The CineVegas Film Festival is turning it up to 11 this summer at the Palms Casino Resort and Brenden Theatres in Las Vegas. We celebrate the diversity of our filmmakers and the content they explore and are excited to provide a venue for audiences to experience the voices of these filmmakers.
This year they are world premiering THE REVENANT from director Kerry Prior. The film is a satirical treatise on friendship, regret, and the nature of evil under the guise of a rootin’-tootin’ vampire buddy movie. The cast includes Chris Wylde, David Anders, Louise Griffiths and Jacy King.
Here is a brief synopsis of the the film:
The Revenant is a story about an ancient pestilence recurring to infect modern society.
Officer First Class Bart Gregory is killed while fighting in Middle East. His body is shipped back to the United States and laid to rest, but before the lid can be put on his tomb, Bart inexplicably awakens in his coffin and climbs from his grave; confused, horrified–a moldy, putrefying living corpse–a Revenant.
Bart desperately enlists the help of his best friend, Joey Leubner, in an attempt to ease his nausea and agony. Joey is shocked–and disgusted–by his putrescent pal’s return, but he rises to the occasion and tries to find a solution. When a panicked emergency room forces the confused corpse to flee, the two friends discover that there is only one cure for Bart’s condition: Human blood.
In their quest to keep Bart from decomposing Bart and Joey stumble into a solution—a way to obtain blood without taking innocent lives, becoming “The Vigilante Gun-Slingers”. But as their macabre crusade continues, they become entwined in an ever escalating cycle of violence, mayhem and ghoulism . . . all while cruising in a 1979 Camaro.
