Madison County (2011)

Director:

Eric England

Writer:

Eric England (written by)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

If you're here...you're already dead.

Plot:

A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author...

Cast

Colley Bailey	...	James
Matt Mercer	...	Will
Ace Marrero	...	Kyle
Joanna Sotomura	...	Brooke
Natalie Scheetz	...	Jenna
Nick Principe	...	Damien
Dayton Knoll	...	David Randall
Adrienne Harrell	...	Erma
Katie Stegeman	...	Kristen
Marshall Yates	...	Man with Knife
James Cotten
Megan Elizabeth Bell
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jarred Rogers	...	Diner Patron

Directed by
Eric England

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Eric England		written by

Produced by
Zach Campbell	....	associate producer
James Cotten	....	executive producer
Randy Dunn Jr.	....	associate producer
Daniel F. Dunn	....	producer
Eric England	....	producer
Ace Marrero	....	producer

Original Music by
Igor Nemirovsky

Cinematography by
David Starks

Film Editing by
Levi Blue

Casting by
Eric England
Ace Marrero

Production Design by
Megan Elizabeth Bell

Set Decoration by
Marshall Yates

Costume Design by
Kara Gist

Makeup Department
Joe Badiali	....	special makeup effects artist
Robert Hall	....	special makeup effects supervisor
Kim Pease	....	makeup artist
Erik Porn	....	special makeup effects artist: Almost Human Inc.

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Levi Blue	....	assistant director
Jordan Mears	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Kevin Ryan	....	storyboard artist
Marshall Yates	....	art assistant

Sound Department
Phillip Bladh	....	production sound mixer
Goeun Lee	....	foley editor
Duncan Mathieson	....	foley editor
Craig Polding	....	sound effects editor
Stephen Tibbo	....	adr mixer
Stephen Tibbo	....	sound re-recording mixer
Justin W. Walker	....	supervising sound editor
Brandon Walz	....	boom operator

Visual Effects by
Ian Blewitt	....	digital colorist

Stunts
Nick Principe	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Zachary Eglinton	....	second assistant camera
Nolyn Hill	....	dit tech
Lee Ingram	....	grip
Travis Joiner	....	key grip
Ross Macartney	....	grip
Tom Pyron	....	best boy electric
L. Kai Robert	....	grip (as Lynn Robert)
Lara Solanki	....	still photographer
John Vishnevsky	....	assistant camera
Thomas Wostak	....	gaffer

Editorial Department
John Vishnevsky	....	assistant editor

Transportation Department
Nolyn Hill	....	production driver

Other crew
Sara Branscum	....	script supervisor (as Sara Sposito)
Les Galusha	....	main title creator
David Harlow	....	production assistant
Jordan Mears	....	production assistant
Jarred Rogers	....	production assistant

Thanks
Alex Castillo	....	the producers wish to thank
Korey Dunaway	....	the producers wish to thank
Tom Malloy	....	the producers wish to thank
Adolfo Marrero	....	the producers wish to thank
Alexis Raven Marrero	....	the producers wish to thank
Martita Marrero	....	the producers wish to thank
Henry Priest	....	the producers wish to thank
Peter M. Ramos	....	the producers wish to thank
E-Kan Soong	....	the producers wish to thank
Erin Stegeman	....	the producers wish to thank
Michael Valentino	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Dunn-Rite Productions (presents)
• Southern Fried Films (in association with) (presents)
• Swim with the Fish Productions (in association with) (presents)
• Blue Ox Entertainment
• Dark Highway Films (II)

Distributors

• Alive Vertrieb und Marketing (2013) (Germany) (DVD)
• Gryphon Entertainment (2013) (Australia) (DVD)
• Image Entertainment (2012) (USA) (all media)

Other Companies

• YL Casting  casting
• www.TheCastingDirector.com  special thanks

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA15+ (2013)

Filming Locations:

Arkansas, USA

Company:

Dunn-Rite Productions

Trivia:

Writer and Director Eric England was only 22 during the shooting of this film.

Solid, acceptable slasher effort

Heading out to a small town in the country, a group of friends investigating a local legend of a vicious killer try to look past the spurned locals to get to the truth and find a more deadly version than they wanted.

This turned out to be quite a decent slasher effort overall, although it does have some pretty big problems. The first one is that the film contains the all-too-familiar-and-irritating trope of having people with knowledge of what's going on purposefully keep it from those that would need such information to stay out of harm's way. Naturally, that would kill off the movie but in a realistic setting, it's ridiculous to continually feature such a proved irritating tactic. As well, for a slasher film this gets going pretty late in the storyline as there's a lot more time than expected dealing with the group and their individual romances that are built up a little too long before we get anywhere interesting. This is compounded by it's criminal lack of gore in it's killings, which are brutal in concept but criminally lacking in execution. That said, there's some fun to be had with it's back-half being loaded with all the stalking being done in a pretty creepy location, a rather imposing killer and his mask that make quite an impression, and a really intriguing mystery explored in the first half that make this one a lot better than it really could've been.

Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Nudity and drug use.