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From writer-director Chad Crawford Kinkle (Jug Face) comes a new tale of terror years in the making, Dementer starring Larry Fessenden (Stake Land). The film follows Katie (Katie Groshong), a young woman who flees a backwoods cult and takes a job at a care center for special needs adults in her determination to do some good with her life. But despite her best intentions, Katie can’t escape the signs that “the devils” are coming for Stephanie (Stephanie Kinkle), a woman with Down syndrome she cares for, who keeps getting sicker despite Katie’s rituals to ward off evil spirits. Brandy Edmiston and Eller Hall also star in the film, which is an official selection at both the Nashville Film Festival and the Chattanooga Film Festival. In a statement, the director explains how the film came to be and why it means so much to him. A year ago, my mother mentioned that she had a dream that I made a film
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Writer-director Chad Crawford Kinkle‘s 2013 horror Jug Face made waves in the indie genre. Now, he’s back with his arthouse horror Dementer. In the film, Katie (Katie Groshong, A Measure of the Sin, Jug Face), a young woman determined to do something positive with her life after fleeing from a backwoods cult, takes a job at a center for special needs adults. Desperately attempting to live a normal life, she is overwhelmed by signs that “the devils” are after Stephanie (newcomer Stephanie Kinkle), a woman with Down Syndrome that she now cares for. Using writings from a strange notebook, Katie creates rituals to ward away the evil while taking care of Stephanie at the center and in her home. But nothing seems to work, and Stephanie is becoming sicker with each passing day… Building this special project around his sister Stephanie, who has Down Syndrome and plays one of the film’s leads, Kinkle has gone to great lengths to create
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From writer-director Chad Crawford Kinkle (Jug Face) comes a new tale of terror years in the making, Dementer starring Larry Fessenden (Stake Land). The film follows Katie (Katie Groshong), a young woman who flees a backwoods cult and takes a job at a care center for special needs adults in her determination to do some good with her life. But despite her best intentions, Katie can’t escape the signs that “the devils” are coming for Stephanie (Stephanie Kinkle), a woman with Down syndrome she cares for, who keeps getting sicker despite Katie’s rituals to ward off evil spirits. Brandy Edmiston and Eller Hall also star in the film, which is an official selection at both the Nashville Film Festival and the Chattanooga Film Festival. In a statement, the director explains how the film came to be and why it means so much to him. A year ago, my mother mentioned that she had a dream that I made a film
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Writer-director Chad Crawford Kinkle‘s 2013 horror Jug Face made waves in the indie genre. Now, he’s back with his arthouse horror Dementer. In the film, Katie (Katie Groshong, A Measure of the Sin, Jug Face), a young woman determined to do something positive with her life after fleeing from a backwoods cult, takes a job at a center for special needs adults. Desperately attempting to live a normal life, she is overwhelmed by signs that “the devils” are after Stephanie (newcomer Stephanie Kinkle), a woman with Down Syndrome that she now cares for. Using writings from a strange notebook, Katie creates rituals to ward away the evil while taking care of Stephanie at the center and in her home. But nothing seems to work, and Stephanie is becoming sicker with each passing day… Building this special project around his sister Stephanie, who has Down Syndrome and plays one of the film’s leads, Kinkle has gone to great lengths to create
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