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If you’re already missing Joe Keery, the actor who plays the shiny-haired hero Steve Harrington from Stranger Things, you’ll soon be able to see him again in a new horror film, this time in theaters. The actor and singer-songwriter (as you likely already know, Keery also has a music career under the name Djo, and the viral social media hit “End of Beginning” is his) will star in the horror comedy Cold Storage, which centers on a mutant, killer parasitic fungus. It has a B-movie vibe, but the film boasts a top-notch cast (Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave are also in it), a screenwriter, and producers. Released a few weeks ago in the United States, Cold Storage already has distribution deals in France and the United Kingdom. In the meantime, here’s what you need to know about the film.
The film is set entirely inside an underground military base that was converted years earlier into a storage facility where a parasitic alien fungus was kept. A failure in the containment measures allows the microorganism to escape from the container that had kept it frozen for two decades and to spread rapidly. The fungus has the ability to infect anyone it comes into contact with, transforming people and animals into ferocious and gruesome beings. Travis, known as Teacake (Joe Keery), and Naomi (Georgina Campbell) are the two young night watchmen at the warehouse and the only witnesses to the escape. When counterterrorism agent Robert Quinn (Liam Neeson) is hired by the government to stop the contagion, a forced collaboration begins among the three to prevent the horrifying mutations from escaping containment and causing a pandemic.
As mentioned, Keery plays Travis “Teacake” Meacham, a laid-back, likable, and talkative office worker. Georgina Campbell plays Naomi Williams, Teacake’s serious and responsible coworker, who possesses a survival instinct and courage far superior to his. Neeson plays a former government agent who doesn’t mince words and plans to wipe out the extraterrestrial threat by any means necessary. Cold Storage is directed by British filmmaker Jonny Campbell, who previously helmed the film Alien Autopsy and several episodes of Ashes to Ashes, Doctor Who, and Westworld. The screenplay is penned by one of the most prolific blockbuster writers, Hollywood veteran David Koepp, who wrote the scripts for Jurassic Park and several of its sequels, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man. The production company, Pariah, is the same as that of Zombieland. Fun fact: according to IMDb, several scenes of the film were shot in Italy, in the regions of Lazio and Campania, specifically in the real underground bunker at Soratte near the town of Sant’Oreste (near Rome).
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