Music Box Films and Doppelgänger Releasing have announced and detailed the Blu-ray release of director/co-writer Fabrice Du Welz's Alleluia, which stars Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas, Stéphane Bissot, Edith LeMerdy, Anne-MarieLoop, Helena Noguerra, Pili Groyne and David Murgia. The film swept Fantastic Fest with four awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress, and arrives on Blu-ray on September 22nd.
Synopsis: Based on notorious real-life "Lonely HeartsKillers" who make victims of their romantic liaisons, Alleluia is a chilling anti-lovestory from acclaimed Belgian horror auteur Fabrice Du Welz. Michel (Laurent Lucas) is a born womanizer and professional hustler with a penchant for wooing lonely, vulnerable widows and divorcees. When he meets introverted single mom Gloria (Lola Dueñas) online and treats her to an electrifying first date, she's left completely smitten.
Michel tries to swindle what he can out of the one-night stand, confessing that he dates lonely women in order to steal their money. But Gloria has other plans, abandoning her daughter and vowing to aid Michel's scam while masquerading as his sister. The toxically co-dependent lovers embark on a deadly odyssey amplified by wild sex, unbridled jealousy and frenzied forays into the dark arts, leading to a shocking series of savage, murderous scenarios.
An official selection at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fort night series, Alleluia was also the Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2015 NashvilleFilm Festival's Graveyard Shift Competition. Described as "a fire-charged thriller that spins a disturbing web of madness, jealousy, sex and murder" by Shelagh Rowan-Legg of TwitchFilm and "a grotesque masterpiece" by Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle, the film is a deliciously twisted thriller—a razor-sharp, blood-soaked shocker that breathes new life into the lovesick horror genre to serve up a tale of white-hot desperation and terrifying devotion.
The genre label of Music Box Films, Doppelgänger Releasing launched in 2013 and kicked off its slate with Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal, followed by such titles as the Slamdance award-winner 100 Bloody Acres and Santiago Segura's action-comedy Torrente. Music Box Films is a leading distributor of international, American independent and documentary content in North America along with the best in international TV series and mini-series. Music Box Films is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation, which also owns and operates The Music Box Theatre, Chicago's premiere venue for independent and foreign films.
The Blu-ray release of Alleluia is presented in 1080p with French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround and English subtitles. Special features are set to include: