Finding his high profile illustration career to be less than meaningful, Matt Busch sets out to find a more rewarding personal project. Visiting a nearby graveyard, Matt stumbles upon an old photograph of a South-American castle. Obsessed with the photo, Matt begins to bring the castle to life with a vibrant full-color painting. At the same time, he creates sinister sketches of the tortured souls who he imagines inhabit the gothic dwelling. While Matt creates his cryptic world in his studio, his girlfriend Sarah is confronted with ghostly encounters throughout the rest of the home. Eventually the art becomes so real, that Matt and Sarah find themselves manifested in the actual castle and must confront the demonic spirits conjured from Matt's twisted nightmares...
Practical Effects
Busch's actual paintings become the film's production design.
Direction
Director stars as himself in deeply unhinged autobiographical horror.
Director
Matt Busch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Matt Busch is a real professional illustrator who worked on Star Wars and Indiana Jones licensed art before making this deeply personal horror film about his own creative anxieties.
This is essentially 'The Room' of horror—an auteur so obsessed with his own vision that he cast himself opposite his actual girlfriend, blurring reality until the film becomes unintentional documentary.
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