SEVERIN'S "THE HAUNTED SEASON" Delivers Chilling Stories For The Winter Months
The winter months are deceiving. Amongst the glow of holiday lights and the fluffy white snow, darkness descends across the season. On the literal side, the lack of sunlight and overwhelming grays in the sky can increase aspects of seasonal depression and isolation. Figuratively speaking, the lore and legends of creatures that haunt our holidays or reside in the coldest temperatures fill our minds with horrible holiday haunts. Severin Films and Kier-La Janisse appreciate the cold darkness of these chilly months, and have started their new annual holiday series, “The Haunted Season.”
The first episode is now up over on Shudder, and the inaugural film, “To Fire You Come At Last” is a newly commissioned work that also appears on the newly released box set “All The Haunts Be Ours Vol. 2” (read our review). Check out the trailer and details below, and let us know what you think of “The Haunting Season!”
From The Press Release
From boutique label Severin Films and renowned author, producer and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, House of Psychotic Women) comes a new annual series The Haunted Season.
Created by Janisse and executive produced by Severin Films, new episodes of The Haunted Season will arrive on Shudder each December with chilling short-form horror tales in the tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas. Future episodes will be announced each year as the holiday season approaches.
The first of these originally commissioned productions comes from director Sean Hogan (director of The Devil’s Business, and author of England’s Screaming and its sequel Twilight’s Last Screaming), called To Fire You Come at Last.
In 17th-century England, near a rural village where unquiet spirits gather, a grieving Squire hires three local men to help carry his son’s coffin to a graveyard across the countryside. But as darkness descends upon their journey, disturbing secrets will be revealed. Violence will rise to the surface. And as the hellhounds of local lore howl in the night, this quartet of the damned will discover a realm of supernatural terror that not even dawn – or death – can readily contain.
Mark Carlisle, Harry Roebuck, Richard Rowden, Stephen Smith and James Swanton star in this “chilling” (Nightmarish Conjurings), “intense” (Bloody Flicks) and “satisfyingly wicked” (Horror Fuel) shocker written and directed by Sean Hogan (The Devil’s Business, The Borderlands) produced by Severin Films and hailed by Starburst as “a great addition to the pantheon of British folk horror.”
To Fire You Come At Last is also available on the recent All The Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Volume Two box set with special features released by Severin Films in the U.S. and Canada.
Volume Two brings together 24 films representing 18 countries for more of the best-loved, rarely seen, thought-lost and brand-new classics of folk horror, most making their disc debuts including the North American Disc Premiere of the Severin Films Original Production To Fire You Come At Last directed by Sean Hogan.
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