“Jack” by Jay Curtis Miller

After his hand is cut from the blade of a pumpkin knife, Terry uses this as an opportunity to catch the attention of Linda, who’s finishing hosting a Halloween party. As she attends to his wound, he pries information on the whereabouts of her husband, Jack, who’s off on business in Ann Arbor. The two take this opportunity to engage in an affair, until the power goes off, and someone is in the house.

FROM THE DIRECTOR

“JACK is the result of a challenge I made with myself, wanting to see if I could make an entire horror scenario in a long, unbroken, tension-filled take. After I graduated college, I used to make horror short films during the month of Halloween every year to write, shoot, and edit on the fly. There weren't any rules, only they had to take place on Halloween night, as well as released on Halloween day. That process helped me to sink my teeth into indie filmmaking, and I returned to that concept with JACK, which  came after a very long 2-year process of my last short film, MK ULTRA VIOLENCE, which was extremely complicated. As a huge fan of John Carpenter and Brian DePalma, it was fun to immerse myself in the long, drawn-out tension (without cutting) and play with lighting and music cues to create a thriller."

-Jay Curtis Miller

CREDITS

Starring

Rachel Neiswanger

Barron Boedecker

Benjamin Winters

And Jay Karales

Writer/Director/Producer//  Jay Curtis Miller

Cinematography/ Dylan Rucker

Music by Alec Hank

Production Design/ Lindsay Akers

Sound Design/ Alonso Cacho


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