PREVIEW: Fried Barry (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Gary Green (Black Butterflies), Chanelle de Jager (Stroomop), Brett Williams (Love the One You Love), Joey Cramer (Flight of the Navigator), Sean Cameron Michael (The Salvation), Steve Wall (You’re Ugly Too), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Hotel Rwanda), Tamer Burjaq (The Last Days of American Crime), Jonathan Pienaar (Lyklollery), Colin Moss (The World Unseen), Brendan Sean Murray (Momentum)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ryan Kruger (film debut), director, writer, producer; James C. Williamson (film debut), producer; Haezer (Nobody Dies), composer; Gareth Place (film debut), cinematographer; Stephen Du Plessis (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Barry (Green) is an abusive drug-addict who, following his latest heroin binge, is abducted by aliens and forced to take a back seat as an alien assumes control of his body. As the alien takes Barry’s body on a joyride through Cape Town, it experiences the world through Barry’s wild eyes…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Based on the award-winning short of the same name, Fried Barry is a bizarre sci-fi comedy-horror which explores what happens when aliens take over the body of the worst human imaginable.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

THURSDAY 6TH MAY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

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