Today, ALTER released the horror series “The Outer Darkness” from
director Ben Franklin and Anthony Melton. Known for directing “The
Birch.”
On Friday evenings in Lynnsmouth Community Centre, meets a
group led by Father Jonathan Crowe. Together they share their
stories – tales of strange occurrences, horrific events and bizarre
encounters that have scarred their lives. Tonight, a young
tormented woman called Jenny will share a story of her experience
with a game of chance that sealed the fate of her
family…
More about the filmmakers:
Having completed 15 short film projects already, the
directing and producing duo are now expanding their portfolio of
work into the feature film arena. Franklin and Melton’s films
include ‘The Birch’, ‘Don’t Move’, ‘The Outer Darkness’ and ‘Dare’,
all of which have been critically praised (by festival audiences,
online viewers and popular film blogs) for their use of practical
makeup, Hollywood standard aesthetics and unconventional
storytelling. Their supernatural horror ‘The Birch’ accumulated
over 35 million views for Crypt TV, and went onto receive a Webby
Award in the Drama category. The film toured festivals worldwide,
finishing at Tribeca Film Festival in April, where Ben and Anthony
took part in a live-streamed Q&A on-stage, alongside renowned
horror filmmaker Eli Roth. In 2017 Ben and Anthony directed the
short ‘Don’t Go Down to Wildor’ for FOX Digital, which went on to
play at Canneseries and win ‘Best Horror Short’ at HollyShorts Film
Festival. Their most recent found-footage horror ‘The Nest’ was
made as part of the V/H/S horror franchise, and is due for release
over Halloween on social media.
