The 2016 Sundance Film Fest has unveiled its nine-film Midnight section lineup, highlighted by Rob Zombie’s 31 and Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers, starring Johnny Depp and his daughter Lily-Rose Depp.
31 / U.S.A
Director and screenwriter: Rob Zombie
Plot:
Five friends are kidnapped on the day before Halloween and are held hostage in a terrifying place named Murder World. While trapped, they must play a violent game called 31, in which the mission is to survive 12 hours against a gang of evil clowns.
Cast:
Sheri Moon Zombie, Malcolm McDowell, Richard Brake, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Meg Foster.
World Premiere
The other titles include Danny Perez’s “Antibirth,” starring Natashe Lyonne; Rich Fox’s “The Blackout Experiments”; Mickey Keating’s “Carnage Park,” starring Ashley Bell; Jim Hosking’s “The Greasy Stranger,” starring Michael St. Michaels; JT Mollner’s “Outlaws and Angels,” starring Chad Michael Murray; Richard Bates Jr.’s “Trash Fire,” starring Adrian Grenier; and Babak Anvari’s “Under the Shadow,” starring Narges Rashidi.
All the showings are world premieres Previous titles launching in the Midnight section have included “The Blair Witch Project,” “Saw,” “Super Troopers,” “Hard Candy” and “What We Do in Shadows.” The section was launched in 1991.
The festival takes place January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
