We last reported here about SCALENE, the rape-revenge shocker from independent genre director Zack Parker. Now the movie’s completed and heading for its world premiere, and Parker got in touch to talk it up.

SCALENE’s debut screening will take place Saturday, June 4 at Los Angeles’ Laemmle Sunset 5 (8000 W. Sunset Boulevard) as part of the 14th annual Dances With Films festival; tickets can be ordered here. Scripted by Parker and Brandon Owens, the movie is a “perceptual thriller,” focusing (from three different points of view) on the rape of a female college student by a mentally handicapped man, his subsequent incarceration and his mother’s revenge for that imprisonment. ORPHAN’s Margo Martindale, HALLOWEEN’s Hanna Hall and Adam Scarimbolo star, and will attend the screening with Parker.

“I’m very excited about premiering SCALENE at Dances With Films,” Parker tells Fango. “It’s a festival I have been personally following for years, and have always heard great things about from other filmmakers. Also, the venue for the fest, the Laemmle Sunset 5, has always been one of my favorite theaters in LA. Compounded with the fact that all three lead actors will be in attendance, as well as several other members of the cast and crew, we couldn’t ask for a better screening.

“I’m also incredibly excited and pleased with how the film has turned out,” he continues. “Margo, Hanna, and Adam really turned in amazingly powerful performances. Also, I truly believe we have a very unique film that challenges and sheds new light on the way films are seen and stories are told.”

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