Brighton Rocks is hosting a screening of the new Sussex-made award-winning psychological horror film The Cellar at Wagner Hall on April 5 at 6.30pm.
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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor-in-Chief at Sussex Newspapers.
00:06Now, autumn 2024, we had in Worthing the premiere of Jamie Langland's new film, The Cellar.
00:12Since then, it's done brilliantly. First of all, tell me what kind of film it is. We're
00:16talking horror, aren't we?
00:18We are talking horror. We're talking more specifically psychological horror. I mean,
00:24there is some more elements in there of religion and science fiction, but it's mainly psychological.
00:34So set the scene, what's the starting point for this film?
00:38So we have this young girl called Abigail who joins a church meeting group, basically.
00:49And one day she winds up in a cell, locked in a cell. She doesn't know how she got there
00:56or where she is exactly. And it's kind of up to her to kind of break out of this cell,
01:06cellar location she's in, and try and work out exactly what's going on and how she wound
01:14up.
01:15That sounds great. This is a full length feature film, is it?
01:18It is. It's 80, 85 minutes long.
01:21And you use plenty of locations in the area, Hastings, Worthing, Arundel and Brighton and
01:26so on. But since it's released, since that premiere, you've been in festivals around
01:31the world, haven't you?
01:33Indeed, yeah. Mainly America and UK. But yeah, it's been screened in India and Russia. Possibly
01:43somewhere else. Maybe can't remember off the top of my head, but yeah.
01:48When you look back on the making of it, from the distance now of having put it out into
01:52these film festivals, can you see why it's working well? What did you get right then
01:56with this film?
01:57For me, it was just about using the resources I had around me. I've kind of been in this
02:04game for quite a while, so I've met a hell of a lot of people, a lot of different crew
02:08members, a lot of different actors. So it's just bringing in those people that I knew
02:14would kind of do a good job and get the cinematography, the lighting, make it look real great and
02:20then have the actors on board that I knew again would do a great job and put some really
02:25good performances in.
02:26Once you've done all the festivals, are you thinking about streaming platforms?
02:31I mean, we've already got many deals in place for streaming.
02:38When could that start streaming then?
02:42Oh, I'm thinking, I mean, I think it's the distributors, they've got their own sort of
02:47schedule of when they want to release films. So whether that, I mean, it's down to the
02:52distributor, it might be a case of waiting to more to the Halloween sort of time, or
02:57they might kind of put it out there in a couple of months.
03:00Yeah, it is going to get onto those streaming platforms then.
03:05Oh, gotcha, absolutely.
03:06Yeah, absolutely. Well, Jamie, congratulations on the success. It's a cracking film.
03:12Back to the next one. Thank you.