The Dead Matter
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| Directed by | Edward Douglas |
| Produced by | Robert Kurtzman and Gary Jones |
| Screenplay by | Tony Demci and Edward Douglas |
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| Music by | Edward Douglas |
| Cinematography | Alex Esber |
| Edited by | Edward Douglas |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million |
The Dead Matter is 2010 American feature-length horror film by filmmakers Edward Douglas of Midnight Syndicate, Gary Jones, and Robert Kurtzman.
Gretchen (Sean Serino), a young woman, becomes desperate to contact her brother after his passing. She discovers an amulet that allows her to control the dead—which she uses to try and contact him. The amulet also allows results in the calling forth of a small army of zombies, comedically called "Post-Mortem Americans" in the film. This amulet is a sought after relic, pursued by two feuding vampires who have been at odds for millennia: Vellich (Andrew Divoff) and Sebed (Tom Savini). After encountering the vampires, Gretchen and her friends are joined by the vampire-hunter McCallister (Jason Carter), who had originally stolen the amulet from Vellich. McCallister helps Gretchen and her friends combat the villains, and the film ends with a final showdown between the protagonists and the vampires. The film was called a "vampire-zombie hybrid movie" by the Columbus Dispatch.
The film's premise was derived from a student short film shot in 1996 for $2000 at John Carroll University. Filming on the professional release version began in the summer of 2007 at the abandoned Mansfield Reformatory in northeastern Ohio—the same location as the film The Shawshank Redemption. The production budget for the film was about $1.5 million, raised from investors in the State of Ohio. Edward Douglas directed the film, which was produced by Robert Kurtzman's company Precinct 13 Entertainment. A rough version was screen-tested in early 2008 before the film was sent to editing.The Dead Matter is the largest film ever to be funded and filmed entirely in northeastern Ohio. The majority of the cast and crew were also from Ohio themselves, including the cast, a crew of seventy people, and about three dozen extras playing the role of zombies.
During the lead-up to the film's release, the Midnight Syndicate named their 2008 album The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates as a marketing technique. The final soundtrack, composed by Edward Douglas, was released in 2010 as The Dead Matter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
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