RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to The Nightshifter from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural.
The film was directed by Dennison Ramalho (ABCs of Death 2), who co-wrote the script with Cláudia Jouvin (Alone Man) and Marco de Castro (Ninjas).
In the film, Stênio (Oliveira) works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. Each night he prepares the lifeless corpses for examination, but he’s never alone, Stênio can talk to the dead…and they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stênio unleashes a curse that brings forth unimaginable danger and darkness.
Daniel de Oliveira (Jean Charles), Fabiula Nascimento (S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 1 & 2), Bianca Comparato (“3%”), and Marco Ricca (Delicate Crime) star.
The Nightshifter will be released on January 7, 2020, on DVD, from RLJE Films.
RLJE Films’ recent features include the critically acclaimed hit Mandy from writer/director Panos Cosmatos and starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, and Linus Roache; The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (review), written and directed by Robert Krzykowski and starring Academy Award nominee Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner and Ron Livingston. Upcoming releases include the 2019 Toronto Film Festival hit Color Out of Space, based on the classic H.P. Lovecraft story, starring Nicolas Cage and Joely Richardson and written and directed by Richard Stanley; and the festival favorite VFW from director Joe Begos and starring Stephen Lange, William Sadler, Martin Kove, and Fred Williamson.
