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Directed by | Bruce McDonald |
Written by | Tony Burgess Patrick Whistler |
Produced by | Jesus Gonzalez-Elvira Sebastian Schelenz |
Starring | Stephen McHattie Juliette Lewis Henry Rollins Tómas Lemarquis |
Cinematography | Richard Van Oosterhout |
Edited by | Duff Smith |
Music by | Jonathan Goldsmith |
Production companies | Calach Films Goodbye Productions Velvet Films |
Distributed by | A71 Entertainment Dark Star Pictures |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Dreamland is a 2019 Canadian fantasy drama-thriller film, directed by Bruce McDonald.[1] The film stars Stephen McHattie in a dual role as The Maestro, a jazz musician who has been hired by the Countess (Juliette Lewis) to play at the wedding of her vampire brother (Tómas Lemarquis), and Johnny Deadeyes, a hitman who has been hired by crime boss Hercules (Henry Rollins) to kill the musician.[2]
The film has been described as a "spinoff" of McDonald's 2008 film Pontypool, in that it jumps off from the post-credits scene in Pontypool in which McHattie and Lisa Houle were depicted in period garb speaking a foreign language.[3]
The film premiered at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2019,[4] and was screened at various film festivals before going into commercial release in 2020.[1] It received mixed reviews from critics who noted the lack of coherence.