Writer/director/producer Clint Hutchinson gave Fango the scoop that he and Lance W. Dreesen (with whom he partnered on the upcoming lycanthropicture BIG BAD WOLF) are set to commence production on the horror feature CONJURER this coming January. “Lance will produce and I will direct,” says Hutchinson, who also teamed with Dreesen on the 2000 horror anthology TERROR TRACT. Written by newcomer David Yarbrough, CONJURER will be shot on location in Georgia. “It’s the tale of photographer Shawn Burnett and his wife Helen, who move to an isolated country farmhouse to recover from the loss of their stillborn baby. At first skeptical of local legend regarding the property’s past, Shawn soon becomes convinced that the farm is haunted. As fragile Helen recovers from her grief and again becomes pregnant, Shawn keeps the strange occurrences to himself, fighting to protect Helen and her new baby as the ghostly presence manifests itself in increasingly horrific and deadly ways.”
Switching gears from the rollercoaster gorefest that is BIG BAD WOLF. Hutchinson says that CONJURER will be more of “a chilling ghost story, and a chance to hopefully raise hackles on people’s necks and send gooseflesh racing down their arms. The script builds a mounting sense of dread and achieves a creep-out factor that we really responded to.”
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