UK PREMIERE: "Dead Souls" is being released in the UK by Powerhouse Films Ltd. this November!

The film will also play at the American Cinematheque's Alex Cox Retrospective, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Alex Cox, actors Dick Rude & Zander Schloss, + composer Dan Wool Dan Wool on Fri. 10/9 at 7 pm in the Los Feliz 3 Theater, at 1822 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027.

GERMAN PREMIERE: "Dead Souls" will play at the 2026 Oldenburg Film Festival for two nights! First on Thursday 17.09.2026 at 16:30 at Muvi, Cine K Bahnhofstraße 11, 26122 Oldenburg; then at Sunday 20.09.2026 at 19:00, showing at Studio Cine K, Bahnhofstraße 11, 26122 Oldenburg.

COMING IN OCTOBER: Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell) stars in this frontier fable of American greed, playing the mysterious drifter Strindler as he scours the West for the names of dead Mexican laborers. In this loose adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, Strindler—or is it Swindler?—raises eyebrows when he offers to pay a pretty penny to add to his list of names. Wandering affably from saloon to ranch, Strindler exercises the old adage that money talks—but sometimes too loudly. Pistol duels and crooked officials abound, and Spaghetti Western legend Gianni Garko (If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death) claims a co-writer credit. But Cox's idiosyncrasy stands out as the film veers tonally through the picaresque, dark satire and other unexpected twists. Dead Souls is a meditative Western that takes place at the borderlands of the American nightmare: where fortunes rest on a dirty deal, and legacies are built on blood and gold. PRE-ORDER NOW!!!

The script will be published by Oldcastle later this year—in the form of a flip-book. Look at it from one side, it's the screenplay; Turn it over, and it's the original Dead Souls, in translation. The cover art is by Associate Producer Jamie Jamieson.