APARTMENT 143 – On Demand April 27th & In Theaters June 1

Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.

From director Rodrigo Cortés (RED LIGHTS starring Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy and Robert De Niro and currently in post-production), watch the trailer for APARTMENT 143.

Featuring Kai Lennox, Michael O’Keefee, and Gia Mantegna, APARTMENT 143 is the story where a team of parapsychologists set out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs, are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infra-red filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group’s attempts to contact the “other side” will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return…

The dramatic conflict is approached almost in the manner of a generic code; a family going through difficult times is forced to deal with a number of violent and inexplicable threats which puts their physical well-being in jeopardy and reveals hidden conflicts. A metapsychic investigation team sets about collecting the phenomenological data in a scientific way, and with them the mysteries concealed in the family home. Cortés designed the project as an exploration of formal language, a narrative and emotional study of point of view in order to distance it from the conventional and ensure a unique, formal perspective: a raw, scientific document, a rigorous exposition of the bare facts, the perspective of a research team in the house over three days and nights and its record of the events which took place there, the data collected. At the time (the beginning of 2009) PARANORMAL ACTIVITY had still not gone on release and found footage films were still few and far between in mainstream cinema.

Magnet Releasing & Nostromo Pictures presents a Magnet Release of APARTMENT 143. The film will be On Demand April 27th and in theaters June 1.