There’s nothing conceptually all that special about “The Dead Center,” but sometimes it’s all in the execution, and this creepily restrained horror thriller manages to never seem entirely predictable while nonetheless drawing on numerous prior genre influences, from the “[rec]” films to “The Exorcist III.” It’s an impressive leap forward for writer-director Billy Senese, whose 2014 feature debut “Closer to God” was more in the realm of a nice try. It opens on ten U.S. screens on Oct. 11, with release in disc formats Oct. 22.
A big, gory mess of what’s assumed to be a suicide victim is delivered to a morgue, tagged and bagged. But later he proves not-so-dead — waking with a start, he tears out of his body bag, then stumbles to another part of the public hospital, tucking himself into an available bed before passing out again. It is there that he is found by...
A big, gory mess of what’s assumed to be a suicide victim is delivered to a morgue, tagged and bagged. But later he proves not-so-dead — waking with a start, he tears out of his body bag, then stumbles to another part of the public hospital, tucking himself into an available bed before passing out again. It is there that he is found by...
- 10/11/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
An apparently dead man mysteriously comes back to life in this tantalising, atmospheric thriller
The cult that gathered around Shane Carruth – the polymath writer-director-performer who dreamed up the brilliant and baffling Primer and Upstream Colour – will want to reconvene for this effective low-key chiller in which Carruth takes top acting billing, while handing directing duties to Billy Senese.
With its twin-track storytelling, Senese’s film owes less to Carruth’s filmography than to upmarket TV fare such as True Detective and the recent Unbelievable. In one narrative line, a conflicted, corner-cutting psych-ward doctor (Carruth) engages with a hulking patient (Jeremy Childs) who revived in the morgue after an apparently successful suicide attempt; in the other, a medical examiner (Bill Feehely) heads into the field to investigate how this John Doe got on the slab, and how he got up off it.
The cult that gathered around Shane Carruth – the polymath writer-director-performer who dreamed up the brilliant and baffling Primer and Upstream Colour – will want to reconvene for this effective low-key chiller in which Carruth takes top acting billing, while handing directing duties to Billy Senese.
With its twin-track storytelling, Senese’s film owes less to Carruth’s filmography than to upmarket TV fare such as True Detective and the recent Unbelievable. In one narrative line, a conflicted, corner-cutting psych-ward doctor (Carruth) engages with a hulking patient (Jeremy Childs) who revived in the morgue after an apparently successful suicide attempt; in the other, a medical examiner (Bill Feehely) heads into the field to investigate how this John Doe got on the slab, and how he got up off it.
- 10/9/2019
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
"Do you know why you came to be?" "I died. And I came back." Arrow Video has unveiled an official trailer for the horror indie film The Dead Center, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year. It also played at the Glasgow and Chattanooga Film Festivals earlier this year, and is dropping in theaters + on VOD + on DVD this fall for horror fans who are interested. This horror stars Shane Carruth, the indie filmmaker, this time working only as an actor (and also a producer). He plays a hospital psychiatrist whose sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side. Also starring Jeremy Childs, Poorna Jagannathan, and Bill Feehely. This looks super unsettling and extra creepy, and really picks up halfway through when they pull back that hospital sheet with the open mouth.
- 8/27/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
After having its World Premiere at the 2018 La Film Festival, Arrow Films acquired U.S. and U.K. rights to Billy Senese‘s indie thriller The Dead Center, starring Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs, and Bill Feehely. Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive trailer and art debut for the film that will be released in UK and Us Cinemas, and on 4k […]...
- 8/27/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Arrow Films has acquired horror movie “The Dead Center” in a multi-territory deal that includes the U.S. and the U.K.
Billy Senese (“Closer to God”) wrote the screenplay and directed the film. It was co-produced by, and stars, Shane Carruth, who previously wrote, directed and starred in “Primer” and made Sundance favorite “Upstream Color.” It is the first picture he has starred in but not directed.
Jeremy Childs (“Preacher”) and Poorna Jagannathan (“Mile 22″) are also in the film. It tells the story of an unidentified suicide victim (Childs) who comes back to life and walks out of the morgue. Medical examiner Edward Graham (Bill Feehely) begins the search for the missing body, unaware the subject has ended up in the hospital psychiatric ward under the watchful eye of psychiatrist Daniel Forrester. As Graham and Forrester investigate further, it becomes apparent that the patient has brought something terrible back from the other side.
Billy Senese (“Closer to God”) wrote the screenplay and directed the film. It was co-produced by, and stars, Shane Carruth, who previously wrote, directed and starred in “Primer” and made Sundance favorite “Upstream Color.” It is the first picture he has starred in but not directed.
Jeremy Childs (“Preacher”) and Poorna Jagannathan (“Mile 22″) are also in the film. It tells the story of an unidentified suicide victim (Childs) who comes back to life and walks out of the morgue. Medical examiner Edward Graham (Bill Feehely) begins the search for the missing body, unaware the subject has ended up in the hospital psychiatric ward under the watchful eye of psychiatrist Daniel Forrester. As Graham and Forrester investigate further, it becomes apparent that the patient has brought something terrible back from the other side.
- 10/31/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Writer/Director: Billy Senese Starring: Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs, and Bill Feehely When a mysterious “John Doe” wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could …
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- 10/4/2018
- by Horrornews.net
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