Halloween is coming to an end but Screambox is horror 365. We just relaunched the service with the addition of the excellent zombie-comedy Brain Freeze and the dramatic horror Not Alone, in which a family’s dream home becomes a nightmare.
Just in time for the holiday weekend, Screambox is now home to a pandemic-fueled new series from celebrated filmmaker Christian Alvart, the director behind horror favs Antibodies and Pandorum, not to mention Case 39 and Netflix’s “Dogs of Berlin”.
All eight episodes of the coming-of-age, pandemic thriller “The Island” (“Sløborn”) are now streaming on Screambox.
“Blurring the line between pandemic fantasy and reality, the series centers around a remote island in the North Sea that falls victim to a merciless and mysterious virus. As authorities rush to contain the disease, a fever of madness sweeps across the island.”
“‘The Island’ [is] a coming-of-age-drama and post-apocalyptic disaster thriller merge into a modern epic,” explains ZDF Enterprises’ Robert Franke, “In a radical, uncompromising manner, the series raises the question of what happens to us modern people when the thin varnish of our civilization collapses. It has all the hallmarks of a top-quality thriller.”
Adolfo J. Kolmerer also directs.
