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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #27. Michael Tully’s Don’t Leave Home

Published on January 31, 2018

Don’t Leave Home

After vintage 80’s Ping Pong Summer, Michael Tully moves towards the occult and continues his one film per every three years output with his cautionary titled fifth feature Don’t Leave Home.

This is about an American artist’s obsession with a disturbing urban legend that leads her to an investigation of the story’s origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland. Production took place last spring with Anna Margaret Hollyman toplining. With Tully’s idiosyncratic style and versatility with film language, we’re expecting the unexpected.

Release Date/Prediction: After dropping his last pair at Sundance, we’re thinking that Locarno might be a possibility.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).