Writer/director Nicole Groton couldn't have foreseen our current global predicament when she sat down to pen her now prescient quarantine themed surreal thriller Darkness in Tenement 45. Set in the 1950s, the film stars Nicole Tompkins as a teenager who becomes trapped in her crazy aunt's tenement when the USSR launches a biological attack against New York.
Darkness in Tenement 45 is on US VOD from November 3rd. A UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Joanna has been living with her overbearing Aunt Martha, in a low-income NYC tenement building ever since a violent outburst left her fighting a force that she can only describe as the “darkness.” Little did she know that weeks after moving in, a biological threat from the Soviet Union would leave the building boarded up and the tenants locked inside. With food dwindling and Martha’s controversial role as leader expanding, Joanna rallies the children in an attempt to save the building. Tensions come to a violent head when Martha delves into Joanna’s past and Joanna struggles to keep the darkness from overtaking her entirely.
