Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, Speed Racer), Stephen Dorff (Blade, Leatherface), and Gigi Zumbado (Bridge & Tunnel, Fantasy Island) star in The Price We Pay, a new action thriller from director Ryuhei Kitamura. They’re joined in the cast by Erika Ervin (American Horror Story, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a 6’8″ actress / model / fitness trainer who also goes by the professional name Amazon Eve.
The Price We Pay recently wrapped production in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and VMI Worldwide will be presenting the project to potential distributors at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Hirsch and Dorff play
two criminals who attempt to rob a local pawn shop. But the robbery goes askew, leaving them both injured and with a female hostage. On the run, they take refuge at a remote farmhouse to allow the heat to die down, but what they discover is far more menacing.
The synopsis caught our attention here at Arrow in the Head because it seems to suggest that The Price We Pay could cross over into horror territory at some point in the story. Kitamura teases that possibility further by saying it’s
a film of two hands. On the one hand it is a gripping action/thriller, but on the other hand it is an intense, terrifying experience immediately grabbing the audience and sending them on a wild ride.”
Andre Relis of VMI Worldwide, Todd Lundbohm of 828 Media Capital, Robert Dean of Buffalo 8, and Bill Kellman produced the film. Lundbohm said they “can’t wait to scare I mean share this film with audiences everywhere.”
Kitamura first caught my attention with the 2000 zombie movie Versus. Since then his directorial credits have included Godzilla: Final Wars, The Midnight Meat Train, No One Lives, Downrange, and a segment of the anthology Nightmare Cinema. I look forward to seeing how The Price We Pay turns out.