(1888PressRelease)
June 07, 2009 - (West Hollywood, CA) -The Scar Crow is a debut feature film from UK independent producer/director/writer Andy Thompson (Oxford) & Pete Benson (Aylesbury) and has been selected for a US premiere screening at the Dances With Films Festival on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 9:30 p.m. The movie premiered in the UK on April 27th, 2009 to a packed audience at the Coronet Cinema in Notting Hill as part of the London Independent Film Festival and won the Best Horror/Sci-Fi Feature Award.
Scar Crow starts in 2009 with four guys from a city insurance company who are not interested in countryside team building exercises and assault courses. They would rather be playing or watching football and downing several beers while chasing anything in a skirt. Yet here they are on an all expenses paid company trip to the middle of nowhere deep in the English countryside, not their idea of a jolly weekend away.
But maybe their luck has arrived in the form of the three Tanner sisters living and working alone on Graves Hill Farm close to a small village with a pub! Other than football, everything could be catered for after all! The sisters are friendly, open and warm, but all is not as it seems and the guys begin to wish they’d paid more attention on the assault course.
The three sisters are the daughters of convicted witch Elizabeth Tanner from the year 1709. Abused by their farmer Father, the sisters murder him and hide his body on a cross in the field as a crow scarer. With his dying words the Father curses his daughters to remain on the farm for an eternity. The sisters live in limbo on the farm neither living not dead, until the year 2009 when the chance to free themselves from a living hell is realized in the form of four guys lost in the depths of the English countryside.
The film features Anna Tolputt (Hellraiser: Hellworld), Marysia Kay (Forest of the Damned. Colours of the Dark), Anya Lahiri (Goal 3. I Can’t Think Straight.) and Iain Rogerson (Coronation Street). The Scar Crow is a British horror-drama-comedy partly set against the backdrop of the witch hunts in 1709 England and partly set in 2009. As well as witchcraft, gothic gore and a bloody killing spree, the story touches on issues of incest, abuse and the love between father and daughter.
Dances With Films Festival runs through Thursday June 11th, 2009. All screenings are held at the Sunset 5 located at 8000 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90046. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online by visiting www.danceswithfilms.com.
For more information about the film or the producers, visit www.thescarcrowmovie.co.uk.
Media contact:
Premier Concepts
email: premierconceptspr ( @ ) gmail dot com
phone: 310-605-5472
###
