The corporate Puppet Combo has been doing their finest to horrify video players for years, making retro-style video games with “a gritty VHS feel and low poly stylization.” As they are saying, “fans of Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Texas Chainsaw Massacre will warm right up to their games… or rather, their blood will run
cold.” Again in 2018, they introduced the world a slasher online game known as Night time Shift, which has gamers tending to a desolate comfort retailer whereas a masked killer lurks someplace within the shadows. Now, Puppet Combo is giving Night time Shift the movie adaptation remedy – they usually’ve shot the film on 16mm movie, aiming to “stay true to Puppet Combo’s signature VHS-style aesthetic and obsessive attention to detail for a true ’80s slasher style experience.” A trailer for the film, which is about to embark on a theatrical tour, might be seen above.
Written and directed by Puppet Combo creator Ben Cocuzza, the Night time Shift film follows a younger lady named Debra as she works the in a single day shift at a minimal wage gasoline station job. What begins as routine shelf-stocking and floor-sweeping shortly spirals right into a heart-pounding descent into paranoia, dread, and blood-soaked insanity.
Adrianne Knapp performs Debra and is joined within the solid by Justin West (Ghost Hunters), Phu Mau, and Donald Morgan, with cameo appearances from YouTube legends Justin Whang and John Wolfe.
A press launch lets us know to “expect grainy textures, the creeping fear of being watched, and all the hallmarks of the Puppet Combo universe.” I haven’t performed the online game, however this all appears very cool to me. I additionally love that an early response to the film (from Reality or Dare? director Tim Ritter) has described it as “Clerks meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
Listed below are the stops on the theatrical tour:
10/02 – LA – VIDÉOTHÈQUE – SOLD OUT
10/11 – Detroit – Mitch’s Prints
10/14 – LA – WHAMMY! – SOLD OUT
10/15 – Chicago – SOLD OUT
10/16 – LA – VIDÉOTHÈQUE – SOLD OUT
10/16 – Austin – We Luv Video – SOLD OUT
10/16 – Raleigh – Cannonball Music Corridor
10/17 – NYC – Movie Noir – SOLD OUT
10/18 – NYC – Movie Noir – SOLD OUT
10/18 – El Paso
10/19 – Philly – PhilaMOCA
10/22 – Boston – Kendall Sq.
10/22 – Atlanta – Midtown Artwork Theater
10/22 – Chicago – The Glen
10/23 – South Florida – The Gateway
10/24 – Cleveland – Cedar Lee Theater
10/24 – Dallas – Spacy – SOLD OUT
10/25 – San Antonio – Slab – SOLD OUT
10/28 – Toronto – Eyesore Cinema
10/29 – UK – Straight to Video – SOLD OUT
10/29 – Denver – The Mayan
10/29 – Seattle – Central Cinema
10/30 – UK – Straight to Video – SOLD OUT
10/30 – Portland – Cinema 21
10/31 – Dothan AL – The Opera Home
What did you consider the Night time Shift trailer? Will you be catching a screening of this film throughout its theatrical tour? Tell us by leaving a remark beneath.
