Post by HorrorBob on Aug 1, 2008 18:52:46 GMT -5
New York, NY (July 29th, 2008) – MODERNCINÉ, director/producer ANDREW VAN DEN HOUTEN, and critically acclaimed horror author JACK KETCHUM reunite to bring one of the author’s most haunting and gruesome tales to the big screen. “Who’s the scariest guy in America? Jack Ketchum, quite simply, is one of the best in the business,” says literary master of the macabre Stephen King.
Adapted for the screen by author JACK KETCHUM, who broadened the landscape of our worst nightmares with such stories as “The Lost,” “The Girl Next Door,” and “Red,” comes this shocking tale of rural horror adapted by the master storyteller himself – OFFSPRING. Something deadly has returned to the woods and seaside cliffs of Dead River, Maine. An evil thought to have been exterminated has returned with their insatiable appetite for human flesh. David and Amy Halbard’s family and their house guests are about to come face to face with a blood-thirsty pack of wild children lead by a woman, the last survivor of a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages. The only one who can possibly save them and put an end to the reign of terror is retired sheriff George Peters.
Directed by VAN DEN HOUTEN and screenplay by KETCHUM, OFFSPRING’s cinematographer and producer is William M. Miller, with a score by Ryan Shore and special effects by Anthony Pepe. OFFSPRING features veteran actor of film and television ART HINDLE (The Brood and Invasion of the Body Snatchers) as George Peters and actress POLLYANNA MCINTOSH as Claire. Young TOMMY NELSON plays the heroic Luke and his co-star SPENCER LIST, who stars opposite Michael Biehn and John Savage in the upcoming “Malevolence: Bereavement,” is the sinister Rabbit.
ANDREW VAN DEN HOUTEN marked his freshman year at Boston's Emerson College by producing and co-starring in the independent feature film "Alma Mater", a recipient of the Audience Award at the 2002 Austin Film Festival. Andrew founded MODERNCINÉ his junior year for his first film production, "Inherent Darkness and Enlightenment", Emerson first completed 35mm film. After graduation, Andrew returned to New York where in 2005 he directed "Headspace", MODERNCINÉ's first full-length feature, an official selection of the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival and a multiple award-winner at the New York City Horror Film Festival. Andrew recently produced MODERNCINÉ's "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door," based on the best-selling novel by Jack Ketchum. The company recently premiered their latest horror film, “Home Movie," starring "Heroes” Adrian Pasdar at the prestigious Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, and has several other productions in development.
JACK KETCHUM (jackketchum.net) is the pseudonym for a former actor, singer, teacher, literary agent, whose first novel, Off Season, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. His short story “The Box” won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from the HWA, his story “Gone” won again in 2000 -- and in 2003 he won Stokers for both best collection for Peaceable Kingdom and best long fiction for “Closing Time.” He has written eleven novels and many novellas the latest of which is Old Flames. His stories are collected in The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Broken on the Wheel of Sex, Peaceable Kingdom, and Closing Time and Other Stories. His novella “The Crossings” was cited by Stephen King in his speech at the 2003 National Book Awards.
MODERNCINÉ (www.moderncine.com) is dedicated to making high-quality films by telling stories that are edgy and groundbreaking. Our only limit is to avoid clichés and complacency in favor of original ideas and memorable performances. MODERNCINÉ was founded in 2001 by Andrew van den Houten. In 2005, Andrew directed “Headspace,” their first full-length feature, an official selection of the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival, a multiple award-winner at the New York City Horror Film Festival, and winner of the "Best Monster Movie" at the World Horror Convention in San Francisco. Headspace is available nationwide on DVD at all major retailers and is now showing on Showtime Channel and Starz/Encore. They are currently in post-production on "Made For Each Other", starring Christopher Masterson and Bijou Phillips, also starring Danny Masterson, Lauren German, and Samm Levine with George Segal and Patrick Warburton.
Adapted for the screen by author JACK KETCHUM, who broadened the landscape of our worst nightmares with such stories as “The Lost,” “The Girl Next Door,” and “Red,” comes this shocking tale of rural horror adapted by the master storyteller himself – OFFSPRING. Something deadly has returned to the woods and seaside cliffs of Dead River, Maine. An evil thought to have been exterminated has returned with their insatiable appetite for human flesh. David and Amy Halbard’s family and their house guests are about to come face to face with a blood-thirsty pack of wild children lead by a woman, the last survivor of a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages. The only one who can possibly save them and put an end to the reign of terror is retired sheriff George Peters.
Directed by VAN DEN HOUTEN and screenplay by KETCHUM, OFFSPRING’s cinematographer and producer is William M. Miller, with a score by Ryan Shore and special effects by Anthony Pepe. OFFSPRING features veteran actor of film and television ART HINDLE (The Brood and Invasion of the Body Snatchers) as George Peters and actress POLLYANNA MCINTOSH as Claire. Young TOMMY NELSON plays the heroic Luke and his co-star SPENCER LIST, who stars opposite Michael Biehn and John Savage in the upcoming “Malevolence: Bereavement,” is the sinister Rabbit.
ANDREW VAN DEN HOUTEN marked his freshman year at Boston's Emerson College by producing and co-starring in the independent feature film "Alma Mater", a recipient of the Audience Award at the 2002 Austin Film Festival. Andrew founded MODERNCINÉ his junior year for his first film production, "Inherent Darkness and Enlightenment", Emerson first completed 35mm film. After graduation, Andrew returned to New York where in 2005 he directed "Headspace", MODERNCINÉ's first full-length feature, an official selection of the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival and a multiple award-winner at the New York City Horror Film Festival. Andrew recently produced MODERNCINÉ's "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door," based on the best-selling novel by Jack Ketchum. The company recently premiered their latest horror film, “Home Movie," starring "Heroes” Adrian Pasdar at the prestigious Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, and has several other productions in development.
JACK KETCHUM (jackketchum.net) is the pseudonym for a former actor, singer, teacher, literary agent, whose first novel, Off Season, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. His short story “The Box” won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from the HWA, his story “Gone” won again in 2000 -- and in 2003 he won Stokers for both best collection for Peaceable Kingdom and best long fiction for “Closing Time.” He has written eleven novels and many novellas the latest of which is Old Flames. His stories are collected in The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Broken on the Wheel of Sex, Peaceable Kingdom, and Closing Time and Other Stories. His novella “The Crossings” was cited by Stephen King in his speech at the 2003 National Book Awards.
MODERNCINÉ (www.moderncine.com) is dedicated to making high-quality films by telling stories that are edgy and groundbreaking. Our only limit is to avoid clichés and complacency in favor of original ideas and memorable performances. MODERNCINÉ was founded in 2001 by Andrew van den Houten. In 2005, Andrew directed “Headspace,” their first full-length feature, an official selection of the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival, a multiple award-winner at the New York City Horror Film Festival, and winner of the "Best Monster Movie" at the World Horror Convention in San Francisco. Headspace is available nationwide on DVD at all major retailers and is now showing on Showtime Channel and Starz/Encore. They are currently in post-production on "Made For Each Other", starring Christopher Masterson and Bijou Phillips, also starring Danny Masterson, Lauren German, and Samm Levine with George Segal and Patrick Warburton.