By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The creative impulse leads to magic and monsters in the upcoming release.
Dark Star Pictures has announced its acquisition of U.S. rights to LUCID, written and directed by Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall. The distributor will give the movie Stateside theatrical and digital release later this year, following a May 29 Canadian theatrical debut via Filmoption. Shot on 35mm and Super-8 film, LUCID, which we previously covered here with an exclusive clip and creature images, stars Caitlin Acken Taylor, Amber Dandelion, Georgia Acken (THE SACRIFICE GAME), Bobby Cleveland, John Luna and Vivian Vanderpuss. The synopsis: “LUCID follows Mia [Taylor], an art student who is on the verge of being expelled from school, as she finds her last hope for combating her creative block in a magical lucid dreaming elixir. Awakening her creativity, the potion also unleashes a number of dark monsters that inhabit her subconscious, one of which is her mother, who appears transformed into a hairy monster that Mia is forced to confront.”
“LUCID is exactly the kind of daring, genre-bending filmmaking we love championing at Dark Star—it’s visually hypnotic, emotionally raw, and unapologetically weird in all the right ways,” says Dark Star president Michael Repsch. “We’re excited to help introduce this unforgettable film to U.S. audiences.”
