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Visit a new chopping mall in “WAKE UP”; release news, trailer and poster

Activists are trapped in a superstore of death in the Canadian chiller.

Blue Fox Entertainment has announced that it will release WAKE UP in theaters nationwide in the U.S. and Canada April 4. Directed by Anouk Whissell and Yoannn-Karl Whissell (TURBO KID, SUMMER OF 84) from a script by Alberto Marini (SLEEP TIGHT), it stars THE DAMNED’s Turlough Convery (pictured), Benny O. Arthur, Alessia Yoko Fontana, Jacqueline Moré, Kyle Scudder, Thomas Gould, Charlotte Stoiber and Aidan O’Hare. The synopsis: “In WAKE UP, a group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore but must fight for their lives in a night of terror after getting trapped inside with a deranged security guard.”

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