Survival Skills: Dark comedy coming to VOD in December from Cranked Up Films

Earlier this year, we unveiled the trailer for writer/director Quinn Armstrong's dark comedy SURVIVAL SKILLS, and our own Mike Sprague gave the film a 7/10 review. If you've been wondering when you'll have your chance to watch SURVIVAL SKILLS, we have some very good news to share today: Good Deed Entertainment's genre label Cranked Up Films has announced that they will be giving the film an On Demand and Digital release on December 4th, with a limited theatrical release expected to happen sometime before that date.

Stacy Keach, Vayu O'Donnell, Spencer Garrett, Erica Kreutz, Tyra Colar, and Emily Chisholm star in SURVIVAL SKILLS, which is presented as if it were 

a biting police training video from the 1980s expertly narrated (Keach) like so many of the educational videos we remember fondly from a most radical decade. Lost for years and only now recovered, we meet Jim (O’Donnell), the perfect policeman in a perfect relationship in a perfect community, who gets in over his head when he tries to resolve a domestic violence case. Before long, the ugly underbelly of the ‘Good Guys in Blue’ begins to expose itself and Jim decides to take matters into his own hands.

Armstrong said that the film 

stems from my years of work in domestic violence, filtered through a darkly comic lens and a full-throated attack on modern American policing. With incredible work from the legendary Stacy Keach and Broadway vet Vayu O'Donnell, Survival Skills may make you laugh, it may make you cry, but I guarantee it will surprise you."

SURVIVAL SKILLS was produced by Michael Orion Downing and Colin West.

On the way to its release, the film has screened at Fantasia, Cinequest, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Horrible Imaginings, Indie Street Film Festival, Raindance, Philadelphia Film Festival, and other festivals. Awards it has won at these festivals include Best Lead Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Production Design, and a Special Jury Narrative Prize.