Winning Best Feature at the HorrorHound Film Festival and Best Director at the Frostbite International Film Festival and screened at several others including Portland Horror Film Festival, HA Comedy Arts Festival and more. WITNESS INFECTION, according to pre-publicity, is Lauded as “a wild ride of raucous fun” (Horror Buzz). Set to be released March 30, 2021 and to be available to rent and own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms and DVD through Freestyle Digital Media.
Two rival mob families are mistakenly transferred from a witness protection program to the same city. Carlo Serrelli has lived a protected life but his past is about to come back and bite him. His father has kept him out of the deadly mob business by giving him a job at the family dog groomers, while his younger brother, Dominic, always did the dirty work.
All that is coming to an end as Carlo’s father has to force him into an arranged marriage with the daughter of the rival Miola family boss. Carlo’s two best friends, Gina and Vince, vow to help him out of this predicament, but they all get in way over their heads when a serious infection starts eating the town. The good news is that Carlo may not have to get married after all — but the bad news is that everyone might die.
Carlos Alazraqui (“Rocko’s Modern Life”, Spyro the Dragon, “The Fairly OddParents”) co-wrote the film and stars, alongside fellow voice actors Tara Strong (“Teen Titans”, “Rugrats”, “The Powerpuff Girls”), and Maurice LaMarche (“Pinky and the Brain”, “Futurama”, “Hey Arnold”).
The cast also includes co-writer Jill-Michele Melean (“MadTV”, White/Latina), Robert Belushi (“How I Met Your Mother”, Sorority Row), Bret Ernst (“Cobra Kai”), Erinn Hayes (“Children’s Hospital”, “Medical Police”, “Kevin Can Wait”), Monique Coleman (the High School Musical franchise, “Dancing With the Stars”), and Joseph D. Reitman (“Happy!”, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back).
Witness Infection was produced by Alazraqui, Melean and Warner Davis. Andy Palmer (Camp Cold Brook) directed.
Review in the Works.
Gregg W. Morris can be reached at gregghc@comcast.net or gmorris@hunter.cuny.edu