Released on: September 13, 2008, 10:12 am

Press Release Author: Stephen C. Thompson / Thompson Communications

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: Director / producer Michael Bayouth announces the completion
of his full length horror feature film “Sam Hell.” Bayouth, son of Ted
White, who portrayed “Jason” in “Friday the 13th: The Final
Chapter” brings his film to the big screen through his company Son of Jason
Films.

Press Release Body: Just in time for Halloween, producer / director Michael Bayouth
announces that with composer Jeffrey Michael completing the haunting original score
for Sam Hell, and music producer Brian Blake completing the hit song “Another
Day” just for Sam Hell, the production is now complete. “We are very
fortunate for the privilege of working with talented professionals like Jeffrey
Michael and Brian Blake.” reports Michael Bayouth, “Their great work
moves us closer to bringing Sam Hell to the big screen this year, and will help make
Sam Hell a memorable experience for our audience.”

Sam Hell will be appearing in various film festivals nationwide, the schedule to be
announced soon.

In October of 2005, Sam Hell Director/Producer, Michael Bayouth, struck a deal with
the owners of two Halloween Haunted Houses to use as locations for “Sam
Hell.”

One haunted house is located in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles,
California and the other in Ventura County, just north of L.A. A cool side note is
that the haunted house in Ventura, (The Seaside Haunt), turned out to be the
top-rated haunted house in Southern California.

As construction neared completion on the haunted houses, created by the way, from
sets donated from films and TV shows such as “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”
and “The Mummy,” life-long friend Rob Clotworthy had just put the final
tweaks on the script and the production was green-lighted.

Michael Bayouth put together a production crew and called on some of his great actor
friends to help out on the project. Their craft service was pretty pathetic and
actors waited hours throughout the night to do their scenes. Shooting mostly at
night in a haunted house equipped with it’s own band of scare-actors who earn
college credits in Theatre by scaring folks, working as zombies, slashers, creeps,
and creatures, the cast and crew quickly became their targets. It was creepy enough
wandering around these dark, creepy places in the middle of the night. The last
thing you needed was to have some bloody kid with a chain-saw jump out and scare
the bujesus out of you.

This milestone, micro-budget, horror-mystery is centered around a Halloween haunted
house attraction and a caged corpse out for revenge. Inspired by Harlan
Ellison’s use of telepathy in “A Boy and His Dog,” “Sam
Hell” unravels the compelling story of an undead maniac and Sean (Brian
Graves), the haunted house worker he possesses.

When Jill, (Osa Wallandar) his girlfriend, takes matters into her own hands and
investigates the origin of Samuel Hellson (Skip Pipo), she discovers his grizzly
past with the help of Mike (Keith Lewis) who’s had first-hand experience
killing this cunning cadaver. When Sam starts to telepathically communicate with
Sean, things begin to spiral into madness and the world of the paranormal, sending
Sean on a murderous rampage, doing the zombie’s bidding with a machete and a
twisted grin.

Bayouth’s inspiration for getting into this somewhat insane business of making
movies came from his Dad, Ted White, who portrayed the legendary Jason Voorhees in
“Friday The 13th – The Final Chapter.” So it seems the corpse
doesn’t fall too far from the coffin.

The highlight of the filming was when Ted came on the set and helped direct a couple
scenes. Most of the students were familiar with Ted and his work and were quick to
bow to him with outstretched arms chanting “we’re not worthy,
we’re not worthy”.

From these humble beginnings sprang Son of Jason Films. “Sam Hell” was
shot on digital, 60i and converted to 24p.

Michael Bayouth has several more projects in development through his company Son of
Jason Films, more details soon!


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