Sarcophilous Films is proud to announce the release of this, the latest film from longtime British independent filmmaking phenom Michael J Murphy, in a special collectors edition! "SKARE"'s story begins with an opening 5 minutes that is reminiscent of Hitchcock's PSYCHO. Originally filmed in 2001, the film was lost in transit by courier service Parcel Force, never to materialise again. Eventually, the director returned to the script and the 2007 version of SKARE was born...

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Meet Martha Tennant. She has made a healthy profit and a respected business from the delicious food she provides for the country club. She also proves a dab hand at harbouring escaped prisoners from the nearby institution for the criminally insane. When latest escapee Dan stumbles into her world she believes she has, at last, found the young man of her dreams. Keeping him housed away from prying eyes and well fed, it soon becomes apparent that there is alot more to Martha than meets the eye... Haunted by nightmares showing images of being buried alive and the gruesome excavation of his shallow grave revealing a bare skull, thousands of maggots squirming away in the sockets Dan becomes increasingly anxious and aggressive.

After discovering a fresh decapitated head in her freezer storage, Dan begins to realise that he is not the only dangerous and insane member of the house. But his attempts to leave are thwarted by the middle-aged harpie, as she reveals to him he has nowhere to run and that the house will not let him leave, an ominous warning of something more sinister at work...

She tells him of a legend that surrounds the old place; of how 400 years ago a miller was found dead and his wife and son thought to have been responsible. They were tortured as witches before the wife was burned at the stake and her son buried alive. In his nightmares, Martha is the mother and Dan the son, something that causes profound anxiety within him. With nowhere to run and with Martha and her manageress willing to satisfy his every desire, Dan sticks around only to be dragged deeper and deeper into a murderous meat-obsessed world where nothing and nobody is what they seem and paranoia, blackmail and treachery rule.

But is there more to this than meets the eye? Is there any truth in the legend Martha spoke of? Are there supernatural forces at work, corrupting the souls of the inhabitants?

Originally shot in 2001, “SKARE” was a 16mm chiller that promised much and unfortunately delivered nothing due to the original camera elements being lost by British courier firm Parcel Force whilst in transit to the processing lab. All that remained of a production that director Michael J. Murphy and his cast and crew had invested much time and energy in were a handful of photographic images and dregs of a reel that remained in his film camera. After attempts to get the courier firm to find the bulk of the lost film reels failed, the project was forced to be abandoned at a stage when filming had been so close to completion. This proved a bitter pill to swallow and the director didn’t make another film as a result until 2004’s “ROXI”...

Finding the 16mm medium increasingly more expensive to work on, especially in the wake of the financial losses incurred from the loss of the bulk of the shot footage of his 2001 “SKARE” project, Murphy turned his attention to the digital video format in an attempt to keep costs down and hopefully allow for smoother post-production possibilities. The fact that he had been burned by his courier service also must have weighed heavy and the thought of being able to handle all post-production issues without having to use processing labs or couriers no doubt added to the appeal of the format.

“ROXI” was an engaging thriller that benefitted from strong performances, script and a sun-drenched foreign locale and the results spurred the director on to consider resurrecting his “SKARE” project once more. Returning to the script, Murphy re-drafted it until he arrived at a fresh vision of the same story that he was ready to put together. Assembling a cast and crew, the film went into production in 2007 and a roughcut prepared. The roughcut circulated amongst a select few British fans for the next year or two until the director was convinced to return to the film to finish tidying up the editing and getting his final cut prepared for release...