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We talk with Bears Rebecca Fonte about creating the new supernatural romance, How Far Does The Dark Go?.
HOW FAR DOES THE DARK GO?
Written, Directed and Edited by: Bears Rebecca Fonte
Produced by: Carrie Cates,Brittany Snyman, Chloe Carroll, Bears Rebecca Fonte
Executive Producers: Cyndi DuFur, Erin Fonte
Co-Producer: Rob Margolies, Gina Martino, Hieu Tran
Cast: Chloe Carroll, Anna Hindman, Sam Rothermel, Robert Picardo, Telita Perry, Jim Schubin, Kim Wong
Logline: A nurse kidnapped by a vampire and forced to tend to her dying human son, fights to keep her grip on morality as she falls in love with her captor.
Synopsis: Grace’s life has been a series of disappointments. Addicted to morphine, the nurse (Anna Hindman) doesn’t have much reason to fight back when Evienne (Chloe Carroll), a vampire, kidnaps her. Deep below Philadelphia, Evienne has preyed on the city for eighty years from a series of forgotten subway tunnels. Now, with her still-human son Henry (Robert Picardo) dying of cancer, Evienne has nowhere to turn for help but from the innocents who are normally nothing more than dinner. Grace and Evienne develop a strange bond that caring for the same person creates, or is the vampire just beguiling the nurse, twisting reality, and lowering her inhibitions? However, more than one vampire curses the streets of Philadelphia. Evienne’s spurned ex-girlfriend Tempest (Sam Rothermel) has returned full of bloodlust and vengeance and wants nothing more than to draw Evienne away from what little humanity she has left. As Evienne ushers Grace into her secret life as the world’s apex predator, the mounting bone-dry body count soon draws the pursuit of Dayanara (Telita Perry), vigilante vampire slayer. But does Grace even want to be rescued? The undead life offers her more control than she could ever attain as a human but her patient, who has studied his mother his whole life, begs Grace not to become just like her, a monster.
Runtime: 98 min.
Director’s Statement: Like most lost girls my age, I grew up in a video store. My parents were too uptight to talk about sex, so I learned about it from horror films. The Hunger, The Lair of the White Worm, and Vampyros Lesbos. Eventually I found the works of Jean Rollin. His films with their gothic and occult trappings, strong female protagonists, and (often campy) perversion of horror and exploitation tropes became signposts for my own style. Also Queer as Fuck. As a queer filmmaker who runs a queer film festival (aGLIFF / PRISM LGBTQ+ Film Festival), I want to make the films I’m not seeing made -- funny, sexy, bloody, sexy (sexy is intentionally listed twice). I also relish a kick ass soundtrack. CDs from Jawbreaker, Great Expectations, Cruel Intentions, The Crow, Lost Highways, Trainspotting, and Magnolia were played until they cracked in my Discman, and for How Far Does The Dark Go?, I cut the entire film like a music video, often to the beat of the music inside the scene. I want my films to be lush experiences, with overwhelming sound and visual revelries, where the parts battle for dominance in the memory. And sexy.
Real Rain Productions in association with Fear Crypt and End Eternal Productions presents