The final hours of three teenagers
Written by Scott Bates and co-directed by Bates and Lee Alliston, The Tapes is a new independent British horror film starring Jason Maza, Arnold Oceng, Natasha Sparkes and Nick Nevern.
A gritty, urban teen horror in the “found footage” realm, The Tapes is set in the winter of 2008 where three teenage friends, Nathan (Oceng), Gemma (Sparkes) and her boyfriend Dan (Maza), visited Whitstable, Kent to shoot location footage for Gemmaâs showreel and her Big Brother TV show audition video. While filming in one of the areaâs many pubs, they briefly encountered a local farmer and were later informed by the barmaid that the man was a harmless âswingerâ who regularly hosted sex parties at his nearby farm.
Seeing an opportunity to make some easy money by breaking into the farm to secretly film one of the parties and then selling the bootleg DVDs for cash, Nathan and Dan convinced Gemma to accompany them by promising to finish her showreel at the same time. But things soon began to turn extremely sinister when the farmer and his guests began arriving at the farmhouse and the three friends found themselves trapped in a dingy barn as darkness fell.
These events and the horrific details of what happened next only came to light when the police discovered the videotapes recorded by Nathan, Dan and Gemma. Now, the families of the victims have allowed The Tapes to be shown to the public for the first time. What you will see documents the shocking and terrifying final hours of three teenagers who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The film opens in the UK September 23. Stay tuned for U.S. release details.
Source: Shock Till You Drop
