Anchor Bay Films has announced today that they'll be releasing the full, unrated directors cut of Xavier Gens' The Divide in theaters on Friday, January 13th, 2012. The version will contain additional footage not seen during its previous screenings at SXSW and Fantasia 2011.

"We felt strongly that we needed to bring his full vision to the screen, and confident this is the version audiences will want to see," says Jennifer Roberts, Anchor Bay Film's SVP of Brand Marketing

In this graphic and violent, post-apocalyptic thriller, nine strangers-all tenants of a New York high-rise apartment-escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building's bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, the group begins to descend into madness, each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment. As supplies dwindle, and tensions flare, they grow increasingly unhinged by their close quarters and hopelessness. Each act against one another becomes more depraved than the next.  While everyone in the bunker allows themselves to be overcome by desperation and lose their humanity, one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape, even with no promise of salvation on the outside.

The Cast of The Divide features Lauren German (Hostel Part 2), Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens) and Milo Ventimiglia (NBC's Heroes) as well as Courtney B. Vance (Final Destination 5), Ashton Holmes (CW's Nikita, A History of Violence) and Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction).

This is a pretty impressive cast (minus that guy from Heroes) but on the surface this sounds like another torture porn movie.  Anchor Bay's plan to release the unrated version of The Divide is a ballsy one as it's tough to market a movie like that since most advertising vehicles won't take the business if it's for an NC-17 or unrated film.  What say you, horror fans?  Are you excited to see The Divide in theaters?

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