By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It’s zombies vs. warring militia groups with two women caught in the middle.
HERD, directed by Steven Pierce from a script he wrote with James Allerdyce and produced by the duo with Matt Mundy, Lori Kay and Bret Carr, has its world premiere at London’s FrightFest on August 26 at 6:20 p.m. Ellen Adair, Mitzi Akaha, Corbin Bernsen (THE DENTIST), Jeremy Holm (THE RANGER, BROOKLYN 45), Timothy V. Murphy and Amanda Fuller star; the synopsis: “HERD follows Jamie Miller [Adair] and her wife Alex [Akaha] trying to save their failing marriage by going on an isolated trip in rural Missouri. After an accident, the women find themselves trapped back in Jamie’s small hometown where her father [Bernsen] lives, and which has become overrun by virus-infected ‘heps.’ Big John Gruber [Holm] and his clan help Jamie and Alex by shuttling them to a local vet, who sets Alex’s leg. A horde of heps descends on the vet’s office, forcing the group to flee to a warehouse the locals are using as a survival base. At the warehouse, a rival militia, led by Sterling [Murphy], arrives at the warehouse claiming they want to trade supplies. When the trade goes south, a battle breaks out between the two militia groups causing Jamie to try and flee. Will they find a way to escape and find their way back home?”
“I am beyond enthusiastic that HERD is making its world premiere at FrightFest in London,” Pierce says. “Alan Jones and his team put on one of the most exciting genre events in the world and I am so proud to be a contributor. Having the film be seen for the first time on such an incredible screen and in the heart of London is a filmmaker’s dream come true.”
Adds Allerdyce, “When you write these scripts, you spend a lot of time watching the movie in your mind. I’m beyond excited to watch it in reality, outside my mind up on the IMAX screen, surrounded by the FrightFest fanbase!”
