
They hope to take home at least one of the 17 awards up for grabs, which include "Best death" and "Best line of dialogue (northern element). Sci Fi Pictures original films are independently-made B-movieswith production budgets of 1 million to 2 million each. Two of the crew planned to be in Yellowknife this weekend for the film festival. "With a totally different score it probably could just seemed like a really goofy movie." She said the spooky film score, composed by team member Greg McLaughlin, helped with the final product.

"None of us - we realized - watch a lot of horror films," says Tara McCarthy, who acted as one of the "cabin girls" and also helped edit the script. The crew also didn't have a lot of experience with scary movies, as it turned out. 'We're all kind of wusses'Įlliot and his friends are new to filmmaking and everyone had more than one role. Elliot said it was challenging filming a scene at Windy Arm, south of Carcross, which was -15C and. Most of the filming was done over one weekend, in the outdoors of course. He won't give away many other clues about the plot. "He finds himself in pandemonium," says Brett Elliot, who filmed and directed the film. The festival gives "all the good people freezing their faces off North of 60" two months - during the winter, of course - to make a northern-theme horror, sci-fi or fantasy movie.Ĭast Iron is a five-minute flick about a man who runs into trouble on his snowmobile and seeks shelter in the woods.

It's debuting this weekend at the annual Dead North Film Festival in Yellowknife. It's unknown if there were any survivors - at least in the plot of the short horror film they made called Cast Iron. As a boy, Del Pierce is possessed by the Hellion, an entity whose mischief-making can be deadly.

Ordinary men, women, and children are the targets of entities that seem to spring from the depths of the collective unconscious, pop-cultural avatars some call demons. A group of Yukoners went into the bush this winter with a snowmobile, a drone camera and a cast iron frying pan. In the 1950s, random acts of possession begin to occur.
