Adam MacDonald’s PYEWACKET a flat-out frightening supernatural chiller screens as part of the Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow on 3rd March 2018.
MacDonald an accomplished actor has lately has been steering more towards a career as a writer/director. With three short films SOMBRE ZOMBIE, KILLERKILLER, and IN THE DOMINICAN under his belt, his first feature BACKCOUNTRY had its well-received world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival back in 2014. Born in Montreal, and now residing in Toronto MacDonald is back with a deliciously taut slow burner, PYEWACKET.
With an outstanding central performance from Nicole Munoz as witchcraft-obsessed teenager Leah, and THE WALKING DEAD’s Laurie Holden as her mother this surprising and inventive film plants a seed of dread from the very beginning. The occult ritual that Leah performs in the woods that builds to an intense spine-chilling climax that will do for woods what JAWS did for water while giving nods to other genre favourites THE EXORCIST and THE EVIL DEAD, PYEWACKET is its own beast.
After her father dies, teenager Leah is forced, by her unstable mother, to leave her friends behind and move to a house in the woods. Feeling isolated and hopeless, Leah turns to Black Magic to release her anger. She naively performs an occult ritual found in a book on her bedroom shelf to invoke the spirit of a witch to kill her mother. Terrified by strange occurrences, and stricken by guilt, Leah desperately tries to reverse the spell but soon realises she has awoken something in the woods and nothing can prepare her for the terror that has been unleashed.
Forget teen-friendly jump scares and Ouija board pranks, this is the real deal, that goes deep into the dark heart of the occult. From the producer of cult hits THE VOID and THE WITCH, PYEWACKET can take its place alongside those otherworldly modern horror classics.
PYEWACKET plays on 3rd March 2018. It gets a UK release on Digital HD on April 16th and DVD on 23rd April 2018 from Signature Entertainment.
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