The killing floor is a 1984 american award winning made for television drama film directed by bill duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the chicago race riot of 1919 the film debuted on pbs via the american playhouse series on april 10 1984 and was produced by public forum productions.
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A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment.
A film movement classics release.
Directed by gideon raff.
With marc blucas joel leffert shiri appleby jeffrey carlson.
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The killing floor 23 imdb 5 6 1h 37min 18 fiction becomes fact as the agent of a horror novelist moves into a new apartment where spooky events besiege him in the killing floor.
Dead silence law and order follows constable briar a survivor from one of the first police teams sent in.
With damien leake alfre woodard dennis farina ernest rayford.
The world premiere for the killing floor was at 9 30 p m april 14 2007 at the malibu film festival.
Directed by bill duke.
This 1985 sundance award winning film speaks deeply to the present moment exploring a true story of the struggle of black and white workers over a hundred years ago to build a strong interracial union in the giant chicago slaughterhouses in the face of.
On the last day of august everything changed.
Reviews what makes the killing floor so moving and absorbing is the way it succeeds in giving human scale and human impact to a moment in america s industrial history.
Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama.
The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are.
The region 1 dvd rights have been acquired by thinkfilm with a direct to dvd release of january 8 2008.
The film was released on dvd in sweden by noble entertainment on march 14 2007.
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Soon after the move he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment.
Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
The killing floor has a made for tv movie feel meaning it s not as glossy as a major studio film nor as gritty and an indie but duke finds power in the performances of his actors.
