Variety report Woodshed (a new horror shingle from partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller) has announced two new projects — the original production A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and the completed feature Toad Road from writer-director Jason Banker.
The Woodshed partners discovered Toad Road when programming Nightmare City, a horror film festival collaboration between the Cinefamily, Cinespia and the Woodshed that is currently unfolding around Los Angeles.
“Programming the festival, we viewed scores of new horror films, but ‘Toad Road’ leapt out of the pack with its devastating power. We knew we had to do whatever we could to make sure this special film is seen,” Wood said.The pic earned awards for director Banker and star James Davidson at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and was covered in the recent Rue Morgue magazine.
It’s described as blurring the line between documentary and narrative to create a disturbing portrait of drug use in youth culture wrapped around a terrifying supernatural event on New Jersey’s infamous Toad Road, the subject of an urban legend about the gate to hell.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is an Iranian Western about vampires that will mark the feature debut of writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour. The film is described as a love story set in a fictitious Iranian ghost town reeking of death and loneliness, where a strange and jaded population is haunted by a lonesome vampire who preys upon the city’s most depraved denizens.
