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IFC Midnight to Start Practicing the Rites of Spring

By Uncle Creepy
December 15th, 2011

Another indie horror flick has found itself a home as IFC Midnight announced today that the company has acquired the U.S. rights to director Padraig Reynolds’ thriller Rites of Spring.

Rites of Spring stars AJ Bowen (The Signal, The House of the Devil, Hatchet 2), his Signal co-star Anessa Ramsey, Marco St. John from the Dylan Dog adaptation Dead of Night, and Shanna Forrestall (The Last Exorcism).

For more visit the official Rites of Spring Facebook page and the official Rites of Spring website!

Synopsis
After kidnapping the nine-year-old daughter of a wealthy socialite and hiding out in an abandoned school, the kidnappers fall prey to a recurring terror in this place, a bloodlust that comes every first day of spring.

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