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The Devil is in the Detail

Synopsis

On the surface, this is a simple story of Scott, a young guy who committed a series of murders in Dante’s bar. Amongst the bodies he discovered a business card for a specialist cleaning company and in his panic decided to call the number. He struck a deal with the voice at the other end of the phone: Scott can live a worry-free life for one year (the murders will be blamed on somebody else) but at the end of that year (and at exactly the same time that the murders originally occurred), this mysterious benefactor will come calling to collect his prize. Scott, believing that he had no other choice, agreed to this Faustian pact.
True to their word, one year later, Scott meets the somewhat odious Nikolas Apollyon back in Dante’s. During the conversation that follows, however, it dawns on Scott that he’s been tricked...

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Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 7 min 57 sec
Director: Dean M. Drinkel
Producer: Sharon Axcell
Executive Producer: Debbie Page; Tamar Chatterjee
Editor: Frederic Fournier
Screenwriter: Dean M. Drinkel
Director of Photography: Christophe Carcelle
Production Designer: Lily Faith Knight
Sound: Alan Deacon
Composer: Alan Deacon
Principal cast: Kevin McNally, Dion Marcos, Richard Carnaby

Genre

Horror

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

DrAx Productions Ltd

Sharon Axcell
https://drax-productions.com

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