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First ‘Shortwave’ Clip Delivers Static-charged Horror [Exclusive]
After making the festival rounds, Sony Pictures and Vega Baby Releasing will release Ryan Gregory Phillips’ Shortwave on VOD October 24, 2017.
Luiz says the film “shines with more emotion than horror.”
Also already on DVD, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip that’s brooding with horror as static brings upon something horrific.
Shortwave is a modern and unrelentingly tense psychological thriller based on a theory of the origins of shortwave radio frequencies; it’s an unnerving reminder that some stones are best left unturned.
“The roots of Shortwave stem from true horror within the human subconscious,” director Ryan Gregory Phillips tells us. “The story was inspired by the time a friend of mine came over and showed me shortwave radio stations that you could listen to online, of which there are thousands. He was picking up real signals from things that sounded like little girls reading numbers backward. It was beyond creepy the first time I heard it and these signals only came in at a certain time every night. That experience stuck with me for a quite some time and I started to do research and wonder what if there was more to that signal than I heard. Apparently, shortwave radio waves have been around forever, but it wasn’t until we built the radio that we were able to finally listen to them.”
He continues: “How crazy would it be if you lost someone, would do anything to get them back, and one day you heard them over a radio transmission? Is it them? Are you crazy? What if it was something else completely, but it that just sounded like them? I wanted to explore how far people will go to find the truth they are seeking. Shortwave is not a typical sci-fi horror. It’s a story about love, loss, and desperation, but it explores these themes in a way in which I feel has not been done before.”
Shortwave arrives on VOD October 24, 2017.
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, “Salem”) and Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) penned the script. The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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