Horror Icons Lin Shaye and Bill Moseley
Star In Just-Completed Feature
Writer/Director Paul Boyd, Actor and Musician Kurt Deimer, and
Producer Eric Barrett to Attend Official Screening of Film
LOS
ANGELES, July 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The new film
Scared to Death, starring horror legends Lin Shaye, Bill
Moseley and musician Kurt
Deimer, will screen at the Popcorn Frights Horror Film
Festival, the Southeast US's largest genre film festival, it was
announced today by producer Eric
Barrett. Writer/director Paul Boyd, producer
Eric Barrett and actor and musician
Kurt Deimer, who plays the breakout
character "The Grog" in the film, will attend the screening. The
film is scheduled for August 11 at
the Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale.
Written and directed by Boyd with the music of Deimer, the
horror-comedy showcases genre legends Lin
Shaye (the Insidious franchise) and Bill Moseley (The Devil's Rejects,
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2). Heavy metal frontman
Kurt Deimer
(Halloween 2018) is featured as the scene-stealer The
Grog. In Scared to Death, a group of filmmakers attend
a séance at an abandoned children's orphanage to do research for a
horror movie. Soon, supernatural events begin to
manifest, in both horrific and darkly comical fashion.
Writer/director Boyd said, "On behalf of the filmmaking team, I
want to thank the programmers at the Popcorn Frights Festival for
including Scared to Death in this year's event. We are
looking forward to seeing this audience react to the finished film.
Popcorn Frights could not be a better place for our world
premiere."
Executive producer Kurt Deimer, who appears as "The Grog"
and wrote three songs for the film, added, "I'm really looking
forward to being with the fans for this screening. Here I am
now in a movie with Lin and Bill and other great actors, and I'm
still the unknown wild card. This is a new experience for me
compared to my heavy metal performances over many years."
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Paul Boyd, who directed a trio of Deimer's music videos, approached
Deimer about working on Scared to Death. Born in
Scotland, Boyd started making
Super 8 films as a teenager. He went on to graduate from the
acclaimed St. Martins School of Art in London with a BA in Fine Art Film. Boyd
made a name for himself early on, directing award-winning music
videos and commercial campaigns in Europe and the
United States for multiple global brands. Among them:
L'Oreal, Revlon, Jaguar, Dodge, Chanel and Volkswagen. In
addition, Boyd helmed world-famous music videos for Sting, Seal,
Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Celine
Dion and Lenny Kravitz.
A series of music videos he directed for Shania Twain's hit album
Come on Over helped create the biggest-selling female album
in history. Boyd's music videos have been viewed over a
billion times.
About Popcorn Frights Film Festival was established
in 2015 by Miami locals
Igor Shteyrenberg and Marc Ferman and has quickly grown into the
leading international genre film festival in the Southeast
United States. Popcorn Frights' programming voice, unique
among genre film festivals, has gained recognition for its numerous
discoveries and prize winners. Popcorn Frights has been
declared one of "The World's 50 Best Genre Festivals" by
Moviemaker Magazine; recognized as one of the "The
Best Horror Festivals in the World" by Dread Central; noted as
one of the "Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals" by Film
Freeway; and named "One of the Best Film Festival's in
Florida" by the
Sun-Sentinel. In the last three years,
the festival has screened films from more than 20 countries,
including over 100 World, International, North American, US and
East Coast premieres. The festival is hosted at the O
Cinema South Beach.
FOLLOW SCARED TO DEATH:
X: @scaredtodeaththemovie31
Instagram: @scaredtodeathmovie
LIN SHAYE
Instagram: @mslinshaye
X: @linshaye
KURT DEIMER
Instagram: @kurtdeimer
X: @kurtdeimer
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