Project Detail

Darkness Wakes

Synopsis

When Charlotte - a beautiful , broke student - is offered a job cat-sitting for an eccentric couple over a long weekend, at £200 per night, she can't believe her luck...but there is something else in the house with her....

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Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Features
Running time: 97 mins
Director: Simon Richardson
Producer: Simon Richardson, Lance Patrick
Executive Producer: Lance Patrick
Screenwriter: Simon Richardson
Director of Photography: James Spurrier
Sound: Nick Bridge-Butler
Principal cast: Aisling Knight, Richard Kilgour, Jill Buchanan, Samantha Schnitzler

Genre

Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sinister House Films

Sales Company

Left Films

Helen Grace

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