Description
Featuring: Kate Braithwaite, Tom Sawyer, Aaron Ward and Jake Botes
A grieving mother returns to the cursed woodland where her son vanished, forcing her abusive husband to face the monstrous consequence of the violence he left behind.
'Sapling' is a folk-horror drama about the way trauma is inherited, nurtured, and ultimately transformed. Rooted in the emotional reality of grief and domestic violence, the film uses the language of myth and the natural world to explore how harm can echo through generations, and how confronting it can reshape what a family becomes.
A step away from some of the more traditional horror shorts we've made, 'Sapling' still retains the same level of creature effects makeup, and big-screen cinematic ambitions we've always pushed towards with our Bloody Cuts filmmaking team. Though we've been on hiatus for over 6 years, we're excited to be back and can't wait to show our latest horror to a new audience.
Directed, produced, written & edited by Ben Franklin and Anthony Melton
DOP: Jonny Franklin
1st AC: Ryan Parkins
Special FX Makeup: Cliff Wallace
Sound: Jonathan Blagrove AMPS
Makeup: Christabel Franklin
Art Dept.: Kel Winser and Natalie Barrett
Visual FX: Ryan Thompson and Anthony Melton
Re-recording Mixer: Phil Lee
Sound Design: Ben Franklin
Score: Hill Valley Hero