"Level 16 is not like the other levels." In the new movie Level 16, girls growing up in a strict facility just hope to escape by finding a family that wants to adopt them, but they end up fighting just to survive to see the outside world when disciplinary actions become lethal in the sci-fi film's official trailer from Dark Sky Films.
Level 16 will be released in theaters and on VOD beginning March 1st. Written and directed by Danishka Esterhazy, and produced by Judy Holm, Michael McNamara, and Stéphanie Chapelle, Level 16 stars Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge, Alexis Whelan, and Amalia Williamson.
"In the thematically rich fantasy Level 16, teen-aged Vivien (Emmy-nominated actress Katie Douglas) and Sophia's (Celina Martin) are locked away in a sterile top secret facility where they're taught the finer points of "feminine virtues" by Miss Brixil (Sara Canning), a Stepford-like headmistress, and left to question what fate awaits them when they age out of the institution.
Wedding of-the-moment concerns (think The Handmaid's Tale) to throwback aesthetics (think Joss Whedon's criminally under-appreciated Dollhouse by way of Argento employing a desaturated palette), writer/director Danishka Esterhazy (Black Field, H&G) crafts a sinister allegory that packs a wicked feminist punch.
Film Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Vivien is trapped in The Vestalis Academy, a prison-like boarding school, keeping to herself and sticking her neck out for no one. Until she is reunited with Sophia -- the former friend who betrayed her. Together the girls embark on a dangerous search to uncover the horrifying truth behind their imprisonment. Soon running for their lives, the girls must save themselves or die trying.
THEATER LIST (updated as of Jan. 15)
New York City - Nitehawk in Brooklyn
Yonkers, NY - Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers
Los Angeles - Laemmle Music Hall
Houston, TX - Alamo Drafthouse LaCenterra
Austin, TX - Alamo Drafthouse Mueller
Kansas City, MO - Screenland
Colombus, OH - Gateway
Phoenix, AZ - FilmBar"
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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