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Anne Heche and “WICKER TREE’s” Graham McTavish star in Specter Pictures’ debut film “CHASING NIGHTMARES”

Specter Pictures, the new horror label of producer David Brown’s Clear Horizon company, is launching with CHASING NIGHTMARES, which has begun shooting in Los Angeles. Read on for details and the initial poster.

Written and directed by Christopher McGowan, whose Perth Road Productions is also producing, CHASING NIGHTMARES stars Michelle Randolph, Anne Heche (pictured, from the PSYCHO remake), Graham McTavish (the villain in Robin Hardy’s THE WICKER TREE), Spencer Daniels, Aubrey Cleland, Jay Huguley and Dana Daurey. All that’s being revealed plotwise at this point is that “the film surrounds a college student [Randolph] who risks her and her friends’ lives to track down the meaning behind the nightmares she has about a girl and a delusional masked man.”

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