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This past summer filmmaker Kendal Sinn first unveiled the details of his Shadow Falls Memorial feature film, and today he provided Dread Central with an update and a first look at the flick's red-band trailer. Read on for more!

Shadow Falls Memorial is ready for its next round of screenings, and the picture is locked. After premiering to a standing ovation at the Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville, Ky, director Kendal Sinn is ready to expand his feature film across the world. As Sinn says, "It's getting close to Halloween, so it seems like a good time to unleash this thing!"

Based on the acclaimed web series "Shadow Falls", the film concludes a story Sinn has been working on for over 10 years. As you may recall, the "Shadow Falls" series aired on various websites from 2004 to 2007 and was released on DVD by Elite Entertainment in January of 2007. "I wanted...

Our working relationship with writer/director Kendal Sinn and his frequent collaborator Patrick Rea goes back several years, just about to 2001, which is when Sinn first started conceptualizing Shadow Falls, an Internet horror/sci-fi serial about eerie goings-on in a creepy Kansas town. His end goal was to have 36 short films and then finish with a feature. Instead of working on the shorts, however, Sinn jumped ahead to the finale, and thus, we have Shadow Falls Memorial.

Why the change in plans? His first season of short films about “Shadow Falls, Kansas” was a critical and popular hit when it debuted online in 2003, and Season Two was supposed to go up in 2006. But things didn't work out that way, and Sinn decided to end the series to focus on other films. He explains, "I got married [to producer Sally Cummings] and we had a baby, and [while] we were shooting all of these other films,...