More details on the creature feature
Dark Sky Films is rolling on James Felix McKenney’s feature Hypothermia.
Starring Michael Rooker (Slither), Blanche Baker (The Girl Next Door), Greg Finley, Don Wood (Automatons), Ben Forster and Amy Chang, the film is being produced in partnership with Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix.
The story takes place in Maine in the dead of winter. Ray Pelletier and his wife Helen have been ice fishing the frozen expanse of Lake Noyade for over two decades but this year something is different: no fish bite. Is it their new neighbors on the ice – Stevie Jr. and his overbearing Dad – with their high-tech gear and over-sized rig that is driving the fish away? Or is it something else? The answer comes in an onslaught of ferocious attacks that unites the two families against a mysterious creature from under the ice.
Producers on the film are 2010 Spirit Award nominee and horror director Larry Fessenden and his partners Peter Phok and Brent Kunkle, along with Dark Sky Films producer Derek Curl (The House of the Devil). The co-Producer is Jacob Jaffke (The House of the Devil).
The monster has been created by effects veteran Chris Bridges who has lent his talents to such films as Diary of the Dead, 300 and Silent Hill. Stunt and movement artist Asa Liebmann will be inside the suit.
Gore effects will be handled by Brian Spears.
Source: Dark Sky Films
