‘There are monsters in the woods’
The Gatehouse is a 2016 horror film about a young girl who lives at the edge of an ancient forest. She likes to dig for buried treasure, but one day she digs up something she shouldn’t and the forest wants it back.
The movie was written and directed by Martin Gooch (Death). The Gothic Manor production stars Scarlett Rayner, Simeon Willis and Linal Haft.
Plot:
Jack is a struggling writer recovering from the death of his wife. His daughter, ten year-old Eternity, loves digging for treasure in the forest behind her house.
In a coincidental turn of fate, Jack agrees to undertake a writing project about the ‘legend of the black flowers’ at the same time that Eternity discovers a mysterious object in the woods. However, the forest wants the object back. Father and daughter have unlocked an ancient curse and must now fight for survival…
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Cast and characters:
Scarlett Rayner … Eternity Winters
Simeon Willis – The Rizen; Egomaniac; The Invisible Atomic Monsters from Mars; Stagknight
Linal Haft – Ripper Street; Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Samantha White – The Rizen; The World’s End
Sarine Sofair – The Rizen 2; Shortcuts to Hell: Volume 1
Hannah Waddingham
Melissa Knatchbull
Zara Plessard
Anda Berzina
Stephen Boxer
Andrew Caley
Tayo Elesin – Bloodshot
Paul Freeman – Hot Fuzz; Tales from the Crypt (TV series)
Martin Gooch
Taylor Parsons – The Rizen 2
Sakuntala Ramanee
Alix Wilton Regan – Zombie Diaries 2
Choice dialogue:
Publishing Agent: “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
Filming locations:
Somerset, England
Release date:
Incanta Media released The Gatehouse on DVD in the UK on 1 October 2018.
In the USA, The Gatehouse was released digitally on VOD by Uncork’d Entertainment on December 5, 2017.
Trailer:
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