Based on his short film of the same name, director Jeremiah Kipp's
Slapface appears to be a movie in the tradition of
Spirit of the Beehive and Pan's Labyrinth, with a troubled young boy befriending a monster he encounters in the
woods.
The film stars
August Maturo, Mike Manning, Dan Hedaya, Mirabelle Lee, Lukas Hassel,
Libe Barer, Bianca D’Ambrosio
and Chiara D’Ambrosio.
Slapface is on Shudder from February 3rd.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
After the death of his mother, Lucas, a loner who lives in a rundown home with his brother Tom, regularly seeks solace in the nearby woods. With his only “friends” being a group of female bullies, he keeps to himself most of the time. But, after a strange encounter with an inhuman monster, Lucas begins to withdraw from others. When the two reach a tentative trust, a bizarre friendship is born, and Lucas is swept up in a series of primal adventures.
