Multi-Award Winning British Team Behind Cult Hit DEAD AIR Team Up with Multi- Award Winning New York Creator for Spooky Comedy Horror Web Series FRIGHTSEERS Multi-award winning team behind cult hit Dead Air Peter Hearn (writer/producer) & Geoff Harmer (director/producer) announce their collaboration with multi-award winning New York actress & creator Candice Palladino (Blink, The Great Charade, It’s Daisy May), for the new spooky comedy horror web series FRIGHTSEERS now almost 70% funded on Indiegogo.
Written by award winning filmmaker Peter Hearn (Scrawl starring Star Wars: The Force Awakens Daisy Ridley), FRIGHTSEERS consists of 42 female-led, interconnecting live action webisodes and audio dramas. Inspired by GHOSTBUSTERS, EXTRA ORDINARY, THE BURBS, British Sitcoms of the 1980’s, Public Information Films of the 1970’s, along with web-series such as THE GUILD and DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-A-LONG BLOG, FRIGHTSEERS is best described as Agatha Christie with ghosts.
With a gaggle of ghouls and ghosts realised entirely with practical effects including a 7ft tall DEATH puppet built by props master Dugg Daynes (Hank), the aim is to produce a fun, frightening and fantastical series alongside educating the next generation of filmmakers at Andover College where Hearn and Harmer are lecturers via a group of episodes written especially for them.
Frightseers is set to star Annabella Rich (Eating Miss Campbell), Amber Doig-Thorne (Winne the Pooh: Blood and Honey), Charlie Bond (Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead), Candice Palladino, and Jennifer Bradley (Psych) alongside a talented ensemble of talented British artists.
Frightseers plans to film throughout 2024 in various places around the UK.
Award winning director, Geoff Harmer (Smile, Dead Air), is set to direct most episodes with alongside other British guest directors. Director of Photography is Nathan Mountain with sound & music from Taylor Lawton-Bryant who both co-run Ravenwolf Productions.
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Half-Day Wednesday alongside Fraught Productions and Pond Jumper Productions Presents – Frightseers. Directed by Geoff Harmer; Written by Peter Hearn; Produced by Peter Hearn, Geoff Harmer, Candice Palladino; starring Annabella Rich, Amber Doig-Thorne, Charlie Bond, Candice Palladino, and Jennifer Bradley
