From boutique label Severin Films and renowned author, producer and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, House of Psychotic Women) comes new annual series The Haunted Season.
Created by Janisse and executive produced by Severin Films, new episodes of The Haunted Season will arrive on Shudder each December with chilling short form horror tales in the tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas. Future episodes will be announced each year as the holiday season approaches.
The first of these original commissioned productions To Fire You Come at Last comes from director Sean Hogan (director of The Devil’s Business and author of England’s Screaming and sequel Twilight’s Last Screaming) and has just dropped on Shudder.
In 17th century England, near a rural village where unquiet spirits gather, a grieving Squire hires three local men to help carry his son’s coffin to a graveyard across the countryside. But as darkness descends upon their journey, disturbing secrets will be revealed. Violence will rise to the surface. As the hellhounds of local lore howl in the night, this quartet of the damned will discover a realm of supernatural terror that not even dawn – or death – can readily contain.
Mark Carlisle, Harry Roebuck, Richard Rowden, Stephen Smith and James Swanton star in this “chilling” (Nigtmarish Conjurings), “intense” (Bloody Flicks) and “satisfyingly wicked” (Horror Fuel) shocker written and directed by Sean Hogan (The Devil’s Business, The Borderlands) produced by Severin Films and hailed by Starburst as “a great addition to the pantheon of British folk horror.”
