Screamfest Horror Film Festival Unveils 2023 Lineup With Eddie Alcazar’s ‘Divinity’ Set For Opening Night
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Screamfest Horror Film Festival has unveiled the first-wave lineup for its 23rd edition, taking place at the TCL Chinese Theatre from October 10-19, announcing that it will kick off with a screening of Eddie Alcazar’s much-discussed Sundance 2023 mind-bender Divinity.
Tickets to the fest go on sale soon. Set in an otherworldly human existence, Divinity follows scientist Sterling Pierce (Scott Bakula), who has dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, as he slowly creates the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named Divinity.
Jaxxon Pierce (Stephen Dorff), his son, then comes to control and manufacture his father’s once-benevolent dream. When two mysterious brothers (Moises Arias and Jason Genao) arrive with a plan to abduct the mogul, with the help of a seductive woman named Nikita (Karrueche Tran), they will be set on a path hurtling toward true immortality.
Also starring Bella Thorne, Michael O’Hearn and Emily Willis, the film exec produced by Steven Soderbergh will hit Regal Union Square in New York on October 13th and LA on the 20th, ahead of a wide expansion on November 3, all via indie distributors Utopia and Sumerian.
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