With the theatrical release of Jim Mickle's Stake Land just around the corner the trickle of information coming out about the film is picking up pace and becoming a stream.
There have been odd little viral videos popping up on YouTube for a while and now, over at Apple, the first pair of a series of prequel webisodes have arrived. You see, while Mickle was shooting the feature a group of friends - who also happen to be very talented directors - were hanging around set and shooting little episodes featuring the major characters from the film. Now online is Graham (I Can See You) Reznick's piece devoted to Belle (Danielle Harris) and Glenn (I Sell The Dead) McQuaid's bit on Martin (Connor Paolo).
There have been odd little viral videos popping up on YouTube for a while and now, over at Apple, the first pair of a series of prequel webisodes have arrived. You see, while Mickle was shooting the feature a group of friends - who also happen to be very talented directors - were hanging around set and shooting little episodes featuring the major characters from the film. Now online is Graham (I Can See You) Reznick's piece devoted to Belle (Danielle Harris) and Glenn (I Sell The Dead) McQuaid's bit on Martin (Connor Paolo).
No proper trailer for this one, though you can be sure we'll let you know when it arrives. And, yes, as you can tell by the quote at Apple, I'm rather fond of this one.America is a lost nation. When an epidemic of vampirism strikes, humans find themselves on the run from vicious, feral beasts. Cities are tombs and survivors cling together in rural pockets, fearful of nightfall. When his family is slaughtered, young Martin (Gossip Girl's Connor Paolo) is taken under the wing of a grizzled, wayward hunter (In the Cut's Nick Damici) whose new prey are the undead. Simply known as Mister, the vampire stalker takes Martin on a journey through the locked-down towns of America's heartland, searching for a better place while taking down any bloodsuckers that cross their path. Along the way they recruit fellow travellers, including a nun (Kelly McGillis) who is caught in a crisis of faith when her followers turn into ravenous beasts. This ragtag family unit cautiously moves north, avoiding major thoroughfares that have been seized by The Brethren, a fundamentalist militia headed by Jebedia Loven (Tony award-winning actor Michael Cerveris) that interprets the plague as the Lord's work.
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