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Exclusive photos: David Dastmalchian in horror film “SENDER,” heading for Sitges

The film has already won multiple awards since debuting at SXSW earlier this year.

Above and below you can see exclusive pics of David Dastmalchian (LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL) and Britt Lower in SENDER, which makes its international debut in October at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain. It will be screening there October 11 and 12. SENDER has taken Best Feature prizes at the Sidewalk Film Festival, Chattanooga Film Festival and Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology, and is headed for theatrical release in 2027. Written and directed by Russell Goldman, it also stars Jamie Lee Curtis (who produced with Molly Hallam and Jake Katofsky), Rhea Seehorn, Anna Baryshnikov, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Mike Mitchell. The synopsis: “Julia [Lower] was fired three weeks ago. She also got sober three weeks ago. She’s starting over in a suburban rental, and doing a lot of online shopping to help make the space her own, fast. When packages she didn’t order start showing up at her door—a blender, a corkscrew, her signature shade of lipstick—they feel so unnervingly tied to her past that it starts to feel like someone is watching her. As the online retailer denies responsibility, her search for the anonymous sender sends her down a dangerous rabbit hole, forcing her to confront her past and the fragile reality she’s trying to rebuild.”

 

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