Along with being a home video release company, Shout! Factory has begun to put film into theaters. They’ve recently done it with the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls films. Now their Scream Factory arm is reaching out to horror fans that wants to get frightened at a movie theater. Bite played well at various festivals so it’s getting a longer theatrical fear factor when it gets released theatrically on May 6. Just in time for mosquito bite season is a tale of what can go wrong on a vacation. Here’s the press release from Scream Factory:
VISCERAL BODY-HORROR FEATURE
OPENS IN SELECT U.S. THEATERS MAY 6TH, 2016
When she returns from her tropical bachelorette party getaway, a young woman begins to succumb to an insect bite in the palpably disturbing film Bite. Witness the skin-crawling chronicle of one woman’s truly terrifying descent into madness when the visceral body-horror feature Bite debuts in select U.S. theaters May 6th, 2016. Directed by Chad Archibald (The Drownsman), Bite had a sensational premiere at the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where it won an Audience Award, and has recently played at numerous top international genre film festivals.
While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she’s able to, she starts exhibiting insect like traits. Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs, but feeds on the flesh of others. As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.
Starring Elma Begovic, Annette Wozniak, Denise Yuen, Jordan Gray, Lawrene Denkers, Barry Birnberg, Daniel Klimitz, Tianna Nori, and Caroline Palmer. Bite is directed by Chad Archibald and produced by Black Fawn Films.
Running Time: 88 Minutes
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Social Media Hashtag: #BiteMovie
