Psychomania Films are proud to announce their first feature production: Despair a seriously twisted love story exploring the dark and unnerving relationship between a kidnapper and his captive.
Written by David Flint (author of Ten Years of Terror: British Films of the 1970s, Zombie Holocaust) and Andrew Barker (director of A Reckoning) and to be directed by David Flint, Despair will star film legend David Hess (Last House on the Left, Hitch-Hike).
The film will be shot late in 2011 in the City of Nottingham, UK. The location will utilize the ancient labyrinthine caves beneath the citys bustling streets.
Hess will play Lou, an American living in England who has a chance encounter with Meredith, a young girl travelling across Europe. She finds herself in a small English village, tired, weary and far from home. Meredith enters a local pub and finds herself talking to a fellow American – Lou, a seemingly ordinary man. But Lou isnt all he seems to be; a darkly sinister mind lurks beneath this mundane appearance. Meredith is about walk into his trap.
Lou takes Meredith captive, descending them both into a spiraling nightmare of their own making.
Flint says, “Despair is a challenging, brutal project. It takes a very real horror – as many cases across the world unfortunately show – and delivers several new twists to the tale.”
He continues, “Having David on board is great. As anyone who has seen his incendiary performances in Last House on the Left, Hitch-Hike and House on the Edge of the Park can attest, he brings a multi-layered intensity and sense of humanity to his characters, and I think the character of Lou will allow him to further explore the dark psyche that he has been perfecting for over thirty years.”