Want to know what awaits you in Xavier Gens’ post-apocalyptic nightmare THE DIVIDE? Then look no further than these character transformation photos, depicting the gruesome unraveling of three of the film’s characters, played by Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette and Michael Eklund. (Click on each to see a bigger version – if you dare.)
The award-winning makeup (Best Makeup FX, Sitges International Film Festival) was done by artist Steve Kostanski. Having seen THE DIVIDE, I can confirm what you might already suspect: this is even more unpleasant in the context of the film.
In this graphic and violent, post-apocalyptic thriller, nine strangers-all tenants of a New York high-rise apartment-escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, thegroup begins to descend into madness, each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment. As supplies dwindle, and tensions flare, they grow increasingly unhinged by their close quarters and hopelessness. Each act against one another becomes more depraved than the next. While everyone in the bunker allows himself or herself to be overcome by desperation and lose their humanity, one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape, even with no promise of salvation on the outside.
THE DIVIDE opens in limited release on JANUARY 13th.
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