By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The trio of independent fright features launches in late summer with a conversion-therapy chiller.
Cranked Up will release the three movies in writer/director Quinn Armstrong’s “Fresh Hell” series, beginning with THE EXORCISM OF SAINT PATRICK, coming to select theaters and VOD August 27. It will be followed by WOLVES AGAINST THE WORLD September 3, and DEAD TEENAGERS September 10. All three feature makeup effects by David Greathouse (THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, WRONG TURN). See the red-band trailer for THE EXORCISM OF SAINT PATRICK, which stars Steve Pinder, Michael J. Cline, Maya Jeyam, Caitlin McWethy, Alan Tyson, Louie Kurtzman, Andrew James Myers, Erik Donley and Beau Roberts, below; the synopses are:
THE EXORCISM OF SAINT PATRICK: A pastor takes a young gay teen to a cabin to perform conversion therapy. When the pastor goes too far, bullying the kid into suicide, the ghost of his victim returns to plague the pastor and avenge the deaths of so many other ghosts like him.
WOLVES AGAINST THE WORLD: Two members of a defunct neo-Nazi metal band reunite at the site of their bandmate’s suicide. One sinks into depravity and grievance and one tries to atone for what he has done. What ensues is an occult battle of wills between two men who have done terrible things as one tries to lure the other back into the movement, unleashing the animals that hide inside them.
DEAD TEENAGERS: A masked killer, a cabin in the woods, a group of teens: the basic ingredients of a very old story. But what happens when the story is interrupted? What happens if it keeps going? What do these horror movie archetypes do when they’re thrown into new and unfamiliar situations? Five teenagers are stalked by a killer in the woods. But when the killer accidentally dies, the kids discover they cannot leave until they’ve fulfilled the script of the movie they’re trapped in. They must decide who among them lives and dies.
