Treehouse
“No
Kids Allowed!”
Director Michael Bartlett is
proud to release the teaser trailer for the suspense thriller Treehouse. This
exciting tale, set in the backwoods of Missouri, has opened for
international sales this week at the most prestigious film festival in the
world, Cannes. Here, the film will screen for buyers. But, editors
and journalists can preview the film’s future release, right here!
Bartlett’s
film has been adapted to screen from writers Alex Child and Miles
Harrington’s original script. The film begins when Elizabeth
(Dana Melanie) arrives home from school to witness the abduction of her younger
brother. She gives chase and is not seen again. Soon, news breaks to
the local community, coinciding with sightings of strange humanoids and animal
abductions and mutilations. The town descends into paranoia and a curfew is
enforced. Brothers Killian (J. Michael Trautmann) and Crawford
(Daniel Fredrick) stumble upon Elizabeth by chance when sneaking
out to party with some local girls and that is when all proverbial hell breaks
loose! A confrontation looms between these youths and their hunters.
Treehouse is described by Bartlett as
a “siege film…in the same vein as John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct
13 (1976).”
The refuge in the film is an elaborate treehouse, set fifty feet in the
forest’s canopy. This set was developed with folding partitions, which allowed
cameras to film the action, from multiple angles and levels. As
well, Bartlett says of the film: “suspense is built and fear is
amplified by what is not seen, or only alluded to.” Viewers of the trailer can
gather clues as to the film’s true villain. The rest is left up to your
imagination. Finally, Bartlett hired his crew from
the The Signal (2007) and Winter’s Bone(2010) productions, to
realize his vision.
Synopsis: The
story for Treehouse focuses on missing teenagers and unknown shadows in
the localMissouri woods. A brother and sister are kidnapped and two
brothers find one of the victims, Elizabeth.Elizabeth is alone and afraid,
in an isolated fort; several shadows lurk below. All three classmates will have
to face an unimaginable evil, if they are to survive the night.
Release
Date: TBA.
Director:
Michael Bartlett.
Writers:
Alex Child and Miles Harrington.
Cast:
J. Michael Trautmann, Dana Melanie and Clint James.
A
downloadable version is available here:
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