Zombie horror hits Littlehampton in new sci-fi short

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Zombie horror comes to 1990s Littlehampton in a new short film, the tale of a mysterious cube which brings a horribly eerie chain of events as it moves from person to person.

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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspaper. It's lovely

00:06this morning to speak to Dave Thomas of Little Hampton. Dave, you've got a great short film,

00:11Neon Hell, sci-fi horror. What's it all about? Six minutes, six or seven minutes, you say?

00:17Yeah, it's just over six minutes. It's about an evil cube who, well, that travels from

00:26person to person, stealing their souls. It's kind of mysterious, you never really find out why,

00:33but wanted to leave it kind of open.

00:36But it sucks out the soul with a lot of flashing neon lights.

00:40Oh yeah, I mean, the name Neon Hell kind of really sums it up quite well. It's very over

00:47the top, it's set in the 90s, so it's kind of tried to make it retro, used a lot of

00:54film emulation to make it look kind of older in style, and the clothes and stuff that we

01:01dug out of a charity shop were kind of 90s, so yeah, kind of a retro sci-fi horror.

01:09You as the main character and the victim?

01:12Right, yeah, I mean, I had my great friend Juan Villiz, he's a great filmmaker from

01:20Argentina, he was my cameraman, and to keep costs down and to make production easier, I

01:26had to pull the short straw and play the main character, which is the same reason why

01:33that there's no dialogue on it, because I'm not a very good actor, but I can kind of

01:37do stuff, you know? So yeah, it was a decision to keep the production simple and

01:44to make things easier that I had to try my acting chops out.

01:48You've left it on a cliffhanger as well.

01:51Yeah, so it starts very mysteriously, you only really find out in the middle of the film what's

01:58really going on, and then it ends on a cliffhanger, and you kind of have to fill in the blank at the

02:06end.

02:06It sounds great, and obviously people hearing about this will want to see it, but the fact

02:10is you've got to take it to the festivals first, and then when you've done the festivals,

02:15you'd have to put it on a streaming platform.

02:17Yeah, so we've put it into 30 film festivals so far from all across the world, some from

02:24India, Athens, you know, all over the place, anywhere there's a film festival we've put it

02:33in, so we're hoping to get some great results from that. We've already had an honourable

02:37mention from one of the festivals for VFX, which is really exciting, but some of the

02:44stipulations of that is that you can't show the film publicly until those festivals have

02:49concluded.

02:50So we'll just have to wait for a little while for our six minutes of zombie horror.

02:55Yeah, exactly.

02:57Fantastic, and in the meantime you're thinking about the next one. Well, good luck with this,

03:00good luck with all the film festivals, and lovely to speak to you. Thank you.

03:04Thanks, cheers.

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