BLU-RAY
REVIEW: CITADEL
1/27/13
Tommy Cowley lives a quiet life in a decaying apartment complex with his very pregnant wife. The couple is attacked one day by a group of hooded young thugs, and after a shocking act of violence, Tommy is left to raise his newborn daughter
alone.
So shaken by the events that he’s developed extreme agoraphobia, Tommy alternates his days hiding out from imagined threats in his new flat and intense therapy sessions aimed at bringing him back to normalcy. When the same hooded gang—seemingly intent on kidnapping his daughter—begins terrorizing his life again, he’s torn between his paralyzing fear and protective parental
instinct.
CITADEL brings a fresh take to classic horror by raising the question: How can you protect your family from evil when you’re afraid of everything? Following up on the film’s theatrical premiere in November, Flatiron Film Company, a label of Cinedigm Entertainment Group, will release CITADEL on January 29 on Cable VOD, standard digital platforms, Blu-ray and DVD. Written and directed by Irish filmmaker Ciarán Foy, CITADEL won SXSW Film Festival’s Midnighter Audience Award when it world premiered there in 2012. Aneurin Barnard, who stars as Tommy, was recently named one of “16 Talent Breakouts from 2012” by Indiewire..
“I describe CITADEL as half psychological horror and half autobiography,” said Foy. “The autobiographical part stems from my own battle with agoraphobia in my late teens and early twenties, which was the result of a violent mugging I endured at the hands of a gang of youths. I wanted to create a horror film but I also wanted it to feel ‘real’ and grounded. I envisioned a film that played out like a real, believable, and gritty drama, but contained all the thrills and suspense of a solid work of genre filmmaking.”
VIDEO:
Anamorphic Widescreen 1080P
AUDIO:
English
5.1 DTS-HD Master
Audio Dolby Digital
Subtitles - English
SPECIAL FEATURES:
"Making Of" Featurette
