The post-apocalyptic thriller The Divide is using its theatrical release to help feed the hungry. Anchor Bay Films is holding a canned food drive to help the non-profit organization Feeding America Food Banks on January 13, 2012 – the opening day of The Divide in theaters.
Per Anchor Bay: “In a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the canned goods needed for survival in the film, the first 50 people in each market attending the opening night midnight screenings who bring a donation of canned goods will receive a limited edition poster for the film designed by Mondo-commissioned street artist ‘Jock.'”
Participating theaters include:
LA: The Nuart
NY: The Landmark Sunshine
Austin: The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Boston: The Coolidge Theater
Dallas: The Landmark Inwood
Denver: The Landmark Esquire
The Divide Plot: In this graphic and violent, post-apocalyptic thriller, nine strangers — all tenants of a New York high-rise apartment — escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, the group begins to descend into madness, each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment.
As supplies dwindle, and tensions flare, they grow increasingly unhinged by their close quarters and hopelessness. Each act against one another becomes more depraved than the next. While everyone in the bunker allows himself or herself to be overcome by desperation and lose their humanity, one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape, even with no promise of salvation on the outside.
