"A WEREWOLF IN ENGLAND" FAILS AT ALL LEVELS

🎥🎞️Movie Review🎞️🎥 - A WEREWOLF IN ENGLAND [2020] - PG13 - Directed & written by Charlie Steeds. Cinematography and editing also by Charlie Steeds. Produced by May Monteiro, Jeremy Rothwell, and Charlie Steeds. Starring Reece Connolly, Tim Cartwright, Natalie Martins, and Jessica Alonso.

A dark comedy/horror British indie feature film about an 1800's demon slayer [Connolly] that is arrested and being transferred to a larger city to defend his life is exposed [by chance] to a countryside Inn that collects fresh warm bodies for a group of werewolves that devour newly acquired tenants with fierce and ultra-bloody attacks leaving very few people alive over one night of mayhem.

**This film has a low Audience Score and Viewer Rating. Aspect Ratio was captured at 2.39:1 which is WAY OUT of any allowed format in the U.S. No official budget information was released or found concerning this indie film.

THE GOOD - This movie has a beginning and an ending. The productions wardrobe was impressive presenting a somewhat believable Victorian-era England.

THE BAD - Bad acting, terrible monster effects, lots and lots of badly planned practical effects filled with blood and shitty gore.

POST MORTEM - Indie filmmakers have given this feature high reviews, so much so, that it persuaded me to watch this pile of shit and try to seek something good to say about it. Outside of two indie films produced in San Antonio, Texas between 2021 and 2023, this shit fest has the top spot for the crappiest and dumbest film that I have ever reviewed.

SUPER DOGSHIT 💩💩💩💩💩[5 Poops]

QUANTUM STORM WIKI ON "PRAYING MANTIS”

PRAYING MANTIS was a film directed and produced by David Quintana-Lujan in 2016. The film was shot entirely in Somerset & Von Ormy, Texas under the studio title, Quantum Storm Pictures. An FBI Agent [Brandy Wilson] and profiler is sent to assist the police department in San Antonio, TX over two unsolved murders. The murders involved great planning and much of the evidence left behind shows a possibility that the victims may have been killed by a large insect. The FBI Agent and a police detective [Bobby Osborn], who is coincidentally in a bad marriage, begin to realize that supernatural forces may be involved and the time to find the killer is running out. Preying Mantis features Bobby Osborn, Emelcie Ferreria, Michael Ettnie, Brett Wilson Sr, Layla Osborn, Stephanie Greenfield, Diana Wilson and Laura Carretero.

 

Directed by D. R. Quintana-Lujan

Screenplay by D. R. Quintana-Lujan

Story by D. R. Quintana-Lujan

Based on Characters by
                      D. R. Quintana-Lujan

Produced by D. R. Quintana-Lujan
                  Barbara Johnston
                  Patti Wieser Hall

Starring Brandy Wilson

Cinematography by D. R. Quintana-
                             Lujan

Edited by D. R. Quintana-Lujan

Music by Lora Mao

Production Company Quantum Storm
                               Pictures

Running Time 52 minutes

Countries  United States

Language English

Budget  $5,000

 

 

Praying Mantis is an ultra-low independent short film directed and produced by David Quintana-Lujan during the summer of 2016. The script was written in one week and the production started in late spring, over the course of four weekends. The director-producer sought out two respective producers for funding assistance and once the cast was set, the film jumped into full production under an "all volunteer" agreement.

HOW FAST CAN ONE MAKE AN INDIE FILM?

Part of this films "behind the scenes" secrets is that the director-producer used this film to show the cast how a film could be shot in only a few days and then edited together in relative ease. The cast and crew only spent a few hours on each new scene and the video was downloaded and edited before they stopped at the next location. The cast and crew were in relatively good spirits throughout the films production and Bobby Osborn not only played the role of the San Antonio Police Detective, but stood in as Assistant Director and lead of the Technical Support for his extensive military history in handling weapons and tactical operations. Osborn trained the leading actress, Brandy Wilson, in her handling of a weapon and clearing a room while entering.

 

PRODUCTION NOTES

The majority of the films footage was shot during the first weekend of production. The remaining footage, some stock footage and minor scenes, were shot on the following weekend. Osborn volunteered his personal truck for the police detectives role and his daughter, Layla Osborn, played his daughter in the film. Stephanie Greenfield played Osborn's wife and all of her scenes were shot in her own home. The local Legion bar in Somerset was the location of the bar in the film, just minutes from the base of the production team. During the third weekend, the director-producer wanted the lead actress to perform ADR [record clearer audio sequencing] for some scenes where the leading actress mumbled her lines. The director-producer drove over three hours on a Saturday with all of the required equipment to perform he task, even setting up the equipment by himself, but Brandy Wilson decided that spending time with her friends was more important. So, the director-producer wrapped up all of the leading actresses scenes "as is" until it was re-recorded with another actress [Dru Rovino] in a later "Directors Cut" of the film set for release in 2023. The ending to the film left things open for a possible sequel.

