Silver Screamers (2025)
- Directed by
- Sean Cisterna
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Senior citizens in Canada team up to make their own amateur film adaptation of a short horror story. The documentary follows their creative process and the community that forms around the project.
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What happens
Silver Screamers is a 2025 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sean Cisterna. The film profiles a group of senior citizens who come together on a creative project to produce their own amateur film adaptation of Edo van Belkom's short story "The Rug". The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 19, 2025, and had its Canadian premiere on September 21 at the 2025 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival. At both festivals, it screened in conjunction with the completed The Rug. In April 2024, it was reported that the film had been acquired for theatrical distribution by Blue Ice Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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