|
||
Pro Tools
FILMFESTIVALS | 24/7 world wide coverageWelcome ! Enjoy the best of both worlds: Film & Festival News, exploring the best of the film festivals community. Launched in 1995, relentlessly connecting films to festivals, documenting and promoting festivals worldwide. We are currently working actively to upgrade this platform, sorry for the inconvenience. For collaboration, editorial contributions, or publicity, please send us an email here. User login |
IsabelleThe supernatural thriller Isabelle by writer Donald Martin, with producer Sid Ganis (former Chairman Columbia Pictures) and director Rob Heydon is entering the festival circuit with a world premiere at Busan.
In the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, Isabelle is about an all-American couple whose dream of starting a family is shattered after they move into the perfect New Englandneighborhood.
Once settled, they soon descend into the depths of terror as they struggle to survive a genuine threat from a dark presence that appears to want to end their very lives.
"Rosemary's Baby meets your worst nightmare" Bruno Chatelin filmfestivals.com Best for Fest
Adam Brody (“StartUp”, CHiPs) and Amanda Crew (“Silicon Valley”, The Age of Adaline) star in the film, along with Sheila McCarthy (Milton’s Secret, “Orphan Black”) and Zoe Belkin (Carrie, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”). Isabelle also features Krista Bridges (“19-2”, “Heroes Reborn”), Booth Savage (“Slasher”, “Mr. D”), Alison Brooks (Downsizing, “Taken”), and Dayo Ade (“Beauty & The Beast”, “Rookie Blue”).
Isabelle is directed by Rob Heydon (director of the award-winning film Ecstacy), from a screenplay by Donald Martin (Milton’s Secret). Heydon (The Journey Home) also produces the film, with Sid Ganis (Akeelah and the Bee, Big Daddy), Joni Sighvatsson (Z for
Zachariah), Rey Cuerdo (Dim Sum Funeral) and Donald Martin (Milton’s Secret) as Executive Producers. Cinematographer Pasha Patriki (Anonymous), production designer Diana Abbatangelo (He Never Died), costume designer Ruth Secord (Wet Bum), and editor Diane Brunjes (Suicide Squad) complete the creative team.
Isabelle is a production of The Wanting Film Inc., in association with Out of the Blue Entertainment and Kidlat Entertainment Inc. Ignition Media Finance is providing the bridge loan. Prescience Film Finance is providing the mezzanine financing and production
financing. Private Equity is coming from Lazarus Effects and Rob Heydon Productions in Canada.
Isabelle: the synopsisISABELLE Larissa and Matt Kane are the perfect young couple, moving into the perfect home, in the perfect neighborhood in upstate New York. Larissa is pregnant. It’s a boy. His name is going to be Colton. Unexpectedly, Larissa goes into labor early. There are complications. It’s touch and go. She flat-lines. The doctors work feverishly at trying to revive her. She spends a full minute without any signs of life but then she comes back. The baby is stillborn. The haunting image of her baby in the morgue catapults her onto an emotional roller coaster, one that threatens her sanity, her marriage, and her life. Back home from the hospital, Larissa begins to “see” her dead baby. And then sees a young woman from the house next door, sitting at an upstairs window, staring at her, at the strangest times, making Larissa feel most uncomfortable. When she tries to point out this young woman to Matt, he doesn’t see anyone. Is Larissa losing her mind? Or is she being haunted by a spirit? Matt thinks it’s the former.
And, yet, as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that it’s the latter. It’s the spirit of Isabelle: a young woman born with spina bifida, she spent her life mute and paralyzed, in a wheelchair, enduring years of a horrific Satanic abuse at the hands of her father who claimed he “gave her to Satan”. On her 24th birthday, the day before Larissa and Matt moved into their home, her guilt-ridden mother put a plastic bag over Isabelle’s head and did what she saw as act of mercy, putting her daughter out of her misery. But what she had inadvertently unleashed was a raging spirit, one who wants nothing less than to take over Larissa’s life and make it her own. Isabelle can do this because Larissa, who had been dead for a full minute in the hospital, has passed through the portal between life and death, and is now vulnerable – and, since losing her baby, Larissa has lost her will to live. This is a story of possession that, at first, is believed by Matt and others to be a tale of Larissa losing her mind, but in the end Matt confronts the horrifying truth. When this raging ghost finally succeeds in possessing his wife, Matt must summon every ounce of strength and do what feels like the impossible – to bring Larissa back to the brink of death, to pass through the portal again, so that he can save her from this spirit that has possessed her. At the end, we are left to wonder if any of this story actually took place, or if it’s been all just an ominous prophecy of what is to come for Larissa and Matt. 28.08.2018 | Isabelle's blog Cat. : FILM
|
LinksThe Bulletin Board > The Bulletin Board Blog Following News Interview with EFM (Berlin) Director
Interview with IFTA Chairman (AFM)
Interview with Cannes Marche du Film Director
Filmfestivals.com dailies live coverage from > Live from India
Useful links for the indies: > Big files transfer
+ SUBSCRIBE to the weekly Newsletter DealsUser imagesAbout IsabelleThe EditorUser contributionsUser links |