Dark Star Pictures has released a poster and trailer for the award-winning suspense thriller Number 37, director Nospiho Dumia’s gritty homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, which focuses on the residents of a block of apartments in the down-and-out Cape Flats neighborhood of Cape Town which, with its petty thugs, crooked cops, violent loan sharks, and troubled pastors, soon reveals itself to be a very different place from Hitchcock’s Greenwich Village of 1954.
Set in a rough section of Cape Town, Number 37 follows Randal Hendricks, a small-time crook who becomes wheelchair-bound in a drug deal gone wrong, and his hard-working girlfriend Pam Ismael. To distract Randal during his homebound days of limited mobility, Pam gives him a pair of binoculars. While idly surveying his block, he accidentally witnesses a dirty cop being executed by his gangster neighbor Lawyer. With a loan shark breathing down his neck, Randal decides to blackmail Lawyer, and enlists the help of both his girlfriend and his friend Warren. When the plan goes horribly awry, Randal’s options get more and more restricted—and not even local detective Gail February, investigating the death of her partner, may be able to help him.
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Number 37 is set for release in U.S. theaters and On Demand from November 20th 2018.
Originally published November 3, 2018. Updated November 2, 2018.
