Evokative Films premiering Down Terrace & Deliver Us From Evil at Fantasia

Unless you’ve been passed out under a rock these past few days (which is an absolute possibility depending on how you fellow Americans spent your 4th of July…), you may have noticed that the Fantasia Film Festival is in town! We hit you with the line-up last week and ever since goods from the fest have just been rolling in! And that doesn’t stop today!

While today’s update doesn’t offer any new goods persay, we do have news on a couple more films that’ll be joining the already impressive list of flicks premiering at Fantasia! No need to sit there in anticipation, those two flicks are DELIVER US FROM EVIL and DOWN TERRACE!

While neither thriller offers much in the horror department, they both look twisted enough to possibly catch your interest. Hey, what’ve you got to lose? Before we get into the details on the films, which are both coming from Evokative Films, let me tell you all when you’ll be able to catch them up at Fantasia. DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be having it’s Quebec Premiere on July 25th at 7pm followed by an encore presentation on July 28th at 7:35pm. DOWN TERRACE, which will be making it’s Canadian Premiere, kicks off on July 10th at 7pm followed by another viewing on July 12th at 5:30pm. As an added bonus DOWN TERRACE director Ben Wheatley will be hosting both viewings of his film!

So there you have it folks. Two more potentially twisted flicks to look forward to at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival! Now be sure to keep reading on for the skinny on each flick including cast and crew, stills, posters and trailers!

Director: Ole Bornedal

Cast: Lasse Rimmer, Jens Andersen, Lene Nystrøm Rasted (below), Pernille Vallentin (below), Just Like Home, Bojan Navojec

Synopsis: Lars and Johannes are brothers with very little in common. Johannes is a high-powered lawyer with a beautiful wife and two children; Lars is a truck driver and a drunken brute who beats his girlfriend. Having returned to his hometown in the country, Johannes hopes for a less hectic, more genuine lifestyle. But trouble is underfoot when Lars runs over a woman with his truck. He sees only one way out: put the blame on Alain, a Bosnian refugee with impaired mental functions. But when Lars, the God-fearing husband of the victim, and his friends close in on the Bosnian, Johannes stands up for the man and shelters him. Undeterred, the violent, drunken horde makes their way to Johannes´ secluded house, where the family and Alain fear for their lives. When words no longer suffice to contain the madness, a siege begins, in which unchained anarchy dictates a scenario of terror…

Awards: It won the Best Film in the Noves Visions section of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, as well as a special award of the Jury at the Fantasporto International Film Festival, after having its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and being programmed in many film festival such as the Hamptons, Pusan, Tallin, Istanbul and right now at Philadelphia’s Danger After Dark.

Director: Ben Wheatley

Cast: Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Julia Deakin, David Schaal, Michael Smiley, Gareth Tunley, Tony Way, Kerry Peacock

Synopsis: A life of crime is not an easy one. It’s even harder when your entire family are criminals living under one roof! Karl has just gotten out of jail and returns home to find a pregnant girlfriend and aching questions as to who might have snitched on him. His father, Bill, has also recently been released from the clink, and he shares his son’s obsession with finding an informer amongst their rogue’s gallery of law-smashing pals and hated family friends. Mum is no less on edge, with a hair-trigger temper and a penchant for paranoia that leaves no gravestone unturned. And now, company’s coming over. In this house, full of people who seem to suspect each other of just about everything, blood pressure continuously rises until blood itself begins to flow. And it’s not particularly thicker than water.

Awards: The film won the Next Wave Award at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, where it had its World Premiere, to then win the Best UK Feature Award at the Raindance Film Festival and the Raindance Award at the British Independent Film Awards. The film was programmed in many prestigious film festivals, such as Slamdance, Rotterdam, Glasgow, Seattle, LA Film Fest, Pifan and Melbourne. The film will be released at the end of the summer jointly with the American release by Magnolia Pictures.