BREAKING NEWS!
Adrienne King FROM FRIDAY THE 13TH HAS SIGND ON TO THE DEAD GIRL IN APARTMENT 03.
Casting is in!
The cast for our new movie "The Dead Girl in APARTMENT 03" IS IN.
Bryan Manley Davis, Laura Dooling, Frank Wihbey & Michael Schantz
Bryan Manley Davis, Laura Dooling, Frank Wihbey & Michael Schantz
The Dead girl in apartment 03
After finding her roommate dead under mysterious circumstances, a young woman is haunted inside her apartment.
Stats filming this September!
Stats filming this September!
something new on the way. 2019
the devil's well is in stores now!
Now available on DVD & VOD
And the awrad goes to!
We are proud to announce that (The Unexplained Disappearance of Karla Marks) "The Devil's Well" was just awarded the Gold Award by the Spotlight Horror Film Awards.
green light on distribution
We are very excited to announce that our latest movie "The Unexplained Disappearance of Karla Marks" has been picked up for US and International distribution by Wild Eye Releasing. As a result, the title of the movie has officially been changed to "The Devil's Well". Thank you everyone for your support and stay tuned for more details as we move forward.
The ain't cool news review is in!
THE UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF KARLA MARKS -by mark l. Miller
People say they are sick of found footage films. But I think as a response to that type of criticism, those types of films have transmorphed recently into the shockumentary, a mock-documentary format that, in some ways, addresses a lot of the criticisms the found footagers receive. Similar in tone to the excellent LAKE MUNGO (one of the most underrated horror films in the last decade or so, which I reviewed here), THE UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF KARLA MARKS follows a more investigative, 60 MINUTES approach that bridges the gap between cinematically filmed and first person POV style films, and does so in a successfully creepy manner.
When Karla Marks (Anne-Marie Mueschke) goes missing after a paranormal investigation with her husband Bryan (Bryan Manley Davis), many feel that Bryan had something to do with it. But Bryan attests that he thinks something paranormal occurred in the rumored-to-be haunted locale dubbed "The Devil's Well" and masses together another team of paranormal investigators to return to the site and try to get to the bottom of the disappearance and prove something paranormal is going on.
Many questions come up while making a found footage film. Why are they still filming? Why is there so much boring lead-in and a rushed/obscured ending? Why should we care about these people who can’t even hold a camera steadily? Much of this is addressed in THE UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF KARLA MARKS and I found it refreshing that this feels like a post modern found footager because it learns from the mistakes of so many of the films of this kind have committed in the past. Why are they filming? While the team really want to prove the paranormal exists, there are skeptics in the group who think Bryan staged all of this or worse yet, Bryan did something to Karla, so they want to follow Bryan closely to get to the truth. There’s already a mystery here and in the way this film is presented as a 20/20 investigative sort of piece, it is understandable why the cameras remain rolling as well as why we should care about whether Karla is found or not. Bryan (Davis) does a great job of walking that line whether or not he is trustworthy, so the investment is established nicely here from the beginning with interviews from family, friends, and investigators on the case who both want believe in Bryan’s story, but also suspect something else is going on. The fact that Bryan and Karla’s website has blown up with hits is motive enough for them to stage this as a hoax. So all of these questions leading up to the investigation had me by the short hairs.
The cast also does a great job of not looking like supermodels and acting like real people, another essential component of a truly believable found footage film. The investigators are exactly what you think of them to be and we get enough back story on them to believe they could be the real thing. Each character feels lived in, even though the story doesn’t call for a lot of back story, it is peppered in to help the viewer understand why people are doing what they are doing and shows a sophistication to the writing that is not present in most found footagers.
There will be some who give this one a pass simply because it’s found footage, but you’d be missing a good one. THE UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF KARLA MARKS is a structurally sound and tightly written tale of paranoia, paranormal things, and missing people. The ending might frustrate some as there is no huge reveal of a monster or anything of this sort, but it does wrap things up rather creepily without throwing a slam-bang effects spectacular climax that wouldn’t fit with the modest budgeted way the rest of the films plays out. The final words saying that “People hearing a noise in the middle of the night think it’s a monster, when they should really be afraid it is another person. But people are going to believe what they want to believe.” is a fun capper on this film that says a lot about how the whole thing can be perceived. I definitely recommend this film to folks who are fans of the found footage subgenre.
