Blood Shine

DATE: Monday, August 11
TIME: 7:00PM
VENUE: Cinema Paradiso Hollywood

DIRECTORS EMILY BENNETT & JUSTIN BROOKS AND PRODUCER CAMERON BURNS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE TO INTRODUCE THE FILM AND PARTICIPATE IN A Q&A. ACCOMPANYING THE WORLD PREMIERE OF BLOOD SHINE IS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF EMILY BENNETT’S SHORT FILM AFFIRMATION, WHICH WILL SCREEN AS A PRELUDE TO THE FEATURE.

In this deliriously twisted folk horror tale from SCARE PACKAGE producers & Popcorn Frights alums Aaron B. Koontz & Cameron Burns, an isolated pocket of upstate New York becomes ground zero for divine madness. Clara (Emily Bennett, SHELBY OAKS), a fanatical worshiper of the light, performs sacred rituals in secret—until her warped faith collides with Brighton West (David Call, INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR), a horror screenwriter seeking solitude to finish his script. Their fateful meeting sparks a descent into a hallucinatory nightmare of devotion, flesh, and transformation. As Clara’s sadistic rites escalate, Brighton finds himself trapped in a psychedelic crucible of torment and transcendence—where salvation comes at the price of becoming something more—or less—than human.