BETH and her so called friends head to Highridge Woods for a debauched weekend but after an altercation upon the group’s arrival, things spiral out of control when they cross the path of the Venner's. A savage family of tattooed gypsies who cut, burn, and dismember their victims leaving a trail of blood and carnage wherever they go.
As the Venners maim and kill, Beth's medication wears off and she starts to join in the killing spree. Suddenly the Venners have a problem on their hands, the hunters become the hunted and Beth begins to wreak havoc amongst friend and foe.
You can read my review of Luke Brady's "Young, High & Dead" here: . Luke Brady was kind enough to answer a few questions about 'The Highridge Massacre' . You can read our interview below and don't forget to go check out the Kickstarter campaign for the horror web series. Also if you haven't seen "Young, High & Dead" yet I suggest you go check it out as well!
ASOUTHERNLIFE: Where did you get the idea for The Highridge Massacre?
LUKE BRADY: Lot's of
people kept asking me if there would be a sequel to Young, High and Dead so I
started playing around with different idea's to expand the story. It was at this
time that Graeme from beyondthegore.co.uk got in touch, he had
sent me a novella horror he had written which I loved so I asked him if he
wanted to collaborate and co-write my next feature film, thankfully he said yes.
We spent several months coming up with idea's for brutal death scenes, sub plots
and the characters. We then re-drafted the story until we ended up with 100
pages of script and called it The Highridge Massacre.
ASOUTHERNLIFE: What
made you choose to do the story as a web series instead of a feature film
follow-up?
LUKE BRADY: The
distribution landscape has changed so much in recent years, it's becoming
extremely difficult for filmmakers to finance anything, regardless of genre, so
I wanted The Highridge Massacre to be a multi platform project that used
different tools to tell the story. Last year feearthecrypt.com ran a #6secondscare
competition for budding filmmakers all over the world, I thought this was a
great opportunity to test out Highridge and see if audiences liked the
characters or style of work we had created, so in one week I took an extract
from the script, did a casting call, storyboarded and prepped a one day, then
posted the clip online. It didn't win the competition but afterwards Fear The
Crypt got in touch and said they really liked what I had done and asked me if I
wanted to make a web series for their online CryptTV channel. I then tailored
the project to fit into a web series which I am currently running a kickstarter
campaign for so I am really hoping we meet our target and get to make Highridge
come to life, it's an all or nothing fundraiser, which means we only are
successful if we hit 100% of the money (£2500 GBP).
ASOUTHERNLIFE: What
separates The Highridge Massacre from other horror series that fans will really
dig?
LUKE BRADY: The
episodes are like x-rated commercial ad breaks and are only 30 seconds in
duration, so the violence and horror comes really thick and fast which will
definitely be unique for a web series. There won't be any slow character
building or faux tension, from the second the series starts we unleash the
carnage. But I think the main attraction will be the hero character Beth, she is
nothing like your typical female in a horror film. She's not weak or vulnerable,
she's not a pathetic bookworm or a ditzy cheerleader, she doesn't seek revenge
after getting raped. Beth is a closet psychopath who ends up in a situation
where her and her friends are been hunted but when all hell breaks loose the
opportunity for her to go on a killing spree becomes a dream come true. The
Highridge Massacre shows you what happens when a family of tattooed serial
killer gypsies pick on the wrong girl!
ASOUTHERNLIFE: You
promise X-rated and NSFW full on horror gore in the series, what can we expect
to see in The Highridge Massacre, it sounds like you are pushing the envelop a
bit, we talking Lars Von Trier?
LUKE BRADY: Normally I
wouldn't want to give away spoilers but we do have teeth getting pulled out,
hands and heads getting sawed off, shotguns being fired, stabbings, burning
flesh, skin getting chewed, barb wire, one eyed twins, spitting, torture,
punching, head butting, a screw driver in an eye. headless rape, brains
exploding, a dungeon, tattoos and if we go over our kickstarter campaign target
we will be including a two headed feral beast that is half human! No CGI all
real SFX and gallons of blood, all packed into 10 x 30 second episodes. So not
quite Lars Von Trier.
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