Producer / Director Michael Bayouth announces that composer Jeffrey Michael has completed a haunting original score for "Sam Hell," and music producer Brian Blake has completed the hit song “Another Day” just for "Sam Hell" as well. The movie's un-dead entity was given life by the remarkable sound design of Mark Hailstone who took creepy to a new high in "Sam Hell." “We are very fortunate for the privilege of working with talented professionals"
Sam Hell will be appearing in various film festivals nationwide, the schedule to be announced soon.
In October of 2005, Sam Hell Director/Producer, Michael Bayouth, struck a deal with the owners of two Halloween Haunted Houses to use as locations for “Sam Hell.”
One haunted house is located in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles, California and the other in Ventura County, just north of L.A. A cool side note is that the haunted house in Ventura, (The Seaside Haunt), turned out to be the top-rated haunted house in Southern California.
As construction neared completion on the haunted houses, created by the way, from sets donated from films and TV shows such as “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and “The Mummy,” life-long friend Rob Clotworthy had just put the final tweaks on the script and the production was green-lighted.
Michael Bayouth put together a production crew and called on some of his great actor friends to help out on the project. Their craft service was pretty pathetic and actors waited hours throughout the night to do their scenes. Shooting mostly at night in a haunted house equipped with it’s own band of scare-
This milestone, micro-budget, horror-mystery is centered around a Halloween haunted house attraction and a caged corpse out for revenge. Inspired by Harlan Ellison’s use of telepathy in “A Boy and His Dog,” “Sam Hell” unravels the compelling story of an undead maniac and Sean (Brian Graves), the haunted house worker he possesses.
When Jill, (Osa Wallandar) his girlfriend, takes matters into her own hands and investigates the origin of Samuel Hellson (Skip Pipo), she discovers his grizzly past with the help of Mike (Keith Lewis) who’s had first-hand experience killing this cunning cadaver. When Sam starts to telepathically communicate with Sean, things begin to spiral into madness and the world of the paranormal, sending Sean on a murderous rampage, doing the zombie’s bidding with a machete and a twisted grin.
Bayouth’s inspiration for getting into this somewhat insane business of making movies came from his Dad, Ted White, who portrayed the legendary Jason Voorhees in “Friday The 13th – The Final Chapter.” So it seems the corpse doesn’t fall too far from the coffin.
The highlight of the filming was when Ted came on the set and helped direct a couple scenes. Most of the students were familiar with Ted and his work and were quick to bow to him with outstretched arms chanting “we’re not worthy, we’re not worthy”.
From these humble beginnings sprang Son of Jason Films. “Sam Hell” was shot on digital, 60i and converted to 24p.
Michael Bayouth has several more projects in development through his company Son of Jason Films, more details soon!
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