Azrael (2024)
Director: E.L. Katz Run Time: 85 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Katariina Unt, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Rea Lest, Samara Weaving, Vic Carmen Sonne
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere, 2024 SXSW Film Festival.
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman, Azrael, who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil that resides deep within the surrounding wilderness – yet she will stop at nothing to ensure her own survival. In what follows, Azrael makes a savage bid for freedom as her escape accelerates towards a vicious, revenge-fueled showdown.
“a comforting reminder that even after seven million years, humans are still finding new ways to put their own spin on our first primordial fears.”
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire
About the filmmaker:
E.L. Katz is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is well known for his directorial debut Cheap Thrills (2013), which won awards at various film festivals including SXSW, Fantasia Film Festival, and Boston Underground Film Festival. In 2017, he directed his second feature, Small Crimes, for Netflix. Katz also has a handful of impressive television directing credits, including episodes of Channel Zero, Scream: The TV Series, Swamp Thing, and The Haunting of Bly Manor. Azrael (2024), Katz’s third feature film, premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival and features no spoken dialogue.
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