Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to distribute the mockumentary Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, produced by Else Films. The announcement comes from executive producer Eric Thirteen, who negotiated the deal. Written and directed by Michael Laicini and David Amito, Antrum presents itself as a cursed film from the 1970s.
“Everywhere I went people were talking about this secret film Antrum ,” Thirteen recalls. “Filmmakers passing it around. You’d hear that it was from the 70’s, or that it was part documentary, or that it had cursed footage spliced into it. One person literally dared me to watch it, which I frankly scoffed at. Still, I had to know what the film really was – and once I saw it, the feeling wouldn’t leave. The allure of something you weren’t supposed to watch. That’s how I knew people needed to see this movie.”
Synopsis: The heart of Antrum is the titular cursed feature, which purports to have been shot in the late 1970s by unknown filmmakers. It spins the tale of two siblings who perform an occult ritual in the woods, seeking closure after the death of a beloved pet… but their seemingly symbolic act may have truly unleashed Hell on Earth.
As rumor has it, this film vanished shortly after its completion along with the original creators – until a surprise screening during a film festival in Budapest in 1988. Not only did the theater reportedly burn to the ground, but several festival programmers later died under mysterious circumstances. The film was thought to be lost until many year later when a print was allegedly exhibited in San Francisco. The showing took a horrific turn when a full-scale riot broke out in the theater. Amid the chaos, the last known print of the film went missing. It was considered lost once again, and its deadly reputation returned to the domain of myth and mystery.
Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made will screen at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) on April 18. The film will get a limited theatrical release before coming to streaming and VOD services in Fall 2019.
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