Les Hackel is a guy down on his luck who wakes to find an explosive device has been implanted in his neck. He must carry out heinous crimes in order to stay alive while trying to identify the mastermind manipulating the now twisted and strange world around him.
Grimmfest Says: Gerry Anderson meets Philip K. Dick in Evan Marlowe’s ABRUPTIO (English premiere). Entirely enacted by lifelike latex puppets, it’s a technical tour de force, with an astonishing all-star voice cast including James Marsters, Jordan Peele, Christopher MacDonald, Sig Haig, Robert Englund, Hana Mae Lee and Rich Fulcher. It is a hallucinogenic, increasingly bizarre tale of human bombs, social collapse and an alien invasion. Combining the coolly ironic tone and distanced, postmodern self-awareness of Charlie Kaufman with the broader, bloodier, more grotesque and gleefully ridiculous sensibilities of Lloyd Kaufman, it’s a wild, weird, pedal-to-the-metal ride through a surreally tweaked LA noirscape where the worst imaginings of internet conspiracy theories and paranoid 1950s B-movie sci-fi might turn out, any second, to be all too troublingly and absurdly real.