Dallas,
Texas
RDM
Productions and id: Don’t Look in the Basement 2, LLC team up with Anthony
Brownrigg to bring a sequel to his fathers 1973 classic horror “Don’t Look in
the Basement” to life.
S.F.
Brownrigg, is one of the unsung heroes of drive in horror. His first film Don’t
Look in the Basement was a theatrical smash hit in the early seventies. And
even today many horror directors credit Brownrigg for inspiration when they
began their careers.
Don’t
Look in the Basement was the first film to ever receive an X rating from the
MPAA for violence, which also put it on the coveted “Video Nasties” list in the
UK. One of the first ‘inmates take over the asylum” pictures, Basement brought
an eerie and disturbing look into the mentally ill. The film ended with the
patients and doctors murdered, and one survivor, Sam, left alone with the
bodies.
Forty
years later, Anthony Brownrigg, S.F. Brownriggs son, and director of the award
winning Red Victoria, has teamed up with David Rennke “Pearl”, Daniel Redd of
RDM Productions, and Andrew Sensenig “Upstream Color” to bring a sequel to the
long time favorite to the screen.
While
the specific plot has been kept tightly under wraps, the sequel revolves around
what happened to the only surviving patient from the original film, and what
happens when he is brought back to the original clinic where the grizzly
murders occurred.
“The
film is more of a paranormal thriller than a drive in horror” says Brownrigg.
“Dad wanted to produce a sequel in the eighties that revolved around the
paranormal, and we took a lot of cues from what he wanted to do. It’s bloody,
for certain, but doesn’t compete with the original.”
Many
of the original cast, and crew are also involved in one way or another. Daniel
Redds father Robert Redd, was the owner of PSI film labs that developed the
film for the original. Camilla Carr, from the original cast has come back to
play a different role in the sequel. And Jack Bennett II, son of effects artist
Jack Bennett will join in through post production for visual effects. And even
Libby Hall, mother of Anthony who was known in the sixties for “The Naked
Witch” a Larry Buchannan film, has come out of retirement to round out the
cast.
Andrew
Sensenig “Upstream Color” will play the lead, along with Arianne Martin “Red
Victoria, Other Side of Paradise”, and Frank Mosley “Wuss, Upstream Color”.
Also cast are Earl Browning II, Jim O’Rear, Scott Tepperman, and Megan Emerick.
The
script was written by Anthony Brownrigg, and Megan Emerick, and the film will
be shot on location at the original house used in the 1973 film located in
Tehuacana Texas. Principal photography begins in late March 2014 with an
expected release later in the year.
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