SYNCHRONIC (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Ally Ioannides (Brand New Old Love), Katie Aselton (Black Rock), Bill Oberst Jr. (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies), Natasha Tina Liu (film debut), Martin Bats Bradford (Wounds), Adam J. Yeend (Lust for Love), Devyn A. Tyler (Out of Blue), Betsy Holt (Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich), Shane Brady (Second Chances)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Justin Benson (The Endless), director, writer, producer, editor; Aaron Moorhead (Resolution), director, producer, cinematographer, editor; David Lawson Jr. (She Dies Tomorrow) and Michael Mendelsohn (My Name Is Lenny), producers; Jimmy LaValle (Spring), composer; Michael Felker (Get the Girl), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Dennis (Dornan) and Steve (Mackie) are two paramedics in New Orleans who begin to encounter a series of people who are either dead or in a strange state. They soon learn that the cause is a new designer drug on the circuit called Synchronic, and it’s not long before it starts to severely rip their lives apart…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the filmmaking duo behind the trippy sci-fi thriller The Endless, return with their biggest project to date, and their two biggest name leads in the form of Jamie Dornan and Anthony Mackie.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 29TH JANUARY 2021 (AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL)

 

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