It’s a dark and stormy night…
A young couple unwittingly bring about the end of the
world at the paws of the family hamsters!
Visit the Hell
Hamsters Official Site
Awards
Best Independent Short Film 2006 Gross Movie
Reviews
Best Horror Film Vine Short Film Festival,
USA, 2007
Best Director A Night of Horror Short Film Festival, Australia, 2007
Best Cinematography Tabloid Witch Awards 2007
Audience Favourite Zompire: The Undead Film Festival, USA, 2007
Audience Favourite Big Mountain Film Festival, New Zealand, 2007
Honorable Mention Tabloid Witch Awards, USA, 2007
Nominations
Best Horror Short Film - Terror Film Festival, 2007
Best Editing - Terror Film Festival, 2007
Best Music Score - Terror Film Festival, 2007
Best Special Effects - Terror Film Festival, 2007
About the Director
Paul Campion started his career as a professional
illustrator, creating book cover illustrations for best-selling authors
such
as Ben Elton and Wibur Smith. Following a Masters Degree in Computer
Animation at Bournemouth University, he worked on the visual effects
for the TV series Walking with Beasts before joining Peter Jackson's
epic The Lord of the Rings trilogy, where he
was responsible for creating the look of digital creatures such as the
Balrog Mumakil and Shelob - which was voted number 6 in the top 10
all-time movie monsters. Since then he has worked on Constantine,
Robert Rodriguez and Frank
Miller’s Sin City, as well as The Da Vinci Code,
X-Men 3, The Waterhorse and The Dambusters remake. more>
Written by Hadyn Green, Mike Roseingrave and
Paul Campion
Format DigiBeta
Directors of photography Ben
Robinson and Jono Smith
Music by Andrea
Possee
Edited by Rob Hall
Stills by Simon
Theo
Creature fx by Lara Lodato
Special Make-up fx by
Iona McConnell
Matte Painting by Max Dennison
Starring Stephanie
Ratcliff and Paul O'Neill.
Full credits here.
Festivals
Horror Fest UK,
Portsmouth, Nov 2006 - British Fantasy Society Fantasy Con Short Film
Showcase 2006 - Nevermore Film Festival, Durham, USA Feb 2007 -
Angry Film Festival, Fitzroy, Australia, March 2007 - A Night of Horror
Short Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, March 2007 - Zompire, The
Undead Film Festival, Oregon, USA,May 2007 - Another Hole in the Head
Film Festival, San Franciso, USA, June 2007 - It Came From Lake
MIchigan Film Festival, Milwaukee, USA Oct 2007 - The Best of A Night
of Horror, Perth, Australia, June 2007 - Dark Carnival Film Festival,
Bloomington, USA, Aug 2007 - Rhode Island International Film Festival,
Providence,USA, Aug 2007 - Dragon*Con Independant Film Festival,
Atlanta, USA, Aug 2007 - Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, July
2007 - First Sundays Comedy Film Festival, New York, 2007 - Hollywood
Reporter Tabloid Witch Awards, Los Angeles, Oct 2007 - NYC Horror Film
Festival (Trailer Trash Showcase), USA, 2007 - ScreamfestLA, Los
Angeles, USA, Oct 2007 -
Big Mountain Film Festival, New Zealand, Oct 2007 -
Eerie Horror Film Festival, USA, Oct 2007 - Sacramento
Horror Film Festival, Sacramento, Oct 2007 - Thriller!Chiller! Film
Festival, USA, Oct 2007 -
Terror Film Festival, Philadelphia, Oct 2007 - B-Movie Film Festival,
Syracuse, USA, Oct 2007-
Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival, Italy, 2007 -
Show Me Your Shorts Film Festival, New Zealand, Nov 2007- Vine Shorts
Fest, Santa Monica, USA, 2007 - Rhode Island Horror Film Festival, USA,
Oct 2007 - Encounters Short Film Festival, UK, 2007 -
Big Issue Film Festival, UK, 2007
|