The Manor is a 2018 American supernatural horror film directed by Jonathan Schermerhorn from a screenplay by Mike Messier, Tom DeNucci, Matt O’Conner, and Glenn Jeffery. Christina Robinson, Kevin Nash and Godsmack frontman Sully Erna star.
Speaking during filming in 2016, producer Tom DeNucci (Army of the Damned; Self Storage) said: “I’m very excited to be back in the horror genre. Working on a movie like this, here in New England, during our classic Halloween season, with all the leaves changing, certainly adds an extra element to the movie, that you just can’t create with a Hollywood studio – well not without millions of dollars at least! To be here, in Rhode Island, where H.P. Lovecraft was telling his tales of the macabre, and to be producing a movie with similar tones and elements, over a hundred years later, is really special.”
Plot:
It’s Amy’s eighteenth birthday. While most girls her age are celebrating with friends and painting the town, Amy is checking herself out of the insane asylum.
Amy’s mother, Jane, decides to take her on a family getaway, to celebrate her birthday and re-acclimate her to everyday life. A weekend intended to rekindle family ties quickly turns to the most horrific family reunion in American history. And it all goes down at Anders Manor…
Reviews:
“It’s a strange mix of oddball characters with enough horror tropes packed into one film as to misdirect an audience expecting heavy-handed foreshadowing, using those expectations in a kind of jujitsu to flip them around using their own weight […] I have no idea what the budget was, but The Manor almost certainly looks far better than expected on that budget, with superb production quality in sets, lighting, and cinematography.” Motif
Cast and characters:
Christina Robinson … Amy Hunter – Dexter
Rachel True … Doctor Tryvniak
Kevin Nash … Reverend Thomas – Lockdown; Slaw; Monster Brawl
Sully Erna … Brett Bayton
Danielle Guldin … Blaire Clarke
Eric Lutes … Ethan Clarke
Armen Garo … Robert Anders
Michael Zuccola … Trevor Clarke
Tanja Melendez Lynch … Jane Hunter
Pamela Jayne Morgan … Nurse Amanda Feliz
Mike Messier … Ole Bayton
David Tessier … Aka Mana
Tandi Tugwell … Eva Clarke
Mike Bennett … Darsaw Bayton
Mark Sullivan … Nicklaus Anders
Release:
Lionsgate released The Manor theatrically and on VOD on May 18, 2018.
Working title:
Anders Manor
