PREVIEW: Assimilate (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Joel Courtney (The Kissing Booth), Calum Worthy (The Big Year), Andi Matichak (Halloween), Katherine McNamara (Maze Runner: The Death Cure), Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Mason McNulty (12 Pups of Christmas), Terry Dale Parks (Terminator Genisys), Vito Viscuso (Walking the Walk), Jennifer Pierce Mathus (Sequence), Kevin Remington (Legend of Crystania: The Motion Picture), Tonetta Weaver (Dante’s Arizona), Amye Gousset (Fish Story: The Curse of Mocatawbi Pond)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

John Murlowski (Black Cadillac), director, writer, producer; Steven Palmer Peterson (Skin in the Game), writer; William Fay (White Ghost), producer; Sven Faulconer (Acting Like Adults), composer; Damian Horan (Pottersville), cinematographer; Jason Schmid (A Date to Die For), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A group of young friends making a web series about their small town suddenly discover that their neighbours are being killed, and replaced by creatures who are near-perfect copies of their victims…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

If you’re eager to sit down and watch a chilling 21st century take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, then Assimilate will provide all the sci-fi horror you’re craving.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

MONDAY 12TH APRIL 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, INCLUDING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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