A trailer has dropped for Craig Alexander and Shelly Higgs’ black comedy, Snatchers.

In a dystopian Australia, perpetually broke best friends, Mac and Fettes, work as orderlies in a hospital, barely scraping by. To escape their dire circumstances, they decide to target the lucrative black market where the wealthy pay good money for fresh organs from young, healthy (and not so wealthy) corpses.

Enter Jane Doe, a beautiful and anonymous corpse, ripe for the picking, conveniently declared dead at their hospital. She’s a Snatchers perfect 10: 100% intact and by all accounts perfectly healthy (albeit a little dead), and worth a squillion.

With a bit of luck, a funky dance number and some shady behaviour from Fettes, the two men manage to extract their prize from the heavily guarded hospital, outrun the law and make it to a secluded warehouse. Here they plan to hole up, help themselves to the corpse’s organs and sell them on the black market. 

But just as the scalpel touches flesh, the corpse wakes up.

“After so much hard work from many, very talented people, I am beyond excited to begin sharing Snatchers with the world,” Craig Alexander tells Cinema Australia. “It’s hilarious, tragic, a little bit crazy, and, most importantly, a helluva lot of fun. I think audiences are going to love it.”

Snatchers is written by Craig Alexander, co-directed by Alexander and Shelly Higgs, and stars Hannah Mckenzie, Craig Alexander and Justin Hosking.

The film is currently seeking distribution.

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