Lowlife (2017): Fantasia Film Festival PREMIERE

Meet El Monstruo, a beloved luchador widely seen as a hero for the oppressed. Unfortunately, El Monstruo secretly lives in disgrace, employed by a brutal cartel organ smuggler who regularly victimizes the very people that look towards our masked fighter for help.

Director Ryan Prows set out to make an unflinching look at modern America, seen through the eyes of its underbelly class. With full-throttled heart – and a whole lot of blood and eccentricity – he’s done exactly that, and so much more. LOWLIFE emerges from the shadows as a startlingly original, wholly uncompromising beast that surprises at every turn, speaking to current circumstances of the violence and exploitation that impoverished immigrants can find themselves victims of, be it at the hands of ICE officers or mercenary criminals (in LOWLIFE’s world, the two are virtually indistinguishable).

Stunningly well constructed and performed, it’s easily one of the most gobsmacking crime film discoveries that we’ve come across in years. It’s also just unbelievably entertaining, outlandishly (and oh so uncomfortably) funny and sincerely touching, full of unconventional characters you will adore while shocking with genuine edginess and moments that pivot into outright Grand Guignol. We can’t possibly rave enough about this film. See it at all costs and witness the birth of a major instant classic.

Please Join Us at the World Premiere
Friday, July 21st
9:25pm
Auditorium des diplômés de la SGWU
(Théâtre Hall)
1455 de Maisonneuve O.
Montréal, QC H3G 1M8
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