ASSASSINATION NATION (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Odessa Young (Sweet Virginia), Suki Waterhouse (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Hari Nef (Mapplethorpe), Abra (film debut), Bella Thorne (Midnight Sun), Bill Skarsgård (It), Joel McHale (Ted), Maude Apatow (This Is 40), Colman Domingo (Selma), Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (It Comes At Night), Lukas Gage (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Cody Christian (Kill The Irishman), Danny Ramirez (film debut), Noah Galvin (film debut), Jennifer Morrison (Superfly), J. D. Evermore (Deepwater Horizon), Cullen Moss (99 Homes), Susan Misner (Hope Springs), Joe Chrest (21 Jump Street), Kathryn Erbe (Stir of Echoes)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sam Levinson (Another Happy Day), director, writer; Manu Gargi (Adult World), Aaron L. Gilbert (The Birth of a Nation), Anita Gou (To The Moon), David S. Goyer (The Forest), Matthew J. Malek (The Ticket) and Kevin Turen (Arbitrage), producers; Ian Hultquist (Memoria), composer; Marcell Rév (Land of Storms), cinematographer; Ron Patane (Blue Valentine), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the town of Salem, Massachusetts, an anonymous online hacker exposes the dark secrets of many of its inhabitants, including high school student Lily (Young) who teams up with her friends to fight off the ensuing madness that descends upon the town as a result of the hack…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The disturbing secrets of a modern society are unleashed in this bonkers exploitation movie which seems to cross Mean Girls with The Purge in the most exhilarating and insane of ways.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD NOVEMBER 2018

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