Directed by brothers Scott and Kameron Hale, horror anthology
Free to a Bad Home sees three strangers - a widow, a thief, and an addict - terrorised by cursed
objects.
The film stars Miranda Nieman, Jake C. Young, Olivia Dennis, Hayley Sunshine and
Roni Locke.
"Ever since watching classics horror movies, such as
Night of the Living Dead and Halloween, at far too young of an age, we have always had an unshakeable love and
obsession with film, but especially horror," say the brothers. "In our opinion, it is the most flexible, creative, and honest subgenre, and
it affords those who embrace it an opportunity to tell stories that tap into
every aspect of the human experience. We have always wanted to write, produce, and direct films. Now, we are
fortunate enough to be in a place in our lives to make that a possibility.
Our feature film, Entropy, was our first foray into filmmaking, and it was shortly after wrapping
production that Kameron began thinking about our next project –
Free to a Bad Home. What began as a short film about grief and possession quickly became a
smaller whole of a larger narrative about cursed objects passed down through
the generations, to be used as gateways for cruel spirits who revel in
suffering. Telling the story in an anthology format just made sense, and it
gave us an opportunity to explore how to stretch the format while also
staying true to it. Regardless of budget and time, it is always our goal to
challenge ourselves, and we loved the idea creating an anthology with a
singular vision that used seemingly
disconnected-but-actually-strongly-linked stories that subtly form what
amounts to an origin story for our villainess. Free to a Bad Home wasn't the next feature we had planned –
that one awaits a larger budget – but it was, in retrospect, the next
logical step in our career. With our skills refined, our cast expanded, and
our ambitions greater than ever, Free to a Bad Home, like the cursed objects in the film, found us and changed us, and now
we’re ready to unleash it onto an unsuspecting world."
Free to a Bad Home is on US VOD from February 17th. A UK/ROI
release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
