Weirdsville
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| Directed by | Allan Moyle |
| Produced by | Michael Baker Hartley Gorenstein Morris Ruskin Jennifer L. Stivala Nicholas D. Tabarrok Perry Zimel |
| Written by | Willem Wennekers |
| Starring |
Scott Speedman Wes Bentley Taryn Manning |
| Music by | John Rowley |
| Cinematography | Adam Swica |
| Edited by | Michael Doherty Brigitte Rabazo |
| Distributed by |
Magnolia Pictures THINKFilm Equinoxe Films Shoreline Entertainment |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9,700 |
Weirdsville is a black comedy directed by Allan Moyle and written by Willem Wennekers. The film premiered January 18, 2007 at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival. The film has also been shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Raindance Film Festival, among many. The film opened in limited release in the United States on October 5, 2007 in 1 theater in Austin, Texas, and expanded to 2 more theaters (in Atlanta and Portland) two weeks later. The film was released on November 16, 2007 in the United Kingdom.
The film takes place in Northern Ontario and was filmed in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and Brantford Ontario, Canada.
Nothing much happens in the lives of 20-something pals Dexter and Royce except for getting high and hanging out with Royce’s girlfriend, Matilda ('Mattie'). This all changes one evening in Northern Ontario town Weedsville when Mattie overdoses on a stash of Dexter and Royce’s drugs — drugs fronted by local drug kingpin and tough-guy Omar to sell in order to cover their previous drug debt. Thinking her dead and knowing that calling the cops would only land them in jail the pair decide to bury her in the boiler room of the closed drive-in theater where Royce used to work. The two set off to deal with Mattie’s dead body.
While the boys begin to dig a grave downstairs, a Satanic cult led by another former employee and (former classmate of Dexter and Royce) Abel enters the supposedly abandoned drive-in and begins a ritual involving pentagrams and human bloodletting in the upstairs concession stand. Their plan is to resurrect Jason Taylor (hippie turned reluctant but rich Internet entrepreneur and Abel’s unwitting hero) out of his coma. However, when Dexter walks in mid-sacrifice, everything goes awry.
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