Die Alone is not your typical zombie film. This fresh take on the genre leaves its audience asking, what does it mean to be human?
Die Alone follows Ethan (Douglas Smith), a young man with amnesia, who wakes to discover that humanity has destroyed the earth and nature is reclaiming itself with moss-covered roaming dead. In this dangerous post-apocalyptic future, Ethan clings to one purpose, finding his girlfriend Emma (Kimberly-Sue Murray). He soon finds himself in the crosshairs of Mae (Carrie-Anne Moss), a tenacious and eccentric survivalist. Unable to rely on his own fragmented memories, Ethan forms an uneasy alliance with Mae. Under constant attack from the moss-covered ‘reclaimed’, Ethan crosses paths with Kai (Frank Grillo), a mysterious figure who may hold the secret to his fractured memories.
Lowell Dean is a Saskatchewan filmmaker with a talent for the twisted. He is best known for writing and directing the horror comedy Wolfcop and its sequel Another Wolfcop. These films quickly achieved cult status following their theatrical release across Canada and the USA. Along with Die Alone, Lowell also recently wrote and directed Dark Match, a wrestling horror film starring Steven Ogg, Ayisha Issa, and Chris Jericho.
Douglas Smith was most recently seen in Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling. His other recent work includes the recurring role of Tyson Conway on Clarice, CBS’ Silence of the Lambs sequel series and the independent feature, The Swearing Jar. Upcoming, he can be seen in Atom Egoyan’s drama Seven Veils and Kevin Costner’s Western epic Horizon. His past work includes the role of Marcus Isaacson on the critically acclaimed and Emmy award winning TNT series, “The Alienist,” alongside Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning. Smith also appeared in Season Two of the multi-award-winning HBO limited series “Big Little Lies.”
Check out our interview with Lowell and Douglas:
Director’s Statement:
To me, Die Alone is an exploration of one question: ‘How far would you go for the person you love’? It’s a film about holding onto what you believe, even when hope is gone.
When I wrote Die Alone, I was fascinated by the idea of waking up every day to the worst day of your life—a highly relatable sentiment in 2024. That’s what our main character, Ethan, experiences day in and day out as an amnesiac. He’s constantly blacking out and finding himself, over and over again, in a post-apocalyptic world.
Die Alone is a very different film from my previous work, and I’m excited to see how people respond to it. It’s still very much a genre film, but it’s more earnest and ‘human’. It’s a film about survival and how we treat others.
