Dark Star Pictures has acquired Achoura, the latest genre film from Talal Selhami that’s being described as IT meets Babadook.
Also called “Children’s Night”, Achoura is a religious celebration. In Morocco, children splash water on each other and gather around a bonfire.
In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a horrible legend.
Patrick Bromley reviewed the film out of the Cinepocalypse premiere, calling Achoura “a bleak, somber meditation on the death of innocence.”
Younes Bouab, Sofiia Manousha, Ivan Gonzalez, Moussa Maaskri, and Omar Lofti star in Achoura, which the distrib has skedded for a DVD and Digital bow December 14.