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We Are Still Here 31 Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HJ Tel: 0203 585 1396 Web: fetch.fm PRESS RELEASE We Are Still Here Prepare to be terrified with RELEASE INFORMATION this old school haunted house Distributor Studiocanal story! ________________________________________________ Certificate 18 ________________________________________________ Available on EST 12th October and DVD 19th Release date EST 12th October October 2015. DVD 19th October Following its Frightfest UK Premiere, We Are Still KEY TALENT INFORMATION Here will be showing at this year’s Grimmfest, 2nd - 4th October at Odeon Printworks in Manchester. Director Ted Geoghegan ________________________________________________ Fast Sell: Stars • Barbara Crampton • Andrew Sensenig A tense and chilling ghost story from the producers of The • Larry Fessenden House of the Devil and Cheap Thrills. Starring “scream • Lisa Marie queen” Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), it tells the story • Percy Hynes White of a grieving couple that discovers vengeful spirits in their • Jeff Clarke new home. A horror in the tradition of Italian auteurs such as Lucio Fulci, it was one of the breakout hits of this year’s CONTACT/ORDER MEDIA FrightFest. Sadari Cunningham - [email protected] Key talent: Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, From Beyond, You’re Next) Andrew Sensenig (Upstream Color, I Love You Phillip Morris, W.) Larry Fessenden (Habit, Stake Land, I Sell the Dead) Lisa Marie (Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!) Percy Hynes White (The Grand Seduction, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) Jeff Clarke (TV’s Fargo, TV’s Mad Men) Director Ted Geoghegan (producer of Fearmakers, ABCs of Death 2) Synopsis: After the death of their college age son, Anne (“Scream Queen” Barbara Crampton: Re-Animator, You’re Next) and Paul Sacchetti (Andrew Sensenig) relocate to the snow-swept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son’s spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple (Larry Fessenden: I Sell the Dead and Lisa Marie: Mars Attacks!) to help them get to the bottom of the mystery. They discover that not only are the house’s first residents, the vengeful Dagmar family, still there – but so is an ancient power. A primal darkness slumbers under the old home, waking up every thirty years and demanding the fresh blood of a new family. Why we like it: It’s rare when a ghost story comes along that gives you genuine chills, but that’s exactly what made We Are Still Here such a hit with horror fans when it was screened at FrightFest. Though it follows on from such recent haunted house movies as The Innkeepers and The Woman In Black, it takes its cues from the tradition of Italianate filmmakers Lucio Fulci and Pupi Avati, giving We Are Still Here a real retro approach to horror. Director Ted Geoghegan does a masterful job in delivering nerve-jangling tension, a spooky atmosphere, and big jump-out-of-your-seat scares – and there’s a wicked sense of humour beneath the haunted house hi-jinks. Horror favourite Barabara Crampton is also fantastic in the lead role, bringing an all-important melancholy that makes We Are Still Here as much about the characters as the scares. One of this year’s must-see horrors! Special Features: Commentary Behind the Scenes Editor’s Notes We Are Still Here on Blu-ray is available exclusively on The Hut..
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