Skare

The story behind director Michael J Murphy’s recent low budget, darkly comic and rather splattery Skare, is an interesting one. Basing the script on his own short story, Murphy set about filming in 2001. Disaster struck, however, when the unprocessed film got lost in the post on the way to be developed at Kodak. Murphy found himself in debt and without a film.

Skip ahead a few years and as Murphy began working on a new project, he found himself drawn back to the original script of Skare. Gathering together a new cast and crew, the tenacious filmmaker set about filming Skare once again.

The story focuses on the unlikely, and increasingly disturbing, partnership between Martha - the reclusive owner of a country club and Dan - a young escapee from a nearby psychiatric hospital. Dan soon discovers that Martha has sinister ulterior motives for her kindness and following the discovery of a decapitated head in a refrigerator, it soon becomes very clear the lengths she goes to in order to cook up the meaty meals she serves to Dan and her customers...

Head over to Eye for Film to read my full review.

Skare was released in September 2009 by Sarcophilous Films, a fledgling independent DVD label. Check out their site here.