After holding its World Premiere at FrightFest, Black Fawn Distribution is set to release Francesco Giannini‘s excellent indie Hall, a high-tension thriller about a scary virus outbreak within a hotel, on Canadian VOD April 6, 2021. A physical release of the film will follow.
In the film, scattered victims are thrust into the fight of their lives, when a hotel hallway is ravaged by a mysterious virus.
“Hall tells the story of Naomi (Yumiko Shaku), a Japanese runaway wife, and Val (Carolina Bartczak), a helpless young mother, both struggling to escape an abusive relationship as well as a hotel hallway, which has been infected by a mysterious airborne virus killing everyone rapidly. In this isolated and despairing space, fear becomes viral as the women run for their lives. In the face of contamination, is there hope at the end of the hall?”
Encountering the special circumstances around the pandemic happening in the world right now, the release explains that Hall coincidentally captures the intrinsic sense of dread that people in society are experiencing yet in an even more visceral manner.
“It’s a strange coincidence that our film is coming out at the same time as the devastating Covid-19 crisis,” director Francesco Giannini previously explained. “I never thought that the fictional story of virus contagion we’ve created in Hall would become a reflection of reality within such a close time frame between the release of the film and the pandemic occurring right now.”
Here’s the new Canadian trailer.
