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Holy Hell Press Packet Forgiveness for some…Bullets for the rest! 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS CREDITS .............................................................................................. 3 SYNOPSIS ............................................................................................ 4 FEATURED CAST ................................................................................ 5 WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER .................................................... 8 DIRECTOR'S VIEW .............................................................................. 9 COMPOSER ....................................................................................... 10 SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR ...................................................... 11 PRODUCTION INFORMATION ......................................................... 12 SCREEN SHOTS ................................................................................ 13 AWARDS ............................................................................................ 16 FILM FESTIVALS ............................................................................... 17 REVIEWS ........................................................................................... 18 TESTIMONIALS .................................................................................. 19 END CREDITS .................................................................................... 20 CLOSING ............................................................................................ 24 3 CREDITS Writer, Director, Producer ................................................... Ryan LaPlante Co-Producer ........................................................................ Michael Rawley Associate Producer ............................................................. Saba Director of Photography ...................................................... Kyle C. Barker Composer ........................................................................... Adrian Ellis Supervising Sound Editor ................................................... George Flores, CAS. MPSE. Editor ................................................................................... Ryan LaPlante Costume Design ................................................................. Jill LaPlante Color Grade ........................................................................ Defiant Digital FX............................................................................. Shaun Ryan Savard Father Bane ........................................................................ Ryan LaPlante Dokes MacFarlane .............................................................. Michael Rawley Amy Bonner ........................................................................ Alysa King Officer Blank ....................................................................... Luke LaPlante Sissy MacFarlane ............................................................... Shane Patrick McClurg Trisha MacFarlane .............................................................. Rachel Ann Little Buddy MacFarlane .............................................................. Reece Presley Detective White ................................................................... Michael Dwyer Ronald Bonner .................................................................... Noel LaPlante Sandra Bonner .................................................................... Jill LaPlante El Diablo .............................................................................. Austin Schaefer 4 SYNOPSIS GENRE: LONG SYNOPSIS: Horror/Comedy Father Augustus Bane leads a parish in one of the scummiest towns on Earth. His saving grace are his parishioners, the Bonners, a “Leave it to TAGLINE: Beaver” style family who are struggling with their daughter Amy. She Forgiveness for some… Bullets for drinks, refuses to wear shirts over her bras, and won’t stop swearing at the rest! her helmet-wearing brother Dougie! LOGLINE: Suddenly the MacFarlane family bursts into the Bonner home. They’re Holy Hell is the over-the-top, sexually led by Dokes, the tyrant of the town, and include his children: Buddy, a deviant, blood-drenched story of roid-rage-aholic; Trisha, a vampiric sadist; and Sissy, the twisted and Father Augustus Bane: a priest perverted birthday boy! In an orgy of blood the MacFarlanes slaughter pushed too far who begins praying to the Bonners and leave Father Bane for dead. a revolver and hunting down the gangsters who killed his parishioners. Bane survives the attack, but his sanity does not. Walking the streets searching for a sign, Father Bane finds a revolver that he names “the SHORT SYNOPSIS: Lord.” Taking up this weapon of divine retribution, Bane begins hunting Father Augustus Bane