ARROW FILMS TO RELEASE FESTIVE HORROR FILM, ‘THE LEECH’ JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

A still from the upcoming holiday horror-comedy, THE LEECH. Courtesy of Arrow Films.

It will be a holiday of horrors this year, as Arrow Films has nabbed distribution rights for writer/director Eric Pennycoff’s Christmas horror-comedy, THE LEECH, and is planning a release for sometime in December 2022.

In the yuletide horror film, Father David (Graham Skipper, Dementia: Part II, Sequence Break), is a catholic priest struggling to grow his congregation, when he encounters a stranger by the name of Terry (Jeremy Gardner, Bliss, Offseason) asleep one morning after Mass. Terry is without a home after a fight with his girlfriend Lexi (Taylor Gardner, Sadistic Intentions) and with Christmas less than a week away; David offers him a place to stay for the night. What begins as a simple act of kindness quickly turns complicated as Lexi arrives shortly after with news of being evicted from her house. Unable to turn away this helpless young woman, David allows both her and Terry to stay with him through the holidays on the condition that they open themselves to the healing power of God’s love. Yet the harder David tries to reform the lives of these seemingly innocent strangers, the more he himself falls victim to their toxic ways, leading to the belief that their arrival is in fact, a test from God. Will David pass the test and accept his new houseguests as they are? Or will he set aside the ways of Christ and resort to blood soaked, Old Testament justice?

The film will likely have a December 2022 digital release in the UK, US, Canada, and Ireland, as well as a deluxe collector’s edition Blu-ray edition.

THE LEECH was produced by Eric Pennycoff, Scott Smith and Adelyn Pennycoff. 

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