Two Chainsaw Awards Alumni Team Up For LGBTQ Horror Film SCORCH MARKS
The film premieres next year.
With the Chainsaw Awards just a few weeks ago, some of the folks behind our beloved awards show are tackling their own horror film! Dekkoo Films has just announced their latest feature film, Scorch Marks, an LGBTQ survival horror film set to hit theaters next year.
Written and directed by Brendan Haley — the Chainsaw Awards’ production designer and Backstage Butcher — Scorch Marks stars Brandon Shypkowski, Chris Salvatore, Tiffany Shepis, Peter Stickles, and Vander Von Odd, the first winner of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula. Produced by Brandon Kirby, Dr. Emily Zarka, and Chainsaw Awards writer Michael Varrati, the film’s synopsis is as follows:
Waking to find scorched skies and apocalyptic dread looming on the horizon, Beckett now grapples with the chilling reality that he could be the lone survivor of a global catastrophe. Isolated to a coastal rental, Beckett’s grip on his surroundings begins to unravel, leaving him vulnerable to a vicious haunting at the hands of his abusive ex-husband, Joel. Together, the couple must navigate their toxic past in high-society in order to survive the imminent dangers of their present, spectral omens, and the arrival of a primordial force from somewhere beyond the scorch marks.
“At its core, Scorch Marks is a meditation on the destructive nature of heteronormative culture, and how those who find themselves incompatible with it can often become lost in the storm,” Haley says. “As a filmmaker, Scorch Marks is my love letter to the lofty and impactful works of Clive Barker and Samuel Beckett, while on a personal note, the film harbors many of my frustrations with the state of LGBTQ+ representation in entertainment and how authentic queer stories, and challenging queer stories in particular, rarely get their proper bells and whistles.