Here’s a new look at a film we fell in love with on the festival circuit last year, Archenemy which is led by the superb Joe Manganiello as the mysterious Max Fist. The movie will come to DVD and download from next month, specifically 22nd February through Altitude.
Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision, the studio behind sensational hits Mandy and Color Out of Space, delivers another slice of genre excellence, in conjunction with Legion M (the first fan-owned film company), with a fantastically colorful and entertaining blend of epic superhero mythology and modern noir, recalling Sin City, Hancock and Watchmen, from writer director Adam Egypt Mortimer, the red hot talent behind 2019’s acclaimed psychological horror Daniel Isn’t Real.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Max Fist was the greatest hero of a vast city in another universe. He saved his world from destruction but crashed through space and time… and wound up here – a desolate American suburb. Or so he says. Powerless and a broken drunk, no one believes Max’s stories about his glory days until he meets a kid called Hamster. When the mob comes after Hamster’s family, Max must learn what it means to be a hero — here, now, without superpowers — one brutal blow at a time.
We first saw the film back at FrightFest in 2019 and are delighted it is finally getting a release. We said that the film ‘channels superhero films of yesteryear and then repackages it into an intellectual and thoroughly modern fare.
Check out the new trailer below.
