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It's been a good year since we've heard anything from the team behind the indie apocalyptic thriller known as Able. But today we got an email from co-writers Will Stotler and Marc Robert (who also directed) with an update and a couple of new clips.

Able, which tells the tale of terrified Berliners struggling to survive each other and their own failing bodies during a sudden epidemic of progressive paralysis, will be represented by Toronto-based sales agent Critical Mass Entertainment during the upcoming Afm, and they prepared the sales art you see on the right just for that event.

In addition, the film has a new Facebook page, where Robert and Stotler will be uploading other exclusive content in the weeks and months to come.

Below the new clips is the film's trailer. Check 'em all out, and let us know what you think!

Able - Clip #1

Uploaded by dreadcentral.

Year: 2008

Directors: Marc Robert

Writers: Marc Robert & Will Stotler

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: quietearth

Rating: 4 out of 10

Described as the interior of a zombie apocalypse, that time during the sickness before the resurrection, Able attempts to cover a lot of ground in a short period of time. Unfortunately, all of the stuff before that is quite drab. It's personal as we follow a few different stories in a quarantined and dying city but ultimately boring as we wait for something to happen. While the film had decent photography, it lacked a convincing post apocalyptic setting preferring to keep the lens hidden to side walks and building interiors. I can say the ending was quite fantastic, but overall, this was an arthouse attempt at something we only see briefly in zombie films and it just didn't work.

An overbearing radio voice covers the beginning scatter of folks the films follows,...

Good news from co-creator/producer Will Stotler: Able is an apocalyptic zombie film! In his own words: "I see Able as an existential tale with 'the zombie apocalypse' as a backdrop." Director Marc Robert had this to say: "Part slasher film, part zombie movie, Able depicts those few maniac days between the onset of a viral epidemic and the dead rising from their graves. Everybody knows how the zombie apocalypse could go down, but what happens in that in-between time--after the infection, but before the hordes of undead set upon the survivors? The answer is pretty gruesome: in the in-between time, the survivors are the monsters." Furthermore, here's some more plot details: "Set the story in Berlin. Stay close to the characters and their sickness and show how that works in a realistic fashion--it's painful, debilitating, and it will end in death. The news on the radio is repeating,...

The other day we received a heads up from filmmaker Will Stotler about a new film he co-wrote with director Marc Robert called Able which, though we may have not heard of it before now, is premiering at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival, so obviously this is one we need to keep our eyes on.

Able takes place in Berlin, a city under quarantine due to a horrific virus that has swept across the city. It can paralyze the human body in three days. Those who are infected are trapped in their bodies, waiting for their terrible end. Those who are immune, well, they react to their situation in a diverse amount of ways:

Benny Berg seeks to save his father, Ivo. Partially crippled Katrin is stalked by someone who wants to kill her--or worse. Almost incapacitated, Marieke drowns herself. Meat cleaver in hand, Niko grows increasingly frustrated with her "dead" limbs.