At the end of March, we gave y’all a look at some stills and a new one-sheet for Antoine Blossier’s French creature feature PREY, a flick not to be confused with the Aussie thriller of the same name. Well, it looks like we’ll be seeing the film sooner rather than later, as Screen Daily reports IFC has just nabbed the U.S. rights to Blossier’s feature debut.
In particular, it’s IFC’s new horror shingle IFC Midnight that has locked rights to PREY, adding it to an impressive list of ever expanding genre titles. Big ups to IFC in general, even more so now that they’re championing our brand of cinema!
For those with too much malted hops on the dome, PREY gears up:
In his stepfamily’s countryside retreat, as Nathan knew that the traditional autumn family reunion was going to be particularly stormy. Claire, his wife, had to announce her recent pregnancy, and tough decisions would need to be made to prevent the family’s pesticides business from closing down. But on the first night a terrorized deer mysteriously attacks Claire’s father. The men decide to venture into the surrounding forest to find the reasons of the animal’s odd behaviour. Carrying a shotgun for the first time in his life and witnessing the growing tensions between the father and his sons, Nathan soon discovers that the hunting season is not over yet … Now they’ve become the prey.
Somewhere in-between THE DESCENT, JAWS, and DELIVERANCE, PREY takes a family on the verge of explosion into a dark forest, where mysterious creatures seem to be out of control. Human nature can be scarier than the darkest woods.
Stay posted for an imminent release date.
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