We still don’t know when Play Dead, the morgue-set thriller from Patrick Lussier, director of My Bloody Valentine 3D (watch it HERE) and Drive Angry (watch that one HERE), is going to be released in the US… but we do know when it’s going to be released in the UK. Screen Daily reports that Icon Film Distribution has acquired the UK distribution rights to the film and will be making it available to watch exclusively on the Icon Film Channel as of February 13th. A theatrical release will follow on March 17th. Voltage Pictures has also unveiled a trailer for Play Dead, and you can check that out in the embed above.
Play Dead stars Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night), Jerry O’Connell (Piranha 3D), Anthony Turpel (Love, Victor), Chris Butler (Designated Survivor), Chris Lee (Legacies), and Jorge-Luis Pallo (Cry Macho).
Written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, the film centers on criminology student Chloe (Madison), who fakes her own death to break into a local morgue to steal a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime. Once inside she discovers the coroner (O’Connell) is using the business as a front to sell body parts. When the coroner discovers Chloe is not dead, a game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
Play Dead, which was filmed in the morgue of an abandoned asylum, was produced by Adam Mason, Lucas Jarach, Bradley Pilz, and Madison’s The Strangers: Prey at Night director Johannes Roberts. Nicolas Chartier, Jonathan Deckter, Adam Hendricks, Greg Gilreath, and Simon Boyes serve as executive producers.
Speaking with Collider a while back, Madison said Play Dead is “very different” and “so messed up. It’s basically just Jerry O’Connell and I the whole movie, and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever done. It’s really… it’s really horrifying. Play Dead takes place in a morgue… it’s really all I can say. It’s really… yeah, my sister can’t watch it. I showed it to her a couple of weeks ago, and she had to get up and leave. She’s like ‘I’m nauseous, like I physically want to throw up’, and I was like ‘Cool! That’s good.’“
Are you looking forward to Play Dead? What did you think of the trailer? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I have enjoyed other movies Lussier has made, so I’m looking forward to checking this one out.