Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Superhero Horror Movie ARCHENEMY Arrives on Blu-Ray/DVD February 16th By Josh Millican
A truly unique mash-up of superhero and horror movie tropes, look for Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Archenemy on Blu-ray and DVD beginning September 16th courtesy of RLJE Films! Give the trailer a spin and read more about the release below.
Synopsis:
Max Fist (Joe Manganiello) is a local drunk who claims to be a superhero from the planet Chromium. He tells anyone who will listen that he was pulled into a wormhole, falling through time and space, and dropped to earth without any of his powers. No one pays any attention to Max except a teenager named Hamster (Skylan Brooks) who can’t get enough of Max’s stories. When Hamster and his sister (Zolee Griggs) get in trouble with a vicious drug syndicate led by The Manager (Glenn Howerton), Max takes to the streets as a brutal vigilante hellbent on proving himself as
Interview: Director Adam Egypt Mortimer Talks ARCHENEMY By Drew Tinnin
It wasn’t until the breakout indie hit
Daniel Isn’t Real from Spectrevision that director Adam Egypt Mortimer really emerged as a filmmaker with a clear style and vision. His first film,
Some Kind of Hate definitely has its fans (myself included) but it doesn’t fit inside the same multiverse as
Daniel Isn’t Real and his latest trippy sci-fi actioner,
Archenemy. Starring Joe Manganiello (
True Blood,
Zack Snyder’s Justice League) as a drug addicted bum claiming to be the savior of his alternate world Chromium,
Archenemy seems like a departure for Mortimer. In reality, there are a number of cosmic connections and visual cues that tie his films, and his comic book career, together in subtle but unmistakable ways.