XLrator Media has recently announced its acquirement of North American distribution rights to writer/director Ben Cresciman’s (Negative Space) upcoming thriller Sun Choke.
Janie (Sarah Hagan) is just trying to get well. As Janie recovers from a recent violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker, Irma (Barbara Crampton). Janie begins to veer off the road to recovery when she develops an obsession with a young woman, Savannah (Sarah Malakul Lane), whom Janie feels an inexplicable yet profound connection to. The obsession turns increasingly invasive and wedges all three women into an ever-tightening and terrifying struggle for control. Will Janie pull herself back from the precipice of insanity? Or will she go over head-first, taking everyone down with her?
The film stars iconic horror film actress Barbara Crampton (You’re Next, Re-Animator, Lords of Salem), along with co-stars Sarah Hagan (Freaks and Geeks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Sara Malakul Lane (17 & Life: Jailbait, the upcoming Kickboxer: Vengeance).
According to XLrator Media’s CEO Barry Gordon, “Sun Choke is a deeply unsettling psychological thriller in the vein of Roman Polanski’s Repulsion that will leave audiences emotionally shaken and questioning the line between reality and nightmare. It’s an impressive, assured work that marks Ben Cresciman as an important filmmaker to watch.”
Sun Choke has played over a dozen festivals including FrightFest and the Stanley Film Festival and is set to release this Summer on its acclaimed “MACABRE” genre label.