There’s a reason the Hardell family lives so far out of town: they don’t want company. When a mismatched group of high school kids trespasses on the Hardell ranch to drink beer and skinny dip, they learn this lesson the hard way.
When the beer runs dry, the kids dare Patrick – the only junior and the odd man out – to ring and run on the Hardell’s house. Patrick takes up the dare, pounds on the door and finds himself staring down the wrong end of a double-barrel shotgun. His friends come to his defense and when the smoke clears, the oldest member of the Hardell family is dead.
When the rest of the Hardell clan finds the old man murdered, they want vengeance, and they begin to hunt down the teens one-by-one. In one night, big dreams of getting out of Savage County become small hopes of getting out alive.
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Patrick and his friends should never have set foot on the Hardell family property. The stories are true, you see, and the Hardell’s – Willard, Kasper and Orry – are not friendly towards unwelcome guests. And so after a dare gone badly wrong, Patrick and his friends are on the run for their lives, the gruesome trio hot on their trail and out for blood. A slasher in the classic mould, David Harris’ SAVAGE COUNTY is THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE meets HOSTEL – a bloody thrill ride of brutal kills and the desperate fight for survival.
-Street Date: May 31, 2011
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About the Director
David Harris was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Texas. First at RISD and later at UCLA, he got his start by directing a ton of short films and films about topics like a divorced man re-enacting his love life in an S&M dungeon, or another about a man who contracts a talking tapeworm that helps him through a blind date – which the Los Angeles Magazine said, “was sure to get attention.”
Ultimately, it was his thesis project that got noticed, a website called “HowDoISayThis?” a kind of This-American-Life meets Post-Secret meets Dear-Abby “online video advice column”, that won Best Student Site at SXSW Interactive 2007.
His thesis got him his job as a producer at MTV New Media for big-shot producer David Gale, where he’s done everything from work with Johnny Knoxville on IA, to producing Craig Brewer’s award-winning web series “$5 Cover”, to co-writing and directing “Savage County”.
David has a documentary-in-progress and –as you might guess— numerous other projects in the works. He breaks up his fevered activity by drawing and cooking a lot, and crawling blogs for great new music. That shows in the great music selections on “Savage County,” as do his multiple other talents.
