Co-written and co-directed by\u00a0Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, and Alex Lee Williams, Dream Eater stars Williams and Drumm. The Horror Section teases, \u201cBlending raw, documentary-style realism with escalating tension and scares,\u00a0Dream Eater delivers an unshakable nightmare that lingers long after the final frame.\u201d<\/p>\n
The story follows Mallory (Mallory Drumm), a documentary filmmaker, who heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her boyfriend Alex (Alex Lee Williams) to document his violent parasomnia. As his condition worsens, Mallory suspects something more sinister may be at play. As the nightmares escalate, so do the scares, right through the final frame.<\/p>\n
\u201cI vividly remember every movie that truly terrified me. I remember standing on 25th street in New York City when my friend Kevin Foxe handed me a VHS of a film he had produced, which had just gotten into Sundance, called\u00a0The Blair Witch Project, and that night I had to sleep with the lights on,\u201d Roth said in a statement. \u201cI remember watching a screener of\u00a0Paranormal Activity\u00a0during the filming of\u00a0Inglorious Basterds\u00a0in my apartment in Berlin, and I was so freaked out that I had to give it to Quentin to traumatize him as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then there was\u00a0Dream Eater, watching this movie alone, in my house, and turning on the lights because it was that scary. It has been so long since I have been truly terrified by a film to such a degree that I had almost forgotten what it felt like. What these three filmmakers have pulled is not just remarkable on a low-budget DIY filmmaking level; they achieve the holy grail of horror, which is to make a movie that absolutely terrifies you. I was so blown away that I sent the film to everyone at The Horror Section, and we all agreed that this is \u2018the one.\u2019 I believe\u00a0Dream Eater\u00a0will be the scariest film of the year and truly has the potential to break out to be the next\u00a0Paranormal Activity\u00a0or\u00a0The Blair Witch Project.\u201d<\/p>\n
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