Cain Hill is a High production value low-budget feature horror film.

When a group of filmmakers decide to investigate an abandoned Asylum famed for its mysterious disappearances they soon discover the truth is far more horrific than they could have ever imagined.

Led by Director RICHARD MACKINTOSH, Producer LEONARD KINSTER the group plan to spend the weekend inside the walls of Cain Hill Psychiatric Hospital. Famous for the many unexplained disappearances and tales of a murder call CHESTER LOCKHART. The team aim to capture the truth behind the famous Cain Hill Asylum.

Once inside and set up they soon discover that the stories about Cain Hill aren’t just made up to bring in tourist and they are not alone. What first seemed like a routine shoot soon becomes a game of cat and mouse with a psychopath determined the kill the intruders.

Like the horrors of the 70’s; dripping with tension, suspense, dread and fear. 

Cain Hill is a modern horror with a classic style that will introduce the world to a whole new monster.

The horror genre today is full of films that rely all too much on cheap scare tactics and being as gory as they possibly can be. 

Long gone are the days of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street. 

Instead we’re subjected to endless films about moving closets and human centipede’s. These films rely on a formula that is replicated over and over again. 

Cain Hill will focus on what made horror great: Tension, suspense, dread and fear.

We have a central group of characters that have placed themselves in an unenviable position. Aware of the stories surrounding Cain Hill they still take it upon themselves to enter the belly of the beast. 

Once inside they are confronted by something none of them was prepared for and what begins is a race to escape with their lives.

With Cain Hill we have created a script that is everything a true horror should be. Full of atmosphere, tension, dread and of course . . . Scary as hell.

We want you to be a part of bringing this film to life. With your help we can create a horror that pays homage to the classics and gives you, the audience a horror you can watch again and again.

E4 will be featuring some of the making of Cain Hill as part of their new reality documentary series 'Stage School', following acting graduates who land their first film role. They will be auditioning for the director and producer of Cain Hill in the hopes of landing a major supporting role in the film. 

When I was first pitched the idea of doing a horror film, I was immediately excited. Aside from doing two big-budget pictures, one of which is an action/fantasy film, and the other a biopic, the idea of squeezing a low-budget horror film into the mix really appealed to me, and I immediately knew the way I wanted to approach it.

Having grown up watching horror films, mainly thanks to my brother, I've always held in highest regard the staple horrors from the 70s and 80s, such as Halloween and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The fact that those films didn't have to rely on being too gratuitous with gore, but instead letting raw tension translate into fear, was what really got me scared by those movies.

Michael losing it, and going crazy through the closet. Leatherface slamming the door. Christine chasing down Moochie Welch. Those scenes for me were genuinely scary, and with not a drop of blood in sight. 

For me, less can be much, much more. I think that no matter what any filmmaker could (never mind can) actually show on screen, it will never be as horrific as the images that audiences can create in their heads, so why try and compete with that?

Photo courtesy of Falcon International Productions

Modern horrors rely too much on guts, gore, and cheap scare tactics in my opinion. Where did the tension go? 

And that is what excited me about Cain Hill. The opportunity to make a horror, old-school style, that allows tension and fear of the situation to make the audiences watch it from behind a pillow, or want to shout "get out of there, run!" at the screen.

My favourite quote, and my mantra when it comes to filmmaking, comes from Carl Laemmle, the legendary founder of Universal Studios. He said "Movies should make you laugh, cry, or sit on the edge of your seat". I've always tried to keep this in mind in my 15 years in TV and film, and it's no more relevant than on Cain Hill.

8ight Limbs: Prod Gene Gallaize. Photo Courtesy of Cupsogue Pictures

The story, about a group of filmmakers that go to an abandoned asylum famous for its unexplained murders, allows us to not only introduce some great and memorable characters, but also enables us to make the events inside the Asylum really unnerving. 

The location alone can make anyone feel uncomfortable at the best of times, so to have a psychotic murderer loose in there, playing cat-and-mouse with the film crew, will surely keep audiences on the edge of their seats, and old Carl happy too.

Tony (the producer of the film) and myself are good friends with Hollywood legend Scott Spiegel, who was the writer of 'Evil Dead 2', is co-owner of Raw Nerve ('Hostel') with Eli Roth & Boaz Yakin, and is childhood friends and regular collaborators with Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Campbell & Sam Raimi. Scotty is a great contact to have on hand, and he will be offering tips and suggestions for some of our scenes, and I will certainly be asking him for some advice during this production.

