Filmmaking is incredibly hard work, said everybody who's ever made one for our enjoyment. It’s especially a trial by fire for inexperienced movie magicians, hoping that the wand will strike at least once or twice and that they just survive. With his reputation as a BTS guru with Blue Underground and Dark Sky Films in full swing, Severin Films’ David Gregory set out to make his feature debut, Plague Town (2008)—a tense homage to classic British and foreign horror infused with a fresh feel for the present. And now, a Blu from Severin that houses not only a surprisingly effective chiller, but also behind-the-scenes features that painstakingly showcase a vision dragged kicking and screaming all the way to the screening room.
It is odd for me to be discussing a film this recent. However, it makes perfect sense in context to the creators; Gregory and his co-writer John Cregan...
It is odd for me to be discussing a film this recent. However, it makes perfect sense in context to the creators; Gregory and his co-writer John Cregan...
- 5/24/2021
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
by Michael Pickle, MoreHorror.com
My next installment of Hidden Horror Gems is the ultra-creepy, low-budget, inventive and visual horror shocker from first time director David Gregory. Plague Town, from Dark Sky Films, is one of my favorite and most watched horror films in recent years for many reasons.
A healthy balance of gothic atmosphere, well structured, original and fresh musical score, well crafted and striking shots, great special effects and naturally effective sound effects make for a pitch perfect bombardment of the senses. The best you are likely to see on such a meager budget.
Plague Town is set up perfectly by an opening scene in which a priest comes to a modest cottage to deliver a baby and tries to shoot it when it comes out deformed. In present day; a family, who immediately appears dysfunctional, are vacationing in Ireland and get dropped off in the middle of...
My next installment of Hidden Horror Gems is the ultra-creepy, low-budget, inventive and visual horror shocker from first time director David Gregory. Plague Town, from Dark Sky Films, is one of my favorite and most watched horror films in recent years for many reasons.
A healthy balance of gothic atmosphere, well structured, original and fresh musical score, well crafted and striking shots, great special effects and naturally effective sound effects make for a pitch perfect bombardment of the senses. The best you are likely to see on such a meager budget.
Plague Town is set up perfectly by an opening scene in which a priest comes to a modest cottage to deliver a baby and tries to shoot it when it comes out deformed. In present day; a family, who immediately appears dysfunctional, are vacationing in Ireland and get dropped off in the middle of...
- 7/8/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
This is the second trailer for The Roommate, directed by James Brown and starring Mallory McGill, Josslyn DeCrosta and Steven Cabral. It's hard enough trying to move and get situated into a brand new apartment, but it's a lot tougher when you realize a ghostly and grim roommate won't let you leave. Kim, an ambitious, good-natured young woman excited to make her mark in society moves into a new apartment. The first day or two of moving keeps her busy and she barely notices minor events occurring around her. A bowl mysteriously moves and she catches small glimpses of something that she can't seem to understand. Juggling work turns the big move into an even tougher experience when she leaves the new apartment to go on a two-week business trip. What she couldn't have realized is she left a ghostly and needy presence in the process...
- 10/3/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
This is the trailer for The Roommate, directed by James Brown and starring Mallory McGill, Josslyn DeCrosta and Steven Cabral. It's hard enough trying to move and get situated into a brand new apartment, but it's a lot tougher when you realize a ghostly and grim roommate won't let you leave. Kim, an ambitious, good-natured young woman excited to make her mark in society moves into a new apartment. The first day or two of moving keeps her busy and she barely notices minor events occurring around her. A bowl mysteriously moves and she catches small glimpses of something that she can't seem to understand. Juggling work turns the big move into an even tougher experience when she leaves the new apartment to go on a two-week business trip. What she couldn't have realized is she left a ghostly and needy presence in the process...
- 9/24/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
In Paul Morrissey’s eccentric and utterly unhinged 1974 Eurotrash classic Blood For Dracula (often erroneously credited as the brainchild NYC art guru Andy Warhol), the opening imagery of Dracula (played by iconic German weirdo Udo Kier) painting his face kabuki white has always haunted me. The sequence is the spine and soul of the picture, showing the good Count as a tired, lonely showman who has long been forgotten by time and by the audience he once terrified.
And as eerily gorgeous as that bit of credit crawling business is, it’s the delicate piano waltz playing in the background that truly sells it.
Like Morrissey’s 3D companion film Flesh For Frankenstein the music for Blood was composed by Italian musician Claudio Gizzi. It’s orchestral, elegant, full of melancholy mourning and sadness. And truthfully it’s that dichotomy between the excessive gore, sex and general insanity on screen with Gizzi’s sophisticated,...
And as eerily gorgeous as that bit of credit crawling business is, it’s the delicate piano waltz playing in the background that truly sells it.
Like Morrissey’s 3D companion film Flesh For Frankenstein the music for Blood was composed by Italian musician Claudio Gizzi. It’s orchestral, elegant, full of melancholy mourning and sadness. And truthfully it’s that dichotomy between the excessive gore, sex and general insanity on screen with Gizzi’s sophisticated,...
