The film that CraveOnline called “clever, unexpected, and elevated by an engaging leading lady performance from Abigail Breslin” is finally available on DVD and Blu-ray today, February 11, 2014. Now you get to see it for yourselves and unravel its mysteries. Good. It’s about time. It’s Vincenzo Natali’s Haunter by the way.
We’re happy to premiere this CraveOnline Exclusive preview of the Haunter special features, highlighting the performance of Stephen McHattie (The Watchmen) as “The Pale Man” who tormets Abigail Breslin in a house that she can never live, over the course of a day that repeats over and over again.
From the Press Release:
Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, August: Osage County, Zombieland) stars in director Vincenzo Natali’s (Splice, Cube, ABCs of Death 2) unique take on the traditional haunted house story. In 1986, 15-year-old Lisa (Breslin) and her family died in their home under sinister circumstances. Unable to move on, their spirits have continued to roam the house. And for nearly 30 years, they have had to live the same miserable day over and over, never thinking they’re anything but alive.
But now, Lisa has started noticing things that make her believe that she and her uncomprehending family are in fact ghosts. On top of that, she realizes that she must reach out from beyond the grave to help her living counterpart Olivia and her family avoid the same gruesome fate that Lisa and her loved ones suffered all those years ago.
Uniquely unsettling and shocking, HAUNTER is a one-of-a-kind reverse ghost story that chills long after the final frame. Veteran actor Stephen McHattie co-stars as the sinister Pale Man, along with Eleanor Zichy (TV’s “Skins”), Peter Outerbridge (Silent Hill: Revelation), Michelle Nolden (RED) and David Hewlett (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).
Annlee Ellingson of the Los Angeles Times called the IFC Films theatrical release “a freaky visual experience.” Henry Stewart of The L Magazine hailed it as “inventively structured and very Elm Street-esque.” The Hollywood Reporter’s John DeFore called it “a love letter to ghost stories.”
HAUNTER, sure to thrill fans of such films as The Lovely Bones, The Others and Insidious, was an Official Selection at the 2013 SXSW festival.
