October 20, 2005
Those of you who were reading this journal way back in the halcyon days of the Deadroom festival circuit may remember that one of the coolest things that happened while we were in Philadelphia was that Ti West, director of the wonderful horror picture The Roost, came out to our first screening. We had met him at SXSW, where both of our films premiered. His sound designer Graham showed up for the second show, and we all had a great time hanging out and having lots to drink (that's all we did in Philadelphia, actually).
Since then, I knew the film had a pretty successful festival run (it was at Sitges a few weeks back) and that a deal was being worked out with Showtime. And then last week I was at the Angelika for some press screening and I saw a brand new poster for The Roost with a release date: October 21st. I went home and, a few e-mails later, snagged a quick interview with Ti. You can read it here.
If you're luck enough to be in one of the six major markets in which The Roost is opening, don't miss it. It's seriously the only good genre film opening this Halloween (except for two out of the three segments in Three...Extremes).
Posted by David Lowery at October 20, 2005 12:34 AM
Comments
i really want to see this. i'm assuming its showing in NYC?
Posted by: brad at October 20, 2005 06:31 PM
Yeah, at the Village East.
Posted by: Ghostboy at October 21, 2005 01:38 AM