Photo Courtesy of Cupsogue Pictures

We already have a guaranteed DVD and streaming distribution in place for it, and want to make sure we put as much money on the screen as possible.

Now we get to the business end of the campaign. 

We all know creating a great film costs money, between Cast & Crew expenses and Equipment hire the budget soon rises. We are fundraising for a budget of £10,000 to be used across all departments during production. 

We want to get the best out of your donations and make your support go as far as possible so we have created a fluid budget. What does that mean? Well it means that we don’t have a set budget for each department, due to the flexible funding of our campaign it means whatever our total funds are we can spread them across department ensuring that your money is used efficiently and every department gets the best out of our fundraising.

We have already identified the departments we know will need funding:

• Cast & Crew Expenses - Including travel and food for our talented cast & crew.
• Location Fees - We want to secure an amazing location to give 'Cain Hill' the perfect atmosphere for our audience and securing the right location is a key aspect.
• Camera, Lighting & Sound - We will be shooting on a Blackmagic and will need to secure lighting to ensure that while we shoot on location we can capture everything we need at the highest quality.
• Make Up & Prosthetics - Creating Chester Lockhart and amping up all of our horror will be the amazing Makeup and Prosthetics we need your help to ensure the best possible on screen lock for our characters.

• Props & Costume - Costume and props are key, we have so many exciting sequences within 'Cain Hill' and we want to ensure you get to see the best props and costume on screen so that you are fully immersed in the world of 'Cain Hill'
• Production Fees - There will inevitably be I's to dot and T's to cross we will be ensuring we have all production admin in place including Licenses, Insurance and any other admin costs that may arise during production.

We have assembled an unbelievable Cast & Crew to create a high quality, low budget horror that you can enjoy over and over. 

Meet the creators behind Cain Hill.

Gene Fallaize - Director/Writer

Gene Fallaize is an award-winning British film and television producer, and owner of production company Cupsogue Pictures. 

Gene has a broad wealth of experience across the entertainment industry having worked in broadcast media from a young age. He started his career in radio broadcasting in 1998 working as a producer and presenter for various radio groups including the BBC, and was also vice-chairman of Jubilee Radio in Guernsey. In 2002 he began making the transition into television production initially as a broadcast engineer and then engineering manager for Rear Window Television in London before moving into management and producing. During his time in television, Gene worked all around the world alongside many British and International personalities.

In 2006 Gene made a further career transition into film production and earned his first feature film Executive Producer credit on Nick Love's £2.5MM British action thriller Outlaw starring Sean Bean and Bob Hoskins, which went on to receive wide acclaim. Later that year he started his own production company Cupsogue Pictures. In 2008 he produced the award-winning short film 8ight Limbs and feature film Monkeyshine. In 2009 Gene was nominated for two awards, Best Producer (Monkeyshine) at the 2009 StarAwards in Chicago, and Outstanding Freelancer of the Year at the 2009 Freelancer of the Year Awards in London. He has since been a finalist in the Best Director category at the 2016 TMC London Film Festival (Contact Lost).

In 2010 Gene associate-produced Imran Naqvi’s £1.2MM post-apocalyptic thriller The Last Seven starring Danny Dyer, Tammer Hassan and Ronan Vibert. He also produced the live stand-up comedy show Tom Toal: On The Scrapheap as well as short films Yoghurt and Ari.

In 2011 Gene wrote, produced and directed the ground-breaking and award-winning Superman:Requiem, which was an experimental feature-lengthSuperman film produced in association with Warner Bros. designed to bridge the gap between the fan-film community and the major studios. Gene's unique vision was to create a fan film like no other by having the highest possible production values on a film with a budget of only $20,000. Superman:Requiem was released online in November 2011 after a gala Premiere in London's OdeonCovent Garden, and has gained a large following from fans around the world. The feature-length film recently exceeded 20million combined views online, and won the Best Film Award from Geek Tyrant.

In 2012 Gene executive-produced Dominic Burns’ £1.2MM horror/thriller Airborne starring Mark Hamill, Julian Glover and Gemma Atkinson. More recently Gene has had his third film as director released on DVD, drama Contact Lost (2015), as well as Taking Care of Business (2016) which he produced, putting the total number of films that Gene has either produced or directed available to buy worldwide on DVD/Blu-Ray to 16.