was a kind, down the MacFarlanes and any other sinners that cross his path. gentle Priest until he witnessed the massacre of a family of his The next day he’s contacted by the hospital. Good news! Amy Bonner parishioners, the Bonners, at the also survived! Adopting this troubled, sexually frustrated young woman hands of the MacFarlanes, a family of now confined to a wheelchair, Bane brings her home and she joins his psychopathic gangsters. Left for dead cause. at the scene, Father Bane survives and suffers a crisis of faith. Emerging After massacring his corrupt congregation, Father Bane begins his war on the other side, Father Bane starts against the MacFarlanes, facing off with Buddy and Trisha at their praying to a revolver he names “the nightclub. Leaving the siblings dead in their den of sin, Bane triggers the Lord” and hunting down the summoning of El Diablo, Dokes’s favourite hitman. MacFarlane clan. Joined by the handi-capable and sexually frustrated But even El Diablo can’t stop the rampaging priest. Bane tears through daughter of the Bonner family, Bane El Diablo, the He/She Army, and Dokes’s bodyguards until he’s face-to- and the Lord will free their town from face with the tyrant himself. Can Father Bane defeat the man who sin and baptize the MacFarlanes in drove him to find “the Lord”? Can Amy avenge her family? What other their own blood! tricks does Dokes MacFarlane have up his sleeve? Find out in… Holy Hell! Runtime: 90 minutes 5 FEATURED CAST Ryan LaPlante as Father Augustus Bane Ryan LaPlante can be seen on TV in the first two seasons of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series The Odd Squad, the feature films A Very Country Christmas and Very,Very Valentine, and he provides the voice of Bakko for the animated series Jerry and the Raiders. He has shared the screen with Christopher Russell (Star Trek: Discovery, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency), Jana Kramer (One Tree Hill, 90210), Munro Chambers (Degrassi: The Next Generation), Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black) and Greyston Holt (Bitten, No Tomorrow). Ryan is a graduate of Queen’s University and Toronto's Second City Improv Conservatory. His additional training includes musical theatre, opera, stage combat, ballroom dance and sarcasm. For his work in Holy Hell, Ryan netted three Best Actor Awards from festivals including the Nightmares Film Festival (“The Cannes of Horror” – iHorror), CIM Sueca, and Fantastically Horrifying Cinema. He received 4 additional Best Actor nominations (Austin Revolution Film Festival, The San Antonio Horrific Film Festival, GenreBlast, and the FANtastic Horror Film Festival). SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2018 – Very, Very Valentine 2017 – A Very Country Christmas 2016 – Jerry and the Raiders 2016 – Country Crush 2015 – Gone Tomorrow 2014-2015 – The Odd Squad 2015 – Love, The Invention 2013-2014 – Extreme Babysitting 6 FEATURED CAST Alysa King as Amy Bonner Alysa King is a Canadian-born singer, actress and live performer. Most recently she appeared in several episodes of the NBC/Chiller series Slasher starring Katie McGrath (Jurassic World) and Brandon Jay McLaren (The Killing). She starred in the feature films Bed of the Dead and Tormented, and in her numerous other roles she has shared the screen with Colm Feore (House of Cards, Thor), Ari Millen (Orphan Black), Leslie Hope (Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak) and Steve Byers (The Man In The High Castle). Alysa trained at Sheridan College before completing her degree at Queen’s University, where she first met Ryan LaPlante. The two had previously collaborated on stage productions including Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo & Juliet, and the musical RENT!. For her performance as Amy Bonner, Alysa received a Best Supporting Actress Award at HorrorQuest, as well as 3 nominations for Best Actress (FANtastic Horror Film Festival, Austin Revolution Film Festival and The San Antonio Horrific Film Fest) and an additional nomination for Best Supporting Actress (GenreBlast). SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017– Hunter’s Moon 2017 – Fare Trade 2016 – Bed of the Dead 2016 – Slasher 2016 – American Lawmen 2015 – Lady Psycho Killer 2015 – The Millennials 2015 – Tormented 2014 – Asset: The Webseries 2014 – Dead Rivalry 7 FEATURED CAST Reece Presley as Buddy MacFarlane Reece Presley is one of the hardest working actors in Toronto. On television he has appeared in series including 12 Monkeys, Blood and Fury: America’s Civil War, Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case and Gratuitous Behaviour. Reece has also played leading roles in the feature films Red Spring, Detainee X, Black Watch Snipers and Christmas in Angel Falls. His upcoming projects include the feature films Bloodslinger, The Eidolon, We Came To Wreck Everything, Marjorie, Hunstmen, Pride, Stones and The Long Night. Over