Trailer: Terrifying (And Timely) Pandemic Horror HALL Set to Infect FrightFest
Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s leading genre film festival, has just announced the selection of Francesco Giannini’s debut pandemic feature Hall for a World Premiere presentation on August 30th at 6:00 PM local time.
Check out the trailer and read more about the film below.
Synopsis:
When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a dreadful airborne virus, pregnant Japanese runaway wife Naomi is tragically thrust into the fight of her life. After getting infected, she wants to escape but is forced to crawl her way through other helpless and scattered victims. In the room next door stays Val, a mother trapped in a toxic marriage. Val must also navigate her way out of the hotel and walk through the long and narrow stretch of isolated carnage, all while desperately looking for her young daughter Kelly and keeping out of sight of the remaining contagious sufferers. Will these two women get out of there alive?
The anticipated Canadian horror thriller about a scary virus outbreak will be available to a worldwide highly curated audience during the virtual festival held exceptionally this year in August 2020.
“I’ve known about Frightfest UK for years as one of the leading genre film festivals in the world. Having Frightfest select my directorial debut feature film Hall is a tremendous honor. I couldn’t have imagined a better event to host our World Premiere,” says director Francesco Giannini.
Encountering the special circumstances around the pandemic happening in the world right now, Hall coincidentally captures the intrinsic sense of dread that people in society are experiencing yet in an even more visceral manner.
“It’s a strange coincidence that our film is coming out at the same time as the devastating COVID-19 crisis,” says Giannini. “I never thought that the fictional story of virus contagion we’ve created in Hall would become a reflection of reality within such a close time frame between the release of the film and the pandemic occurring right now. However, the ideas and themes explored in the movie have been in my thought process for a while due to the previous virus outbreaks I’ve had witnessed,” he adds.
Hall stars Japanese star Yumiko Shaku as Naomi, Carolina Bartczak as Val, Mark Gibson as Branden, Julian Richings as Julian, and Bailey Thain as Kelly.
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