American tourists Cass and Gav are backpacking their way across the Balkans. Shortly after crashing a wedding, they run into a mysterious Slav who goes by “Saint Peter.” Offering to give them an authentic tour of the region, the young couple take him up on the proposal, but soon fall prey to Saint Peter’s increasingly strange and manipulative behaviors, culminating with Gav’s sudden disappearance. Desperate to find him, and confident that Saint Peter is somehow connected to his vanishing, Cass is pulled deeper and deeper into a sinister web of violence as she comes to realize Saint Peter’s terrifying true intentions. The feature film directing debut of Austin Jennings (Shudder’s The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs), EIGHT EYES fuses a paranoid thriller through late period Euro horror aesthetics. Photographed on 16mm and Super 8mm, entirely on location in Serbia and Macedonia, and starring rising scream queen Emily Sweet (VHS ‘99) alongside a commanding debut performance from Bruno Veljanovski as Saint Peter, and featuring grisly gore effects by Miroslav Lakobrija (A Serbian Film) along with a nightmarish score composed by Devon Goldberg and performed by Morricone Youth. The first entirely original production from Vinegar Syndrome Pictures.

Director: Austin Jennings

Starring: Emily Sweet, Bradford Thomas, Bruno Veljanovski

Formats: DCP

Festivals/Awards: Fantasia Film Festival 2023, Serbian Festival of Fantastic Film 2023, Denver Film Festival 2023, Telluride Horror Show 2023, Frightfest 2023 and many more

Booking Contact: Theresa Mercado (theresa@vinsyn.com)