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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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07.05.08
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 The Church on Peachtree is a small congregation of people that turned away from the mega-churches that forgot their message and purpose. They have an abundance of commitment but are severely strapped for operating funds. If the situation doesn't change rapidly, they'll have to shut their doors for good. Claudia, a middle-aged member who was always a follower, has a scheme. What if they used what little money they have remaining in their coffers to make a horror movie in order to save the church? Many of the congregants leave in sheer disgust, but that doesn't stop the devoted members from trying to fulfill their mission and make the film. Claudia and Pardo, a deacon with anger management issues, get things rolling. Rick, a college kid, becomes the director because he owns a video camera. Garrett, who may have been a gang banger, and Mrs. Farley, who writes reviews for amazon.com become the writers. Pastor Lane is not too sure about the whole notion but loves that his congregation is fired up. Deacon Pardo's estranged daughter, Val, returns to the church to produce the project. They struggle like many independent filmmakers and they face long odds but they get the film made with their wherewithal just the same. Trouble arrives in the form of the Fight4Right organization. A monolithic activist group that champions a time when 'God was the only change we believed in,' F4R sets its protesters and community pressure loose on the small church, relentlessly attacking them with lies and slander. They're also not beyond interrupting production with a cavalcade of hundreds of small wooden crosses. Isolated from the rest of the community, spurned by their former members and by Rev. George Bolton, the leader of the community's mega-church, the Peachtree congregants struggle through making their movie under the worst of circumstances. Lane tries to play his political cards wisely and manages to get national air-time on Cross Talk, a late-night news program. But even there he is ambushed by a press structure more interested in confrontation and conflict than with hearing what the truth of the situation is. After a televised mugging by noted author Christopher Hitchens, the church is in more peril than ever. The group must find a way to hold it together to keep the church together and finish the film, which is horrible, you know that right?
Title: Holy Hell
Runtime: 94 mins
Genre: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Horror
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Color
IMDB Rating: 5.0
Buried.com Rating: 6 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With H
Director(s):
Rafael Antonio Ruiz
Cast:
Ken Edwards ...Lane
Ellie McBride ...Claudia
Kenneth Wayne Bradley ...Pardo
Liz Fisher ...Val
Ben Wolfe ...Garrett
Lana Dieterich ...Farley
David Walter ...Aaron
Tiger Darrow ...Brooke
Brian Matthew Schwartz ...Rick
Jason Newman ...Clayton / Gabriel
Edwin Neal ...Bolton
Carla Nickerson ...Evelyn
Greg Grosh ...The Spokesman
Douglas Taylor ...Terry
Travis Dean ...Potter
Barbara Chisholm ...Annie Linford
Weldon Phillips ...Earl
Jason Liebrecht ...Drake
Christopher Hitchens ...Himself
Bradley Carlin ...Ivan
Jack Kyser ...Newman
Harvey Guion ...Louis
Nicole Marosis ...Mary
Michael T. Mergen ...Malcolm
David DuBose ...Eamon
Peyton Hayslip ...Monica
Anne Hulsman ...Stoner Mom
Adam Sultan ...Stoner Dad
Angelica Brenner ...Stoner Kid
Rosalind Faires ...Jesus Freak
» [more cast members]
Producer(s):
L.B. Bartholomee
Randy Bellous
Greg Grosh
Jeff Scheftel
Writer(s):
L.B. Bartholomee
Rafael Antonio Ruiz
Composer(s):
Michael T. Mergen
Graham Reynolds
Movie Trivia:
- Edwin Neal played The Hitchhiker in the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
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Christopher Hitchens is the internationally known author and commentator whose recent book 'God Is Not Great' makes an argument for religion being a poison to modern civilization.
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Many of the cast members did voice work for numerous anime dubs produced by ADV Films. 'Lowell Bartholomee' was formally a writer and producer for the company and met and worked with members of the cast in that capacity.
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A majority of the cast are active in the local theater scene in Austin, Texas. The scene has produced nationally and internationally renowned theater companies like Rude Mechanicals, Refraction Arts Project, Rubber Repertory, and Salvage Vanguard Theater. Many of these companies lent assistance to the production of the film.
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'Lowell Bartholomee' and 'Rafael Ruiz' met in 1997 while working on a dreadful local production of an even more dreadful play Baruch of Amsterdam. Their friendship and partnership survived that and numerous subsequent crises.
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Keywords:
Church, Head Explosion, Demon, Austin Texas, Slasher ...[more]
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Rating: 6.0 out of 10.0 - 72 votes cast total
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