Jonas Akerlund’s seedy, Fincher-esque thriller The Horsemen was consistently generating some decent press coverage on the interwebs, so leave it to Lionsgate to go and gum up the works for their own damn movie. I was beginning to wonder when this picture would see the light of day, but apparently it already has, in all of 100 (or so) low-rent theaters across the country. Silly me for not noticing! If this bit of self-dickery gives you a severe case of deja vu, that’s probably because this is exactly the same shenanigans the studio pulled on Midnight Meat Train last year. And much like that film before it, The Horsemen will be making a quick transition straight to home video (it’ll be fresh off the truck on July 14). Dennis Quaid, who stars as the movie’s disheveled detective, ought to give someone a fierce kick in the shins over this.
The good news is that unless the buzz was dead wrong, this movie may still overcome such poor treatment, just as Ryûhei Kitamura’s twisted subway slasher did before it. Unfortunately, there’s no sign of The Horsemen hitting Blu-Ray, which was just about the only nice thing Lionsgate managed to do for the ol’ Meat Train.
Check out the trailer, then get to marking those calendars: