Body-snatching aliens attempt to navigate love in the modern world in genre-bending comedy The Becomers, and Dark Star Pictures announced today that they’ve acquired it for release.
In The Becomers: “Dropped to Earth and escaping their dying planet, the two extraterrestrials (played by a sequence of actors) seek each other out —jumping from body to body— on our planet while becoming increasingly drawn into the madness of modern-day America.
Written, directed, and edited by Zach Clark (Little Sister), the film was shot in Chicago and stars Molly Plunk (Little Sister, Profane), Mike Lopez (All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Crimes Against Humanity), Frank V. Ross (Drinking Buddies), Isabel Alamin, and Keith Kelly, and features the voice Russell Mael, lead singer of the explosive pop-rock band Sparks. The Becomers is produced by Joe Swanberg (Depraved, The Rental), and Edwin Linker (Saint Frances, Queen of Earth) of Slasher Films.
Clark...
In The Becomers: “Dropped to Earth and escaping their dying planet, the two extraterrestrials (played by a sequence of actors) seek each other out —jumping from body to body— on our planet while becoming increasingly drawn into the madness of modern-day America.
Written, directed, and edited by Zach Clark (Little Sister), the film was shot in Chicago and stars Molly Plunk (Little Sister, Profane), Mike Lopez (All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Crimes Against Humanity), Frank V. Ross (Drinking Buddies), Isabel Alamin, and Keith Kelly, and features the voice Russell Mael, lead singer of the explosive pop-rock band Sparks. The Becomers is produced by Joe Swanberg (Depraved, The Rental), and Edwin Linker (Saint Frances, Queen of Earth) of Slasher Films.
Clark...
- 2/8/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Body-snatching aliens attempt to navigate love in the modern world in The Becomers, a genre-bending comedy set to make its premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
A new clip and poster reveal below gives a glimpse at the weird, funny, grotesque blend of genres in the latestby writer/director Zach Clark (Little Sister).
The Becomers tells “of a body-snatching alien who comes to Earth, reconnects with their partner, and tries to find their way in modern America.”
Written, directed, and edited by Clark, the film was shot in Chicago and stars Molly Plunk (Little Sister, Profane), Mike Lopez (All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Crimes Against Humanity), Frank V. Ross (Drinking Buddies), Isabel Alamin, and Keith Kelly, and features the voice Russell Mael, lead singer of the explosive pop-rock band Sparks. The Becomers is produced by Joe Swanberg (Depraved, The Rental), and Edwin Linker (Saint Frances, Queen of Earth) of Slasher Films.
A new clip and poster reveal below gives a glimpse at the weird, funny, grotesque blend of genres in the latestby writer/director Zach Clark (Little Sister).
The Becomers tells “of a body-snatching alien who comes to Earth, reconnects with their partner, and tries to find their way in modern America.”
Written, directed, and edited by Clark, the film was shot in Chicago and stars Molly Plunk (Little Sister, Profane), Mike Lopez (All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Crimes Against Humanity), Frank V. Ross (Drinking Buddies), Isabel Alamin, and Keith Kelly, and features the voice Russell Mael, lead singer of the explosive pop-rock band Sparks. The Becomers is produced by Joe Swanberg (Depraved, The Rental), and Edwin Linker (Saint Frances, Queen of Earth) of Slasher Films.
- 7/18/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
As the definition of an independent film has shifted with the ever-expanding budget divide in American filmmaking — particularly Hollywood cutting back on its mid-range projects — when it comes time for awards season, it’s often only the highest profile of “indie films” that get recognized. While we do our best to recognize the films that often get unfortunately, a new awards has launched that honors the best of truly independent American cinema, featuring films all under a $1 million budget.
Aptly titled the American Independent Film Awards (aka AIFAs), they were voted on by international film festival programmers, U.S. based film festival programmers, and North American film critics (including yours truly.) “First and foremost, we would like to thank all film producers and distribution companies who helped us identify qualifying films and outline the categories. We’d also like to thank the international and American based film festival programmers, and...
Aptly titled the American Independent Film Awards (aka AIFAs), they were voted on by international film festival programmers, U.S. based film festival programmers, and North American film critics (including yours truly.) “First and foremost, we would like to thank all film producers and distribution companies who helped us identify qualifying films and outline the categories. We’d also like to thank the international and American based film festival programmers, and...
- 2/20/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
So many low-budget American indies are about stunted twentysomethings who return to their childhood homes in order to achieve some great personal catharsis, but so few of them understand what home really means, or know how to find it. It’s been more than a decade since “Garden State” enshrined that template for a new generation of filmmakers, yet Zach Clark’s weird, winsome, and wonderful “Little Sister” is one of the few movies that has used it to tell a story that feels indivisibly true to itself.
“Fail to see the tragic, turn it into magic!” The Marilyn Manson lyric that flashes on screen before the first shot does a nice job of framing the film’s characters, but it could just as easily be describing how Clark takes a trite premise and mines it for something genuinely special.
