Full Trailer for ‘Lazareth’ Isolated Living Thriller Starring Ashley Judd
by Alex Billington
April 3, 2024
Source: YouTube
“Lazareth must be protected at any cost.” Vertical has revealed an official trailer for an indie thriller titled Lazareth, from a filmmaker named Alec Tibaldi. This is set to debut to watch in May – both in theaters and on VOD if anyone wants to give it a look. Lee protects her orphaned nieces Imogen and Maeve from a self-destructing world, raising them in isolation for 10 years until an outsider threatens their peaceful existence. Ashley Judd stars an aunt whose life mission is to protect her orphaned nieces, Imogen and Maeve, from the harsh world outside their isolated life. Their sanctuary is known as “Lazareth.” In addition to Judd, the cast includes Sarah Pidgeon, Katie Douglas, Edward Balaban, and Asher Angel. This is such an old concept that has been done so many times before in so many other movies – just watch Z for Zachariah instead. This time they’re using the Covid pandemic as context, which just doesn’t sit right and makes it all the more dubious in my opinion. Judd also looks pretty bad in here, along with all the cast. Tread carefully.
Here’s the first official trailer for Alec Tibaldi’s Lazareth, direct from Vertical’s YouTube:
Ashley Judd stars as Lee, an aunt who has raised her nieces Imogen (Katie Douglas) and Maeve (Sarah Pidgeon) in an isolated cabin in the woods for over a decade after their parents died and she adopted them — all while a deadly pandemic rages on. For over 10 years, the girls are raised to never leave the woods, avoid any and all interaction with outsiders, and ultimately to rely on Lee as their only connection to the outside world. Lee has convinced the girls this is the key to survival in what is now an infectious and violent world. But when Imogen and Maeve discover an injured man (Asher Angel) in the nearby woods, Lee’s absolute control begins to disintegrate as their faith in her, and everything else they’ve ever known, begins to unravel. Lazareth is written and directed by Australian writer / filmmaker Alec Tibaldi, director of the films Spiral Farm and The Daphne Project previously, plus a few other shorts. Produced by Robert Ogden Barnum and Eric Binns. This hasn’t premiered at any fests or elsewhere, as far as we know. Vertical debuts Tibaldi’s Lazareth in select US theaters + on VOD starting May 10th, 2024 coming soon. Anyone?
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