Check out these new trailers for a three new horror films heading to the Cannes Film Festival.
ASTRO
Sci-fi thriller Astro, featuring Gary Daniels (The Expendables), Dominique Swain (Boone: The Bounty Hunter) and Marshal Hilton (Primal Rage), bows at Cannes in May before hitting home entertainment platforms in July.
READ MORE: Our Interview with Marshal Hilton
Directed by Asif Akbar and written by Akbar and Bernard Selling, Astro tells of a billionaire’s private space exploration program returning to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet.
Louis Mandylor, Max Wasa, Omi Vaidya, Luke G. Crosby, Orson Chaplin, Gianni Capaldi, Spice Williams-Crosby, Courtney Akbar, Christopher Showerman and Michael Pare also star.
Film receives a DVD release domestically in the U.S. and North America through eOne and ITN Distribution this July.
Astro is a Film Life Factory, LLC and XVIII Entertainment, LLC production. ITN Distribution is handling sales in all domestic and certain parts of the European territories with Avail Films and XVIII Entertainment handling the rest of the world-wide sales at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.
Brian Steele Medina of Gemini Syndrome, composed the music and sound fx for Astro’s trailer, which also features an unreleased track “We Are the Fallen” written by the alternative metal band. The film’s original score is composed by Erick Schroeder.
Asif Akbar and Bernard Selling are currently finishing the Astro book series based on the movie, it’ll be released on Amazon in July.
Canaries
Ahead of the Marche du Film in Cannes (8th-17th May 2018) Genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed the first title in their Cannes lineup. UK sci fi horror comedy ‘Canaries’ from Welsh writer/director Peter Stray is about a group of friends at a New Year’s Eve bash in the Welsh Valley, who must fight against an invasion force of time travelling aliens. The film stars Robert Pugh (Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Master & Commander) and Hannah Daniel (Netflix’s Hinterland).
The Restaurant
Ahead of the Marche du Film in Cannes (8th-17th May 2018) Genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed the second title in their Cannes lineup Supernatural Horror Comedy, ‘The Restaurant’ is set in New York, Andy manages an Italian eatery where in exchange for business he feeds undesirables to a demon in the basement. Everything was going smoothly… until the busboy found out. Executive Produced by Kris Maxx, Written and Directed by Eric Ford-Holevinski. The deal was negotiated by Ben Yennie founder of The Guerrilla Rep on behalf of the film makers and Samantha Richardson on behalf of Devilworks.