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Freak of Nurture

Synopsis

Five drink and drug-fuelled young men whilst driving to a music festival, collide with and seriously injure a young nurse cycling home from a night shift. Things get out of hand when the lads decide to hasten the demise of the hapless victim. After the event, they come to regret this decision as one by one they start to meet gruesome ends at the hands of an unseen killer.

Details

Year
2015
Type of project
Features
Running time
99 mins
Format
Digital
Director
John Hales
Producer
Richard Turner, Richard Hart
Executive Producer
Jim Carr, Scope Colen, Rip Colen
Editor
Laurence Thripp
Screenwriter
John Hales, Carole Budgen (Story by), Scope Colen (Additional material), Richard Hart (Additional material)
Director of Photography
Ernesto Herrmann
Composer
Mark Blackledge
Principal cast
Anna Popplewell, Jack Derges, Danny Szam

Genre

Action

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Ratio Film (Zulu) Limited

Sales Company

7 & 7

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