnapped blind boy who changes her life.
THE DARK was filmed in Northern Ontario, Canada with the support of the Austrian Film Institute, the ORF Film/Television-Agreement and the NOHFC.
ABOUT XYZ FILMS
XYZ Films is an integrated content company whose mission is to empower visionary storytellers from every corner of the planet. As an independent production company and worldwide sales agency, the company is uniquely suited to identify talented filmmakers and bring their stories to life. XYZ was founded in 2008 by Nate Bolotin, Nick Spicer, and Aram Tertzakian. Their current slate of projects includes APOSTLE, directed by Gareth Evans and starring Dan Stevens, Academy Award winner Anders Walters’ feature debut I KILL GIANTS, which stars Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, and Madison Wolfe, as well as S.Craig Zahler’s BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, which stars Vince Vaughn and Don Johnson. XYZ recently won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut for UNDER THE SHADOW and the 2017 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Macon Blair’s I DON’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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