AN Independent UK thriller film filmed in and around Herefordshire will have its world premiere at Leicester Square in London as part of this year’s FrightFest Film Festival.
Made with a budget of just £35,000, ‘Derelict’ focuses on a daughter’s revenge after one of her father's murderers is released from prison and the circumstances that led to his killing.
FrightFest is the UK’s largest independent international thriller, fantasy and horror film festival, taking place from August 22 to 26 2024 at the Odeon in London’s Leicester Square. Derelict will be screened at the Leicester Square Odeon on Sunday, August 25 at 6.15pm as “the first film from Hereford at FrightFest, but hopefully not our last!”
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The movie’s filmmakers are predominantly made up of Hereford residents, consisting of director Jonathan Zaurin and producers Sarah Zaurin, Andy Piper, Pete Bird and Todd Rodgers. Screenplay writers Michael Mackenzie and Kat Ellinger, score composer Michael Sànchez and sound editor Ryan Jordan add to the list.
The film’s talented cast features Suzanne Fulton (Cold Feet), regular LBS Films contributors Mikey JL Coombes and Pete Bird, Dean Kilbey (Boiling Point, Top Boy), Nick Cornwall, Corinne Strickett, Joe Nurse, Darren James King, Ben Manning and Stacey Coleman (Polterheist, Emmerdale).
Director Mr Zaurin, said, “It’s intimidating, but an honour to be selected for a festival as respected and important as FrightFest and we can’t wait to show everybody what we’ve been working on for the last two years.”
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Reviewer Wayne Kramer called the film a "slow-burn anatomy of a brutal murder and its aftermath,” - a story Mr Zaurin has put aside for 20 years before it became a movie. Born in France but now living in Hereford, the director said the idea came from a real-life French crime he heard of in his youth.
Mr Zaurin’s “powerful cinematic vision,” that Mr Kramer described chose Hereford as its home out of “a desire to put it on the film map” the director said. Despite an impressively low budget, kept down by Mr Zaurin’s ability to multi-task after gaining a BA at Hereford College of Arts, Derelict’s director said he would have chosen the city of Hereford to film if he had millions at his disposal.
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