Bayview Entertainment has the chills lined up for genre fans on May 11 with the DVD release of Grainger Hines’ classic “haunted house” thriller, The Mill.
Sure, the action doesn’t take place in a haunted house, but for horror fans it doesn’t matter. Haunted house, insane asylum, cabin in the wood or an abandoned mill, in this case, Steen’s Textile Mill, they all have the same thing in common, creepy places where bad things are going to happen.
A quick show of hands! What else is central to a “haunted house” thriller? You, you there in the back row, what’s your answer? Why yes, that is correct, a “victim pool.” So, if you have eight sexually active college students, looking to party at an abandon mill, what do you have? Answer: a haunted house horror tale.
Filmed in and around Salisbury, North Carolina, actor Grainger Hines (The Final Interview, Lincoln, Street Knight, etc. … and as Captain August Robertson in The Knick television series) took time out from his long career in front of the camera (which began way back in 1975 with Day of the Locust) to direct The Mill, which stars none other than Austin Hines (son of Grainger and Mamas and the Papas recording legend, Michelle Phillips) … you might call the production a family affair.
In any case, Shawn (Austin Hines) takes his friends (aka: the victim pool), Amber (Tiffany LeShai McMinn), Madison (Kelly Ray — The Shrieking, Zombies Anonymous), Whitney (Leah Marie Parker — The Trim Reaper) and the nerdy Cari (Blaire Welch) and their respective “dates,” Kyle (Catori Swann) and Jesse (Austin James), plus goofball Nick (Robert Rainbolt), out to the shuttered mill.
Naturally, the locals claim all sorts of things have gone on out there since it closed down (other parties, perhaps) … but legend has it that the place is haunted, the result of a gruesome industrial accident.
Once assembled, the group hears strange noises, they share a few jokes and swap horror tales … and then they do what college kids do, they split up to enjoy the company of the one they are with. And, one by one they die at the hands of an unseen killer.
Who survives the night? Who is the killer? What is the twist? Is the legend about this textile mill actually true? No answers here, you have to catch The Mill on DVD from Bayview Entertainment on May 11 to find out what haunts the place!!
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