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Deadly Movies Takes a Look at Indie Horror Short 'Mark Macready and The Archangel Murders' and Interviews producer and star Ryan McDermott 'Mark Macready and The Archangel Murders' is a 30 minute short made by a group of Manchester based Indie filmmakers. The short has developed a sizable online following and has been gaining momentum and buzz on the UK and International festival scene (Including the Horror UK Film Festival and the Cannes Short Film Corner). No mean feet given the sizable hardships of film making, and more-so, film distribution on the Indie scene. Better still, the film is now due for both web serial and feature length development. The short is a tongue-In-cheek horror comedy, following detective Mark Macready of the Greater Manchester Paranormal Investigations Department. When Macready's wife is kidnapped by a shape-shifting demon, known as The Archangel, he combs the Manchester paranormal underbelly dishing out his own brand of sweet sweet justice.

Hey army, the good folks behind the horror/comedy short film Mark Macready and the Archangel Murders are inviting y'all to the worlds first interactive launch party, where visitors to the Livestream can join the cast and crew to ask questions about the making of the film. Now how cool is that? It's like you'll actually be at a films release! Check out the Press Release and more goodies below.

From the Press Release:

Mark Macready and the Archangel Murders' is the horror comedy short film that has taken the world by storm since its release in June 2009.

Over the past twelve months the film has screened across the UK and Us film festivals, winning the award for 'Most Original Film' at the prestigious Horror UK Film Festival and receiving both audience and critical acclaim. Gorezone the world’s biggest selling horror magazine hailed the film as 'Truly independent British...

Mark MacReady And The Archangel Murders

Stars: Ryan McDermott, Paul Feeney, Charlotte Fellows, Nathan Head, Paul Newbery, Ashleigh Edwards Pitt | Written by Sean Candon, Paul Feeney, Ryan McDermott | Directed by Sean Candon

Manchester. Present day. The supernatural crime hub of the twenty-first century, home of Detective Mark ‘Mac’ Macready. When Macready wakes from a coma he was brutally put into by an unseen enemy, he is met with the unsettling news that his wife Christina is missing and a mass murdering monster has been on the rampage, which the press has affectionately dubbed ‘The Archangel’. Realizing there is a connection between his wife’s disappearance and the arrival of ‘The Archangel’ the intrepid detective descends into a paranoid, frenzied search through Manchester’s dark supernatural underbelly. It is up to Mac, and Mac alone, to find his missing wife, solve the case and bring the merciless Archangel to cold blooded justice.