The debut feature of Argentine filmmaker Pedro Cristiani is titled Deus Irae, and Deadline has shared a bloody first-look image from the upcoming horror movie today (seen above).
XYZ Films just recently acquired the North American sales rights to Deus Irae, while Deadline reports this morning that Reel Suspects has taken world sales rights on the movie.
Deus Irea follows “Father Javier, a priest living a fractured existence. On one side, he assists families who claim to have witnessed miracles, and on the other he belongs to a trio of excommunicated priests who hunt the possessed down to exorcize them under their own terms: with Bibles, fire and shotguns.”
“But when the only way to crush Evil is by becoming something even worse, he must question how much of his own humanity — or sanity — he’s willing to sacrifice in order to defeat the Devil.”
The film is based on the same-titled short film.
“The goal of Deus Irae was to develop a completely independent film that pushed the visual and storytelling boundaries like no genre feature dared to do,” Cristiani says. “But in the six years that took to bring it to completion, it became so much more: a volatile, highly stylized, fearless film.”
“We first discovered the immensely talented Pedro Cristiani when the short film version of Deus Irae was traveling the global festival circuit and it has been an absolute thrill to work with him on bringing his vision for the full feature to the world,” said XYZ Films’ Todd Brown. “Pedro is an immense talent and Deus Irae is a totally unique work.”
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