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“It’s just a thrill a minute,” filmmaker Chris Nash is quick to joke of his debut feature, “In a Violent Nature.”

“We made this movie with an audience of maybe five people in mind. So having anybody like it and endure the walking and just the pace of the film, it’s been a testament to the patience of an audience,” he said.

Nash cuts himself short — a metaphor made more apt when you’ve seen just how creative the filmmaker can be with a paralyzed victim and a well-placed log splitter. The extra gutsy first-time feature writer/director and his star Ry Barrett spoke with IndieWire in April at The Overlook Film Festival. That’s an annual horror event in Louisiana, where Nash’s spellbinding slasher deconstruction for IFC Films and Shudder screened for the second time after making its world premiere at Sundance. “In a Violent Nature...

Ghost Burger Short Film. Lee Hardcastle‘s Ghost Burger (2013) short film stars Lee Hardcastle, Nacho Vigalondo, Dominic Brunt, Tim Atkins, and Ant Hardcastle. Ghost Burger‘s plot synopsis: “Two kids go hunting for ghosts to help their dad run a burger cafe. An epic sequel to “T is For Toilet [ABCs of Death]“, [...]

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Alamo Drafthouse Films and Magnet ran a contest to find the next great horror film director and today they announced the winning entry; 'T is for Toilet' by Lee Hardcastle. His entry along with 25 other short horror films will be put together and released in the feature film ABC's of Death which just might be one of the most ambitious anthology's ever created. In the ABC's of Death each filmmaker was given a letter of the alphabet and that letter had to be used as the form of death in the movie thus 26 directors and 26 ways to die. T is for Toilet is directed and animated by Lee Hardcastle,audio by Tim Atkins starring Kim Richardson and Lee Hardcastle, executive producers Hamish Moseley, Lee Kelleher,Andrew Taylor and James G Wall.