Magnet Places Johannes Roberts’ Horror Flick in ‘Storage’

Date:

In minor AFM acquisition announcement, Magnet Releasing has picked up North American rights to what appears to be early calender filler (Dec.6th on VOD early theatrical release in January) in horror-meister Brit helmer Johannes Roberts’ Storage 24 – a pic starring Noel Clarke and Antonia Campbell-Hughes (from the Cannes preemed The Other Side of Sleep).

Gist: Set in a chaotic London – a military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), accompanied by best friends Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock) are at Storage 24 dividing up their possessions after a recent break-up. Suddenly, the power goes off…

Worth Noting: While The Guardian four-star review that calls the flick “unexpectedly entertaining,” majority of critics downgrade the pic and with lack of any significant festival play this doesn’t appear to be a break-out flick a la Meadows or Wheatley.

Do We Care?: Excluding this title, the recent series of premium film festival pick-ups from Venice and TIFF (Here Comes the Devil, Kiss of the Damned, The ABCs of Death) means we can expect a lean and mean year from the Magnet label.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

Share post:

NEWSLETTER SIGNUP

Popular