‘Swipe’ Slasher Unveils Chilling First Look at Sadistic, Silent Killer!
MPX shares the first image from its indie horror Swipe, directed by Sean Whalen and featuring a murderous family of sadistic mute women that the director teases will be “right up there with Michael Myers and Ghost Face.”
Variety reports that MPX (Motion Picture Exchange) has acquired world sales rights to U.S. indie horror film and will be presenting the female-driven chiller to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Marché du Film.
Swipe centers on a young woman named Rina trying to save her brother Mike from a sadistic, mute family of female captors after a dating app hook-up leads to his abduction.
Rina and Mike’s friends’ search draws them to the isolated Doyle property that is “the home of an elderly matriarch, Abigail, and her three mute daughters; Marla, Willa and Elsa, who live by their own brutal code,” the synopsis says. “Shaped by years of abuse and driven by vengeance, they don’t just hunt men…they punish them. Rina must outsmart this sadistic family, who has taken their suffering and turned it into their own brand of playful revenge.”
The Swipe cast comprises:
• Hana Mae Lee (Pitch Perfect)
• Elaine Hendrix (The Parent Trap)
• Ray Santiago (Meet the Fockers)
• Dominique Columbus (Road House)
• Alex Rich (The Patient)
• Phillip Garcia (Clean Slate)
• Rebekah Kennedy (Traumatika)
• Bryan Fitzgerald (American Rust)
• Sean Whalen
“I am so excited to give the world four sadistic women that are right up there with Michael Myers and Ghost Face,” hopes Whalen. “I fear that this is lacking in the horror space and I’m so glad to be able to tip the scales a little and give four iconic women characters that are just as terrifying as the murderous screen villains of all time.”
The film is produced by Whalen and partner Sheena Whalen for MSYL Productions, and Rebekah Kennedy and Brandon Davis for Slight Entertainment. Chris Sergi (A Wounded Fawn) also produces.
The Swipe screenplay is by Mark Mardini.
Swipe is the second feature by actor-director Whalen, whose acting credits include Twister. Whalen previously directed the well-received horror film Crust, about a lonely laundromat owner who keeps leftover socks from customers, which is playing on major streaming platforms in the U.S. and currently has a 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.