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Things are coming full circle for director Jeff Chitty's The Taking of Savannah. The film's trailer debuted at last year's Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, Kentucky, and over the upcoming weekend of July 22nd-24th, the film itself will premiere at the very same event!

Screening alongside Savannah at the Fright Night Film Fest will be films from Kansas City area filmmakers David R. Berry, Brian Boye, John D. Barnes, Andrew Rolston, Dustin Adair and festival regular Patrick Rea, among others. Also appearing at Fright Night are legendary director John Carpenter, scream queen Tiffany Shepis, Henry Winkler, a Revenge of the Nerds reunion, a Dark Night of the Scarecrow reunion, Michael A. Baldwin, Jim Kelly, cult filmmaker Fred Olen Ray, and more!

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Five thugs and an unknowing girlfriend make a Big mistake when they kidnap and hold young Hollywood "celebutante" Savannah Sondheim (heiress to the Sondheim tissue...

Indie filmmaker Jeff Chitty is hard at work doing post-production on his upcoming feature, The Taking of Savannah, but that's not stopping him from launching a few other ventures: exploitation/cult film download site Digital Grindhouse Retro and hardcore horror/splatterpunk short story download site Macabro Xtreme Publishing.

Here are the details:

Digital Grindhouse Retro:

Full-length movie downloads of classic exploitation/cult and grindhouse films. (Through Halloween All downloads are $1.99 or less!) Keep checking back as more films will be added soon!

MacAbro Xtreme Publishing:

Extreme Hardcore Horror and Splatterpunk short stories available for download with more coming soon. They are also accepting submissions for two anthology books:

"Slay Bells Ringing: A Killer X-Mas Anthology" - (Submissions open until November 15th) - Send your most extreme, frightening and disturbing X-Mas stories! Steer clear of killer Santa Claus stories unless you have a unique twist; otherwise all bets are off.

Change For A Dollar is a 10-minute short film from writer, director and producer Sharon Wright, which played the Aof International FilmFest in July 2010. I have to confess, I had intended to get to this film much earlier, but I am glad I did see this little gem and encourage anyone of any age to see it, given the opportunity.

Wright’s film packs an emotional punch, without being sappy or overly melodramatic. Structured more like a music video than a traditional narrative film, Change For A Dollar has no dialogue and really doesn’t need any. The beautiful orchestral score by Christopher Komstoeft, along with the down-to-Earth acting tells the story of a homeless man (played by Robert P. Campbell) who chooses to make a difference in several people’s lives with only a dollar.

As the audience, we travel with the homeless man on this short journey, witnessing...

As we reported previously, the first trailer for producer/director Jeff Chitty's The Taking of Savannah had its world premiere a few weeks ago at the Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, Kentucky. Missed it? We did, too, so Chitty has provided Dread Central with the trailer's exclusive online debut.

Synopsis:

Five thugs and an unknowing girlfriend make a Big mistake when they kidnap and hold young Hollywood "celebutante" Savannah Sondheim (heiress to the Sondheim tissue fortune) for a weekend to collect a ransom. When Savannah escapes, it becomes a brutal fight for survival where friends turn against one another and fight for their lives.

The film's cast and crew list is as follows: Savannah - Krystal Heib (Fetch), Ashley - Denise Carroll (Fetch), Scott - Antoinne Williams, Spencer - Mike Ducey, Finn - Jeremy Everts, Riff - Cameron Haines, and Torg - John D. Barnes. Dustin Adair penned...

Producer/director Jeff Chitty's The Taking of Savannah is now in post-production, which means it's time for some early artwork for the film, and we've got your first look at two different versions of the debut poster -- one "safe" and one that you may not want your co-workers or kids to see.

Principal photography for The Taking of Savannah has wrapped with only two scenes left to shoot. Its cast list is as follows: Savannah - Krystal Heib (Fetch), Ashley - Denise Carroll (Fetch), Scott - Antoinne Williams, Spencer - Mike Ducey, Finn - Jeremy Everts, Riff - Cameron Haines, and Torg - John D. Barnes. Dustin Adair penned the script from which Chitty is directing, the Dp is Robert P. Campbell, and the film's makeup and FX are being handled by Colleen May (Fetch, Nailbiter).

Synopsis:

Five thugs and an unknowing girlfriend make a Big mistake when...

The full schedule for Fright Night Film Fest, which runs July 30th-August 1st in Louisville, Kentucky, isn't quite finalized yet, but we did hear from producer/director Jeff Chitty that the trailer for his current project, The Taking of Savannah, will be having its world premiere there.

Synopsis:

Five thugs and an unknowing girlfriend make a Big mistake when they kidnap and hold young Hollywood "celebutante" Savannah Sondheim (heiress to the Sondheim tissue fortune) for a weekend to collect a ransom. When Savannah escapes, it becomes a brutal fight for survival where friends turn against one another and fight for their lives.

The film is scheduled to wrap principal photography on July 11th, and its cast list is as follows: Savannah - Krystal Heib (Fetch), Ashley - Denise Carroll (Fetch), Scott - Antoinne Williams, Spencer - Mike Ducey, Finn - Jeremy Everts, Riff - Cameron Haines, and Torg - John D.

Producer/director Jeff Chitty of Digital Grindhouse Entertainment dropped us a line with some early info on and a few exclusive photos from his current project The Taking of Savannah, which is filming in the Kansas City, Missouri, area now with an anticipated completion date in the next month or two.

Synopsis:

Five thugs and an unknowing girlfriend make a Big mistake when they kidnap and hold young Hollywood "celebutante" Savannah Sondheim (heiress to the Sondheim tissue fortune) for a weekend to collect a ransom. When Savannah escapes, it becomes a brutal fight for survival where friends turn against one another and fight for their lives.

The film's cast list is as follows: Savannah - Krystal Heib (Fetch), Ashley - Denise Carroll (Fetch), Scott - Antoinne Williams, Spencer - Mike Ducey, Finn - Jeremy Everts, Riff - Cameron Haines, and Torg - John D. Barnes. Dustin Adair penned the script from which Chitty is directing,...