The Weed Eaters Release Expands With Yellow Veil

The Weed Eaters release will expand across North America after Yellow Veil Pictures acquired distribution rights to Callum Devlin’s New Zealand cannibal horror comedy.

The Weed Eaters release brings cursed cannabis north

The film follows four friends whose New Year’s getaway collapses after they discover an abandoned stash of marijuana with a gruesome side effect. Once an accidental death leaves them with a body to hide, continuing to smoke makes eating the evidence feel like a practical plan, at least until the meat runs out.

Devlin directed and edited the cannibal horror comedy, which won best feature at SXSW Sydney and later played FrightFest, the Adelaide Film Festival and the Calgary Underground Film Festival.

Yellow Veil plans a winter rollout

Yellow Veil has not announced exact dates or platforms, describing the North American plan as a winter release. The acquisition follows the movie’s appearance in the Letterboxd Video Store’s Unreleased Gems program.

TFR has another cannibal production on the radar with The Cannibal, though The Weed Eaters is taking the subgenre in a considerably more stoned and darkly comic direction.

Sources: IndieWire, Yellow Veil Pictures