Sunday, May 17, 2009

Dark House Now in Cannes



"Dark House," has already premiered at the Los Angeles Fangoria Weekend of Horrors and the film is currently being shown at the Cannes film festival. A production of Fatal Frame and Red Shogun the film will be looking for international distribution while a DVD or further limited releases dates are announced. Making the most of an independent film budget the first trailer shows many action scenes with an orphanage, once the killing grounds of a serial killer, becoming the films primary set. Watch this one in the dark for full effect and prepare for a short ride through a haunted house teaming with ghosts and goblins.

A synopsis for "Dark House," below...

Traumatized by an terrifying event in her youth, Claire Thompson tries to exorcise her demons by revisiting the old house where a terrible children's massacre took place. Now a haunted house attraction set up by impressario Walston Rey, the former foster home run by the evil Miss Darrode is set to open for the press and Walston recruits Claire and several of her fellow acting class students to perform as part of the show. Unfortunately, a series of horrible murders happen at the haunted house, generating from the malevolent spirit of the departed Miss Darrode (Internet).

Release Date: April 19, 2009.

Director: Darin Scott.

Writer: Karry Douglas Dye, and Darin Scott.

Cast: Meghan Ory, Jeffrey Combs, Diane Salinger, Matt Cohen, Bevin Prince, Shelly Cole, Ryan Melander, and Danso Gordon.

A B-movie style trailer for "Dark House," below:



Have a look at the films homepage below:

Dark House Homepage

Sources:

Dark House at IMDB






4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot Mike, now I'm going to be having nightmares about women with long fingernails chasing me! This movie looks both scary AND gory. Excellent. Some of the set-pieces look fraught with dark humor too, such as the decapitated head still talking :D

- Zac

Anonymous said...

And that end scare is VERY SCARY! There was no warning..!

- Zac

Michael Allen said...

I did not even notice the decap' head and I saw the trailer 4-5 times. Nice eye and I am sure that I am ruining your adolescence. When you get older everytime you walk down a dark alley you will see something sinister, or a dark shape. Boowhoooaaaa! Damn I am tired my comedy is flat, lol.
-Mike

Anonymous said...

Pfft, my teenage-ness was ruined long before you came along and I do see things where there is nothing to be seen! I always annoy my family by pointing out horror tropes/cliches that could occur at any moment.

Mum: Isn't this countryside area nice?
Me: If this was a horror movie, there'd be locals nearby who'd warn us and we'd laugh. Then we'd all be skinned alive by cannibals.
Mum: Don't say things like that in front of your sister!!
Me: Sorry......it's true though!!

And the sentences always start with: "if this is a horror movie".

At the Madame Tussauds Waxwork Museum in London we were midway through the wax models and I whispered: "all the models are gonna come alive" to my sister, she hit me she was so angry :D

- Zac