‘Azrael’ Thriller Starring Samara Weaving Units Launch Date With IFC Movies

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Movies and Shudder have acquired North American rights to Azrael, a brand new motion horror thriller from director E.L. Katz (Low-cost Thrills), which stars Samara Weaving (Prepared or Not) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Femme). Hailing from Republic Photos, the movie will launch solely in theaters through IFC on September 27, making its debut on AMC Networks’ style streamer later within the yr.

Written by Simon Barrett (You’re Subsequent), Azrael takes place in a world wherein nobody speaks, watching as a a mysterious, religious neighborhood hunts down a younger lady named Azrael (Weaving) who has escaped their imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, she is to be sacrificed to pacify an evil which resides deep inside the surrounding wilderness — however Azrael will cease at nothing to make sure her personal freedom and survival.

Billed as a gritty, relentless parable of sacrifice and salvation, the movie world premiered at SXSW 2024 and is about to make its Canadian premiere on the Fantasia Movie Pageant in August.

Azrael is produced by Dan Kagan (Longlegs, Important Different), Dave Caplan (Longlegs, Babylon) and Barrett. C2 Movement Image Group absolutely financed the movie, for which North 5 Six will deal with ongoing worldwide gross sales.

“AZRAEL is a chilling, coronary heart pounding expertise that may seize at your senses begin to end,” mentioned Shudder’s SVP of Acquisitions and Manufacturing, Emily Gotto. “We’re thrilled to work with these daring and revolutionary filmmakers to deliver E.L. Katz’s distinct imaginative and prescient to theaters, and to Shudder, later this yr.”

Added Katz, “I couldn’t be extra thrilled to have AZRAEL launched by our good associates at Shudder/IFC. Their assist of untamed, uncompromising style movies is unparalleled. We’re so excited to ask all horror followers alongside for this mysterious, ugly, hellish, Samara Weaving ass kicking marathon.”

Greatest identified for guiding the darkly comedic thriller Low-cost Thrills, starring Pat Healy, which went on to distribution by way of Drafthouse Movies and Snoot Leisure following its premiere at SXSW, Katz’s follow-up was the Netflix thriller Small Crimes starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Beforehand, he’s additionally directed on reveals like Scream: The TV Sequence, Swamp Factor, Channel Zero and The Haunting of Bly Manor, additionally serving as co-EP on the latter two.

Gotto negotiated the deal for Katz’s newest function for IFC Movies and Shudder, with Laura Sher negotiating on behalf of Republic Photos.