The upcoming indie film, The Millennium Bug, has launched a brand new website as well as supplying horror fans with the first trailer for the film. click here to check it out! I have to say, this site looks much better than the old one I saw while writing up the film’s announcement not too long ago. For those of you who need a refresher, here’s the synopsis off their website. At first I thought it was just going to be some backwoods horror film, but now it sounds a lot different!
“It’s December 31st, 1999, and the world anxiously awaits the year 2000. Hoping to escape the Y2K computer glitch known as the “millennium bug”, Byron Haskin takes his new wife and teenage daughter camping in the isolated Sierra Diablos mountains. But madness finds them in the form of the Crawford clan, a family of in-bred hillbillies who abduct the Haskins in order to refresh their stagnant gene pool. As the Haskins fight for their lives, death and bloody carnage ensue, but neither they nor the Crawfords are aware of the monstrous horror hibernating beneath the forest floor. Unseen for 1,000 years, this millennium bug is hungry… and December 31st just happens to be its birthday.”
From what I’ve seen from the trailer it’s a mix of Wrong Turn, Pumpkinhead, and Cloverfield. It also looks like a lot of indie, small budget goodness! Some of the film looks awesome, especially the creepy abandoned houses in the forest, but others…such as the monster eating a house…missed the mark a bit. But, check out the trailer for yourself here.
The Millennium Bug will star Jessica Simons, John Briddell, John Charles Meyer, Adam Brooks, and Christine Haeberman. The filmmakers behind this film include Kenneth Cran, James Cran, Michael Goedecke, Oktay Ortabasi, and Dustin Yoder.
The film is currently finishing up post production, so there will probably be a little more of a wait before we see it. What do you think so far? Hit or a miss?
