Winner of “Best Feature Film” at the Fright Night Film Festival, Best Actress (Caitlin McIntosh) at both Freakshow Horror Film Festival and St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, Best Director at Yellow Fever International Film Festival and many other awards, SHADOWLAND will have it’s official North American DVD release on November 30, 2010. Directed by Wyatt Weed and produced by Gayle Gallagher the vampire feature film was made right here in St. Louis.
Here’s an exclusive “Behind the Scenes” featurette about the making of SHADOWLAND. In it Weed, describes and shows how he assembled the deleted opening scene of the cathedral.
The DVD is chocked full of many cool extras. For all you vampire film lovers, this one is a definite must-add to your collection. It ranks right up there with the classic Hammer films! Here’s hoping we’ll see more from producer Gayle Gallagher and director Wyatt Weed. We Are Movie Geeks would love to see a SHADOWLAND 2 in the future.
Here’s a few of the special features on the dvd:
- “Beneath The Soil”: a behind-the scenes featurette at the making of SHADOWLAND. You’ll see and hear from the filmmakers and actors of the film.
- “Low-Tech and Hands-On”: this in-depth, visual effects is a ‘How-to’ primer for filmmakers
- Deleted Scenes: included is the original opening to SHADOWLAND
- Audio Commentary: a great addition and a big positive by the filmmakers.
Of special note is the “Beneath The Soil” Featurette. There’s a ton of interesting details on the local principal photography, how they cast the actors and special makeup applications. I especially appreciated how Weed addresses the MPAA’s ‘R’ rating of SHADOWLAND and his thoughts on moving forward without re-editing his film to PG-13. Another example of the care taken by the filmmakers on their vampire film.
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Synopsis:
An old church in a modern North American city is undergoing a renovation. Construction equipment and piles of debris cover the grounds. A deep pit has been dug for new sewer pipes.
Night falls. A woman crawls from the pit. She is weak and covered with mud, her face beaten, her throat cut. She is unable to speak, remember who she is, or how she got there. This is Laura.
Hungry, thirsty, she ventures out into the city, stealing food and warm clothes to survive. As she wanders the streets, she begins to see things that jar her memory: a picture on a wall, a historical marker, a map. Slowly, she starts to put the pieces together – the Old River Front, a house and family, a lover and a jealous suitor. She embarks on a trek across the city, trying to blend in and adjust to a modern world she has never seen before.
Julian, a mysterious young man employed by the church, is sent out to find her. He seems to know more about her than she does, tracking her, quickly deducing that she is headed home, to the place where she used to live – more than a hundred years ago.
Is Laura reincarnated? Resurrected and risen from the grave? Or is she just the unfortunate victim of a horrible crime, buried in the mud and left for dead? Is Julian really trying to help her, as he claims, or is he part of a conspiracy, a plot to kill her? Soon Laura is in a race for her life, trying to reach her home and her memories before Julian, the police, and the church can find her.
Check out our rave review of the film here. Visit the SHADOWLAND’s new official site here, on Facebook here, and on Twitter here.
The film is rated R for some bloody violence.
