Project Detail

The Hatching

Accredited to Matt Frost.

Synopsis

Tim Webber, a teenager at boarding school and his friends Baggy and Nick take a dare to sneak out of the dormitory one night and steal crocodile eggs from a nearby zoo, but the prank ends in tragedy with Nick being killed and Tim taking all responsibility. Fifteen years later, after the death of his father, Tim returns home to Somerset to run the family stone masonry, but there is a sinister undercurrent to the idyllic village setting that seems to harbour a dark secret. People have been disappearing, and it all seems to be centred around the old quarry. Tim meets up again with his old friend Baggy and to their horror clues mount. It appears that the time has come for both Baggy and Tim to pay for their actions of years ago. Those crocodile eggs that came home with Tim hatched!

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Details

Year: 2014
Type of film: Features
Running time: 90 mins
Format: HD
Director: Michael Anderson
Producer: Chantelle De Carvalho
Executive Producer: Michael Cowan
Editor: Adam Collins
Screenwriter: Nick Squire, Michael Anderson
Director of Photography: Gerry Vasbenter
Production Designer: James Helps
Sound: Alistair Crocker
Composer: John Cameron
Principal cast: Andrew Lee Potts, Thomas Turgoose

Genre

Horror Comedy Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Creativity Capital, Sabre Films and Spice Factory

Sales Company

Stealth Media Group

Contact: Yasmin Padari
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 739182

yasmin@stealthmediagroup.com

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