Arcadia has today released the official trailer for THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST. Directed and written by Dasha Nekrasova (Succession, Red Scare Podcast) and starring Nekrasova, Betsey Brown, Madeline Quinn and Mark Rapaport, the contemporary horror is set to arrive in Australian cinemas nationally on December 16.
Horrific real-world news story becomes giallo-inspired horror in this gleefully deranged interrogation of our conspiracy-fuelled, edge lord-filled times. Twenty-something New Yorkers Addie (Brown) and Noelle (Quinn) can’t believe their luck when they find an apartment in their price range in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Of course, there’s a catch, and it’s not the food left to rot in the cupboard or the blood-stained mattresses. As they soon learn, the flat used to belong to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – and absolutely nothing good can come from staying there, stewing in the paranoiac, malevolent doom he left behind.
The Berlinale Best First Feature Award–winning debut film of actor and ‘dirtbag leftist’ podcaster Nekrasova follows the separate rabbit holes into which the apartment draws these two women. For Noelle, it’s epic Epstein conspiracy theories and sex with her likeminded new girlfriend (Nekrasova); for Addie, it’s something more sordidly sinister.
Shooting on grimy, gleaming 16mm and cheekily nodding to everything from Eyes Wide Shut and Brian De Palma to 70s horror and pornography, Nekrasova dives into all-out madness but with tongue kept firmly in cheek throughout. And yet, underneath it all, The Scary of Sixty-First is driven by a palpable outrage and an acutely self-aware sense of the zeitgeist.
THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST’ WILL BE AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIAN CINEMAS NATIONALLY ON DECEMBER 16, 2021.