Making its world debut at the Sundance Film Festival tonight is TURBO KID, a post-apocalyptic thriller from the producers of HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN. We’ve got your first clip from the film, which features Michael Ironside as a one-eyed psycho and a very messy blender death. Dig in!
Official synopsis:
Decades after the apocalypse, the world has been left in a permanent nuclear winter. A
lonely young orphan called THE KID roams the wasteland scavenging for comic books
and paraphernalia from the 80s. He trades knick-knacks with the dodgy bar keep BAGU
at the nearby trading post for fresh water, the most valuable commodity in this land
forsaken by toxins. After bumping into arm-wrestling champion FREDERICK, the Kid
sees a glimpse of the exciting world he’s been hiding from all these years. His routine
existence is disrupted when he runs into the mysterious (and highly excitable) APPLE.
Just as Apple starts to bring The Kid out of his isolated world with unflappable humour
and goofy behaviour, their relationship is forever changed when she is kidnapped by a
BOUNTY HUNTER working for ZEUS; the sadistic and overly-garrulous leader of the
Wasteland.
TURBO KID also stars Munro Chambers and Laurence Leboeuf; it was directed by Anouk Whissell, François Simard & Yoann-Karl Whissell (a.k.a. The RKSS Collective).
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