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Freakish Mutations Follow Comet's Flyby in New Dead Shadows Trailer

A comet streaking through the sky turns earthlings into Lovecraft-style mutants in upcoming sci-fi horror flick Dead Shadows. In a new, subtitled trailer for the French movie, feverish news reports and end-of-the-world party action are followed by violent encounters with people sprouting odd appendages.

Here’s the synopsis for first-time director David Cholewa‘s film, taken from the Dead Shadows website:

“Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story of a young man, named Chris (Fabian Wolfrom), whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the Halley’s comet could be seen from earth.

Tonight, a new comet is appearing and everyone in Chris’s building are getting ready for a party to celebrate the event. As the night falls, Chris discovers that people are starting to act strange — and this seems to somehow be connected to the comet. They are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they begin to mutate into something far beyond this world.

In a fight for survival, Chris tries to escape from his building with the help of a gun taunting [sic] tenant (John Fallon) — but will they make it out alive?”

Looks like it’s time to party like it’s 2012 …

[via Worst Previews]