
Shot October 2008 on Location in Devon | HD Eco Horror Feature Film | 83 minutes
Directed by Anthony Straeger, Produced by John Slocombe
and Written by Stephen Gawtry, DOP – Dennis Morgan
OUTLINE: In the summer of 1968, three teenagers went on a camping trip into Herongate Woods. What started out as a fun trip ended in a nightmare as one of the boys met with a tragic death. The other two escaped, but could only relay a tail of a hooded and horned man who terrorised them.
Forty years later, Caroline (one of the survivors) meets with a mysterious and tragic death. Ralph now the only survivor returns to the scene of the original incident with a documentary crew. As he relives the unfortunate episode the past catches up with him as the hooded man returns and the spirit of the forest is awoken with chilling consequences.
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Blue Green Yellow DEAD! (in Development)
A game of Life and Death. And Zombies
Genre | Format: HD Horror Feature Film | 100 minutes
Shooting: 2011 | Script: 2nd Draft
Written by David Scullion
Directed by Anthony Straeger
PLOT OUTLINE: Tranquilized, kidnapped and dumped in a warehouse, eight strangers are plunged into a deadly game of paint-ball, where the paint doesn't just stain – it infects. The participants quickly realize they've been chosen for a reason – their open opposition to pharmaceutical giant Avernus – and they've become another experiment in Avernus's bio-weapons research program, playing a game they cannot win. Faced with paralyzing paint-balls, psychotic opponents and a ravenous hoard of zombies, the strangers must team up and find a way to escape … or forever become one of Avernus's hungry undead.
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STAN the Movie (in Development)
Genre | Format: Psychological Horror Feature | 95 minutes
Audience: 18 + (Hellraiser, The Machinist, fade To Black)
Strap-line: Take one of life losers and a pinch of Schizophrenic and a Box Cutter knife with a mind of it’s own and you have a receipt for disaster… Psychologically – It's a bit of a carve up.
Short Synopsis: Suffering from low self esteem Stan has fumbled his way through life. Karen his long term girlfriend is feel the strain of proping him up and life seems to be conspiring against him. Stan gets a calling… But is it from within or is it real. Stanley the voice of a Box Cutter rings in his head and draws him to a DIY store. Once the connection is made it seals the fate of both Stan and his victims alike. Wrestling with concience and psychosis Stan is driven down a road of murder and mayhem.
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WINDSCREEN (in Development)
Synopsis: The Trouble With Harry was that Harry was dead. The trouble with Jack is that he's not. And that he's stuck in Charlene's windscreen.
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On a late Friday night, Nurse Charlene drives home, drunk and high on drugs after a night out on the town. Along the way, she slams the breaks on – too late for down-and-out Jack as she smashes into him and he crashes through her windscreen where he becomes embedded. Unable to pull him out and believing him to be dead… Charlene, terrified of being found out, drives home, only to find to her horror that he is still very much alive and stuck in her windscreen and garage.
Her obnoxious neighbour Daniel (a man with his own agenda) soon finds out about Charlene’s desperate situation and in return for his services in resolving her situation and finding a way out of her nightmare that doesn't involve a stretch inside, solicits sexual favour. Once Charlene's errant boyfriend Ian, bisexual best friend Ellen (who discovers Ian betrayal of Charlene) become involved in the situation tension among the quorum run even higher as the weekend becomes a pressure cooker of lies, secrets and plans. The outcome is uncertain for all except Jack. Who finally dies.
When Ian discovers Ellen snooping around the house he takes it upon himself to save his own skin and kills her. Bereft of all human conscience, the gruesome trio hack Jacks body from the windscreen and take it for burial in a local copse. When the stress spills over at the burial site, Daniel becomes the final victim. Blood on their hands the murderous couple find themselves bound closer together… But will anyone discover their dark secrets?
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Theatre of Mirrors (in Development)
Genre | Format: RED HD Horror Feature Film | 85 minutes
Shooting: 2011 | Script: in Development
Written by Stephen Gawtry based on an idea by Martin Shenton
Directed by Anthony Straeger
Synopsis: Mike Hilton, a wealthy property developer, comes across a beautiful old theatre for sale in the Northern seaside town. The ideal present for his wife’s birthday and rumours of it being haunted only add to his conviction that he’s found the perfect surprise.
He presents the unfinished gift to Maria, she’s delighted and wants to move in straight away. Plans are put together to restore the Winter Gardens to its former glory. But the theatre has a strange affect on her and though at first the change is barely noticeable, Maria’s behaviour becomes more and more erratic and her health deteriorates. Builders are brutally kills them. Policemen are found dead – The finger points in Maria’s direction, is she possessed or does she have an unknown secret. What tragic event took place in the theatre’s history and who was responsible? Is it really haunted. The Winter Gardens holds a terrible secret – a secret that has lain dormant for over three decades. How many more will die before the truth is revealed?
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