Regular FrightFest audience member Jamie Hooper will this year have a slightly different festival. After having spent much of the last decade making short films, he has finally been able to make the transition into feature films. Having already screened to audiences across the pond, Hooper will unveil his debut movie, The Creeping, to European audiences at Arrow Video FrightFest. The Creeping closes out the programming on Saturday 27th August with its eerie timeslot of 11pm.
Due to a traumatic childhood experience, Anna (Riann Steele) has not returned home for many years. With her ailing grandmother, Lucy (Jane Lowe), who is suffering with worsening symptoms of dementia, Anna finally decides to move home to look after her. Soon after her arrival, strange things begin to happen, which soon escalates into a nightmarish fight for life against a malevolent presence. Anna discovers that the ordeal is linked to a dark family secret, a tragic past that has haunted her whole life… and Lucy’s fading memories could be the key to solving the mystery and surviving the nightmare.
The Creeping is exactly the type of film that you want to be watching over the midnight hour. Filled with atmospheric tension and super sinister and unexpected scares, The Creeping looks set to send a fair few FrightFesters to bed with sleepless nights. It explores the debilitating illness of dementia as well as how ghosts from the past remain long after we thought them gone.
Before releasing The Creeping unto his peers, THN sat down with Jamie to delve deep into the creation of his feature debut. Over the course of the interview we discussed the shift from short format to feature-length, making ghosts creepy, and why FrightFesters should risk a nightmare-filled sleep.
The Creeping screens at Arrow Video FrightFest on Saturday 27th August at 11pm. Tickets for The Creeping can be purchased by heading to the FrightFest website here.
