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Exclusive: Zana Gankhuyag and Joseph Carlson are star in Historical Film, an indie comedy flick marking the debut of director Will Bryan.

The film also features Gregg Turkington, Emily Uribe and Kene Holliday among others.

The story follows a Mongolian-American college student who, in order to save his student visa, gets roped into participating in a recreation of the manhunt of John Wilkes Booth while making a zero-budget film about the assassin’s last days.

It’s set in and around historic sites in Richmond, Virginia, and made with the participation of members of the Mongolian community including Gankhuyag Natsag, the country’s Cultural Envoy to the U.S. Shooting wrapped last year with scoring have taken place and post-production in the final stages.

Monat Productions and One-Room Schoolhouse Films are producing. Bryan is the co-writer and director and Katharine Bradley...

Stars: Joanna Whicker, Steve Polites, Jon Hudson Odom, Joseph Carlson, Frank Riley III, Rayanne Gonzales | Written by Paul Awad, Kathryn O’Sullivan | Directed by Paul Awad

A lonely waitress is desperate to escape her small town and repair her marriage to her deputy sheriff husband. On the evening of their wedding anniversary, the troubled couple attempts to make a fresh start, but things take an unexpected turn when sinister strangers invade their home. As the night unfolds, loyalties shift, secrets spill, and lives shatter.

Wow. Just wow. Just when you thought A Savage Nature was headed down all too familiar home invasion territory it takes a left turn and everything you thought the film was going to be is changed… then it takes Another turn and everything you thought the film was going to be is changed again…

Which makes the film incredibly hard to review without spoiling it.

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Crazy has always tapped a main vein in horror films; if it didn’t we would be stuck watching films of people being pranked or wronged, who laugh it off and become dentists instead (with all due respect to Corbin Bernsen). Now, of particular interest to me is when the sins of the flesh meet that fracture of the mind; where the lascivious and the lurid tangle in sweaty, blood stained sheets. And 1982 coughed up a doozy (in character and content) with Night Warning, a tale of a very protective aunt who doesn’t want to see her nephew leave the nest.

Also known as Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (a cool title, but neither relate to the story at all), Night Warning was distributed by Comworld Pictures in early ’82 (but didn’t go wide until early ’83) and garnered some good reviews while passing by audiences. Why? Because it was just...