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Watch Mike Williamson’s “Deathly” Featuring Alan Ruck!
Mike Williamson has concluded his festival run* by releasing his haunting short “Deathly” online in full.
Following the tragic death of his wife, a man (played by Alan Ruck of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and FOX’s upcoming “The Exorcist” series) is unsettled by chilling events in their house.
Kathleen Wilhoite (Road House, Fire in the Sky), Mickey Keating (Director of Darling, Carnage Park) and Christina Elizabeth Smith (“Killer Sisters’ Midnight Hour”) also star.
In filmmaker Mike Williamson’s new horror short Deathly, Alan Ruck plays a widower whose wife may not be resting in peace. “I wanted to make a haunted house film — it’s probably my favorite subgenre in horror,” says Williamson to EW of ‘Deathly,’ which premiered at London’s FrightFest event last September. “It really came from me thinking about when there are couples who have been together a long time, and one of them dies, there’s this phenomenon where the other spouse dies within a year after that of a broken heart — they say. I started thinking, We assume it’s a broken heart. What happens if we didn’t know the whole story? That’s where Deathly came from.”
*Film Fest Screenings:
FrightFest, London – Aug 2015 (World Premiere)
Fantastic Fest, Austin – Sept 2015 (US Premiere)
Beyond Fest, Los Angeles – Oct 2015 (Los Angeles Premiere)
Telluride Horror Show, Colorado – Oct 2015
Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival, New York – Nov 2015
Fantasporto, Portugal – Feb 2016
Chattanooga Film Festival, Tennessee – March 2016
CineMartini, Los Angeles – March 2016
Phoenix Film Festival, Arizona – April 2016
Cryptshow Barcelona Film Festival – July 2016
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival – September 2016
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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery
One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.
Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”
In the SXSW 2024 horror film…
“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.
“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”
Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.
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