Cemetery Gates (film)
| Cemetery Gates | |
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 Promotional release poster | |
| Directed by | Roy Knyrim |
| Screenplay by | Brian Patrick O'Toole |
| Story by | Pat Coburn J. Victor Renaud |
| Produced by | David E. Allen |
| Starring | Reggie Bannister Peter Stickles Aime Wolf |
| Cinematography | Steve Adcock |
| Edited by | Christopher Roth |
| Music by | Ben Cooper Marcus Andexler |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $600,000 (est.)[1] |
Cemetery Gates is a 2006 American horror film directed by Roy Knyrim and starring Reggie Bannister, Peter Stickles, and Aime Wolf. The film's plot concerns a genetically mutated Tasmanian devil that stalks a cemetery.[2]
Plot
After breaking into a laboratory facility in order to free the animals kept there for experiments, two environmental activists unleash a genetically mutated Tasmanian devil from its cage. Fleeing from the facility, the creature begins hunting in a nearby cemetery, killing anyone and anything it comes across.
Cast
- Reggie Bannister as Belmont[3]
- Peter Stickles as Hunter Belmont[3]
- Aime Wolf as Dr. Christine Kollar
- Nicole DuPort as Kym
- Kristin Novak as August
- Ky Evans as Tony
- John Thomas as Enrique
- Chris Finch as Matt
- Karol Garrison as Earl Martin
- Bill Lloyd as John Martin
- G. Scott McDonald as Ben
- Stephen Van Dorn as Alex
- Howard Berger as Stoner Dude Doug
- Greg Nicotero as Stoner Dude Michael
- Richard Elfman as Ed the Fisherman (as Aristide Sumatra)
- Brad Carlson as Brad
Production
Over ten years before Cemetery Gates was filmed, screenwriter Brian Patrick O'Toole, received a script for the film from Pat Coburn and J. Victor Renauld.[3] O'Toole, who was working as a literary agent at the time, "loved" the idea of a Tasmanian devil as an antagonist, stating: "My feeling was, 'Why hasn't anybody thought of this before—a mutant Tasmanian devil?' It's the most pissed-off, vicious creature on the planet."[3] O'Toole noted that a close childhood friend of his, Michael Beck, died one day before O'Toole received the script, and said that, "most importantly, this was a movie Michael and I would have loved."[3]
Throughout the next decade, the script for Cemetery Gates went through a number of different drafts and storylines.[3] The final draft of the script was written in four days over the Thanksgiving holiday in 2003.[4] Filming took place over a period of 13 days; shooting locations included the Bronson Caves in Los Angeles, California.[5]
Release
Home media
On May 30, 2006, Cemetery Gates was released on DVD by Kismet Entertainment, Graveyard Filmworks, and Ventura.[6][7][8]
References
- ^ Shapiro 2006, p. 76.
- ^ Newman, Kim (2011). Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s (Revised and updated ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 361. ISBN 978-1408805039.
- ^ a b c d e f Shapiro 2006, p. 75.
- ^ Shapiro 2006, p. 75–76.
- ^ Shapiro 2006, p. 74, 76.
- ^ Shapiro 2006, p. 74.
- ^ "DVD Chopping List". Fangoria. No. 254. Starlog Group, Inc. June 2006. ISSN 0164-2111. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ^ "Cemetery Gates [DVD]". Amazon.com. 30 May 2006. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
Bibliography
- Shapiro, Marc (May 2006). "Cemetery Gates of Gore". Fangoria. No. 253. Starlog Group, Inc. ISSN 0164-2111. Retrieved January 28, 2020.