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
