By MICHAEL GINGOLD
A trek into the desert gets scary and surreal in the movie debuting this month.
Writer/director Matt Warren’s DELICATE ARCH will have its world premiere on Friday, June 28 at Los Angeles’ Dances With Films festival. The screening will be accompanied by a red carpet event and a post-screening Q&A with the cast and crew. Executive-produced by Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237, THE NIGHTMARE), the movie stars William Leon, Kelley Mack, Kevin Bohleber and Rene Leech. The synopsis: “Grant [Leon], Wilda [Mack], Cody [Bohleber], and Ferg [Leech] are all college students in Salt Lake City. Grant and Cody are supposed to be BFFs, but Grant–a paranoid and spoiled film student–suspects Cody is secretly hooking up with Wilda, an ex-girlfriend Grant is struggling to remain amicable with. Their friend is Ferg, Wilda’s nonbinary stoner cousin and an amateur student of Theosophy and ritual magic. Fleeing an atmospheric disaster known as ‘The Inversion’ in the Salt Lake Valley, the group decides to go camping in Southern Utah’s Arches National Park. As Grant’s obsessive voyeurism escalates on-site, he begins to sense a malevolent, imperceptible force encroaching on them. What is it? An ancient Lovecraftian evil? An extraterrestrial manipulation? A nuclear experiment gone wrong? Zombies?!?! Or perhaps…something even weirder?”