When Karla Marks (Anne-Marie Mueschke) goes missing after a paranormal investigation with her husband Bryan (Bryan Manley Davis), many feel that Bryan had something to do with it. But Bryan attests that he thinks something paranormal occurred in the rumored-to-be haunted locale dubbed "The Devil's Well" and masses together another team of paranormal investigators to return to the site and try to get to the bottom of the disappearance and prove something paranormal is going on.
Many questions come up while making a found footage film. Why are they still filming? Why is there so much boring lead-in and a rushed/obscured ending? Why should we care about these people who can’t even hold a camera steadily? Much of this is addressed in THE UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF KARLA MARKS and I found it refreshing that this feels like a post modern found footager because it learns from the mistakes of so many of the films of this kind have committed in the past. Why are they filming? While the team really want to prove the paranormal exists, there are skeptics in the group who think Bryan staged all of this or worse yet, Bryan did something to Karla, so they want to follow Bryan closely to get to the truth. There’s already a mystery here and in the way this film is presented as a 20/20 investigative sort of piece, it is understandable why the cameras remain rolling as well as why we should care about whether Karla is found or not. Bryan (Davis) does a great job of walking that line whether or not he is trustworthy, so the investment is established nicely here from the beginning with interviews from family, friends, and investigators on the case who both want believe in Bryan’s story, but also suspect something else is going on. The fact that Bryan and Karla’s website has blown up with hits is motive enough for them to stage this as a hoax. So all of these questions leading up to the investigation had me by the short hairs.
The cast also does a great job of not looking like supermodels and acting like real people, another essential component of a truly believable found footage film. The investigators are exactly what you think of them to be and we get enough back story on them to believe they could be the real thing. Each character feels lived in, even though the story doesn’t call for a lot of back story, it is peppered in to help the viewer understand why people are doing what they are doing and shows a sophistication to the writing that is not present in most found footagers.
There will be some who give this one a pass simply because it’s found footage, but you’d be missing a good one. THE UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF KARLA MARKS is a structurally sound and tightly written tale of paranoia, paranormal things, and missing people. The ending might frustrate some as there is no huge reveal of a monster or anything of this sort, but it does wrap things up rather creepily without throwing a slam-bang effects spectacular climax that wouldn’t fit with the modest budgeted way the rest of the films plays out. The final words saying that “People hearing a noise in the middle of the night think it’s a monster, when they should really be afraid it is another person. But people are going to believe what they want to believe.” is a fun capper on this film that says a lot about how the whole thing can be perceived. I definitely recommend this film to folks who are fans of the found footage subgenre.
THE UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF KARLA MARKS poster
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beware... The nest
"The Nest" Official Selection of the 2016 15 Second Horror Film Challenge
The critics have spoken
That's a wrap on The unexplained Disappearance of karla marks
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NEW: Greenlight for latest feature
We are excited to announce that we are going into pre-production on our latest feature entitled: The Unexplained Disappearance of Karla Marks. More news to come. Stay tuned to our facebook page for more updates!
news: distribution
THIS JUST IN: We are extremely excited to announce that we recently signed a contract with Unearthed Films for the North American distribution rights to our first feature film, Sheep Skin. This means that Sheep Skin will officially be available on store shelves later this year!!! We would also like to thank all that worked on this project with us and help make this happen.
NEWs: Sheep Skin reviews are in
Horror Society Sheep Skin review. 4 out of 5
-"Sheep Skin is not your run-of-the-mill werewolf flick.”
Horror News Network Sheep Skin review. 7 out of 10
-"Sheep Skin takes a very realistic approach to the werewolf myth."
-"Sheep Skin is not your run-of-the-mill werewolf flick.”
Horror News Network Sheep Skin review. 7 out of 10
-"Sheep Skin takes a very realistic approach to the werewolf myth."
news: Sheep Skin official trailer
news: SHeep Skin officially complete!
Kurtis Spieler and Nick Papazoglou would like to thank everyone that worked so hard on the film. Now the fun begins (trailer and premiere details to come).
News: Color correction is done
Color is officially locked for Sheep Skin. Just gotta finish the sound mix and final approvals for VFX and the film will be done!!!
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Sheep Skin
THE FILM IS LOCKED AND HAS MOVED UP TO BOSTON FOR AUDIO WORK AND COLOR CORRECTION.
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