Scared to Death, starring horror legends Lin Shaye, Bill Moseley and musician Kurt Deimer, will screen at the Popcorn Frights Horror Film Festival, the Southeast US’s largest genre film festival. Writer/director Paul Boyd, producer Eric Barrett and actor and musician Kurt Deimer, who plays the breakout character “The Grog” in the film, will attend the screening.
The film is scheduled for Popcorn Frights Horror Film Festival August 11 at the Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale.
Written and directed by Boyd with the music of Deimer, the horror-comedy showcases genre legends Lin Shaye (the Insidious franchise) and Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2). Heavy metal frontman Kurt Deimer (Halloween 2018) is featured as the scene-stealer The Grog. In Scared to Death, a group of filmmakers attend a séance at an abandoned children’s orphanage to do research for a horror movie. Soon, supernatural events begin to manifest, in both horrific and darkly comical fashion.
Paul Boyd, who directed a trio of Deimer’s music videos, approached Deimer about working on Scared to Death. Born in Scotland, Boyd started making Super 8 films as a teenager. He went on to graduate from the acclaimed St. Martins School of Art in London with a BA in Fine Art Film. Boyd made a name for himself early on, directing award-winning music videos and commercial campaigns in Europe and the United States for multiple global brands. Among them: L’Oreal, Revlon, Jaguar, Dodge, Chanel and Volkswagen. In addition, Boyd helmed world-famous music videos for Sting, Seal, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Celine Dion and Lenny Kravitz. A series of music videos he directed for Shania Twain’s hit album Come on Over helped create the biggest-selling female album in history. Boyd’s music videos have been viewed over a billion times.
Executive producer Kurt Deimer, who appears as “The Grog” and wrote three songs for the film, added, “I’m really looking forward to being with the fans for this screening. Here I am now in a movie with Lin and Bill and other great actors, and I’m still the unknown wild card. This is a new experience for me compared to my heavy metal performances over many years.”
