Director Harley Wallen and screenwriter Bret Miller (who also wrote Ash and Bone) have teamed up for the vampire film Beneath Us All which begins as an epic Viking tale before it settles in today’s Maine. Today, we’ve got a first look at the movie.
In the film, “Julie is a foster child heading for her 18th birthday when she finds something buried in the woods with something unspeakable inside that changes her life forever.”
Beneath Us All stars Sean Whalen (Twister), Yan Birch (The People Under the Stairs), Maria Olsen (Percy and the Olympians), Angelina Danielle Cama (Ash and Bone), Malachi Myles (Halt), and Kaiti Wallen (Agramon’s Gate).
The film is currently in the late stages of post-production with Johnny Flynn serving as Editor and is working with the Sound & Music Post Team of Kaizad Patel and Firoze Patel.
Whalen and Birch reunite for the first time on the 30th anniversary of The People Under the Stairs.
“It was pretty much a director’s dream to work with such an amazing and accomplished cast on this film. They really understood and took my vision to another level”. Wallen says about reuniting with Birch.
“I want to make the kind of films you can truly get lost in, it’s important to me that there is beauty even in the harshest and most gruesome scenes! I wanted especially to give ‘Beneath Us All’ strong visuals because of their previous accomplishments with ‘Ash and Bone’ and its outstanding festival run. Miller and I talked about the Swedish Vampire film ‘Let the Right One In” but also films like ‘Hereditary’ for some of the time and texture and even “30 Days of Night” and more for inspiration.”
Wallen is producing alongside co-producers Michael Alexander (Tale of Tails) who also stars in the film of Westside Warrior Films who co-produced, Annette Cama of Cama Productions, Kaiti Wallen of Painted Creek Productions, and Joe Williamson. The film is aiming for a late April 2022 release and festival run.
