LITTLE DEATHS will have its U.S. premiere at SXSW’s SXFantastic in a couple of weeks, and today we have the trailer for you. The horror/thriller anthology comes from Simon Rumley (RED WHITE & BLUE, THE LIVING AND THE DEAD), Andrew Parkinson (I, ZOMBIE) and Sean Hogan (SUMMER’s BLOOD). Here are the plots:
Simon Rumley’s BITCH: Stuck in a destructive relationship that isn’t going anywhere and lousy dead-end jobs that have no future, Claire and Pete live in a council flat and are united only in their love of rock music. The flame of passion having long since died, the couple derive a strange sexual pleasure from an unspoken sadomasochistic role-playing game where Claire finds new and inventive ways of mistreating Pete – and Pete, ever the devoted lap dog, takes what she dishes out time and again. But in an unspoken game the boundaries are hazy, and when Claire unwittingly takes things one step too far, Pete devises a way to teach the bitch to heel, once and for all.
Andrew Parkinson’s MUTANT TOOL: Jen, a former prostitute and recovering drug addict, is undergoing therapy in a bid to turn her life around. Her new therapist, Dr. Reece, comes as a recommendation via her boyfriend Frank. But unbeknownst to Jen, Frank and Dr. Reece have a shadowy criminal relationship. The therapist is involved with a bizarre black market narcotics trade, in which the semen from human mutations created during WWII Nazi experiments is harvested and processed for its psychic effects on the human brain. And now the last known mutant is dying, and a suitable replacement must be found.
Sean Hogan’s HOUSE AND HOME: A well-to-do yuppie couple, Richard and Victoria, pose as concerned religious do-gooders in order to lure homeless girls back to their home for perverted sex games. After deciding upon their latest target, a mysterious young woman named Sorrow, they drug and imprison her before subjecting her to a series of assaults and humiliations. However, the captive girl is not as helpless as she first appears, and the couple soon find the rules of the game have changed.
The trailer is pretty strange looking, but I mean that in the best way possible. The film explores two of our favorite themes here at AITH: sex and death! The cast includes Kate Braithwaite, Daniel Brocklebank, Luke De Lacey, Siubhan Harrison and Christopher Fairbank.
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