Project Detail

Eel Girl

Synopsis

In a secure military lab, a Scientist has become obsessed with the strange half-eel, half-human creature he's studying. When she beckons him to her, it's the call of a siren.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins 18 secs
Format: 35mm
Director: Paul Campion
Producer: Nimble Pictures
Co-Producer: Nimble Pictures
Editor: Jeff Hurrell
Screenwriter: Paul Campion
Director of Photography: Richard Bluck
Production Designer: Mary Pike
Sound: James West, Lloyd Young
Composer: Paul Sanford
Principal cast: Julia Rose, Euan Dempsey

Genre

Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Chameleon Pictures

30 Hayesford Park Drive
Bromley
Kent BR2 9DB
UK

www.chameleonpictures.net

Nimble Pictures

13A Half Moon Lane
London SE24 9JU
UK

www.nimblepictures.co.uk

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