"Wild forest, birds, trees, and wind." This short film is going to give you some serious chills. Blackwood is a new horror short film from Australia, made by production studio The Pixel Kitchen based in Melbourne, written and directed by filmmaker Andrew Montague. The short follows a sound recordist named Nikki, who tries to discover the source of a mysterious sound whilst she is out recording on location in a forest. Just watch without knowing anything else. Starring Danielle Butlin as Nikki. This is a clever concept for a short, and it's an impressively scary film, pulling off some real chills without much. This is definitely worth a watch. Also a reminder - Blackwood is a sound driven horror film, so headphones are highly recommended. Description via YouTube: "Nikki, a sound recordist, picks up a strange sound whilst filming on location in a forest. After a disturbing encounter, she wakes up alone,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In horror movies, it's not always what you see among the trees that can scare you, it's also what you hear... or worse yet, what you hope you didn't hear. Carrying a portable field mixer while working on a horror movie in the woods, sound recordist Nikki (Danielle Butlin) picks up more than just the noises of Mother Nature in Andrew Montague's Blackwood, which you can now watch in its entirety right here on Daily Dead!
Listen to the spooky sounds that Nikki captures on her recording equipment in the short film below... and turn it all the way up for maximum scares.
Written and directed by Montague, Blackwood premiered at Monster Fest in Australia, the same country in which it was filmed. Blackwood stars Danielle Butlin, Alanah Parkin, Jim Koutsoukos, and Rowan Howard, with creature design by Torstein Nordstrand and creature animation by Daniel Fotheringham.
Here's what writer/director...
Listen to the spooky sounds that Nikki captures on her recording equipment in the short film below... and turn it all the way up for maximum scares.
Written and directed by Montague, Blackwood premiered at Monster Fest in Australia, the same country in which it was filmed. Blackwood stars Danielle Butlin, Alanah Parkin, Jim Koutsoukos, and Rowan Howard, with creature design by Torstein Nordstrand and creature animation by Daniel Fotheringham.
Here's what writer/director...
- 3/4/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The first streaming service dedicated exclusively to Australian films will launch in the first half of 2016. Ozflix will aim to offer 250-400 titles initially, with producers receiving 50 per cent of each pay-per-view transaction. The long-term goal is to make available every Australian film from the 1900s to latest releases. That timetable will depend on how long it takes to convert hundreds of films to digital. The company directors are veteran distributor/producer and AFI-Aacta chair Alan Finney and producer/director Ron V. Brown. Brown tells If he first had the idea for an all-Australian streaming service five years ago. He pitched the concept to Foxtel and got a tepid response. Earlier this year he floated the proposal with Finney, who said, .We have to do this and do this now.. They put their plan to distributors at the Australian International Movie Convention, which was warmly received. The site will...
- 10/27/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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