After a tragic act of violence cuts short her music career, Kate Stone is returning to a city full of ex-fans and ex-friends. Taking shelter with her last friend, a struggling artist named Robyn Huck, the two women work to restore the aging courtyard apartment building Robyn has inherited. But a terrible secret infests the venerable structure, and soon Kate will be haunted by horrific dreams, sinister apparitions, and the sounds of something moving in the walls. She will be dragged into a confrontation not only with her own dark past, but the unspeakable nightmare that lurks beyond the walls!
House of Black Wings is a character-driven Lovecraftian ghost story. Inspired by the social drama of Polanski’s The Tenant and Larry Fessenden’s Habit, the surreal images of Argento’s Suspiria and Fulci’s The Beyond, and the pervasive menace of Asian ghost stories, it is a nightmare of urban paranoia, loss of identity, and the blurred line between creativity and madness.
Writer/Director: David Schmidt, Director of Photography/Art Director: Clare Martin, Producers: David Schmidt & James M. Collins II, Sound Designer: Nathan Oberman, Music by Chris Fuller. Starring Leah Myette, Katherine Herrera, Michael Klug, Tirf Alexius, Amy Harmon, James Polak, Jen Albert, & Deborah Webb.
HOUSE OF BLACK WINGS is currently in the final stages of sound design and scoring. It will be submitted to festivals for Fall of 2008.
The trailer for Sword & Cloak Productions second feature, the Lovecraftian Ghost Story – HOUSE OF BLACK WINGS – is now available to view online:
MySpace:
https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=ds.individual&VideoID4571106
https://www.myspace.com/houseofblackwings
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v?DvwJD_k7c
