Trailer Premiere: ‘Daylight’, A Violent Psychological Thriller
by Marc Patterson
We just had a rather interesting trailer dropped in our lap from Cinema Purgatorio. The film is called Daylight and is from writer/director David Barker, who seems to be a newcomer to the feature filmmaking stage, even though IMDB credits his experience back to 1999. The trailer is fairly trippy, but seems to play in a more Jim Jarmusch kind of way rather than David Lynch. Daylight will premiere in New York next month – July 15th according to the
Synopsis (via the Apple Trailers page): A harrowing psychological thriller from a widely acclaimed filmmaker, Daylight pits a couple lost in America against a conniving gang of kidnappers, in David Barker’s rigorous and personal re-imagining of the genre film. Despite its familiar genre elements, Daylight is different – a powerful, shocking piece of vigorous cinema, which fuses eroticism and tenderness with the harrowing weight of pregnancy and kidnapping. On their way to a wedding, Danny and Irene pick up a hitchhiker – throwing the film in the direction of the conventional rural kidnapper thriller. But with the skill of director David Barker and his miraculous cast and crew, Daylight emerges as much, much more than just another exploitation picture. Kidnappers Renny, Leo, and Murphy enact a bizarre and terrifying ritual of politeness, endowing such scenes as the passing of a bread knife at a kitchen table with a threat of ferocious violence – but also trust. Alexandra Meierhans – pregnant as the character Irene, and pregnant in real life – delivers an astonishing performance as the female lead. Simultaneously vulnerable and dangerous, a captive and a seductress, she somehow struggles to survive and endure, bringing the audience along with her through to the shattering conclusion.
The film stars: Alexandra Meierhans, Ivan Martin, Michael Godere, and Aidan Redmond
