Filmmaker Rushabh Patel is excited to announce that Dances With Films NYC will host the World Premiere of I Know Exactly How You Die, a horror comedy where deadlines aren’t a writer’s worst fear. I Know Exactly How You Die will screen to its very first audiences on January 17, 2026 at the Regal Union Square as part of Dances with Films NYC.
In I Know Exactly How You Die, Patel stars as hack writer Rian Burman. Rian has to finish his story without getting his protagonist murdered by a sadistic stalker who will stop at nothing to have her.
I Know Exactly How You Die at Dances With Films NYC:
Regal Union Square
January 17, 2026 9:15 PM
Rian Burman, a struggling horror novelist seeking inspiration, checks into a remote motel to finish his book. Haunted by heartbreak and creative paralysis, Rian begins writing a story about a woman named Katie, a drug counselor fleeing a violent stalker. But as he writes, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur, his scenes start coming true.
At the same motel, the real Katie is hiding from a deranged ex–mailman turned serial killer. When Rian and Katie meet, their shared experiences confirm the impossible: his manuscript is somehow manifesting real events, including the stalker’s murders. As the deaths around them escalate, Rian realizes he might be both the author and the architect of the horror unfolding.
