Indican Pictures has
tabbed July 24 as the DVD debut date for director Jonathan Zuck’s haunted house
thriller, Within the Darkness.
Austin Barnett (Dave
Coyne — V/H/S/2, Malice: Metamorphosis) is a
promoter, a hustler and he thinks that he might be able to hit it big with a
cable series that is going to be titled The Paranormal Dimension with
Austin Barnett. It’s a
ghost-hunter anthology, which isn’t a problem for him, since he doesn’t believe
in such nonsense. A little camera work,
some spooky this and that and the subtle approach of a used car salesman in
promoting it … it will be a hit!!
One thing going for
Austin, besides being a shameless self-promoter, is that he has a close-knit
crew (read that as the “victim pool) that is pretty good technically. They are, Lucy (Erin Cline — The
Housewife Slasher, Sanctuary; Quite a Conundrum) his main squeeze, his
cousin Bruce (John C. Bailey), Jesse — his childhood friend (played by Tonya
Kay — as Versnatchy in Evil Bong 666 and Evil
Bong 777, plus The Amityville Terror, Nightmare Code,
etc.) and the Elvira-like Megan (Shanna Forrestall (The Last Exorcism, Olympus Has
Fallen, etc.), who serves as the show’s “Medium” (she may actually be
the real deal).
There sits the infamous
Hewit House — an architectural beauty, none of that creepy old, dilapidated
Victoria mansion. This place is nice,
but it’s currently empty and has a nasty backstory about why no one wants to
live there.
This is perfect of Austin
and being a total fake and fraud he knows that he can turn the Hewit House into
paranormal gold. There’s just one
little problem, the place might actually be haunted.
The first night of the
production yields some thing-go-bump-in-the-night, so Austin is all-in. Megan is more cautious and suggests that what
they experienced might be malevolent, but when you’re dealing with Austin,
that’s like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
The second night in the
Hewit House could be a “closing” night for the production of The
Paranormal Dimension with Austin Barnett!!! Filmmaker Jonathan Zuck keeps Within
the Darkness fresh, even though all of the familiar genre elements are
in place … haunted house, victim pool (with a very attractive cast) and
something wicked that this way shall come.
Sweet!
