Horse Creek Productions has completed a new feature film titled “Family Possessions”. Written and directed by Tommy Faircloth and produced by Robert Zobel, “Family Possessions” is the fourth feature film from Faircloth and stars Jason Vail (Gut, Dollface, Valley of the Sasquatch), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), and in his first horror film since “Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge”, Mark Patton.
The story revolves around a young girl named Rachael Dunn, played by Leah Wiseman (Dollface, Dismembering Christmas), who inherits her estranged grandmother’s house. Rachael and her family move into the house and soon after strange occurrences begin to happen. Rachel soon discovers that her family has been hiding a secret about her grandmother as she struggles with the decision to stay in the house. The film is inspired by actual events and was filmed in a historic mansion in Greenville, North Carolina.
Following up on his campy horror parody “Dollface” which was released by Breaking Glass Pictures in late 2015, Faircloth was ready to tackle a more serious horror film.
Tommy tested a lot of the elements in “Family Possessions” in the 2013 award-winning short, “The Cabin”, which was picked up for worldwide cable broadcast by cable channel ShortsTV. “I love the mix of paranormal with psychological horror with elements of 80’s slasher films”, explains Faircloth. “This film explores all those genres and I am really excited for fans of my other films to see it!”
Faircloth cast Felissa Rose as soon as the script was complete. “Felissa and I have so much fun together that casting her was a no brainer” Faircloth explains. “I like casting people that are easy and fun to work with so besides the fact that she was in my favorite slasher film, she is just a super person and we get along great!”
Also starring in “Family Possessions” is Mark Patton. Patton is best known as the first “male scream queen”, starring in “Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge”. Mark has also starred on Broadway with Cher and Kathy Bates in “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean”. He also starred in the feature film version as well with Cher, which was directed by Robert Altman.
“Mark told me after we wrapped that he just felt like he shot the male version of Mean Girls” Tommy says. “Mark’s character will bring some much needed comic relief to the film and I was really happy he agreed to be in the film. I mean, he has not done a horror film since Nightmare 2, so this is a big deal” Faircloth finishes.
Providing the special effects make-up and creation of the “villain” in “Family Possessions” was special effects artist Tony Rosen. Rosen is most famous for creating the Annabelle doll used in the film “The Conjuring” and “Annabelle”, but he has worked on countless independent films as well. “There are no digital effects in the film. I definitely wanted to keep it as low-fi as possible as far as the paranormal effects went, but I wanted to make sure the kills and my villain were all practical. This is why I wanted Tony” Tommy says.
Faircloth explains, “I am really excited for people to see this movie. Each time I tackle a project it’s like a game to see what all I can do with as little money and crew as possible. This is my biggest film to date but it still feels like friends getting together to shoot a film for fun, and that feel is important to me. If it’s not fun, then I don’t want to do it. The set atmosphere can’t be toxic. Don’t get me wrong, I may still drive my crew and cast hard and we may have some extra long shooting days, but they are getting paid so I don’t feel so bad. Ha ha!”
Also starring in “Family Possessions” is Morgan Monnig, playing Sarah Dunn, who is the wife of Jason Vail’s character. Newcomer Erika Edwards stars as Rachael’s best friend Maggie. Erika also served as on set photographer providing the photo for what turned out to be the poster. She also captured a lot of behind the scenes footage.
Elizabeth Mears (Dollface) plays, Tristen, a fellow mean girl with Patton’s Tyson character. Michael David Wilson plays the character of Kevin and Andrew Wicklum who appeared in “Dollface” as a young Crinoline Head, plays the younger brother to Rachael, Andy Dunn.
“Family Possessions” will have its WORLD PREMIERE at the Nightmares Film Festival taking place October 20-23 in Columbus, OH at the Gateway Film Center. Visit www.nightmaresfest.com for ticket info.
The South Carolina Premiere screening happens on October 29th at the Tapps Art Center in Columbia, SC and the filmmakers and cast will be in attendance. You can purchase tickets at www.tappsartscenter.com
High Octane Pictures will be representing “Family Possessions” at upcoming film markets all over the globe.
To keep up with screenings of “Family Possessions”, follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/familypossessions, Twitter @FPossessions, and online at www.horsecreekproductions.net
