Wednesday, November 29, 2017

IFC Midnight Takes 'LOWLIFE'




IFC Midnight has acquired distribution right's to Ryan Prows' gruesome horror drama Lowlife, with plans to release the film sometime in March 2018.

Cast, Nicki Micheaux, Ricardo Adam Zarate, Jon Oswald, Shaye Ogbonna, Santana Dempsey, Mark Burnham, Jose Rosete, Jearnest Corchado and Olivia Benavides, Clayton Cardenas..

Story, Tarantino-esque gruesome yet darkly comedic crime thriller drama set in a poverty and crime ridden L.A. neighborhood. Split in three intermingling segments titled "Monsters," "Fiends," and "Thugs", the story follows several desperate seedy characters who all have ties to Teddy, a local mass murdering crime boss and white slaver who kidnaps and murders illegal immigrants for their organs or enslaves them for his prostitution/rape ring.

El Monstruo is a failed luchador who never breaks character, suffers from violent blackouts and works as Teddy's top henchman while trying to ignore the various horrifying aspects of the job. He's expecting a baby with Kaylee, a woman given as child to Teddy by her mother Crystal, and hopes that his child will fill the shoes of El Monstruo's legendary and heroic luchador father, something that El Monstruo failed to do and is ridden with guild over it. Keith is Teddy's accountant whose committed a crime in his younger days but never served time since his ...

Written by: Ryan Prows, Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson, Shaye Ogbonna and Maxwell Michael Towson - Directed by: Ryan Prows.