Gravitas Ventures Signs Horror Soap Opera
Hell Town
Steve Balderson's 14th Feature
Stars Scream Queen Debbie Rochon
"Directors Steve Balderson and Elizabeth Spear take the typical soap opera and spoof it until it bleeds profusely."-Dread Central
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Gravitas Ventures has acquired domestic VOD rights for Steve Balderson's festival favorite Hell Town. Presented as three episodes of a sadistic twist on Masterpiece Theater, Balderson (Firecracker, The Casserole Club)
and co-director Elizabeth Spear have carved up a serialized story
filled with catfights, cliffhangers, broken hearts and murder.
Since the world premiere sponsored by the Austin Horror Society and Alamo Drafthouse, Hell Town
has made audiences and critics laugh and scream, picking up awards for
Best Feature at Colorado Horror-Con, as well as a Best Feature and Best
Actress win for Amanda Deibert, with nominations for Best Actor, Best
Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography, at the Crimson Scream
Horror Film Festival.
Debbie Rochon (Model Hunger, Return to Nuke 'Em High, The Theater Bizarre)
headlines as the hostess of the three surviving episodes of Hell Town,
following the melodramatic and potentially short-lived lives of Krysten
Day, Amanda Deibert, Owen Lawless, Ben Windholz, Jennifer Grace and
Balderson muse Pleasant Gehman.
Hell Town follows the melodramatic antics of high school
seniors clashing over love, sex, and betrayal. In the middle of all the
everyday drama of one-sided infatuations, backstabbing bitchiness,
bottled-up sexuality, sibling rivalry and general small-town angst, the
Letter Jacket Killer is killing students in a variety of sadistic ways.
As the body count rises and the blood pools closer to home, it becomes
clear that one of our main characters is the killer. Everyone, from the
prom queen and shirtless jock to the nosey geek and the super bitch,
are all suspects in the carnage.
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"HELL TOWN" soap opera slasher - teaser from
Steve Balderson on
Vimeo.
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