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Shudder has acquired Hallowarrior ahead of its Tribeca Film Festival premiere on June 10, Variety has learned.
The post-apocalyptic horror thriller will arrive on the streamer this Halloween season.
Hereditary‘s Milly Shapiro stars as Pumpkin, the last girl on earth and sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, scavenging the wasteland for supplies on the eve of Halloween.
Pumpkin’s lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep. Outnumbered and armed with candy, wit, and weapons, Pumpkin must ferociously fight back to survive the night.
Ajani Russell (“Betty”), AJ Bowen (You’re Next), and Shannyn Sossamon (Sinister 2) round out the cast.
Writer-director Ben Sottak makes his feature directorial debut on the project, based on his 2021 short Scavenger.
“Hallowarrior is a love letter to horror and Halloween, and I am thrilled that the film has found its home with a distributor whose brand is synonymous with both,” said Sottak. “It’s an honor to have Hallowarrior join the Shudder family, and a treat to introduce their audience to this fun, scary, gory film along with its badass lead, Pumpkin, played by the incredible Milly Shapiro.”
“From the moment we saw Hallowarrior, we knew this was a natural fit for Shudder,” added IFC Entertainment Group director of acquisitions and productions Adam Koehler. “The film fully understands what genre fans come to the platform for — strong scares, spooky atmosphere and a wild ride. It’s the kind of horror that plays directly to our audience and reinforces why the service is such a trusted home for bold, crowd-pleasing genre filmmaking, especially around the Halloween season.”
Hallowarrior is produced by Sottak & Emmajane Hoffman for Strange Aeons, Gabriel Rosenstein for The Spitting Image, and Danielle Benedict & Jake Casey for The Dazey Phase. Sossamon and Alec Ring serve as executive producers.
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