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Genre-Bending Nigerian Thriller ‘The Weekend’ Drops First-Look Clip Ahead of Tribeca Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
The fourth feature from director Daniel Oriahi follows the grisly fallout when a woman discovers the shocking secrets of her fiance's family.
The family that slays together stays together in Nigerian director Daniel Oriahi’s “The Weekend,” a bloody thriller about a woman who discovers a shocking secret about her soon-to-be in-laws. The director cites influences ranging from Kubrick’s “The Shining” and Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy to contemporary filmmakers playing with “subversive horror,” including Ari Aster, Robert Eggers and Jordan Peele. While Nollywood filmmakers having long taken strides to create movies with higher production values and more international appeal than their predecessors, only recently have directors dared to venture beyond the mainstream.
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