- 10/6/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
- Fangoria
With exclusive on-set photos and a clip below…
Imperiled heroines struggling to survive, or malevolent forces of youthful evil, their pretty features contorted into visages of horror—such are the casting options most frequently available to young actresses in cinematic fright fare. Plague Town, which hits DVD this week from Dark Sky Films, offered both, as a family on vacation in a remote part of Ireland becomes stranded in a village where the local children have deformities on their faces and murder in their hearts.
Fango had the chance to speak to the performers on each side of this equation over the course of a long, eventually chilly night on Plague Town’s Connecticut location. Not surprisingly, a good deal of the interviews take place in a Ymca camp building that has become the production’s makeup HQ, where Josslyn DeCrosta and Erica Rhodes, as sisters Molly and Jessica Monahan,...
Imperiled heroines struggling to survive, or malevolent forces of youthful evil, their pretty features contorted into visages of horror—such are the casting options most frequently available to young actresses in cinematic fright fare. Plague Town, which hits DVD this week from Dark Sky Films, offered both, as a family on vacation in a remote part of Ireland becomes stranded in a village where the local children have deformities on their faces and murder in their hearts.
Fango had the chance to speak to the performers on each side of this equation over the course of a long, eventually chilly night on Plague Town’s Connecticut location. Not surprisingly, a good deal of the interviews take place in a Ymca camp building that has become the production’s makeup HQ, where Josslyn DeCrosta and Erica Rhodes, as sisters Molly and Jessica Monahan,...
- 5/13/2009
- Fangoria
Even as it has become a cliché of the new horror wave for filmmakers to say that their projects aim for the spirit of ’70s chillers, movies that genuinely evoke that veneer are few and far between. There’s a certain vibe about the decade’s drive-in fare that’s hard to define and harder to capture, no matter how much gritty photography, explicit gore and cannibal-dinner-table setpieces one incorporates. One new production that gets it, and gets it right, is Plague Town (coming May 12 on DVD from Dark Sky Films), the feature writing/directing debut of David Gregory—perhaps not surprising, since he has previously made his name as a producer of documentaries and DVD extras celebrating films of the era, most notably Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth.
It’s also thus not surprising that Plague Town adopts the Texas Chainsaw template of a squabbling fivesome who travel...
It’s also thus not surprising that Plague Town adopts the Texas Chainsaw template of a squabbling fivesome who travel...
- 3/24/2009
- Fangoria
Dark Sky Films is releasing Plague Town , David Gregory's feature debut on May 12th. Starring Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes and David Lombard, the film focuses on a dysfunctional family vacation through the Irish countryside that takes a nightmarish turn when they encounter a village of diseased, deformed and decidedly homicidal residents. The DVD will feature an audio commentary by Gregory, a making-of featurette, a "Sound of Plague Town " and a trailer.
- 2/18/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Year: 2008
Release date: DVD Spring 2009
Director: David Gregory
Writers: David Gregory & John Cregan
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 7.7 out of 10
An Irish village full of zombie-ghoul children in Michael Myers masks, a dysfunctional American family on a visit to the Auld Country to get in touch with their roots. And verily the blood did flow, and we did find it pleasing. You've got to check out (probably dead) Rosemary, the freaky eyed chick with skin that goes crunchy crunch when she lovingly rubs the hand of the live boy she wants to have a baby with. She's the one in the poster for the movie. Plague Town is director John Gregory's first feature and it's written with his mate John Cregan. For one million bucks they did a brilliant job, and I hope they do a load more, and people give them more money. Not everything...
Release date: DVD Spring 2009
Director: David Gregory
Writers: David Gregory & John Cregan
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 7.7 out of 10
An Irish village full of zombie-ghoul children in Michael Myers masks, a dysfunctional American family on a visit to the Auld Country to get in touch with their roots. And verily the blood did flow, and we did find it pleasing. You've got to check out (probably dead) Rosemary, the freaky eyed chick with skin that goes crunchy crunch when she lovingly rubs the hand of the live boy she wants to have a baby with. She's the one in the poster for the movie. Plague Town is director John Gregory's first feature and it's written with his mate John Cregan. For one million bucks they did a brilliant job, and I hope they do a load more, and people give them more money. Not everything...
- 10/25/2008
- QuietEarth.us
NEW YORK -- MPI Media Group's Dark Sky Films has begun production on its first original film, David Gregory's horror thriller Plague Town.
First-time feature writer-director Gregory's story revolves around a dysfunctional family that goes on vacation and discovers an even more dysfunctional Irish town full of zombies.
Plague, the first in-house production from the theatrical/DVD genre distributor, began principal photography Monday in Hamden, Conn. Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes, David Lombard, Lindsay Goranson, Elizabeth Bov and James Warke star.
British documentarian Gregory previously produced the feature film The Manson Family and wrote, produced and directed the IFC production The Spaghetti West. He co-founded of the controversial U.K.-based home video label Exploited.
First-time feature writer-director Gregory's story revolves around a dysfunctional family that goes on vacation and discovers an even more dysfunctional Irish town full of zombies.
Plague, the first in-house production from the theatrical/DVD genre distributor, began principal photography Monday in Hamden, Conn. Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes, David Lombard, Lindsay Goranson, Elizabeth Bov and James Warke star.
British documentarian Gregory previously produced the feature film The Manson Family and wrote, produced and directed the IFC production The Spaghetti West. He co-founded of the controversial U.K.-based home video label Exploited.
- 9/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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