"Failure!"
Alief has announced that the Ted Raimi led psychological thriller, "Failure!", will have its World Premiere at FrightFest on August 28th. Alief picked up worldwide rights at the Cannes Film Festival in May after "Failure!" made its debut at the Fantastic Pavillion. The film follows James ("Raimi - The Quarry") who has a big debt with the bank and is given one hour to choose between financial ruin or murder in order to protect his family. As the hour progresses, he finds his home and phone invaded by multiple characters pulling him in different directions, gradually adding to his distress and his unravelling.
As well as Raimi, the film also stars Merrick McCartha ("Senior Year"), Melissa Diaz ("Ruthless"), John Paul Medrano ("Seven Days") and Daniel Kuhlman ("Voodoo MacBeth") and Noel Douglas Orput. Director Alex Kahuam Raimi produced "Failure!" along with Marco De Molina, Kayli Fortun and Jose D. Rodriguez via Kahuam’s Promotora NAE and De Molina’s Spacebrain Entertainment.
Raimi says, “Insanely excited to show British audiences this film — I really am — as I’m mostly known to my fans as ‘the horror guy’. I’m proud of that, but this movie is going to show a different side of me that the fans will really dig. Also, it’s at FrightFest, the biggest horror and thriller event in the UK — my kind of moviegoers!"
Paul McEvoy of FrightFest says, “Ted Raimi is sensational in the central role giving a tour de force performance. A dark thriller with an underlying sadness and desperation, 'Failure!' perfectly reflects the mood of our contemporary times.”
Brett Walker, President at Alief, says “We are proud to have Alex Kahuam’s kinetic thriller World Premiere, 'Failure!' in London. FrightFest and its’ genre audiences are a perfect springboard to launch this intense and wonderfully shot film.”
Miguel Angel Govea, Head of Sales & Distribution at Alief, says “Filming a one-take is so ambitious that only a handful of directors have ever dared make their movie in one continuous, unbroken shot. And the latest attempt by Alex Kahuam ‘Failure!’ is everything but… And boy did he nail it. Joining the ranks of Béla Tarr, Mike Figgis, Sam Mendes and Alejandro González Iñárritu among the successful.”
