Our Exclusive Clip from THE OAK ROOM is a Hitchhiker’s Nightmare
Look for the festival hit The Oak Room on VOD beginning this Friday (April 2nd, 2021) from Gravitas Ventures. Today, Dread Central is thrilled to share an exclusive clip from the film! Check it out below the trailer and synopsis!
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Synopsis:
During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. He offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story. But the night’s events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses, and shocking violence.
Director Cody Calahan teamed up with writer Peter Genoway to adapt Genoway’s stage play The Oak Room into the feature-length film. The original stage production took home first-place honors at the Toronto Fringe Festival in the prestigious “New Play Contest” category. It was also selected as a Patron’s Pick (Theatre Passe Muraille’s top box office earner).
RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad), Peter Outerbridge (Suicide Squad, V-Wars) and Ari Millen (Orphan Black, I’ll Take Your Dead) star.
The thriller sees RJ Mitte in the lead role opposite character actor Peter Outerbridge and rising star Ari Millen. “It was an amazing experience working with Cody and the Black Fawn team to tell the unique and surreal story in The Oak Room,” states Mitte. “From the cast to the crew in Canada, where we filmed this, it was such a great group to work with. I’m so excited for this project to come out!”
“The Oak Room became more and more of a personal project for me after each step of development,” explains Calahan. “My son was born right before we went to camera. And a lot of the stories in the film revolve around the relationships that exist between fathers and sons. At each stage of the process, I found myself reflecting on what the mystery of this story truly meant to me. I’m excited to see how it will connect with different audiences out there and what people will take away from it.”
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