Last August, Arrow Video FrightFest premiered Kevin Kopacka‘s nostalgic 70s-inspired Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, described by the festival as: “Coming on Gothic retro like an undiscovered Mario Bava S&M shocker before turning into a José Ramón Larraz acid trip.”
Now, ahead of the EFM in Berlin, MPI Media Group has picked up the film and added it to its international film slate, reports ScreenDaily.
In the film, “Having just inherited a run-down castle, a dispirited woman and her ill-tempered husband decide to spend the night, as time and reality slowly start to shift around them.”
It stars Jeff Wilbusch, Anna Platen, Frederik von Lüttichau, and Luisa Taraz.
“Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes is my love letter to gothic horror films of the 60s and 70s, drawing inspiration from classics such as Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body or Jean Rollin’s The Iron Rose with a dash of obscure humor in the vein of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films such as Satan’s Brew and Chinese Roulette,” explained director Kevin Kopacka.
“Kopacka directs a sumptuous visual feast, channeling the likes of Mario Bava and capturing a psychedelic, ‘70s Italian occult aesthetic,” wrote Meagan Navarro in her review. “What begins as a bizarre, disjointed movie that favors style over coherent story quickly gives way to something far more unexpected and more extensive in scope. In other words, it’s a gorgeous, ethereal movie full of surprising twists that deftly shift genres.”
FrightFest says to expect an eclectic mix of psychedelic mayhem and dreamlike atmosphere with a dash of orgies and violence. Wowsers.
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