Additional Details
Runtime:
1 Hr. 22 Min.
Rating:
Unrated
Release Year:
1994
Director:
Wrye Martin, Barry Poltermann
Executive Producer:
Steve Farr, David Dahlman, Frank Anderson, John Biesack
Producer:
Wrye Martin, Barry Poltermann
Screenwriter:
Wrye Martin, Barry Poltermann; story by Frank Anderson
Editor:
Barry Poltermann
Cast:
John Kishline, Flora Coker, Victor DeLorenzo, Norman Moses, Tina Ona Paukstelis, Mildred Nierras
On Friday, January 21, 1994 at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, the Milwaukee-made film ASWANG premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight Movie section. Shot on 16mm in the fall of 1992, it was a tongue in cheek cult horror film about a family of Filipino vampires who feed on the unborn.
After a swing through the midnight movie film festival circuit, ASWANG was picked by Prism Pictures for a video release. Prism cut it for an “R” rating and re-titled it THE UNEARTHING. At the time of its release, ASWANG was mostly ignored by mainstream critics, but was praised by cult critics. By the early 2000s, the otherwise largely forgotten ASWANG had begun to garner a cult following: British distributor Mondo Macabro released an uncut ten-year anniversary DVD; Film Threat praised it as "a very effective and nightmarish film that deserves far more attention than it has garnered over the past 11 years"; and it was featured in the 2008 Fangoria book 101 BEST HORROR MOVIES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN.
Freshly digitized and restored, come see this 30th Anniversary Screening of this cult favorite cinematic oddity with cast and crew (a veritable who's-who of Milwaukee's filmmaking community!) in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.