Project Detail

High Stakes

Synopsis

High Stakes is Zulu meets Dusk Till Dawn: a fast paced, plot twisting, thrilling and grittily realistic vampire film.

A teenaged girl called Lydia finds a blood covered young boy on the street, and takes him home for help, where the boy viciously kills Lydia's father. Traumatised she arrives at the nearby church, where she is taken inside by the vicar, Reverend Clegg.

In an illicit gambling den, Guy, a low rent gambler gets the opportunity of his life to play a high rolling card player from London. As the game goes Guy's way, the card player and his entourage show their true colours - they are a nomadic pack of vampires, preying on society's low lifes. Guy manages to escape with his winnings, and seeks sanctuary in the same church, where he reasons the vampires will not be able to follow.

Reverend Clegg is attacked and killed by the vampire clan on the threshold of the church. The people inside the church are now under siege. The stakes are raised - if Guy is not given up, the church will be burnt to the ground by the vampire clan. Their problems multiply as the Reverend is reborn as a vampire, bezerk on the blood lust. Sanctuary isn't as safe as it used to be.

Details

Year
2008
Type of project
Features
Running time
82 mins
Format
HiDef
Director
Peter Ferris, Dewi Griffiths
Producer
Danny Chang
Executive Producer
Danny Chang
Editor
Taimur Khan
Screenwriter
Michael Doyle
Director of Photography
Viv Mainwaring
Production Designer
Nick Burnell
Sound
Roger Van Koningsveldt, Dick Philip, Doug Sinclair, Paul McFadden
Composer
Danny Chang
Principal cast
Jeff Higgins, Charlie Bird, Jason Excell, Andreas Coshia, Lewis Davies, Caroline Lees

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Garland Stone Productions Ltd / Danny Chang Music and Media

Danny Chang Studios
10 Beach Lane
Penarth
Vale of Glamorgan CF64 1JX
South Wales

T + 44 (0)7831 554421

highstakes@garlandstone.com

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