Quiver Distribution is gearing up to bring Lowell Dean‘s (WolfCop, Dark Match) bold and bleak post-apocalyptic thriller, Die Alone, to audiences this Friday, October 18, 2024. This follows the film’s recent triumph at the Sitges Film Festival, where it took home the Midnight X-treme People’s Choice Award.
The film, written and directed by Dean and starring Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Memento), Douglas Smith (Horizon: An American Saga, “The Alienist”), Kimberly-Sue Murray (“The Boys”, “V-Wars”), Jonathan Cherry (Final Destination 2, WolfCop), and Frank Grillo (Warrior, Copshop), follows Ethan (Smith), a young man with amnesia who finds himself lost in a desolate, unforgiving world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures. Determined to uncover the whereabouts of his missing girlfriend, Ethan teams up with an eccentric survivalist as he strives to recover the lost threads of his past.
In anticipation of the film releasing this Friday, CinemaChords’ Howard Gorman caught up with Dean and Smith. They discussed the challenges of depicting the harsh realities of a society ravaged by environmental disaster and societal breakdown and explained how and why this film took a more serious tone compared to their previous work. The duo also described how they approached handling amnesia tropes from an actor’s and a director’s perspective, ensuring the narrative felt grounded, authentic, and believable. Finally, they delved into the genesis of the film’s ingenious, unexpected twists and surprises, which subvert and spin numerous established tropes of this specific sub-genre.
