I have just completed filming on Umbrage, an independent British horror film, written and directed by Drew Cullingham. My part is Jacob, an antiques dealer who
arrives at his new home, a remote farmhouse, bringing his new and highly dysfunctional family with him. There is Lauren, his new young bride of only a few
months who is very heavily pregnant with their child, and his 18 y.o. step-daughter Rachel whose mother committed suicide less than a year ago after she
discovered......well, you'll have to wait and see the movie, won't you?
As if he didn't have enough on his hands trying to make sense of all this, two strangers arrive on his doorstep, Stanley, a young man on a camping trip who is in a state of shock after discovering his companion horribly mutilated in the woods, and the anonymous young woman with whom his companion had ventured into the night and who has nothing to say for herself......
What Jacob doesn't know is that the battle lines of an ancient demonic/vampiric grudge have been drawn right across his new home.......
We've been filming in and around a farmhouse near Dorking, Surrey in England. There is some more principal photography to be done in other locations, but my contribution - including a new encounter with prosthetic make-up! - is done.
I asked Drew to say something about the movie for the website:
'UMBRAGE is a dark fairy tale in which demons - past and present, real and imagined -are confronted in a brutal coming-of-age. A teenage girl, Rachel, desperate to escape a life she hates is confronted with her shadow, a vampire cowboy who both repels and attracts her.'
I am delighted to have Doug lending his own brand of sinister gravitas to the part of Rachel's step-father, Jacob, an almost tragically flawed antiques dealer with a penchant for younger women.
For more information, and a synopis of the film, please visit www.umbragethemovie.com.'
I will add more news and, I hope, some photos as things progress
Doug
As if he didn't have enough on his hands trying to make sense of all this, two strangers arrive on his doorstep, Stanley, a young man on a camping trip who is in a state of shock after discovering his companion horribly mutilated in the woods, and the anonymous young woman with whom his companion had ventured into the night and who has nothing to say for herself......
What Jacob doesn't know is that the battle lines of an ancient demonic/vampiric grudge have been drawn right across his new home.......
We've been filming in and around a farmhouse near Dorking, Surrey in England. There is some more principal photography to be done in other locations, but my contribution - including a new encounter with prosthetic make-up! - is done.
I asked Drew to say something about the movie for the website:
'UMBRAGE is a dark fairy tale in which demons - past and present, real and imagined -are confronted in a brutal coming-of-age. A teenage girl, Rachel, desperate to escape a life she hates is confronted with her shadow, a vampire cowboy who both repels and attracts her.'
I am delighted to have Doug lending his own brand of sinister gravitas to the part of Rachel's step-father, Jacob, an almost tragically flawed antiques dealer with a penchant for younger women.
For more information, and a synopis of the film, please visit www.umbragethemovie.com.'
I will add more news and, I hope, some photos as things progress
Doug
