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Milla Jovovich’s newest thriller comes from French director Julien Magnat (BLOODY MALLORY), and plays off a rather interesting premise. Jovovich plays a woman who witnesses a brutal murder, and while trying to escape the killer suffers a head injury resulting in “face blindness” – meaning she cannot recognize anyone she sees, even those most familiar to her. It’s actually a real condition called Prosopagnosia, which can occur at different stages in life, or even appear at birth. The film co-stars Julian McMahon (NIP/TUCK), Michael Shanks (STARGATE SG-1), and Sarah Wayne Callies (THE WALKING DEAD). It looks pretty intense and imaginative. Here’s the official synopsis:
A serial killer has been terrorizing the city. An innocent bystander (Milla) witnesses his latest attack, but while fleeing, she falls from a bridge and is knocked unconscious. When she awakes in the hospital, she can’t recognize family, her boyfriend or even her own face in the mirror. She is diagnosed with prosopagnosia, or ‘face blindness’. This is a real neurological disorder, like dyslexia but with faces, caused by a lesion of the temporal lobe, the part of the brain that allows us in a heartbeat to compare someone’s face with all the faces stored in our memory. She is incapable of recognizing the same face twice. Every time she looks at someone, it’s like she’s never met them before. Being the only witness, she is hunted by the killer, leaving her paranoid in a sea of unfamiliar faces. Where can she turn? Who can she trust? Who is she waking up next to? Who is standing next to her? This suspense thriller takes us on a terrifying ride thru the blurry eyes of a woman searching for a monster amongst the faces in the crowd.
Now here’s the weird part, IMDB shows no official release date, and though a few websites have noted October 25th as a release date, there’s this article Blu-ray.com which makes this look like a direct to video release. We’ll keep checking to see if we can find an official answer. The concept seems too good (as do the actors) for this to get dumped to DVD, but these days you never know.
FACES IN THE CROWD will be released in some capacity on October 25, 2011
Source: SlashFilm
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
