Middle Eastern Horror Film Curse of Mesopotamia Coming to VOD on August 15th
David Gelmini
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Billed as the “first English-language genre film out of the Middle East,” Curse of Mesopotamia from writer/director Lauand Omar actually had to switch filming locations from Iraq to Jordan after the start of production due to the rise of ISIS. That didn’t deter them from finishing the film, however, and it’s being released on VOD later this month.
From the Press Release:
Curse of Mesopotamia, the first English-language genre film out of the Middle East, which features a diverse international cast including Karim Saidi, Melissa Mars, Terrell Carter, Kaoutar Boudarraja, Mauricio Rousselon, Hania Amar, Ahmad Massad, Stacy Thunes, Ana Carla Sinclair, and Alan Monzalvo, will be available On Demand in the U.S. and Canada via iTunes and Amazon this August 15th.
The advance of ISIS halted production in the Kurdistan Region back in August, 2014, but with strong perseverance the indie film completed principal photography in April, 2015, in Jordan. The pre-release in Iraqi cinemas throughout November, 2015, was a success, scoring the #1 spot at the Box Office amongst the new releases and 2nd overall, just behind Spectre, the new James Bond film.
Synopsis:
Five strangers are brought together with only one thing in common: nightly visits by a demon in a nightmare so disturbing it has affected their everyday lives. When their common psychiatrist suggests group therapy in a location similar to the place they keep seeing in their daily nightmare, US Army soldier and divorced father John is not keen to the idea. But when he realizes that his little daughter has started to suffer from the same night terrors, he joins the trip to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan with the psychiatrist and his other patients: painter Veronique, socialite and ex-porn star Amira, bisexual playboy Tony, and radical Islamist Ahmed.
Once at the old castle, dream and reality start to become one. John soon realizes that their arrival was not a coincidence. They are all reincarnations of key figures that played a role in 600 B.C. during the revolution that made Kawa a hero and that is still celebrated to this day as the holiday Newroz. The demon has lured them back to change history and to stop Kawa. The brutal fight for survival starts… again.
For more info visit the film’s official Facebook page.
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