You know how pat this usually plays out: A creatively...
“Fail to see the tragic, turn it into magic!” The Marilyn Manson lyric that flashes on screen before the first shot does a nice job of framing the film’s characters, but it could just as easily be describing how Clark takes a trite premise and mines it for something genuinely special.
You know how pat this usually plays out: A creatively...
- 6/27/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Zach Clark’s White Reindeer is not your average Christmas tale. Flush with WASPy cheer, real estate agent Suzanne Barrington (the note-perfect Anna Margaret Hollyman) eagerly anticipates the holiday until her meteorologist husband Jeff is whacked in their suburban home. What follows is an earnest and surprising unravelling as Suzanne rides a second wave of grief upon the discovery of Jeff’s affair with a stripper. With a script both original and subversive, Clark and his producers Daryl Pittman and Melodie Sisk went out to finance White Reindeer as the debt crisis hit. Clark was kind enough to reflect upon the process […]...
- 12/6/2013
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Zach Clark’s White Reindeer is not your average Christmas tale. Flush with WASPy cheer, real estate agent Suzanne Barrington (the note-perfect Anna Margaret Hollyman) eagerly anticipates the holiday until her meteorologist husband Jeff is whacked in their suburban home. What follows is an earnest and surprising unravelling as Suzanne rides a second wave of grief upon the discovery of Jeff’s affair with a stripper. With a script both original and subversive, Clark and his producers Daryl Pittman and Melodie Sisk went out to finance White Reindeer as the debt crisis hit. Clark was kind enough to reflect upon the process […]...
- 12/6/2013
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
IFC Films acquired North American rights to the Zach Clark-directed comedy White Reindeer, which stars Anna Margaret Hollyman, Laura Lemar-Goldsborough, Lydia Johnson, Joe Swanberg and Chris Doubek. Clark, who wrote the script, produced with Daryl Pittman and Melodie Sisk, Kevin Clark and Joan Peacock are exec producers. The film will have a day and date release in theaters and will also premiere digitally on December 6, 2013. Logline: a shell-shocked real estate agent grapples with personal tragedy while fumbling to let loose among strip clubs, department stores, and swinging new neighbors during one sad, strange December in suburban Virginia. Cinetic repped it.
- 9/30/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
White Reindeer is the new indie film comedy by filmmaker Zach Clark that will go into production this winter and for which he’s raising production funds via Kickstarter.
This will be Clark’s third film made with his partners Daryl Pittman and Melodie Sisk following the film festival hits Modern Love Is Automatic and Vacation!, both of which are beloved here at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film. Clark has a unique low-key comic approach to outrageous subject matter and situations that sounds like will be full on display once again in White Reindeer.
The film is a twisted Christmas story in which housewife Suzanne Barrington, who forms an unlikely friendship with her murdered husband’s mistress, an exotic dancer named Fantasia. And that friendship sends Suzanne down into a swirling morass of depravity and criminality from which her friends try to help her escape.
Pittman will be...
This will be Clark’s third film made with his partners Daryl Pittman and Melodie Sisk following the film festival hits Modern Love Is Automatic and Vacation!, both of which are beloved here at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film. Clark has a unique low-key comic approach to outrageous subject matter and situations that sounds like will be full on display once again in White Reindeer.
The film is a twisted Christmas story in which housewife Suzanne Barrington, who forms an unlikely friendship with her murdered husband’s mistress, an exotic dancer named Fantasia. And that friendship sends Suzanne down into a swirling morass of depravity and criminality from which her friends try to help her escape.
Pittman will be...
- 8/29/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Zach Clark’s third feature film Vacation! is a throwback to the late ’80s/early ’90s era of indie filmmaking. Its most obvious antecedent being Johnathan Demme’s 1986 film Something Wild, particularly in the way both films start out as lighthearted romps and eventually turn into much darker and explosive territory.
However, where Demme’s brutal second half comes as a total shock to unprepared viewers, Clark teases from the outset that not everything is going to end up ok for his four female leads — a quartet of college dorm friends who have drifted apart over the years and gather for a weekend at a rented beach house in North Carolina. Actually, that set-up also vaguely recalls another ’80s film, the Troma cult classic Mother’s Day. Although Vacation! doesn’t descend anywhere near into that film’s unbridled depravity, it does enjoy its own peripheral sleaziness.
In Vacation!, Clark...
However, where Demme’s brutal second half comes as a total shock to unprepared viewers, Clark teases from the outset that not everything is going to end up ok for his four female leads — a quartet of college dorm friends who have drifted apart over the years and gather for a weekend at a rented beach house in North Carolina. Actually, that set-up also vaguely recalls another ’80s film, the Troma cult classic Mother’s Day. Although Vacation! doesn’t descend anywhere near into that film’s unbridled depravity, it does enjoy its own peripheral sleaziness.
In Vacation!, Clark...
- 8/9/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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