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Departing Seniors (2023)
Directed by Clare Cooney
Featuring: Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Yani Gellman, Ireon Roach
It's graduation time so join us for a fun Gen-Z slasher about a queer high school student who, after suffering an act of bullying, develops the ability to foresee his classmates’ deaths as they’re picked off one by one by a masked killer whose identity may just be from among their own.
"Residing somewhere in between the crude humor of Emma Seligman’s Bottoms and the visual abundance of Joaquim Dos Santos’ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is Clare Cooney’s high school 'genre-bending' feature film debut, Departing Seniors." - Daniel Nava, Chicago Cinema Circuit
"Departing Seniors subverts every one-dimensional high school slasher cliché to deliver a startlingly empathetic and effecting thriller." - Hope Madden, MaddWolf
"Clare Cooney’s feature debut casts a queer eye over the tropes of the high school slasher." - Anton Bitel, Projected Figures
After an act of bullying sends kind but awkward high school senior Javier to the hospital he begins having psychic visions that reveal the horrifying truth behind a rash of supposed suicides at his school. It is now up to him and his sarcastic best friend Bianca to unmask a serial killer who’s targeting his classmates before it’s too late.
As fiercely anarchic as it is genuinely heartfelt, Departing Seniors is Scream for the next generation, deftly melding true terror with coming-of-age pathos inside the horrors of high school.
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