 

PREMIERES CAN MAKE OR BREAK A FILM

When the film was "in the can" and all of the editing and Foley were completed, a world premiere for the film was planned, advertising and promotions was started by the production team. A splendid trailer was released and interest for the film began to take shape. Laura Carretero was placed in the position to search for a theater to present the film as a premiere in San Antonio, TX, but her attempts failed due to a previous project that a majority of the remaining cast members were assigned with that had a bad reputation in the city.  Without a place to premiere the film, the studio went straight to selling DVD/BlueRays of the film to moderately low success.

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NEW FIELDS OF ENDEAVOR TO BE PUT TO PRINT!

In the final phases of being set to print, David R. Quintana has put his heart and soul into a mini-series which will be released in novel format; five large books with three hefty parts in each. If you haven't guessed, the novel series will be entitled SAN SABA, which is  loosely based on fictional events within the confines of a small town in Texas with the same name, which has also christened itself as the "Pecan Capital of the World."

The series involves a new female sheriff, with a prior military background, that stumbles across crime, corruption, and murder in a small county that are sure to lead the entire state into a drug war between families loyal to the gold mine of the pecan industry and the drug laden world of the Mexican Cartel, who will stop at nothing to extract revenge on a rich and powerful family who seems to be beyond the grasp of Texas law. Book One introduces you to Samantha Milliqen, a single mother who struggled to find employment after being forced to leave the Army due to a nasty divorce and custody battle that left her penniless. Her only alternative to survive is to run for sheriff, do everything she can to uphold the law and maintain her office for two terms to help pay off all of her bills.

First prepared as a script for a 'chance' network or web series, the developed screenplay was churned out in a detailed set of chapters that will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you wish you were out in San Saba to help the sheriff lay down the law. The sheriff has to deal with drug runners, killers, illegal immigrants, and a covert group of land owners who constantly kill horses on private lands. This is Quintana's first attempt at writing a novel and he is sure to write many more as the series will run for at least five novels during the first printing. Many of his followers on Facebook were given a first glimpse at the novel during it's rough stage to help critique and review the intended version before final editing.

"I initially submitted the script to NBC for a series concept contest earlier this year" said an excited Quintana. "The series made it to the final round where it was eventually turned down for not having enough 'cultural diversity' within the leading characters of the final script."

However, the failure of NBC to secure the rights to the series left Quintana with a big decision to make; either produce the series on video himself or transfer the scripts into a novel for publishing, something that was suggested to him by a life long friend.

"I didn't want this series to be thrown into another novel that had some hot woman in the lead, that would prove to handle every situation perfectly and without any real damage to her psyche" explains Quintana. "I wanted the series and/or the novel to have a non-fictional feel to it, having the leading character make mistakes and also have to deal with the 'good ol' boy' networks which actually do thrive throughout the state of Texas."

Quintana explained that the idea for the series first came to life after several trips that he made driving through the heart of Texas, to see his mother who was failing in health. He had drove through San Saba so many times but had never stopped there before; as he never saw anything worth stopping for until one day when he got thirsty and made a stop at a small town gas station there. After his stop, he drove back to Montgomery, Texas and wrote the first book to the series in seven days; claiming that the ideas for the series script just kept pouring out of his fingers each time he touched his keyboard.

"It was hilarious" recalls Quintana. "The people in San Saba were nice, the weather was perfect, and I felt that the small town atmosphere would be perfect for producing a horror film I had in mind. But after spending more than three hours there, I saw the potential for a fictional story concerning a change in local politics when the long running sheriff is forced to retire due to health reasons and voting for a new sheriff has begun. The people in town openly shared some town drama with me concerning drug deals, illegal immigrants, and some crafty thefts within the town that put to question the sheriff's possible involvement. It was just hearsay, but I loved the fact that I could add to it and stir the pot."

Book One is said to be complete awaiting a winter release date for printing, and in the meantime, Quintana is currently working overtime on Book Two. But he admits that putting the idea of the series to video is still a possible endeavor he could pursue at a later time.

Jazz L.
[Contributing Writer]