By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The acclaimed team’s latest genre feature will see wider exposure following its Fantasia International Film Festival world premiere.
Shudder has announced that it has picked up MOTHER OF FLIES, the new film from the Adams Family, i.e. Toby Poser, John Adams and their daughters Zelda Adams and Lulu Adams. Written and directed by Poser, John and Zelda, the movie stars the quartet and has its debut screening at Fantasia Thursday, July 24; it will begin streaming exclusively on Shudder in North America, the UK/Ireland and Australia/New Zealand next year. The synopsis: “In MOTHER OF FLIES, Mickey faces a deadly diagnosis, but she isn’t ready to die yet. Heading into the woods with her father, she seeks dark magic at the hands of mysterious recluse Solveig, who has an intimate relationship with death and roots that go deep in the land. For three days, Mickey endures Solveig’s extreme rituals of death magic. But every cure has its cost, and every curse is another’s gift. As buried secrets claw their way to the surface, the veil between the living and the dead begins to unravel, and Mickey finds herself facing dark truths that only the dead and the dying can know.”
“Shudder feels like family–a beautiful creative home offering up the most diverse and eclectic platform to its voracious, horror loving audience,” say Poser, John Adams and Zelda Adams. “For our small family that loves making bloody movie magic together in the woods, it feels so good to be welcomed back with MOTHER OF FLIES to the cine-madness and dark, brilliant mayhem at Shudder. We are grateful to Samuel Zimmerman and the whole Shudder team for being such wonderful, generous, and always-fun partners in creativity.”
Shudder’s Vice President of Programming Samuel Zimmerman says, “Once again, Shudder embraces the singular world of the Adams Family, some of the most original voices in horror. MOTHER OF FLIES is a gnarled complement to their witchy gem HELLBENDER, deeply felt and frightening. We’re thrilled for it to dig its twisted roots into our members.”
