Sam Raimi Wants To Give Audiences A Large Scale Panic Attack!

Director Sam Raimi’s Ghost House production company has won the bidding war for the rights to Panic Attack! Based on a cracking short film by Uryguayan filmmaker Fede Alvarez, the city of Montevideo is attacked by giant robots and they blow everything up: it’s quite a calling card. There’s even a cheeky blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to The Battleship Potemkin. The Hollywood Reporter notes the director was whipped over to the US for a plethora of meetings in the past few weeks, before signing on the dotted line with Raimi.

Hollywood loves robots and explosions. They usually equate to box office. This year has seen a raft of low budget films grip the audience’s imagination. Whether its things-going-bump-in-the-night in Paranormal Activity Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 or, even, £45 quid zombie film Colin. They’ve all done well. Alvarez’s imaginative short cost a few hundred dollars.

It’s pretty certain, Panic Attack! will not remain dialogue-free, as the original is. Under the guidance of Sam Raimi, it could be said, the director is in a safe pair of hands. Raimi is currently snowed under with Spider-Man 4, so expect little more than the perennial “executive producer” credit.

This is Alvarez’s big shot, lets hope he doesn’t have a panic attack himself. If you haven’t seen Panic Attack! yet…check it out:

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