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Playhouse

Synopsis

Jack Travis is an irreverent playwright notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new show set in a remote Scottish castle with a dark history, disturbances from deep within the walls begin to prey on his troubled daughter. Jack is soon forced to reckon with the unsettling consequences unfolding around him, but will he realise the danger of unearthing an historic curse before he damns himself and those he loves forever?
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Details

Year
2020
Type of project
Features
Running time
87 mins
Format
Digital
Director
Fionn Watts,Toby Watts 1st Feature
Producer
Fionn Watts,Toby Watts
Editor
Jim Page
Screenwriter
Toby Watts
Director of Photography
Andy Toovey
Production Designer
Lindsay Broomfield
Sound
Rob Wingfield
Composer
Dan Baboulene
Principal cast
William Holstead, Grace Courtney, James Rottger, Helen Mackay, Rebecca Callienda

Genre

Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Production Company:

Far North Film
8 Spurr Street
Sheffield
S2 3GY

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