Produced as proof of concept to premiere in the 2018 Nightpiece Film Festival in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the film is deliberately laden with cliched horror tropes and by design includes no blood and a very loose story structure. Priests, the Woods location, the 'Noise' itself and Student filmmakers are some of the many genre associated themes included. Made for a total spend of less than £1000 (including closed captions & distribution) the overall aim of director Al Carretta was to gauge interest in no-budget horror and create a marketing case study. Shooting began on June 19th, wrapped August 13th 2018 and after a rolling edit premiered on Tuesday 21st August. As of December 2018, engagement with the wholly experimental film has exceeded all expectations.
The title is taken from Prospero's speech in Act 5, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. "Set roaring war - to th' dread rattling thunder."
Originally announced during the filming of director Al Carretta's 10th feature 'Precious Little Things' in June 2017, Carretta delivered experimental features 'The Madness of Tellaralette Seville' and 'Tara Reata' first to help develop the much darker directorial style that is evident in th'dread rattlin'.
The poster artwork and one of the concluding scenes in the film featuring actress Megan Purvis is directly inspired by the painting 'Ophelia' as created by British artist Sir John Everett Millais in 1851.
Translated from their original languages the surnames of the key characters all translate or refer to noise. e.g. 'Barulhento' is Portugese for 'Noisy'. 'Getose' means din or roar in German. Zitto in Italian means 'be quiet!, shut up!' and 'Halas' in Polish means noise.