PREVIEW: Jakob’s Wife (15 TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Larry Fessenden (The Dead Don’t Die), Bonnie Aarons (The Nun), Nyisha Bell (Poeta), Sarah Lind (Severed), Mark Kelly (Take Me), Robert Rusler (Weird Science), Jay DeVon Johnson (The Last Soul on a Summer Night), CM Punk (Girl on the Third Floor), Omar Salazar (Restraint), Ned Yousef (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Giovannie Cruz (AmeriGeddon), Armani Desirae (film debut), Monica L. Henry (Gunned Down), Skeeta Jenkins (The Man in the Empty Chair), Kathe Newcomb (Transmutation: Deep Water Horizon), Morgan Peter Brown (Private Number), Angelie Denizard (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Travis Stevens (Girl on the Third Floor), director, writer, producer, editor; Kathy Charles (Castle Freak) and Mark Steensland (The Last Way Out), writers; Barbara Crampton (Beyond the Gates), Bob Portal (In a Dark Place) and Inderpal Singh (The Hoarder), producers; Tara Busch (film debut), composer; David Matthews (Dark Light), cinematographer; Aaron Crozier (We Are Still Here), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Anne (Crampton) is the dutiful and supportive wife of local pastor Jakob Fedder (Fessenden), but feels that the decades have turned her marriage into a soulless affair. However, a chance encounter with an old flame suddenly exposes Anne to a newer sense of power, as well as an insatiable new appetite that comes with a deadly cost…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Horror legend Barbara Crampton delights in this gory and darkly comic new chiller, which the star of classics like Re-Animator and Castle Freak also produces.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

THURSDAY 19TH AUGUST 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

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