Alongside directing Cain Hill, Gene is directing big-budget action/fantasy Dark Ascension, and working on the high profile Dudley Moore biopic Dudley, which he is directing. In addition, he is writing and producing a high-profile picture based on the events surrounding the true events of the crash of TWA Flight 800, as well asSci-fi/ thriller Venus which he is also writing and directing.

Tony Cook - Producer/Writer & 'Leonard Kinster'

Tony is a Producer and Actor, who trained as a theatrical actor, portraying roles such as ‘John Proctor’ in ‘The Crucible’, before expanding into film production. 

Tony has completed work for MTV, and can be seen in 'Butterflies & Bullets', 'The Kid' , ‘Father's Day' and ’The Woods Of Daemar’. He has both produced and starred in 'Three', 'Ari', 'Fractured', 'The Extraction' and the award winning 'Superman: Requiem'. 

2016 see’s Tony filming alongside multiple Oscar winning actors from Colin Firth to Jeff Bridges in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, as well as his role in the Emmy winning production company 'Lightbox's new series on Netflix before rejoining Director Gene Fallaize for the fantasy feature trilogy ‘Dark Ascension’ with Scott Spiegel (Evil Dead), Bruce Campbell (Ash vs the Evil Dead), Tara Reid (American Pie) & horror feature 'Cain Hill'.

Michael J. Dean - Writer

Michael is an award-winning Writer working in Film.

In 2013 Michael founded POSH DINOSAUR PRODUCTIONS creating new and original content for Film, TV and Online media. Since Michael launched the company, it has gone from strength to strength with films being selected for the Top Shorts Film Festival, Los Angeles Cinefest, Miami Indie Film Festival and the FilmQuest Festival.

Phill Martin - 'Chester Lockhart'

Phill is a British actor, born and raised in the East Midlands. 

Phill began his acting career quite late due to his height (he stands at an impressive 7feet tall) he always thought he would stand out too much to be considered for any roles until he discovered an agency who specialised in short and tall actors.

Shortly after being taken on the books of the tall agency Phill landed his first role in Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows, swiftly followed up with a role in Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer and shortly after as a 'Elephantine' Engineer in Ridley Scott's Prometheus.

Most recently Phill starred alongside Hugh Jackman in Joe Wright's 'Pan' movie as fearsome pirate Goliath. Coming up Phill will star in horror film 'Harbour' as The Beast. Phill will also shortly commence filming on 'Dark Ascension' for director Gene Fallaize.

MICHAEL PARR - ARNIE

Previous television appearances include Hollyoaks, Casualty, Good Cop, Inside Men and the BBC daytime soap opera Doctors. Film roles include Queesnbury Rules, No Way Through, and Keiren in the 2011 film Territory.Parr has also appeared on stage in various roles, including Justin in Studies for A Portrait at the Oval House Theatre, Paul in The Back Room at the Cock Tavern, and Danny in Twothousandandsex at the Drill Hall in London.

Emmerdale

Parr made his first appearance in the ITV soap Emmerdale in July 2013, playing an unnamed man who carjacked regular character Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy). It was only after his return to the show in October 2013 that his true identity was revealed.His character, Ross Barton, is one of three sons of James Barton, played by Bill Ward, and the nephew of regular character Moira Barton, played by Natalie J Robb.

During his time in Emmerdale, Parr has been involved in a number of high-profile storylines, including an affair with policewoman Donna Windsor, played by Verity Rushworth; taking part in a violent robbery at Home Farm; an illicit affair with his brother's fiancée (later wife), Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb); and secretly fathering a child with Debbie's mother Charity Macey (Emma Atkins).

On August 6, 2015, it appeared that the character of Ross Barton had been killed off after a violent confrontation with his brother Pete (Anthony Quinlan). Parr even stated on social media that he had left the show, and thanked fans for starting a petition to bring him back to Emmerdale. However, on 25 August it was revealed that Ross was still alive, having survived the attack by Pete. He later sought revenge on his brother for the attempted murder, whilst beginning another affair with Pete's now wife, Debbie.

In October 2015, Parr won awards for Best Actor, Best Bad Boy and Sexiest Male at the 2015 Inside Soap Awards. Emmerdale also won Best Soap.