Yellow Veil Pictures is excited to return to the Fantasia International Film Festival for the world premiere of Elric Kane's debut solo feature, the obsessive and lust-driven thriller The Dead Thing. The Dead Thing will premiere July 26th as part of the 2024 edition of Fantasia with an encore on July 28.
The Dead Thing is directed by Elric Kane (host of the Pure Cinema podcast and Fangoria's Colors of the Dark podcast) from a script he co-wrote with Webb Wilcoxen. The film is produced by Matt Mercer (Contracted, Bliss) and Monte Yazzie, with Colors of the Dark co-host Rebekah McKendry (Glorious) serving as executive producer. Yellow Veil Pictures is handling worldwide sales.
The Dead Thing stars Blu Hunt ("Sherlock & Daughter", The New Mutants), Ben Smith-Petersen (Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), John Karna ("Scream" the television series, Lady Bird) and Katherine Hughes (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, "Tell Me Lies").
Of his debut solo feature, Kane shared, "The Dead Thing is a dark exploration of modern love and the technology used to find it. Through one woman's plunge into modern dating, we are able to tell both a scary ghost story, an intimate love story, and examine the issues we face when tethered to our phones."
Loneliness, desperation, and the dangers of technology are themes featured heavily in The Dead Thing. While I sometimes grew bored with scenes of Alex sitting around the sunlamp doing nothing, the ending made it worth the wait.
Blu Hunt gives a believable performance as Alex, a woman who is disengaged from life and looking for meaningful connections on her phone instead of in the world around her.
She spends her time working at her boring job, scrolling through men on a dating app, and hooking up with a constant parade of one night stands, never finding anyone worth a second date.
That is until she meets Kyle. The pair hit it off and she looks forward to seeing him again. Except he ghosts her, Pun intended. Unwilling to just forget him, her obsession leads to dark consequences. Once she finds him, will he ever let her go?
"Tell me that you need me!"
This was a supernatural love story with shades of The Invisible Man and reminiscent of Fatal Attraction, in that Kyle will not be ignored!
If you're in the mood for something crazy, sexy, suspenseful and twisty this is one to watch.
I gave this 7 out of 10 stars on IMDB
My thanks to Yellow Veil Pictures.
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